Dan Toma
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Biography
Dan Toma is an innovation thought leader and the co-author of the award winning book 'The Corporate Startup’ (published by Vakmedien in 2017 and awarded ‘Management Book of the Year for Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ by Chartered Management Institute and The British Library in 2018)
Dan started his career in entrepreneurship, being involved with technology startups across the world.
Puzzled by the questions ‘why are innovative products mainly launched by startups?’, he focuses on enterprise innovation strategy - specifically on the changes blue-chip organizations need to make to allow for new ventures to be built in a corporate setting. In this capacity he worked with companies like Deutsche Telekom, Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover, Bayer, John Deere or Allianz.
A big proponent of the ecosystem approach to innovation, Dan has also worked with various government bodies, in Asia and Europe, helping developing national innovation ecosystems and implement national innovation strategies. Most noteworthy is his work in the economic aid program of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vietnam where he helped design and manage a nationwide business acceleration program and supported the capability development activities.
The work experience gathered from the public and private sector has been translated into various experiential courses that Dan has delivered for universities such as Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) or the University of Applied Science Rhein-Main (Germany).
Dan holds a dual degree MBA from Bradford University (UK) and TiasNimbas Business School (The Netherlands) while being certified lean startup acceleration specialist by Columbia University (USA) though the Lean Launchpad program.
Dan was also featured on the Thinkers50 2020 Radar list of management thinkers to watch.
Videos
How to measure Innovation by Dan Toma, co-author of The Corporate Startup
Dan Toma Talks About the Corporate Startup
Rocket Sales: Digital sales funnel (CRM) - Dan Toma (Part 2)
Innovation Boxing Live: Dan Toma vs Alexander Haneng
Lean Startup Day Paris 2018 - Dan Toma: Opening keynote.
Innovation Framework - The Corporate Startup - Dan Toma
Podcast S4E71: Dan Toma - Innovation Accounting and Key Performance Metrics
Lean Startup Croatia & CORP2IN Dan Toma The Corporate Startup
03.08.2013 Interview with Dan Toma on the 1. Leancamp in Stuttgart
The Corporate Startup with Dan Toma
Dan Toma - Interview - Startup Istanbul
How companies can create successful innovation ecosystems, author Dan Toma, The Corporate Startup
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