Thomas Nies
Thomas M. Nies is the founder and CEO of Cincom Systems, Inc. Since the company’s founding in 1968, Cincom has matured into one of the largest international, independent software companies in the world. Cincom's client base spans communications, financial services, education, government, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and insurance. In 2004, Ernst & Young inducted Nies into its Entrepreneur of the Year Hall of Fame. In 2005, along with the CEO of Adobe, Nies won the International Stevie Award for Best Executive in the International Business Awards - “the business world’s own Oscars,” according to the New York Post.
Articles by this Author
The Freedom to Fail Paves the Way … for Intrapreneurial Success
- By Thomas Nies
- Published 07/26/2009
- Leadership
- Unrated
In an influential 1985 book, still relevant today, Gifford Pinchot III coined the phrase “intrapreneurship” to describe the marriage of an entrepreneurial spirit – complete with its fierce independence and lack of deference to established views and the strictures of conventional wisdom – with the resources of a large corporation. While these two spirits may seem in conflict, they actually thrive in many of the world’s best-run companies.
Create an Intrapreneurial Culture
- By Thomas Nies
- Published 02/22/2008
- Creativity & Innovation
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Intrapreneurship is a strategy for stimulating innovation by making better use of entrepreneurial talent. When effectively promoted and channeled, intrapreneurship not only fosters innovation, it also helps employees with good ideas to better channel the resources of a corporation to develop more successful products.