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🎧 125: Pitching Your Invention to Big Product Businesses

Dougal Grimes is the Vice President of Innovation and Inventors Relations for SpinMaster Toys. He leads a team of people who review product pitches from inventors just like you. Before this, he worked for over 10 years as a leader in many different roles at Hasbro. Today Dougal is going to share some valuable knowledge on how inventors, startups, and small manufacturers can best pitch to large product brands like SpinMaster, and what you can do to best prepare for, deliver, and expand your product’s success with this type of partnership.

🎧 Rethinking Brand Innovation with Carla Johnson

Carla Johnson is one of the world’s leading innovation architects and the author of the new book RE:Think Innovation. Through her company RE:Think Labs she helps brands innovate both internally and externally. We discussed all of this and more this week on the On Brand podcast. About Carla Johnson As the world’s leading innovation architect, Carla Johnson has partnered with brands and conferences globally to train thousands of people how to rethink the work that they do and the impact they can have.

🎧 Why Corporations Beat Startups for Innovation

When we think of innovation we usually think of startups – certainly not large corporations. Typically people think that if they want to be more creative or innovative then they have to leave the corporate world and either become an entrepreneur or at least look for a job with a newer and smaller company.

🎧 108: Learning From Failure

Learning from failure I worked on a product back in the mid-2000s called Accept360. It was a product for product managers. There’s no question that using Accept360 would make product management orgs more effective in a lot of different ways. But Accept360 failed as a product, and so in 2011 I started to realize I had to figure out why a product that I loved, that all our customers loved, that definitely delivered a lot of value, was not successful.

🎧 Putting Innovation on the Balance Sheet with Dan Toma

Can you measure and track how successfully your organization is innovating? This week on the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes talk to Dan Toma, co-author of ‘Innovation Accounting‘, who says that the traditional management tools available to leaders wanting to understand investments in innovation are lacking, instead proposing a new set of frameworks and tools that go beyond just financial indicators.

🎧 Design Joy + Design Education + Design Justice with Jennifer Rittner — DT101 E84

Jennifer Rittner is a design educator and writer. We talk about design, education, ethics, social justice, system design, and design joy. Listen to learn about: The current state of design education  Human-centered design methodology Important designers working at design’s cutting edge Designing with and for marginalized populations  Smaller scale design  The empathy problem The power-design ecosystem   Our Guest Jennifer is a writer, educator and communications strategist who has taught at Parsons School of Design, the School Visual Arts, and SUNY FIT.

🎧 157 How to evaluate ideas with DVF – desirability, viability and feasibility

Design thinking is a human-centred approach to innovation that can be used to transform the way we develop products, services, processes and even strategies. In this episode, find out how to use design thinking to evaluate if an idea is not only desirable from a human point of view, but also how that intersects with what is operationally feasible and economically viable.

🎧 Design Thinking? Thank an Engineer.

This episode is the audio version of Steven McCarthy’s article in Dialectic (Volume III, Issue I): “Design Thinking? Thank an Engineer, read by Lee-Sean Huang.  Dialectic is an open access scholarly journal of thought leadership, education and practice in the discipline of visual communication design published by the AIGA Design Educators Community and Michigan Publishing.

🎧 Innovation is challenging and dismantling the “default” way :: Whitney Parnell

Episode 58 of “What is Innovation?” is here! This time Jared talks with Whitney Parnell, a Black millennial activist, singer, and the Founder and CEO of Service Never Sleeps, a nonprofit that empowers individuals and communities to catalyze social justice through service and Allyship, on the dismantling the status quo and working for and towards social justice.

🎧 Web3 Product Management, BanyanDAO, and our April 29th Training Day Event for leveling up in Web3 :: with Mike Anderson

In this episode of Ventures, my guest Mike Anderson ( and I talk about all-things BanyanDAO ( and its upcoming April 29th Training Day event to teach Web3 product architecture, design, and management (

🎧 Ep812: Leon Kuperman | Chief Technology Officer, CAST.AI

Leon Kuperman is a co-founder and CTO at CAST AI. Formerly Vice President of Security Products OCI at Oracle, Leon’s professional experience spans tech companies such as IBM, Tuition, and HostedPCI. He has 20+ years of experience in product management, software design, and development, all through production deployment.

🎧 083 -Why Bob Goodman Thinks Product Management and Design Must Dance Together to Create “Experience Layers” for Data Products

Design takes many forms and shapes. It is an art, a science, and a method for problem solving. For Bob Goodman, a product management and design executive, the way to view design is as a story and a narrative that conveys the solution to the customer. As a former journalist with 20 years of experience in consumer and enterprise software, Bob has a unique perspective on enabling end-user decision making with data.

