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🎧 Innovation Processes in the Air Force and Elsewhere with Productable Founder Rachel Kuhr Conn

Rachel Kuhr Conn, Founder and CEO of Productable and Brian Ardinger, Cofounder of Inside Outside Innovation talk about the pitfalls and challenges facing corporate innovation and some of the processes and practices that companies can use to level up their innovation efforts. For more innovation resources, check out insideoutside.io.

🎧 Kapil Kane — Innovation, Design-thinking, and the Role of Empathy

Kapil Kane is the Director of Innovation at Intel China and the Founder of award-winning corporate innovation accelerator GrowthX. Kapil has wide-ranging experience in product design and shares insights about his customer and employee-centric approach and how he uses the accelerator as the hub of innovation for Intel.

🎧 Innovation is an idea put into action :: Kapil Kane

Episode 55 of “What is Innovation?” is here! Jared talks with Kapil Kane, Director of Innovation at Intel China where he co-founded & runs GrowthX- an award-winning corporate startup accelerator. In this episode, Kapil talks about how innovation comes to life through constant invention and a portfolio-driven approach. Are innovation and invention synonymous? Does talking about innovation naturally lead to delivering innovative solutions to market? Kapil’s insights will help you strike a balance between innovation and invention to make a portfolio-driven approach work for you.

🎧 Ep. 172: Dan Toma – Innovation Accounting

Dan Toma, innovation thought leader and the co-author of the award winning book “The Corporate Startup and Innovation Accounting”, joins Count Me In to talk about accounting, innovation, and the ways to implement innovation accounting. Dan started his career in entrepreneurship, being involved with technology startups across the world.

🎧 381: Tactics for increasing the innovation capacity of your organization

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next episode of… Product Mastery Now with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode:  Today we are talking about how your organization can more effectively innovate, using precious resources wisely to create new value.

🎧 S1 Bonus Ep 0B – Douglass Humphreys – What is Innovation at the Edge?

In this bonus episode, Douglass shares his long history with corporate innovation, explores the roots and impacts of “Innovation at the Edge,” offers some surprising details about his early career, and tells stories of specific experiences in his innovation work with companies. Douglass Humphreys is SVP, Sales at Innovation Minds.

🎧 227: Ben M. Bensaou, Innovation Through Customer Collaboration

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 227, an episode with a well-recognized professor, Ben M. Bensaou. Many people think that you need a genius leader or need to become a start-up to innovate. But we all have the potential to innovate. In this episode, Ben speaks about everyone’s role in innovation and how it can be performed like a habit in our everyday lives.

🎧 Bruno Pesec – Measuring the Performance of Innovation Strategy

Today’s guest says that most investments in innovation do not lead to value creation. Tune in to learn why. Dave Bookbinder goes Behind The Numbers with Innovation Strategy Expert, Bruno Pesec. In this episode, Bruno explains how to create value from corporate innovation and how to measure the impact of innovation on three levels: Strategic, Managerial and Tactical.

🎧 How to be trustworthy and build a culture of innovation

Dr. Yoram Solomon is a trust and innovation expert.  He has published 16 books, 22 patents, and was one of the creators of Wi-Fi and USB 3.0 technologies, for which he was dubbed “TI’s Great Innovator.” He has founded several startups and sold a startup company in Silicon Valley. He has held various positions from General Manager of a $100m business unit in a Fortune 200 company to a Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Innovation, and to CEO.

🎧 Podcast S6E132: David Schonthal – The frictions which prevent innovation adoption

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with David Schonthal, a Clinical Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. See the full episode at #innovation #designthinking #ideas He teaches courses in new venture creation, design thinking, business acquisition, healthcare entrepreneurship, corporate innovation and creativity.

🎧 E99: Paul Puopolo – Leading Everyday Innovators at DFW Airport

Ben & Jay have a deep-dive on building corporate innovation from the ground up with Paul Puopolo, Executive Vice President of Innovation at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. Following a career as a naval aviator, Paul built and led innovation teams at Humana, Highmark and MetLife.  Paul has outstanding insights on not only building an innovation function from scratch with a well-defined, discipline process, but also on fostering an innovation culture that reaches every employee at DFW.

