Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Pinchot’s Famous 10 Questions

Here are the ten common questions that you have to answer to insure the level of support and tendencies towards the intrapreneurs.

Does your company encourage self-appointed intrapreneurs?

Does your company provide ways for intrapreneurs to stay with their enterprises?

Are people permitted to do the job in their own way, or are they constantly stopping to explain their actions and ask for permission?

Has your company evolved quick and informal ways to access the resources to try new ideas?

Has your company developed ways to manage many small and experimental products and businesses?

Is your system set up to encourage risk–taking and to tolerate mistakes?

Can your company decide to try something and stick with the experiment long enough to see if it will work, even when that may take years and several false starts?

Are people in your company more concerned with new ideas or with defending their turf?

How easy is it to form functionally complete, autonomous teams in your corporate environment?

Do intrapreneurs in your company face monopolies, or are they free to use the resources of other divisions and outside vendors if they choose?

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