🎧 Ep 62 : Luis Roy on Design Thinking Process & Case Study – Healthcare Innovation At Work @ Dr Reddy’s Laboratories

What is Design Thinking  & Why has Design become so important ?  What are the Best Practices for Design Thinking ? A case study at Dr Reddy’s ? What are the Stages of Design Thinking Process? Luis answers the above questions and many more as he takes as on a fascinating journey of the principles and application of Design Thinking.

🎧 Ep. 182: Tamara Ghandour – – Harnessing The Power of Innovation – Everyday

Our guest this week is Tamara Ghandour, the author of Innovation is Everybody’s Business and the founder of LaunchStreet, a consultancy that helps businesses unleash their innovation potential. Tamara speaks with IMA’s Adam Larson about the importance of building an innovation mindset for individuals and teams and the value that is unlocked when businesses focus on the practice of innovation rather than the process.

🎧 Design Thinking In Employee Experience

In this podcast, we learn about design thinking, why it’s important, and how it promotes critical thinking, collaboration, and innovation. Our guest speaker, Ben Whitter, explains the whole concept of design thinking and how and where we can apply it to  HR. He points out that a strong intention, purpose, and thoughtful consideration are the key elements of design thinking and deploying a new employee experience.

🎧 383: Working better with your CTO for innovation

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 senior roles that contribute to innovation, specifically the role of CTO (Chief Technology Officer).

🎧 258 Leadership strategies for innovation with Bruno Pešec

A leadership mindset for reinventing work Bruno Pesec, an Oslo-based Croatian and former engineer once worked for Toyota and saw for himself that it didn’t matter how great the idea was, how talented the engineers were, if the end user couldn’t see the value in it. This sparked a passion for leadership strategies and innovation that meet a need.

🎧 E106: Roy Rosin – Matching Innovators’ Passion to Customer Problems

Ben & Jay welcome a multi-industry innovation hall of famer, Roy Rosin, Chief Innovation Officer at UPenn Health System.  Roy leads The Center for Health Care Innovation, which facilitates the rapid, disciplined development, testing, and implementation of new strategies to reimagine health care delivery for dramatically better patient outcomes, value, and experience.

🎧 Design Thinking w/ Nicole Dessain

Nicole Dessain is the Founder and Chief Employee Experience Designer at Talent.Imperative Inc, an employee experience design company. During her 19-year career in human resources, Nicole discovered design thinking while collaborating on a client project. She became a student of the method and got certified by IDEO U and LUMA Institute and is now a SESP Lecturer at Northwestern University’s Masters in Learning and Organizational Change Program which explores how design thinking might be applied to innovation in organizational effectiveness.

🎧 Bold Design, Crafted from the Heart with an International Perspective | 360 | Wellness & Design Thought Leadership with Laura Hodges

I’m Josh Cooperman and this is Convo By  Design with another installment of the Wellness & Design Thought Leadership Series presented by ThermaSol featuring interior designer, Laura Hodges. Laura Hodges is the founder and principal designer behind the DC/ Baltimore  based Laura Hodges Studio. Laura has a unique design perspective, influenced by her Norwegian grandmother, British mother and Jamaican father.

🎧 EGDE (Emergent Grounds in Design Education)

In this episode, we speak to Michelle Barrett and Chris Daemmrich from Emergent Grounds in Design Education (EGDE) , a cogenerated catalogue of ongoing student and alumni practitioners organizing for antiracist, anticolonial, feminist education in the built environment design professions. This group was originally organized in June 2020 as the Alumni Collective in Solidarity/New Grounds for Design Education, and renamed Emergent Grounds in Design Education (EGDE) in August 2020.

🎧 Making the Case for Product Operations with Denise Tilles

Denise Tilles is an experienced product leader, consultant, and coach who has spent her career helping organizations transform opportunity into product vision. She specializes in product strategy, organizational design, and product operations. Denise joins Melissa Perri on this week’s episode to argue strongly in favor of the need for Product Operations as organizations start to scale.

🎧 How to innovate at a corporate – lessons from Apple and Intel

Every company wants to be innovative, but how do you balance the risk of innovation with the need to keep the lights on? Listen to this interview with Kapil Kane, Head of Innovation at Intel China, to find out. Learning notes from this episode: Most tech innovations die because they do not have a solid business case.

🎧 Julia Feldman / Product Coordinator & Sustainability Leader @ TEVA

Julia Feldman, Product Coordinator and Sustainability Leader at Teva, talks to students about how to integrate sustainability into the design process and how she stays motivated in the fight for sustainability. Julia Feldman LinkedIn Watch these conversations on YouTube.

🎧 Innovation Expert Karen Hold’s Telcom Bubble Burst — How Did She Diversify?

Episode page and links: My guest for Episode #158 of the My Favorite Mistake podcast is Karen Hold. She is the Founder of Experience Labs and her work is grounded in a core belief that design thinking provides an enabling social technology that facilitates adaptation and effective problem-solving in complex social systems.

