INTRAPRENEURSHIP

Become the disruptor, not the disrupted

INTRAPRENEUR [IN-TRUH-PRUH-NUR]
noun - “a person within an existing organisation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking and innovation” (Pinchot, 1978).

While 84% of executives say innovation is important to their growth & strategy, only 6% are happy with their innovation performance*. Many companies are missing the fact that their greatest resource to drive innovation is the talent they already have in the organisation. An effective intrapreneurship programme can convert this talent into new business by creating a culture of proactivity, innovation and entrepreneurial thinking.

If organisations do not do this, they will not keep pace with rapidly changing technologies and global competition from challengers. Embedding a culture of intrapreneurship will help you to take control of your company’s future by becoming the disruptor, not the disrupted. This goes beyond traditional product development structures and empowers individuals to create new products, and build your next business lines.

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HOW IT WORKS

The Intrapreneurship Programme helps established companies to develop and nurture 'in-house' entrepreneurs so that they can kick start a culture of intrapreneurship and turbo charge innovation. We take a unique two-way approach; working with both senior leaders to create cultures that support intrapreneurs, and with junior leaders to develop intrapreneurial mindsets and skillset.

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IMMERSION

We aim to make the selected senior leaders advocates & ambassadors for intrapreneurship in your organisation as well as active mentors for the ideas we create later in the process.

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BOOTCAMP

An intensive bootcamp where we will create product concepts aligned to your strategy and train intrapreneurs on how to start their journeys to deliver these concepts using tools developed by experienced intrapreneurs.

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INCUBATOR

Intrapreneurship is best practiced out in the field, albeit with support and guidance to navigate the corporate immune system. Module 3 allows intrapreneurs to really get going as they work towards a pitch day.

INTRAPRENEURSHIP 101

Following the success of our latest event at Notting Hill Gate Eagle Lab, we'll be hosting another Intrapreneurship 101 in the new year, further information is coming soon!

Intrapreneurship 101 is an interactive one-day workshop helping you to kick-start intrapreneurship in your company so you can innovate faster, drive revenue and improve talent attraction, development and retention.

Topics on the day will include:

What is intrapreneurship?
What is social intrapreneurship?
The business case for intrapreneurship and social intrapreneurship
Supporting your intrapreneurs
Thinking like an intrapreneur
How to navigate the corporate immune system

OUR WORK: PARKINSON'S UK

Barclays has been working with Parkinson’s UK to accelerate innovation within their fundraising directorate by offering free access to our Intrapreneurship incubator.

Starting with training the Parkinson’s UK directorate on how to support intrapreneurs, Barclays then supported the fundraising directorate to create and develop innovative new ideas through a series of hackathons, 121s and workshops.

The resulting ideas were deemed viable for driving real change within the organisation and are to be taken forward to delivery more formally by Parkinson’s UK. One idea has already been adapted and delivered, transforming the approach Parkinson’s take to thanking donors.

"Working with Barclays has been fantastic and has really complemented our internal efforts to support staff across the charity to identify problems, generate ideas and explore solutions.

From working with senior leaders on how to create a supportive environment for intrapreneurship to delivering a workshop for budding intrapreneurs so they could pitch for resources to develop their ideas, the Barclays Intrapreneurship Team’s knowledge, experience, and positivity have been a great asset. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Barclays on this and hope to do so more in the future.”

Peter, Head of Innovation Labs
Parkinsons UK, 2018

THE BENEFITS

REVENUE

LEADERSHIP

GROWTH

TALENT

INNOVATION

CULTURE

MEET THE TEAM

Tim Heard
Head of Intrapreneurship,
Barclays Ventures

Tim helps established companies develop and nurture ‘in-house’ entrepreneurs so that they can innovate more like a start-up and respond faster to disruption. Tim is an experienced intrapreneur, and social intrapreneur, who now finds himself as a globally recognised speaker, lecturer, author, and theorist on the topic of intrapreneurship.

Charlie Munroe
Senior Intrapreneurship Manager, Barclays Ventures

Charlie Munro is a Senior Intrapreneurship Manager in Barclays UK Ventures passionate about intrapreneurship and the power of individuals within large organisations to drive change. Charlie is a natural innovator and problem-solver, with a proven track-record of implementing large-scale digital and cultural transformation programmes. Most recently delivering a brand new proposition supporting high-growth start-ups in the UK. Charlie is also an active social intrapreneur and advisor to others.

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Spotlight on Intrapreneurship, London, 28 Apr, 2019

Speaking at the event, Tim explains how individuals can drive change, and they can drive change they never thought was possible.

Tim Heard, Head of Intrapreneurship

Tim opens the Parkinson's charity event to highlight the positive change that intrapreneurship, specifically social Intrapreneurship, can have inside organisations.