Innovating from inside an organisation is a monstrous task. First, you have to convince your colleagues. Then your manager’s inevitably performing their best block and tackle manoeuvre.

And if for some bizarre reason your concept is taken even vaguely seriously by the head of your department, there’s no way in hell it’s going up the chain to the business leader.

But intrapreneurs, our philanthropic mavericks who want to keep this organisation afloat, are our secret weapon against disruption by the upstarts and startups of our world.

Here's how we do it...