Inside Outside Innovation
352 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★ - 17 ratingsInside Outside Innovation explores the ins and outs of innovation with raw stories, real insights, and tactical advice from the best and brightest in startups & corporate innovation.
Each week we bring you the latest thinking on talent, technology, and the future of innovation. Join our community of movers, shakers, makers, founders, builders, and creators to help speed up your knowledge, skills, and network.
Previous guests include thought leaders such as Brad Feld, Arlan Hamilton, Jason Calacanis, David Bland, Janice Fraser, and Diana Kander, plus insights from amazing companies including Nike, Cisco, ExxonMobil, Gatorade, Orlando Magic, GE, Samsung, and others.
This podcast is available on all podcast platforms and InsideOutside.io. Sign up for the weekly innovation newsletter at http://bit.ly/ionewsletter. Follow Brian on Twitter at @ardinger or @theiopodcast or Email [email protected]
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Ep. 145 - Laura Anne Edwards, DATA OASIS founder, NASA Datanaut, TED Resident & SheCanHackIT on Sustainable Innovation and Big Data
April 30, 2019 12:00 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBLaura Anne Edwards is founder of DATA OASIS and serves as a NASA Datanaut, TED Resident and with SheCanHackIT. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation founder, talks with Laura Anne about sustainable innovation and big data. Important Take Aways: Sustainable Innovation is Key! - Maintain innovation over time through systems. What you are doing, who you are doing it with, and create creative collisions. - Key elements: Know who you’ve hired. Use innovation audit to look at inf...
Ep 144 - Ben Nelson, Lambda School Co-founder on Income Share Agreements
April 23, 2019 12:00 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBBen Nelson is the CTO and Co-founder of Lambda School, a 9-month online education/training program. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation founder, spoke with Ben about Lambda School’s disruption of the education market, the creation of an online school, and the use of an Income Share Agreement. Through an Income Share Agreement, students agree to pay back the costs of their training, once they receive a $50,000 a year job. A percentage of their income, up to $30,000, is paid back...
Ep. 143 - Jon Katzenbach And Gretchen Anderson, co-authors of The Critical Few: Energize Your Company's Culture by Choosing What Really Matters
April 16, 2019 12:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBEnergize Your Company's Culture Jon Katzenbach and Gretchen Anderson are co-authors of The Critical Few: Energize Your Company's Culture by Choosing What Really Matters. They spoke with Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation founder, about why culture is important for innovation and how to tap into the behaviors and emotions that can make a significant cultural impact. The Critical Few Their book, The Critical Few, looks at working within an organization and drawing on a company...
Ep. 142 - Neil Soni, Author of The Startup Gold Mine and Estee Lauder Innovator
April 09, 2019 12:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBNeil Soni is the author of The Startup Gold Mine: How to Tap the Hidden Innovation Agendas of Large Companies to Fund and Grow Your Business. Neil spent years with startups, focusing on the sales and marketing side, trying to sell into large organizations. He then moved to Estee Lauder, where he specialized in external innovation. After seeing both sides, Neil wanted to create a resource to help startups understand the corporate side and corporations to understand the startup side. B...
Ep. 141 - Gary Shapiro, Ninja Future: Secrets to Success Author and Consumer Technology Assoc. CEO
April 02, 2019 12:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBGary Shapiro is the author of Ninja Future: Secrets to Success in the New World of Innovation and president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies and which owns and produces CES - The Global Stage for innovation. Gary has helped direct policymakers and business leaders on the importance of innovation in the U.S. economy. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, talks with G...
Ep. 140 - Melissa Perri, Escaping the Build Trap Author and Produx Labs CEO
March 26, 2019 12:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBMelissa Perri is the CEO of Produx Labs and Author of Escaping the Build Trap: How effective product management creates value. She believes that as companies scale, they lose track of what makes them successful and they just “ship.” Companies forget to bring products back to the overall strategy and talk with their customers. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, talks with Melissa about getting out of the build trap and having a customer-centric culture. Companies in ...
Ep. 139 - Northwestern Mutual’s Vivek Bedi on Digital Transformation in the Financial Industry
March 19, 2019 11:32 - 17 minutes - 16 MBVivek Bedi has worked in both corporate and startup innovation. His experiences range from positions at Goldman Sachs, to running his own company. Now at Northwestern Mutual, Vivek is the Head of Consumer Experience, Digital Products, working in both New York and Milwaukee. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, talks with Vivek about Northwestern Mutual's digital transformation. Vivek's team is responsible for everything digital that touches Northwestern Mutual’s 4.3 mi...
