InnerVentures

  • Customer experience, the subscription economy and 10 ways success teams will make you win

    The Subscription Economy Advances in technology, economic pressures and shifting cultural norms mean new models of ownership are gaining attention in many industries. People are increasingly interested in consuming and paying for temporary or limited access to goods and services, rather than purchasing them outright. Subscription-based models in which companies offer ongoing access to a…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The post robotic AI age and the role of creativity and innovation

    You’ve all heard the news. Jobs will come under fire if not already so. Machines, robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI), are going to take over. The Matrix, Terminator, could all those movie scenarios have had it right? What happens if it’s all true but the ending is not a tragic one. Can we find a…

    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. 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

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    In this post I’m changing the format slightly by tagging the title with a different hashtag (which was partly for Twitter but had other purposes too). Instead of intrapreneurtrends that I used before, its now the new name of this site, its URL, the new hashtag I’m tracking on Twitter (see sidebar) and my new…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • World’s biggest startup? Samsung to reform corporate culture

    SEOUL (By Se Young Lee, Reuters) — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips, announced on Thursday that it plans to adopt a corporate culture akin to a startup, seeking to become more nimble as growth slows. More here.  #research

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Jet Blue joins the corporates in the VC game

    I just found an announcement that JetBlue has formed an in-house venture capital program that will invest in startups “at the intersection of technology, travel and hospitality.” More here: http://www.jetblueventures.com/ #research

    Stephen Danelutti

  • What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

    From an article on the Harvard Business Rreview, the authors carried out a systematic analysis of the 146 unicorns identified by The Wall Street Journal. Thanks to this analysis, we identified four features that are common to pretty much all the unicorns and which we believe helps explain why they have been so successful. Unicorns…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #intrapreneur trends

    How to partner with a larger company when you’re a startup Why investors love spin-off startups The struggle with adapting the lean startup to the corporate environment Big Companies Must Embrace Intrapreneurship To Survive Big Companies Should Collaborate with Startups Driving a culture of innovation with entrepreneurial thinking now being pushed at University How Large…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Corporate Innovation Trends – Report from CB Insights

    The blurb for the report says it all: The life of an S&P 500 company is rapidly declining and increasingly, the risks to these companies comes from an armada of startups and not a giant incumbent competitor. We dig into how corporations can use startups to innovate faster and how to make the important build,…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • More #intrapreneur trends being led by financial services

    From this article on the Financial Times (you may find its behind a paywall): Axa chief excited by technological change The chief executive of Europe’s second-biggest insurer by market capitalisation says that the industry is dealing with technological change unevenly. “That is great news,” he adds, explaining that it allows more nimble operators to win…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #intrapreneur trends

    Some very interesting articles over the last few weeks – here they are: MasterCard Announces Start Path Global Program – an accelerator to support Fintech startups. Like this statement on their site – very intrapreneurial: “Like a startup, we are always looking for ways to evolve. That’s why we have created a new partnership model…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Academy for Corporate Entrepreneurship – awesome programs for the #intrapreneur

    Woah, just came across this site today with probably the most comprehensive and impressive Intrapreneurship program I’ve seen so far – definitely one for the #research files. Here it is: http://www.afce.co/

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Before you build an innovation lab, answer these 6 questions

    From VentureBeat where the article was posted, these pertinent points for why I will be incorporating some of the thinking here in the trend report: Today, large companies are creating innovation outposts in innovation clusters like Silicon Valley in order to tap into the clusters’ innovation ecosystems. These corporate innovation outposts monitor Silicon Valley for…

    Stephen Danelutti