innovate or die!

Innovate or Die!

Mr. Kalle Tiihonen, Intrapreneur

December 13, 2013

Enterprise Edition

© 2013 IBM Corporation2

Today’s Menu for Innovators

1. IBM

2. Mr. Kalle Tiihonen

3. Why great companies die?

4. Solutions, please!

5. 3 + 1 Emerging Trends

6. Lean Startup Method

7. Internal Startup at IBM

8. Questions, Discussion


12 research labs, 6 continents. 435 000 employees, 5 Nobel prize winners.

100 years of innovation. We don’t sell laptops anymore.

IBM


Mr. Kalle Tiihonen

- Started programming at age 11

- Loves coffee and green tea

- Interested in entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship & disruptive innovations

- Studied design, business & technology at Aalto University

- Joined IBM about 3 years ago


Why great companies die?


”It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most

adaptable to change.”

-Charles Darwin


Solutions, please!


3 + 1 Emerging Trends

* http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=intrapreneur%2C%20growth%20hacking%2C%20hackathon&cmpt=q


“Intrapreneur is a person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a

profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking and innovation.“

“A person who has an entrepreneur skill set but works within an organization, enterprise or venture.”

- Wikipedia

3 + 1 Emerging Trends: Intrapreneurship


1. Come to work each day willing to be fired

2. Circumvent any orders aimed at stopping your dream

3. Do any job needed to make your project work, regardless of your job description

4. Find people to help you5. Follow your intuition about the people

you choose, and work only with the best

6. Work underground as long as you can – publicity triggers the corporate immune system

7. Never bet on a race unless you are running in it

8. Remember, it is easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission

9. Be true to your goals, but be realistic about the ways to achieve them

10.Honor your sponsors


“The Macintosh team was what is commonly known as intrapreneurship; only a few years before the term was coined - a group of people going, in essence, back to the garage, but in a large company.“

Steve Jobs, Newsweek 1985


“I wanted to prove that even if company employees and executives said no, regular employees could build a venture of this scale with superb technology, superb concepts, and superb colleagues.”

Ken Kutaragi, Sony


3 + 1 Emerging Trends: Growth Hacking

* http://www.quicksprout.com/the-definitive-guide-to-growth-hacking/


3 + 1 Emerging Trends: Hackathons


3 + 1 Emerging Trends: Crowdfunding

* http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/04/ibm-ideas-crowdfunding/


Lean Startup Method

* http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2013/08/06/do-lean-startup-principles-have-a-place-in-the-enterprise/


Internal Startup – IBM Kasvuhuone

1. Fast prototyping2. New technologies3. Industry trends

Idea Prototype Innovation


Apps4Finland – Doing good with open data

”[...] The winner of the Idea category was Kalle Tiihonen for his idea of having the Helsinki energy company open up an API so homeowners can track their energy usage. […]”

* http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/12/05/apps4finland-winners-take-advantage-of-finlands-open-data


Thank You!

Questions?

Mr. Kalle Tiihonen, Intrapreneur

Twitter: @ktiihonen

[email protected]

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