Ep. 138 - Mural's Ajay Rajani on Building a Portfolio Career
March 12, 2019 12:00 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MBAjay Rajani is an investor, entrepreneur, and author of Navigating the shift to a ‘portfolio career’ - How we should think about our professional identities — when they’re designed to change. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation founder, and Ajay talk about building and highlighting a portfolio career. After leading Nexxt, a digital remote accelerator that helps people take ideas and turn them into experiments, Ajay launched Mural. Mural helps people create portfolios based on ...
Ep. 137 - Deloitte's Michael Frankel on Growth, Hybrid Talent & Corporate/Startup Collaboration
March 05, 2019 13:00 - 25 minutes - 23.1 MBMichael Frankel is the Managing Director of Deloitte’s New-venture Accelerator, a strategy and operations team for new business models. He believes people need to disrupt themselves continually or they will fall behind. Emergence of the Hybrid The broader trend of the journey from human to tech is not happening instantly. Things that require judgment and strategy, need a hybrid solution. A lot of technology has moved ahead of the user’s ability to use them. For example, we’ve digi...
Ep. 136 - Simone Ahuja, Author, Disrupt-It-Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack a Better Business
February 26, 2019 13:00 - 19 minutes - 18.2 MBSimone Ahuja, Author of Disrupt-It-Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack a Better Business---Before the Competition Does, researches barriers that are preventing large companies from innovating internally. Brian Ardinger, Founder of Inside Outside Innovation talks with Simone about these innovation barriers and what managers and leaders can do to support innovators. Highlights from the discussion: Why is it so hard to innovate? - Lack of alignment - Disconnect between senior leaders and f...
Ep. 135 - Nara Logics CEO and E.N. Thompson Lecturer Jana Eggers on Artificial Intelligence's Past and Future
February 19, 2019 13:00 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBJana Eggers, CEO of Nara Logics, is an expert on Artificial Intelligence. In this episode, Brian Ardinger, Founder of Inside Outside Innovation, talks with Jana about the evolution, promises, and risks of Artificial Intelligence. Jana will be speaking at the E.N. Thompson Forum, in Lincoln, NE, on Feb 26, 2019. Highlights from the discussion: - Jana trained as a mathematician and has worked at organizations like the National Science Foundation, Los Alamos, and a search engine comp...
Ep. 134 - Paramount Pictures’ Futurist Ted Schilowitz on VR, AR & Mixed Reality
February 12, 2019 13:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBTed Schilowitz serves as Paramount Pictures' Futurist, as well as an advisor to the University of Nebraska’s Johnny Carson School of Emerging Media Arts. He sees himself as an explorer, with an eye toward storytelling and creativity. His modern lab rat approach, allows him to experiment with all types of technology and determine what makes it valuable for the future. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside founder, and Ted discuss the intersection between storytelling and human behavior. Spec...
Ep. 133 - Drive Capital’s Chris Olsen on Investment Innovation in the Midwest
February 05, 2019 13:00 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBIf you don’t like disruption, you are going to HATE irrelevance. Chris Olsen of Drive Capital talks about investing in world-class companies located in the Midwest. Drive Capital, a venture firm based in Columbus, OH, developed a $550 million fund with this aim. Chris believes the Midwest will see more billion-dollar companies in the next five years, and based on GDP, the Midwest is the 4th largest economy in the world. If there are more Venture Firms in the Midwest, we’ll see fast...
Ep. 132 - Arjuna Ardagh, Author of Radical Brilliance - The Anatomy of How and Why People Have Original Life-changing ideas.
January 29, 2019 13:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBWhy do some people have innovative, creative ideas that change the game for everyone and challenge the way life is, and others don’t? Brian Ardinger, Founder of Inside Outside talks with Arjuna Ardagh about how brilliance and innovation can become more of a predictable outcome and less of an accident. They discuss his new book, Radical Brilliance - The Anatomy of How and Why People Have Original Life-changing ideas and the four phases of the Brilliance Cycle. Brilliance Cycle Defin...
Ep 131 - Sean Moffitt of WikiBrands & Author of WikiBrands: How to Reinvent Your Business in a Customer Connected Marketplace
January 22, 2019 13:00 - 12 minutes - 11.4 MBSean Moffitt is Managing Director of WikiBrands and Author of WikiBrands: How to Reinvent Your Business in a Customer Connected Marketplace. He focuses on helping people develop a transformational arsenal, including skills in culture and talent, innovation and future proofing, technology and digital, and leadership/pivoting business models. Highlights of Sean's conversation with Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Founder, include: What’s changing the corporate landscape: - Speed at w...