🎧 E34 – Yi Jean Chow – The Energy Imperative, CVC in Silicon Valley, Climate Change, Saving Humanity

Yi Jean Chow, Investment Principle at E.ON, and Future Energy Ventures. What is it like to work in Silicon Valley? What are the challenges, and how does a Venture Capitalist and corporate venture capital fund work? More importantly, find out why solving energy is so important for humanity and how it is related to climate change.

🎧 E22 How to inspire leaders to change their approach to innovation in the corporate landscape

Innovation requires risk-taking, but it also demands that we learn how to fail well. Due to the pace and scale of change are accelerating organizations must adapt to survive which means businesses need to evolve faster than ever to remain relevant and successful. It’s important to open innovation up to everyone to spark curiosity.

🎧 XL21: KAPIL KANE – What makes for Radically Innovative Design? Conversation with Kapil Kane (Director Innovation at Intel, ex Apple, Stanford)

My next guest on the XL Podcast, Kapil Kane, has spent his life dedicated to the pursuit of good design. He worked at Apple under Steve Jobs as part of the product design team that innovated the iPad and iPhone. He later took his love of design to Intel to set up an internal corporate accelerator in Shanghai China, supporting local engineers to turn their product ideas into feasible realities.

🎧 #7: Nicko Widjaja, BRI Ventures – The Early Days of The Indonesian VC Landscape and Why VC’s Are Like Music Labels

Nicko Widjaja is the CEO of BRI Ventures, the venture capital arm of Bank BRI, the biggest bank of Indonesia based on assets that launched its’ first $250+ million venture fund. In November 2020 its second fund called Sembrani Nusantara (SN) was launched, which is a mix of equity and venture debt fund.

🎧 The 9 Don’ts of Corporate Innovation

In this episode we talk to Bruno Pesec, engineer, innovator and businessman. Bruno is president of Pesec Global, a business consultancy specializing in helping business leaders increase the returns on their investments in innovation, based in Oslo, Norway. This is the second time that Bruno has been on Interlinks with us and I have asked him back on this occasion because he has just produced a new e-book called the 9 Big Don’ts of Corporate Innovation: How to Spot and Avoid Costly Innovation Mistakes that I think is timely given where we are in the world at this moment in time having lived t

🎧 #199: Prashant Gami – CEO at XENABLER

Prashant is leading innovation using technology at x·enabler – a successful IT innovation company, where he has digitally transformed a number of Australian businesses using innovative technologies. Over the last 15 years, Prashant has founded a number of successful businesses from the ground up. He is a trusted advisor, business partner and mentor for a range of business-minded people in his group.

🎧 What do Heads of Innovation do?

Working in innovation at a large company can be a great way to join the tech boom for non-techies. But what do you do when you get there?  Innovation leaders have a wide range of backgrounds. Some have deep tech expertise, and others are marketing pros. The innovation path a company has chosen determines the background of the person who’ll lead it.

🎧 Youngrok Kim on Japanese Corporate Venture Capital, Korea Army in Iraq & The Owner of Indeed & Glassdoor

Youngrok is a partner at Ginza Ventures, cross border early-stage venture capital fund based in Japan and the US. Currently, he is structuring the fund while raising the capital from potential limited partners. With an emphasis on B2B and FinTech, the fund intends to invest in startups in various industries and aims to help its portfolio companies expand in Japan (and Korea).

🎧 S21E8 – Leading Disruption by Ideating, Incubating, and Scaling New Businesses Inside Existing Organizations, with Andrew Binns

In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover ( talks with Andrew Binns about leading disruption by ideating, incubating, and scaling new businesses inside existing organizations. See the video here: Andrew Binns (

🎧 Dr. Jean C. Accius, Ph.D. – Senior Vice President, AARP – Longer, Healthier, More Productive Lives

Dr. Jean C. Accius, PhD, is Senior Vice President, AARP Global Thought Leadership ( Dr. Accius leads a team in positioning AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) as a global thought leader, identifying emerging trends around the world, cultivating and elevating new ideas, forging global strategic alliances that become the foundation for collaboration and sparking bold solutions to change systems and improve the lives of the global population as it ages.

🎧 The 3 key components of innovation – Chris Hood

On this episode, I have a great conversation with Chris Hood. Chris is a Strategist, a thought leader, and an author with 35 years of experience in business development and digital transformation. He currently works at Google as the Head of Business Innovation & Strategy. Chris also teaches at Colorado Technical University and Southern New Hampshire University.

