Tendayi co-designed Pearson’s Product Lifecycle which is an innovation framework that won the Best Innovation Program 2015 at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards in New York. He has been shortlisted for the Thinkers50 Innovation Award and was named on the Thinkers50 2018 Radar List for emerging management thinkers to watch.
Tendayi has written three books based on his research and consulting experience, Pirates In The Navy, The Corporate Startup and The Lean Product Lifecycle. The Corporate Startup was awarded the 2018 CMI Management Book Of The Year In Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is also a regular contributing writer for Forbes.
Tendayi spent over 12 years in academia during which time he taught at the University of Kent where he is now Honorary Senior Lecturer. He has also been a Research Fellow at Stanford University and Research Assistant at Harvard University.
At Copenhagen Fintech, we have been working with Tendayi to adopt The Corporate Startup principles and practices for our work. Tendayi’s ground breaking thinking, provides us with a comprehensive language, framework and tools that we can use to help the banking industry prepare for the future.
CEO at Copenhagen Fintech
Tendayi’s work on The Corporate Startup has made him a rising star and thought leader in the corporate innovation space. His concepts and principles are helping large companies figure out how to innovate for the future while managing their current core business.
Author of Business Model Generation & Co-Founder at Strategyzer
In Tendayi’s work, we have found frameworks and methods that are extremely relevant and helpful in our efforts to structure our open innovation. We are using his Corporate Startup tools and methods to better qualify investment decisions, as well as secure continued board-level understanding and buy-in to the strategy.
Senior Vice President at Spar Nord Bank
Tendayi has become one of the leading thinkers and practitioners applying lean startup within large corporations. He brings a good balance of theory and practice to help companies develop their innovation strategies and improve their innovation management processes.
Author of The Lean Startup & The Startup Way