Can you innovate within large organizations? | Joshua Mitro Lavra | TEDxPSU

Joshua talks about entrepreneurship within existing companies.
Josh Lavra works in San Francisco as a product manager, design thinker, and maker. Since graduating from the Penn State College of Engineering in 2011, Josh has explored a number or roles and challenges across the US. Most recently, he developed and launched a self-service vending machine for industrial products in partnership with the world’s largest home improvement retailer. This experiment in intrapreneurship has led him to explore the question: is it possible to innovate within a large organization? (short answer: it depends.)
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[@dshufflz3129]

Simply “get started”. That’s great advice.

[@avonmcintyre811]

Missing factor here is individual incentive to innovate. In large organisations it's more beneficial to chase promotion than grow the business. Safi Bahall in his excellent book Loonshots nails the issue.

[@HezOmanjo]

I dont know who you are but thank you for recommending Loonshots!!👍

[@johnpersson4078]

I'm surprised this doesn't have more views... it's a really good presentation with some valuable advice!

[@keywords7058]

Simply articulated. Well presented. Good job Josh.

[@toto943]

I think the Toyota Prius was more revolutionary than the Tesla Model S. It is easy to build a 100,000 $ car with high-tech in it. But it is much harder to invent a new drivetrain (the power split hybrid) which is more efficient, more reliable and affordable at the same time. They went into a completely differerent direction than all other carmakers which all developed downsized turbo engines, like the mentioned Ford Ecoboost.

[@malayalamwriter]

In one word . . . Collaborate

[@annetteschuetze]

Awesome. Thank you!

[@ashtitahseen2270]

Well done the best presenter i have seen ever, and I learn more than I expected from this presentation.

[@davidpellum1221]

Superb!

[@sayobelli]

The name of this talk is misleading.

[@ankitpatel7061]

superb

[@rkimxx]

You can totally tell you're from Pittsburgh with that accent. haha Way to go Josh! keep the creativity coming

[@alfonsosalinas7645]

buena presentacion, muchas gracias por aclarar dudas

[@New4Ousama]

Very well done. I enjoyed this video and learned from it.

[@neurocidesakiwi]

Can you innovate within large organizations? I've yet to ever see this actually happen.

[@SFBAY10]

GE shoutout didn't age well