Build your power base and soft skills, know when to ask forgiveness over permission, and find the right sponsor and backup. Repeatedly test ideas through minimally viable pilots to create product-market fit and business models, measuring results and key performance indicators while bootstrapping without organizational resource support. Developing intrapreneur skills means empowering oneself, validating ideas, and gaining customer traction without full company backing.

1. Intrapreneur skills
Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA
University of Colorado School of Medicine and
Business School
Society of Physician Entrepreneurs

2. Skills
Build your power base and street cred
Build
Know when to ask for forgiveness and
not permission
Know
Build your people soft skills
Build

3. Skills
Find the right sponsor and have a backup
Find the right champion who can lead the
right team
Build and validate minimally viable pilots
Repeatedly test your ideas to create
product market fit and viable business
model

4. Skills
Measure and report results and
KPIs
Have a way to get, keep and
grow customers
Bootstrap. Don’t expect
organizational resource support