Increased focus on corporate criminal liability has had a dramatic effect on the role, responsibilities and authority of the compliance
function within large corporations.
Having been the corporate entrepreneur myself and business executive supporting startups
from within a large corporation, I can attest to the dichotomy that exists between the operationally driven part of the business that drives efficiency and incremental innovations and the corporate entrepreneurship initiatives that drives new growth and disruptive innovations to create new businesses or lines of business.
There are huge risks in going indie, too, particularly in the US where healthcare can be very expensive, and good healthcare is often attached to
jobs within large corporations.
Stefan Lindegaard, innovation consultant and author of the 15inno blog, defines an intrapreneur as «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.»
And it's one reason why technology organizations are trying to reassert
themselves within the larger corporation — because the first person to ask one of these questions is the individual employee, who can acquire a better tool instantly with nothing more than a corporate credit card.