Dan Toma

Enterprise innovation strategy expert and advocate of the ecosystem approach to innovation.

RADAR THINKER

Thinkers50 Radar Class of 2020. 

FAST FACT

The Corporate Startup was the winner of the 2019 Golden Axiom Business Book Award.

FAST FACT

Member of the World Economic Forum’s working group on accelerating digital transformation.

Ideas

Puzzled by why innovative products are mainly launched by startups, Toma focuses on the changes blue-chip organizations need to make to allow for new ventures to be built in a corporate setting. Now working on how to account for innovation.

Bio

A certified (Columbia University) lean startup acceleration specialist, Toma helps large companies such as Deutsche Telekom, Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover, Bayer, John Deere and Allianz to master lean startup techniques. A proponent of the ecosystem approach to innovation, he also works with government bodies to develop national innovation ecosystems, including the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vietnam.

Content

Co-author of The Corporate Startup (Vakmedien, 2017), which won the Management Book of the Year for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, from the Chartered Management Institute and The British Library in 2018.

NATIONALITY: Romanian

Media picks

Verdict

“The lean startup expert
for big business.”

Stuart Crainer & Des Dearlove, Thinkers50

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