Friday, August 7, 2009

A Pure Intrapreneurial System


Google paid $10 million to one of its employees as a share of profit for developing Adsense and Adword. IT Companies specially those involved in developing innovative products, need to keep innovations happening on a daily basis in order to survive in the market. Hence, encourage, infact have included innovating as a part of their techies' daily tasks(dedicating 15-20% of their working hours to finding innovative solutions/product development ideas).

This makes the system look partially Intrapreneurial, where every employee acts as an Intrapreneur. In a "pure" intrapreneurial system every employee would work purely as an intrapreneur. The CEO with his senior management staff acts as the "Master Venture Capitalist" team. The team listens to each project idea, approves and funds these projects.
The technical experts evaluate each business idea for feasibility and business value.
The Intrapreneurs or the real innovators look for new business opportunities/project ideas, do enough research on them and with all his/her literature presents the idea to the expert team and the Mater venture capitalist team.
On receiving approval, starts buliding his/her product following some defined timelines.
If the product generated enough revenues, the firm gives a share of the profits to the Intrapreneur. Else not.In such a situation the firm could have its own defined projects on which the Intrapreneurs could work within the time lapse between his/her released product and for the one he decides to introduce in his/her next cycle.

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