Episode 2: Ryan Thomas - Vice President, Innovation at the JM Smucker Company
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate Innovators
English - February 11, 2019 04:59 - 44 minutes - 53.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsInvesting Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Host Sean Ammirati, Co-Founder and Director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab, sits down with Ryan Thomas Vice President, Innovation at The J.M. Smucker Company.
As a leader of innovation within a $8B Food, Beverage & Pet company, Ryan provides great perspective. There's a ton of lessons here both for how to do innovation inside a consumer-facing brand like Smucker's, as well as just generally how large companies should approach these processes. You'll also see many similarities if you're a traditional entrepreneur to the lean startup methodology and design thinking.
Show Links:
Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab https://www.corporatestartuplab.com/
Learn more about Ryan https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-thomas-0960831/
Learn more about Sean https://www.seanammirati.com/