🎧 Ceili Cascarano: Sleep Patterns and their Effect on Decision-Making

“I think it’s about finding, as an individual, what recovery methods work for you and how you are able to carve that out in your own unique schedule.” -Ceili Cascarano Sleep seems to be a perpetually tricky routine to land, and it’s one of the most important pillars of our overall health–it affects everything from our immune systems to our cognitive function.

🎧 Charlie Oliver on the Power of Technology

Charlie Oliver, CEO of Tech 2025, joins the Jeffs to talk about how companies can harness the power of technology. They discuss:           • Creating a culture of innovation across a company           • Post-pandemic innovation           • Trends that will come between now and 2025 Follow Us on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter Get in touch InnovationJunkie.com 

🎧 #51: Saara Inkinen – The Future of Tech Transfer in a Post-Pandemic World

Tech Transfer describes the process to bring scientific inventions from the discovery stage into companies for translational and clinical R&D. To gain more insights into this area, I invited a tech transfer expert from the LSG2G Community to this conversation. Speaker in this Episode is Saara Inkinen, Nordic Catalyst.

🎧 54. Start Now, Start Simple. How to Become an International Speaker? – Dan Ram

In the episode 54 of IDEAS+LEADERS podcast I am speaking with Dan Ram about becoming an international speaker, about gaining confidence and speaking at TEDx. Dan travels the globe as an Event MC & Speaker at over 100 events a year. Hosting changemakers like President Barack Obama, billionaire founders Sir Richard Branson and Reid Hoffman, F1 champion Nico Rosberg, Grammy-winning artists and celebrities, he works on 4 continents from college campuses to parliaments to in-house corporate innovation days for Fortune 500 companies to the biggest tech conferences in the world.

🎧 Transforming plastic waste into value products | Ran Sharon , Founder and CEO, Clariter, a Global Clean Tech Innovation Company

In a fast-paced and continuously evolving world, we are causing collateral damage to nature. Many big companies and businesses progress at the cost of environmental damage. Awareness on green policies and environment compliance rules for companies are beginning to take shape. The young generation is highly conscious of the brands they are trusting.

🎧 #63 What do Audiences Need – Dan Ram

All Episodes can be found at www.speakingpodcast.com  If you are interested in Meditation or learning Polish /Polish Properties please visit www.roycoughlan.com  Our Facebook Group can be found at www.facebook.com/speakingpodcast  This week our guest was DanRam Event MC | 5x TEDx Speaker | Executive Coach Daniel (known more popularly as DanRam) is an igniter.

🎧 How Entrepreneurs Should Use Their Personal Brand to Launch their Startup

For public speakers, establishing a personal brand is essential, but what about entrepreneurs and the owners of new companies and startups? When it comes to the two spheres of social media marketing and tech startups, and how they overlap, there is no one better to talk to than Claire Díaz-Ortiz. Claire established herself in tech during her time at Twitter, where she was hired to lead corporate social innovation.

🎧 The 3 Pillars of Effective Customer Experience, With Ján Uriga

Jan Uriga says the three most important aspects leaders need to focus on are the corporate culture, technology innovation and the customer. Without these, no business strategy can deliver CX excellence. Valentina and Greg ask Jan to elaborate on the interplay of these key areas and what to do when companies fall into the trap of the technology paradox.

🎧 Andy Rebhun | Vice President and Digital Officer at El Pollo Loco

On this episode of The Future of Development Podcast, Anthony speaks with Andy Rebhun. Andy Rebhun is an accomplished Global Marketing Executive, who has delivered first-to-market products and profitable growth for billion-dollar brands across Fortune 50 companies, including McDonald’s Corporation and Ford Motor Company, through product innovation/launch, brand strategy, integrated marketing, digital transformation, and customer service.

🎧 Anaqua – The Tech Behind The IP Management and Innovation Software Company

Bob Romeo, CEO of Anaqua joins me on the Tech Talks Daily Podcast. Anaqua is an IP management and innovation software company with a great story. Its software and services help corporations and law firms gain a true competitive advantage from their intellectual property. Over fifteen years ago IP leaders from Ford Motor Company and British American Tobacco identified an important gap within enterprise software solutions.

