LOI Toolkit: Unlocking Resources

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We believe in that great old

saying: A picture is worth a

thousand words. Onlyweve

found that a good prototypeis worth a thousand pictures.


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Hello Cubicle Warrior, today,you are The Ofce Vigilante:fearlessly hacking your

company for social impact!Your missionTo build a proof of concept

on a shoestring.

Your challengesUnlocking corporate resources

and generating breakthrough

innovation while delivering on

your day job.

Your super powerAn ability to see beyond the banality of promotions,

politics or pay raises, with a hawk-like focus on how

to leverage the companys assets for good. You

want big picture results and youll rely on your

creativity, stealth and resourcefulness to get them.


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Social intrapreneurship starts

with bold visions and ambitiousquestions for the future.


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Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldnt be able to fy, butthe bumble bee doesnt know

it so it goes on ying anyway.


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Practice yes, and mindset Do more with less


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Keep it simple Tap other peoples money


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Know when to stay, quit, and spin Channel passion

Winners quit fast, quit often,

and quit without guiltuntilthey commit to beating the

right dip for the right reasons.Seth Rodin


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Prototype, prototype, prototype Be willing to let go


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Small steps

Time and money are intrapreneursbiggest constraints.

Try honing your resourcefulnessinstincts by creating self-imposedconstraints.

For example, if your proposedproduct solution is $200 perperson, pose a challenge to yourteam to design a solution for $ 2per person. This radical constraintwill help unlock great new ideas.Or, set a time constraint.

Force your team to come upwith workable ideas over a two-day sprint. Youll likely surpriseyourselves. Google Ventures,for example, regularly does aproduct design sprint whereit works with startups over ashort period of time (5 days)to accelerate and unstickprojects. Theyve noticed thatoften the best work comes outin short bursts and under timeconstraints.

SELF-IMPOSE CONSTRAINTS. SET-UP A WINNING DAILY ROUTINE.

Most intrapreneurs can seeschedules and routines asa spoiler to their passion.Setting-up a winning dailyroutine is what separatessuccessful entrepreneurs/intrapreneurs from the pack,according to recent studies.

Setting 10-20 minutes asideevery day, at the same time towork on your project or prototypewill make all the difference.


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Bigger steps

Field observation is a powerfullearning tool. Take a field trip toIndia, for example, and captureexamples of hacks in action. Ifyour budget doesnt stretch thisfar, get out locally, and see whatyou can find.

Social entrepreneurs area rich source of ideas forresourcefulness so get outand talk to some of these folks.

When GSK was looking todevelop more affordablepricing on its medicines, forexample, the company lookedat social enterprise models inthe healthcare space to gaugewhat more nimble playerswere doing to provide accessibleand affordable product inemerging markets.

OBSERVE HACKS IN THE FIELD

JOIN A HACKATHON

Instead of using a PowerPointfor your next big pitch to seniormanagement, use a prototype.Think of how you can get thesedecision makers to experienceyour future reality throughvisuals, artifacts and experiences.

Do you have a product thatwill change the nature of finance?Or disrupt food delivery?Show people what thatalternative reality looks like.

Sometimes new ventures

can feel like science fiction, soimmerse people in the world youare trying to create to make thingsall the more real and concrete.

USE A PROTOTYPE FOR YOUR NEXT PITCH

Most communities now haveweekend or evening hackathonevents at which you will typicallyfind prototyping experts.The best way to learnprototyping is to sit and observeothers who are doing it.

Last summer, for example,Frog Design hosted a ReinventBusiness Hackathon with theaim of developing new tools toreconnect business with societysneeds. More than 150 people gaveup their weekend to participate.


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Where can I learn more? Contributors


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Over the past five years we have soughtto make social intrapreneurship partof the formula for how we think aboutchanging the world. Our initial foraysinto the field began with John Elkingtonin The Social Intrapreneur A FieldGuide for Corporate Changemakers.

Building on this initial study,we stepped out and rallied greaterinstitutional support to invest in thecreation of a network for corporatechangemakers. In the Fall of 2012,The League of Intrapreneurs was bornwith support from Ashoka, Accenture,the Inter-American InvestmentCorporation, GlaxoSmithKline,Standard Chartered, Virgin and anumber of other partners.

The Cubicle Warriors Toolkit grows

out of our experiences working in thetrenches with leading change-agentsat large institutions. The creation of thistoolkit would not have been possiblewithout input from leading expertsand practitioners, including membersof the League of Intrapreneuers.

We would especially like to thank:Gib Bullochat Accenture andRosario Londono at the Inter-American Investment Corporationfor their support in helping us growthis community and contributing tothe mounting canon of knowledge inservice of social intrapreneruship.

Maggie de Pree and Alexa ClayThe Human Agency

More about the Human Agencycan be found at:www.thehumanagency.net

This document was designedby Adam Loxley.

Illustrations have been done

by Tom Jennings.

Over the coming decades,an accelerating pace of change

will test the resilience of every

society, organization andindividual. The balance ofpromise and peril confrontingany particular organization

will depend on its capacityfor adaptation. Hence, the

most important question forany company is this: are wechanging as fast as the worldaround us?

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