"Entrepreneurship Through Collaborative Intelligence” is a 90-minutes speech by Neil Fogarty on the topic of achieving growth through partner culture.
There is an African proverb: “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together”.
Entrepreneurs want to go far, and go fast - and a way to achieve this is through powerful collaboration.
Eskil’s story of Nigeria is about how we identified a $1.2bn opportunity through collaboration and how we then built the delivery model through collaboration - and still showed a 45% margin.
We will talk about networking and network maps - and show examples of how network maps take you to new and interesting places. This also shows the ‘power of yes’.
Examples of corporate & startup collaboration that are discussed include:
- GE Garage (Africa)
- Coca Cola Accelerators
- MEST (Africa)
- Unilever
- DC Thompson
- Diageo
- GlH Hotels
On on more personal scale, what should people be looking to do in order to build a working partnership?
- Clear objectives
- Right people, defined roles
- Resources, tools and structures
- Record keeping
- Accountability and commitment
- Trust and respect
- Information sharing and communication protocols
- Diversity of skills and perspective - team up with people with fresh ideas
- Process and planning
- Flexibility
- A Mediator
- Constructive Black Hats
Examples are given at different points to underscore the points in the personal collaboration approach - and invites the audience to consider their own experiences in selecting and working with partners.
This is a time for the audience to get really involved in telling their own stories as I will be, effectively, facilitating a crowdsource of collaboration ideas.
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