🎧 Designing Vaccine Equity | Aika Matemu and Pragya Mishra

Bon talks with the Dalberg Design team (Aika, Pragya, Joy and Mihret) about designers as global health storytellers, the need for creativity in global health and the challenges of social media misinformation.  Aika Matemu is a Director at Dalberg Design in Nairobi, leading the design team in Africa.

🎧 Iterative Localisation of what3words with Maiju Nurminen

Maiju Nurminen is the Localisation Manager & Strategist of what3words, a company that’s given every 3-metre square in the world a unique code of 3 random words — a what3words address. Maiju has built the localisation programme at what3words from scratch, and as the company has scaled up and expanded to new markets, she’s continued to develop localisation at what3words into a highly impactful and cross-functional operation.

🎧 Product design through end user collaboration and innovation – Kelli Lucas

On this episode, Kelli Lucas and I discuss her experience as a UX (user experience) designer. Kelli has 12 years of experience creating beautiful, engaging products for startups and enterprise clients alike. She has designed mobile and web products for FinTech, healthcare, publishing, sports, social media, advertising, education, logistics, and more.

🎧 Grace Under Pressure with Nicole Yershon

Nicole Yershon has been called “the disruptor’s disruptor” having built the pioneering innovation business: Ogilvy Labs. Now founder & CEO of innovation consultancy The NY Collective, she’s a best selling author and named one of the 25 women who shaped the digital industry in the past 25 years.

🎧 Design for Strengths: How to Apply Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths

Why do employees perform poorly? 80% of the time, it’s just because they’re in the wrong position, and unable to leverage their strengths.    Our returning guest today, John K. Coyle — is one of the world’s leading experts in Design Thinking, and an Olympic silver medalist. At a young age, John was able to identify his strengths and use those strengths to his advantage.

🎧 Conversation 70: Experiencing Design with Karen Hold

Conversation 70: Experiencing Design with Karen Hold If you don’t know Folgers Coffee… When I think of law school graduates who never used the degree, I immediately think of my guest Joan Samson, please give my Conversation About Not Being A Doctor  a listen if you have not done so before. The Coursera course Karen spoke of is Experiencing Design: Deepening Your Design Thinking Practice.

🎧 The Role of Design for Better Science Communication

What is the role of design thinking to health and risk communication, especially when audiences may be conflicted or disagree on ideological world views?Mad*Pow’s Chief Design Strategy Officer, Jen Briselli, published a two part series titled Designing Science Communication that helps answer the question about the role of design in science communication.

🎧 Podcast S7E154: Ralph Christian Ohr – Dual Innovation and scaling up Ventures

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Dr Ralph-Christian Ohr about ambidexterity, dual innovation and what it takes to scale up new ventures. See the full episode at #podcast #innovation #ambidextrous Rather than there being a single best way to set up an ambidextrous organisation, it requires a set of key principles which all innovation teams and companies need to display.

🎧 Young Gun Will Smith – Business at 25

Will Smith is the founder of Nomad Plant. A multidisciplinary and enthusiastic professional with 6 years’ experience in Project Management and Civil Engineering contracting. Successfully managed and delivered high-profile projects, such as infrastructure projects at Sydney Airport, roadworks, streetscapes, and sensitive remediation.

🎧 238: Kian Gohar, How Radical Adaptability Sustains Continuous Change

Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 238, an episode with a sought-after strategist and advisor, Kian Gohar. Many organizations have been caught flat-footed by disruptive changes – especially in the pandemic era – which has forced a lot of businesses to rethink their priorities to stay competitive in the post-pandemic world.

🎧 E446: The Importance of Innovation in Ecommerce with Spencer Jan

In this episode, Mike is joined by Spencer Jan of Solo Stove to talk about the evolution of ecommerce through the years and how innovation drives it forward.   After hearing him speak at eCommerceFuel Live last March, I invited Spencer Jan to be on the podcast to expound on a particular point in his presentation that struck me the most: innovation.

🎧 Ep 197: AKNF – How to hit targets on day 1 of the drop with Maddle and Pilothouse

Subscribe to DTC Newsletter –   Today’s All Killer No Filler Podcast features Founder and CEO Julian Methot as well as Head of Ecommerce, Georges Thébault-Dagher, for Maddle Paddle Boards. Armed with incredible product design that drills in on the ideal paddle board lifestyle, Maddle has had an incredibly successful launch that combined a contest, with a VIP product launch that worked so well, Maddle hit it’s April targets on April first.

🎧 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.

