Omar ChristidisFounder & CEOArabNet

GCF 2012“The Entrepreneurship Imperative”21-24 January 2012

Collective Intrapreneurship

The Corporate Problem

Heirarchical & Bureaucratic

Slow

Traditional Intrapreneurship

Identify Intraprenreuers

Empower

Encourage & Reward Risk

Digital Media Changes Things

What is the New Intrapreneurial Organization?

Individual-Based vs. Collective-

Based

Intrapreneurship =Ideation + Execution

Crowd-Sourced Innovation

IBM InnovationJamCompany-wide brainstorming session100,000 employees in 160 countries

Xerox Wiki

My Starbucks IdeaMore than 100,000 ideas generated

Self-Organization

What Should The CEO Do?

Platforms for Communication

Open Data & Articulated Vision

Flexibility of Organization

"It doesn't feel like you have the kind of control over the way in which decisions are made that you might have had in a more traditional environment…You talk about the strategy, you get people excited, you tell people what the company's priorities are, and it works out.”

-Eric Schmidt, Chairman, Google

Thank You

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