🎧 A Culture for Sustainable Change

I discovered Tendayi Viki during a Strategyzer masterclass on building resilient companies. We talked about: What company cultures are more likely to ride the wave of disruption well. We discussed sustainability, growth and transformation What type of pirate we should be to make changes happen. Tendayi Viki is an author and corporate innovation expert. As Associate Partner at Strategyzer, he helps companies innovate for the future while managing their core business.

🎧 As COVID-19 Vaccines Ship, One Company Brings Innovation to the Vials

As potential vaccines for COVID-19 approached approval, the focus has been on the safety and efficacy of candidates. Now that vaccines have been approved, attention has been shifting to the complex logistical challenges of manufacturing, distributing, and delivering vaccines to patients. The process has opened up visibility into many aspects of the supply chain that are usual taken for granted.

🎧 EEC 177: Saving Children with Seth Berkley CEO of GAVI

Seth Berkley answers what led him to become the successful leader he is as CEO of GAVI the Vaccine Alliance while answering the following questions. Tune in! What is your leadership Strategy? What is one trait you possess that makes you an effective leader? Can you tell us a story of how you used that trait to build success.

🎧 Denis Jacquet, founder of the Day One Movement, international entrepreneur, and author discusses how automation is transforming the labor market

Denis Jacquet is concerned that automation is causing traditional jobs to mutate… and governments around the world are mismanaging the opportunity to prepare citizens for the new labor market. He has written extensively on how regulation is stifling innovation. Denis is a serial entrepreneur having started and sold multiple successful companies including EduFactory in the e-learning space.

🎧 Leaders S2: E23 – Phil Blows & Louis Quaintance (Accru Finance)

This week, we have the CEO and CTO of Accru Finance on the show! Phil Blows and Louis Quaintance tell us about how to make cryptocurrency accessible based around a good user experience and how the tech platform was created to allow for faster growth of the software. They also share their experience in developing an entirely remote start-up and the type of talent that you need for an innovation-led company.

🎧 Spearheading Customer Experience And Company Culture

Innovation is the name of the game for entrepreneurs as they want to take their businesses from good to great to global recognition. Beth Davies has been at the forefront of many company success stories, namely Tesla, Apple, and Microsoft; she shares her thoughts on company culture, scaling the workforce, and leadership development.

🎧 Getting rid of THEY

How many of us have used the convenient excuse of “they” for our mistakes or failures? “They” didn’t get it, “they” rejected the plan, “they” didn’t give me the tools I needed to succeed. We’ve all done it, but it is so counterproductive to innovation and creates a toxic culture of blame, and this is bad for not just innovation but also company culture.

🎧 How to protect intellectual property from costly patent troll litigation

In today’s global, intertwined economy, patent trolls are a threat to innovation, both now and in the future. In the US, trolls are known to track patent activity and take advantage of the slightest opportunity, and this is likely to increase in other markets. In this Business Conversations podcast, Intellectual Property expert Ken Seddon discusses the strategies that many of the world’s top innovators in AI, cloud, blockchain, autonomous vehicles, electronics, and 5G are using to protect themselves from costly and unwanted patent troll litigation.

🎧 Aaron Strout – Chief Marketing Officer at Real Chemistry (Formerly W2O)

In episode twenty one I speak with Aaron Strout the Chief Marketing Officer at Real Chemistry (Formerly W2O) about the organization’s evolution to a global health innovation company designed to improve outcomes, how they helped Pfizer with vaccine confidence, and Texas BBQ!

🎧 How To Unlock The Power Of Innovation

Tamara Ghandour shares how to get off the crowded hamster wheel of “better” and into an ownable and differentiated place that wins. Tamara, author, podcaster, keynote speaker and founder of innovation training company, LaunchStreet, used to believe that innovation was the domain of a select few, exclusive to certain industries or relegated to a specific job role.

🎧 Doing Agile Right

Darrell Rigby discusses his book “Doing Agile Right” and ways to inspire transformation without chaos. Darrell leads Bain & Company’s global innovation and agile practices, and you’ve seen him in places like CNBC, CNN, and Bloomberg. His research has been published in Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. Listen for three action items you can use today. Host, Kevin Craine Do you want to be a guest? Do you want to be a sponsor?