innovation enthusiast and author
Kevin is a Professor of Business, Technology & Strategy at the QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Governance Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
His recent engagements span sectors and continents, from guiding a leading international mining company in designing innovation strategies, to providing thought leadership on emerging technologies for a global tech leader. Kevin has served as an expert on national AI strategies for a premier management consulting firm, and advised a leading university on reorganizing its research enterprise for greater impact.
Discover books by Kevin C. Desouza on knowledge management, innovation, AI, and organizational strategy. Each title offers practical insights and strategic frameworks for professionals, researchers, and decision-makers navigating complex information challenges.
Innovation is a key strategic priority for most large companies, and most executives today have realized they cannot just give responsibility for innovation to their R&D group or their business development team they need to make innovation everyone's job. But how do you do that? The evidence suggests most companies actually do a terrific job of killing off the entrepreneurial endeavours of their would-be innovators through their standardized procedures and risk-averse mentalities. Kevin C. Desouza's book, Intrapreneurship, provides the solution. He gives guidance to the people with bright ideas, to help them build support and get their ideas taken seriously, and he offers advice on how to manage and organize a company to give these would-be intrapreneurs as much support as possible. Drawing from his own practical experience as well as decades of academic research, Desouza's book is a must-read in companies that care about making innovation everyone's job.
CEO of Behance, National Bestselling Author of Making Ideas Happen
You cannot stay competitive and lead your industry unless you mine the potential within your own organization. Kevin C. Desouza makes the case for identifying and empowering talent to steward innovation from within. Intrapreneurship will help you tap your company's greatest potential.
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Kellogg Innovation Network, Northwestern University
As competition intensifies globally, no corporation can afford to ignore the potential of corporate entrepreneurs, or "intrapreneurs," to drive growth and continual renewal. Kevin C. Desouza provides a new look and important contribution to the field of innovation, and he does so in a way that should be of keen interest to executives, intrapreneurs, and aspiring intrapreneurs across industry.
Chief Innovation Officer, Trimo
Are you frustrated with the fact that companies often talk about the need to generate and collect their employee's ideas, but in reality, they lack tangible tools and processes to efficiently leverage these ideas into real projects and products? Despair no more! In his new book, Kevin C. Desouza shows us how innovative companies not only promote the generation of ideas but also encourage the entrepreneurial spirit of their employees by supporting their efforts to develop and commercialize their ideas, both internally and externally. This book is a must for all managers who are struggling to design effective innovation processes and for employees who want to learn the science and art of pursuing ideas to their full potential inside their organization.
Associate Vice President & General Manager (Research), Infosys Technologies Limited, India
Engaged Knowledge Management is a significant contribution because it unearths the missing links in knowledge management and offers solutions to make it work...This book offers both the know-how and show-how to make knowledge management pay off and how to give a competitive edge to corporations.
Associate Professor, DeGroote Business School, McMaster University; Director, Institute for Intellectual Capital Research, Canada; Associate Editor, Journal of Intellectual Capital
Engaged Knowledge Management will be one of the most important books in your library. It is a wonderful compendium of the critical issues related to knowledge management and will clearly be labeled as a 'must have' for all academics and practitioners that work in this field...All in all, the book is comprehensive and well written. A fine reference for the KM novice and expert.
The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
Intrapreneurship challenges the thinking executive to go beyond the usual organizational notions to a new way of thinking about how to realize intrapreneurship in your firm. Kevin C. Desouza richly illustrates his ideas with examples from today's businesses and incorporates theory to develop a roadmap from conception to products and services.
President, Delta Faucet Company
Intrapreneurship is filled with ideas and solutions that will enable you to build a robust innovation program embraced by every employee in your organization. Read it, now!
Director, Groundwire
Intrapreneurship offers a fresh and timely perspective on how to harness, and not kill, the power of innovation that exists inside every organization, including nonprofits. In his book, Desouza masterfully weaves academic research together with real-life stories across industries to show us how to foster innovation and turn the best ideas into reality. His fusion of innovation and implementation into a single, pragmatic intrapreneurship framework is where the magic happens. This book is a must-read for employees and leadership alike, whether you are trying to increase profits, save the world, or both.
School of Business, George Washington University, USA; Co-Director, Institute for Knowledge and Innovation
Exactly what's needed to breathe new life into a field now dying for lack of a practical, results-oriented perspective. Desouza and Awazu show us how to capture the essence of good management - knowledge - while actively engaged in the nitty-gritty of complex organizations. You will be engaged by this book.




Julian Birkinshaw
Professor, London Business School; Co-Founder, Management Innovation Lab (MLab); Fellow, Advanced Institute of Management Research (UK); and author of Reinventing Management