by Joanne Jacobs | May 12, 2025 | Innovation, Intrapreneurship
In this blog post we listed out extraordinary intrapreneurs who created extraordinary products inside of organisations. So the next question is really, what does it take to be an entrepreneur? What kinds of skills, tools or things does an intrapreneur need? And where...
by Joanne Jacobs | May 8, 2025 | Agile Marketing, Branding, Content Marketing, Startups
A few weeks ago, I found an old box full of papers. I had actually forgotten what was in there – but as I opened it, memories came flooding back. There were photos, letters and even poems written dozens of years ago. In amongst the yellowing pages, something...
by Joanne Jacobs | May 7, 2025 | Innovation, Innovation Brand, Social Business, Startups
I can still remember the panic setting into my mind. I had been running new venture startups for PwC and had spent weeks thinking through and validating our product roadmap. Potential customers were lined up. We were chugging through the backlog and it felt like we...
by Joanne Jacobs | Apr 28, 2025 | Innovation
There’s always plenty of jargon in the corporate world. In fact – there’s jargon in any discipline once it achieves a level of scale. The use of jargon means that teams and industrial sectors are working with a shared language and understanding. It means...
by Joanne Jacobs | Feb 17, 2025 | Design Thinking, Innovation
So in January 2025, an article called What comes after Design Thinking? piqued my interest. As a long-term practitioner of (and educator about) Design Thinking, I was initially concerned the piece would be full of some kind of pseudo-fashionable tedium with...
