Intrapreneurial Opportunities

Intrapreneurial Opportunities – American Well Intrapreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur while working for an organization. Intrapreneurs are employees that work inside of an organization with the skills and abilities to promote innovative product development, change, and marketing. Intrapreneurs are creative, individual thinker that do not require direct supervision. In fact, intrapreneurs develop more in work environments that empowered employees to make decisions and expand on their unique ideas. Intrapreneurs contribute to increases in productivity, take enough risk to improve a process or solve a problem in organizations (Newlands, 2015). Intrapreneurial opportunities is important to companies such as American Well because

Intrapreneurs are employees that develop innovative ideas, multiple courses of action, and are notorious for changing course to achieve their goals. According to Deeb (2015), “big companies promote intrapreneurship allowing employees to work spend 10 to 20 percent of their time new innovations and ideas”. It is no secret that American Well has a dominant presence in the telehealth market domain. It is important that American Well promote a work environment that permits employees to make new discoveries and improve current products. According to Newlands (2015), ‘the intrapreneur is the most fundamental component of an innovative and growing company and companies require intrapreneurs to solve problem and integrate new

One of the key outcomes of healthcare reform in the United States is to improve access to affordable healthcare for all Americans. American Well’s products and services conform to the requirements of healthcare reform. Telehealth technology is in such high demand by consumers and healthcare organizations that the impact of providing telemedicine products and services is not a negative impact on American Well. In 2011, American Well provided online clinical care to nearly 55 percent of the U.S. population (American Well, 2011). According to the American Hospital Association (2015), about 76 percent of U.S. consumers use telehealth services and hospitals are actively using telehealth technology to improve access to healthcare for rural communities”. American Well will only benefit if the organization continues to produce products and services that improve the health of consumers, improve access to healthcare for those in rural communities, and offers products at a reasonable