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Intrapreneur
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Intrapreneur
A person who develops an idea and sees it to fruition within a large organization. For example, an intrapreneur may be an employee at a corporation who sees a problem with the way inventories are stored, and develops and implements a new way to store inventory. Intrepreneurs, in other words, are innovators within their organizations, but they usually do not start new organizations.


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] More significantly, this failure by many businesses to keep up with their customers' needs created an unprecedented opportunity today for entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs (those who use entrepreneurial skills within an existing organization) to start new businesses that provide real value-added products and services to consumers and businesses.
Still, he has rock-solid advice for intrapreneurs, such as eschewing tried-and-true techniques, finding a separate building to work out of, hiring people with the same passion, putting the company first, staying under the radar and staying ready to show the finance people what the project has cost.
The difficulty we have sometimes is that the people who have monetised the use of data within the public sector are our entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, they've got great ideas, they understand that the data itself has a value and they've gone out and made their area of the public sector better by creating an income stream, because of that.
 
 
 
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