CHAPTER 6

Corporate Infrastructure

Managing innovation and intrapreneurship is not an ad hoc task. It is a disciplined process that requires systematic management. To build sustainable innovation, you need to assemble the infrastructure within your organization to cultivate intrapreneurship. Without the right infrastructure, innovation can be chaotic and hard to manage, as many leaders have told me.

This is why some leaders remain skeptical of intrapreneurship. They are afraid that there is no control over what employees are doing. Having creative people as intrapreneurs means that they require a lot of freedom to explore the unknown and this, they worry, might result in a waste of time. But, in my experience, innovation is only chaotic when ...

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