by Tendayi Viki | May 29, 2020 | Featured
Nowadays entrepreneurs have become celebrities. Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are treated like rockstars. But even as we celebrate their individual accomplishments, we must not forget that innovation is never a solo pursuit. Successful innovation results...
by Tendayi Viki | May 24, 2020 | Featured
As governments across the world have imposed strict lockdown rules due to Covid-19, company leaders have had to figure out how to manage employees that are working remotely from home. Companies have been using various technologies for video-conferencing, whiteboards...
by Tendayi Viki | May 17, 2020 | Featured
Post Covid-19, company leaders are going to be dealing with a lot of challenges. In addition to stabilizing their core business, leaders will also be thinking about how they can use innovation to drive new growth. The challenge for most organizations will be that they...
by Tendayi Viki | Apr 27, 2020 | Featured, Uncategorised
When Steve Jobs said that it was “more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy”, he was reflecting the reality that large companies are much slower to respond to change than startups. This is the speed boat versus oil tanker conundrum. The bureaucracy that runs many...
by Tendayi Viki | Mar 9, 2020 | Featured
Corporate innovation is slowly becoming a profession. Becoming an intrapreneur is increasingly a realistic career option for a number of people. But this does not mean that life as a corporate innovator has become easier. The challenges of innovating within a large...
by Tendayi Viki | Dec 12, 2019 | Featured
I have worked with intrapreneurs that try to do everything at the same time. They try to launch new products in multiple divisions, change the hearts and minds of leaders, host a tonne of events and run workshops to train everyone in innovation skills. Intrapreneurs...
by Tendayi Viki | Nov 19, 2019 | Featured
“Success is a lousy teacher,” says Bill Gates. “It seduces smart people into thinking that they can’t lose”. This is the common narrative when it comes to innovation. The typical story of disruption is that it happens because successful companies and leaders...
by Tendayi Viki | Nov 18, 2019 | Featured
Working in large companies nowadays is interesting. On the one hand, leaders now understand that they need to innovate. On the other hand, they are struggling to balance the demands of running their core business, with the exploration of new opportunities. In publicly...
by Tendayi Viki | Jun 3, 2019 | Featured
Most large corporations have entrepreneurial employees who are constantly trying to innovate. As far as I am concerned, these are crazy people! They wake up every morning and go to work to swim against the tide. This is insane! And yet, these people exist. Passionate...
by Tendayi Viki | Apr 18, 2019 | Featured
When intrapreneurs are given the chance to work on a new innovation program, they can’t wait to get started. They can’t wait to open their new innovation lab, corporate accelerator or run an innovation sprint. This is the energy of the entrepreneur and comes with the...
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