My Top 10 posts for Intrapreneurs
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Here are my Top 10 posts for Intrapreneurs and those on their way:
1. Why do companies need business-focused ERGs?
The answer is as simple as this: Because it makes good business sense! But what makes this answer so simple? – Well, because it’s made up of a few simple aspects…
2. Build BRGs as an innovative business resource!
While many companies demand creativity and innovation from their staff few companies seem to know how to make it work. – Is your organization among those hiring new staff all the time to innovate? The hire-to-innovate practice alone is not a sustainable strategy and backfires easily.
3. Part 1 of 3: What does it take to keep innovating?
Can strategic innovation rely on creative chaos? – To make a long story short, the answer is: No! Read here what it takes to innovate consistently and give you a cool example too.
4. Part 2 of 3: How to become the strategic innovation leader?
What is an innovation leader? Is this role similar to an innovator? (The answer is ‘no’.) – Recognize the three key roles in innovation, how to find an approach and avoid critical pitfalls.
5. Part 3 of 3: Starting a BRG as a strategic innovation engine!
While many companies demand creativity and innovation from their staff, few companies seem to know how to make it work. – Is your organization among those hiring new staff all the time to innovate? The hire-to-innovate practice alone is not a sustainable strategy and backfires easily.
6. Q&A - Case study for founding a business-focused ERG
If you are planning to found an ERG or are a new ERG Leader. In that case, you may find the attached Q&A helpful: In interview style, here are the answers to the 10 interview questions below around establishing my first BRG: the award-winning NxGen BRG (Next Generation at the Workplace) at Boehringer Ingelheim (BI).
7. Job description for an Executive Sponsor
Executive sponsorship is a prerequisite and critically important for the success of business business groups (BRGs)! The challenge is finding a great sponsor. So, what should you be looking for? What would a job description for an executive sponsor look like? ‑ Here are some practical ideas that have worked.
8. How to attract an executive sponsor?
With a business case for your BRG at hand, securing executive sponsorship is a prerequisite and critically important for the success of business business groups (BRGs)! But how do you attract an Executive Sponsor?
9. Driving the ROI – where to start your project metrics?
So you have started your Business Resource Group (BRG) and done your homework on what the business strategy of your organization is. You also found areas of need in your organization that you want to address with some serious projects. – But where to start building project metrics? What is important, what makes sense, and what is meaningful?
10. Next-generation BRG learn from U.S. Army recruitment!
It is vital for Business Resource Groups (BRGs) to constantly reach out to attract and recruit new members to join and carry the group forward.
But how do you know what would be different with a new workplace generation and how to approach them to get them involved in a BRG? Why not let the U.S. military do the research!
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