🎧 Moving from UX to Product – Christian Crumlish on The Product Experience

Product people wear lots of hats – but sometimes we want to swap from one role to another.  Author, Consultant, Product lead and recovering-UXer Christian Crumlish joined us on the podcast to talk about why someone might want to move from UX to Product Management, what superpowers they bring to the role, and the biggest surprises they might have. Featured Links: Follow Christian on LinkedIn and Twitter | Christian’s website | Buy Christian’s book ‘Product Management for UX People’ | Design in Product | CA Gov Covid project

🎧 Solve Problems with Misfit Thinking | Gord Bennett

Gordon Bennett is an author, entrepreneur, academic, educator, and speaker. He comes with two decades of military service as an army logistics officer and years as an entrepreneur. Over the years he has held a variety of positions from executive to Commandant of the Canadian Forces Logistics Training Centre—the Canadian military’s national logistics training centre for all military logistics personnel.

🎧 365: Innovation accounting metrics to improve product management – with Esther Gons

Innovation accounting for teams, managers, and strategy – for product managers Today we are talking about measuring innovation effectiveness in organizations. To help us is the person who has written the book on the topic, Innovation Accounting, Esther Gons. Esther is the CEO of GroundControl, an Innovation Accounting software platform to help corporate ventures with the development of new business models.

🎧 Steven Pope Amazon FBA Weekly Q&A – Ask Any Seller Central Question

00:00 Steven Pope Amazon FBA Weekly Q&A 10:18 Updates on MAG website 10:45 MAG PPC Jobs 11:39 ASIN B09B4RFKZT, out of the adult category. They still won’t let me advertise, saying the campaign is not compliant with Amazon Advertising’s guidelines 14:54 Recently seeing items showing up first in search with ”featured from our brands” when it is clearly not amazons brand, for example, Hemp oil, how is that possible 16:26 If I delete my ASIN in the UK marketplace, will that delete my listing in the US marketplace for the same ASIN 17:29 How do I find every single KW and product targeting that

🎧 How to Innovate So Your Business Doesn’t Become Irrelevant

How do you invest in innovation to stay relevant in the marketplace without starving the products that are the bread and butter of your business? Joel Heath is the co-founder of FluidStance.com and he joins me to talk all about innovation – how to think about it in a way that can keep your business relevant without sacrificing what made it successful to begin with.

🎧 How AI Powers Cloud Automation & Help To Reduce Cloud Costs with Leon Kuperman #177

Leon Kuperman is the CTO of CAST AI, a platform that increases your SaaS company’s profit margin without additional work. They cut your cloud bill in half, automate DevOps tasks, and prevent downtime in one Autonomous Kubernetes platform. Leon has over 20 years of experience in product management, software design and development all the way through to production deployment.

🎧 Product Innovation Is Not an “Aha” Moment – It’s a Process

Tony Ulwick is the founder and CEO of Strategyn, a strategy, and investment consulting firm. As the inventor of the Outcome-Driven Innovation® (ODI) process, he has successfully implemented it at some of the world’s most prominent organizations and across nearly all sectors.   Get a free download of Tony’s best-selling book here and read his blog here.

🎧 Why CEOs Should Be Thinking Like Designers

What is design thinking, and why should you care about it? ” You know, so many leaders today are asking the question, what comes next? How do we prepare ourselves for what we can’t even see? … Well, that’s where design thinking comes in,” Sandy Speicher, CEO of IDEO, tells Leadership Next. Design thinking is a different way of seeing the world, a different approach to problem solving and leading.

🎧 E37: Why Companies Must Invest In People Centered Leadership Development

People-centric Leadership doesn’t mean being soft or forgetting the profits. It means thinking of the impact of leadership on the people who worked for you and behaving in such a way that brings out their best for you and the company. As a leader in business, you need to understand what makes people tick.

🎧 Protecting Vulnerable Users by Designing for Safety (with Eva PenzeyMoog, author ”Design for Safety”)

Trigger warning: Please be aware that this episode contains references to domestic abuse An interview with Eva PenzeyMoog. Eva is a designer and former volunteer rape crisis counselor, who wants to encourage us all to consider the harm that we may be inadvertently causing through our product design decisions.

🎧 Alan Proithis of Capstone Partners on Innovation Collaboration

Alan Proithis of Capstone Partners joins us to discuss private 5G networks and the importance of innovation collaboration. 5G Innovation Allen and I have worked together at different companies since the mid-90s. He is currently focused on private 5G networks. There is an unprecedented amount of investment and interest in the mobile space.

🎧 #51 Design & Thinking Ft. Sarah Toukan, Co-Founder, Ziina

Sarah Toukan comes from a family of entrepreneurs in the middle-east. She attended Stanford for her bachelors and masters in mechanical engineering, post which she worked in real estate and food and beverage industry and currently is the co-founder and leads the product at Ziina. As the UAE’s first licensed peer-to-peer payment app, Ziina is on a mission to simplify finance for everyone.