Robbie Kellman Baxter – Become an Entrepreneur Inside a Company

By: Robbie Kellman Baxter

Duration: 56m 44s

Released: June 22, 2018

Description:

There is plenty of opportunity to innovate even in traditional, top-down companies—even in traditionally “noninnovative” roles. Learn how to become an intrapreneur and lead innovation and change from inside a company. In this course, strategy consultant Robbie Baxter explains what intrapreneurship is and how innovation works inside a large organization. Discover how to gauge whether your company is ready for disruption, how to find and test ideas, how to get resources and buy-in from leadership, and how to scale your ideas so they are feasible for the entire enterprise. Robbie also discusses when to throw in the towel and when to pass off projects. Finally, she shares a few examples of successful intrapreneurship, from organizations as diverse as Adobe and the University of Pennsylvania.

Topics include:

• Intrapreneurship
• Finding your idea
• Creating an MVP
• Gaining support from leaders
• Pivoting vs. staying the course
• Intrapreneurship case studies

Contents:

Introduction
1. Understanding Innovation
2. Working as an Intrapreneur
3. Finding a Path Forward in the Face of Roadblocks
4. Case Studies
Conclusion

Author:

Robbie Kellman Baxter is the founder of Peninsula Strategies LLC, a management consulting firm.

Robbie is also the author of The Membership Economy: Find Your Superusers, Master the Forever Transaction and Build Recurring Revenue, a book that has been named a top-five Marketing Book of the Year on Inc.com. She coined the popular business term “Membership Economy,” which is now used by organizations and journalists around the country and beyond.

Her clients have included large organizations like Netflix and the National Restaurant Association, as well as dozens of fast-growing, venture-backed companies. Over the course of her career, Robbie has consulted clients or worked in more than twenty industries. Before starting Peninsula Strategies LLC in 2001, Robbie served as a New York City Urban Fellow, a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, and a Silicon Valley product marketer. She has an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Robbie has been quoted or interviewed by major media outlets, including CNN, Consumer Reports, and NPR.