InnerVentures

  • Round up of latest innerventures trends

    Lots going on recently so this is a big update with an excellent selection of articles and activities. You can see other updates like this by checking out posts with the research tag and the trend report that is a result of the curation of many of these posts: Startup Innovation

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    Lots going on recently so this is a big update with an excellent selection of articles and activities. The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups Corporate accelerators A growing number of innovation-hungry companies are taking inspiration from Silicon Valley: They are setting up accelerators that nurture start-ups. From Deloitte…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Scaling your customer success efforts online – a guide

    I mentor startups that go through Microsoft Accelerator’s London program. Because of recent experience I focus on customer success management practices and enterprise software startups, but not exclusively. I recently joined a startup (again) and here too I’m helping with building out a customer success practice. In all cases what often comes up is the…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Can you outsource success?

    3 minute read. I’m in the success business. I work at Percolate, a marketing technology startup. I help drive the successful use of our technology by customers. I’ve done the same in roles before this at Yammer and then Microsoft. Customer Success Management (CSM) is a pretty new role and function. It started with enterprise technology startups. It’s now applied…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    It’s been a while since I updated on trends in this space so quite a few to add. Is Apple about to start pumping money into startups? A $1 billion investment in Didi Chuxing, the top ride-hailing service in China could be a sign it is. Liberty Mutual Launches Venture Capital Group. Liberty Mutual Group has launched…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Digital Marketing Innovation Framework

    This post is in the Sense Making category for good reason. I’ve tried before to look at this space – check this LinkedIn post: Marketing Technology Solutions and the Digital Transformation Challenge. Unlike the article before, this attempt really has me stepping back and trying to form a view without too much influence from outside perspectives.…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Five paradoxes to navigate when trying to reinvent your business

    Often labelled change or transformation efforts (and there is some confusion about which is which: We Still Don’t Know the Difference Between Change and Transformation) there is little doubt organisation’s of all kind are under increasing pressure to keep pace with a rapidly shifting marketplace. I chose reinvention because it’s the more innovative and proactive…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Product review of Spire-a Quantified Self Device which measures breath to increase mindfulness

    Today I am reviewing a wellness gadget / device called Spire which measures your activities like steps, walked distance, burned calories like other fitness trackers but it is very unique when tracking breath and analyzing tension, calmness and focus times. As you can see on this pictures it comes with a beautifully designed wireless charging plate…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Review of Jiyo-a Wellness Wellbeing Mobile App by Deepak Chopra

    Deepak Chopra, a well known and leading figure in the meditation and alternative health movement, has launched on June 12th together with his his co-founder Poonacha Machaiah a new service called Jiyo. This wellness services is focused on a mobile App experience (iOS, Android) and also works fine in a browser. It collects a lot of…

    Stephen Danelutti
  • “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” — Pablo Picasso

    Find and share your gift by working out loud #wolweek 2016

    This is the first day of this year`s Working Out Loud Week #wolweek and Simon Terry has recommended to reflect about PURPOSE. First I was contemplating about the term “purpose” and what it exactly means in German. Is it more about intention, a goal, aim, only a task or it more about a higher meaningful purposeful goal with…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The slide in Mary Meeker’s 2016 internet trends report that shows incumbents’ interest in startup innovation

    Here it is below. Admittedly it is somewhat narrowly focused on acquisitions of tech companies as a means to extend their digital capabilities. Still, a strong indicator from a very powerful voice. The commentary below the slide came from the article where I first read about her latest report and I cannot be sure of…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Making sense of sensemaking

    I see sense making as a bit of an art but also believe there is a science to it. At least to doing it well. I also believe we will have to get better at it since it will be one of the key skills of the 21st century (check out this article on a…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Intrapreneur’s Playbook: Why dissent is good for your organisation and 10 ways to foment disruption

    I work in an organisation and industry where a key mantra of work and of the value we offer to customers is (improved) collaboration. Central to this is effective teamwork and working like a network. I believe in this wholeheartedly with every fibre in my body since I have been working in this space for…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The Modern Organisation’s Hierarchy of Needs

    NOTE: See bottom of page for updated version and notes. This doodle started out as a fun means of framing the way the world of work is moving within a very established framework – Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Each element in the hierarchy kind of speaks for itself. I added a few lines of elaboration for each…

    Stephen Danelutti