IIM Bangalore

Venturing through Entrepreneurial / Intrapreneurial Leadership
Program Director: Prof. D. V. R. Seshadri
January 08-12, 2007
IIMB Campus

Programme Overview: Organisations today are increasingly being buffeted by the relentless pressures of change, stemming from globalization, technological changes, etc. One of the pathways of companies to weather these storms is through unleashing the entrepreneurial spirit latent in its employees. This results in such employees carving out new paths, initiating new ventures, defying the status quo in their organizations, and in general breaking fresh ground.
The unleashing of entrepreneurial energies in large organizations has been well studied by scholars, resulting in an increasing body of knowledge. This exciting field of study is referred to as ‘corporate entrepreneurship’ or alternately ‘intrapreneurship.’

This is a major driver for organizational renewal or ‘reinvention.’ This program seeks to understand the entrepreneurial / intrapreneurial mindset as opposed to the ‘employee’ mindset. Entrepreneurism is inextricably connected with leadership, since entrepreneurship and more specifically intrapreneurship involves mobilizing teams of people towards a cause much greater than the individuals involved, often in the face of significant resistance from forces within and outside the organization that seek to preserve the status quo. Intrapreneurship is also closely linked with reinventing the self and subsequently the organization that one is associated with. Reinvention at any level (individual, group, or organization) fundamentally involves taking ownership, which implies operating with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Objectives: The program seeks to help participants to: -

Contents: The program is structured into four distinct modules as follows. Each of them seeks to answer a set of core questions, which are important to understand the process of reinvention.

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