Ep. 130 - Canopy Insight’s Victoria Gerstman on Culture’s Influence on Brands & Semiotics
January 15, 2019 16:48 - 17 minutes - 16 MBDr. Victoria Gerstman is the Assistant Director at Canopy Insight, a cultural insight and innovation consultancy. She helps companies and brands understand the cultural significance of different phenomena. Using semiotics, a method to interpret signs and symbols of culture which brands operate in, Victoria helps companies learn what’s important to people. Canopy Insight works with many large brands around the world, to help them understand culturally specific meanings and the way m...
Ep. 129 - Paul Jarrett of Bulu on New Trends in Collaborative Marketing
January 08, 2019 15:45 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBPaul Jarrett is co-founder/CEO of Bulu and a former Inside Outside podcast co-host. Bulu creates private label subscription box programs for large companies like Disney, GNC, Lululemon, and Crayola. In this episode, Brian Ardinger and Paul discuss new trends in big brand marketing, including getting in front of specific customer segments in new ways. Paul believes that in this changing marketplace, big companies are willing to collaborate and “horse trade,” but are also focusing on k...
Ep. 128 - Aaron Proietti, Author of Today’s Innovator & Transamerica Innovation Champion
December 18, 2018 16:00 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBCreating environments where innovation can thrive Aaron Proietti is author of the new book, Today’s Innovator. He’s spent 17 years working in the innovation space, including leading initiatives at Transamerica and Capital One. Aaron believes everyone wants innovation to happen, but the traits that make the company successful are the very things that are standing in the way of innovation. Today’s Innovator In his new book, Today’s Innovator, Aaron focuses on how to create an envir...
Ep. 127 - Vanguard & CEC's John Buhl on Lean Startup at Scale
December 11, 2018 12:35 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBChanging everything while disrupting nothing John Buhl spent the last 13 years at Vanguard, innovating at all levels. He loved applying Lean Startup principles at scale and discovering what elements needed to change. Unfortunately, he hit many brick walls and found friction to make changes throughout the organization. The system of annual funding, with specific deliverables, was well entrenched. John wanted to understand, how do you shift a large company to be outcome-oriented and r...
Ep. 126 - Barry O'Reilly, Author of Unlearn & Lean Enterprise
December 04, 2018 12:48 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBBarry O’Reilly is the Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. He and Brian Ardinger discuss creating a culture of experimentation in enterprises and seeing everything as an assumption. Barry came to the U.S. originally from Ireland on a student visa and worked at City Search “putting people on the Internet.” He soon joined a mobile games development company and created a popular gam...
Ep. 126 - Barry O'Reilly, Author of Unlearn & Lean Enterprise on Experimentations & Assumptions
December 04, 2018 12:48 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBBarry O’Reilly is the Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. He and Brian Ardinger discuss creating a culture of experimentation in enterprises and seeing everything as an assumption. Barry came to the U.S. originally from Ireland on a student visa and worked at City Search “putting people on the Internet.” He soon joined a mobile games development company and created a ...
Ep. 125 - Doug Hall, Author of Driving Eureka! & Creator of Innovation Engineering
November 27, 2018 13:08 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MBInnovation is No Longer Optional Doug Hall has been in the innovation space for more than 30 years. His new book, Driving Eureka!, is about finding, filtering and fast-tracking to market and includes an update on what is continuously being learned about creating, communicating, and commercializing ideas. In 1986, Doug started Eureka Ranch, an early "accelerator" program focused on commercializing products. He took a system-driven approach to innovation to enable businesses to incre...
Ep. 124 - Amy Radin, Author of The Change Maker's Playbook & FinTech Guru
November 20, 2018 13:12 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MBAmy Radin is the author of The Change Maker's Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any Company. She was previously a Senior Executive at American Express, Citi Group, and eTrade. Amy's experience includes leading the digital transformation of Citi Group’s credit card business ($5b bottom line). Today, Amy enjoys being on the outside of big companies and startups, to help connect the dots between growth aspirations and outcomes. Key Takeaways in Brian Ardinger's Interv...
Ep. 123 - Gatorade's Xavi Cortadellas on Breakthrough Innovation
November 13, 2018 12:26 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MBThere’s no way to innovate if you only stay in your court Xavi Cortadellas is the Head of Innovation and Design at Gatorade. He focuses on innovating in the newest spaces, like tech and services, rather than incremental innovation. Gatorade invented sports drinks 50 years ago and now has an 80% market share. With little room to expand, they actively look for new spaces to grow. Because Gatorade is a huge part of sports in America, when entering a new market, they are careful to exam...
Ep 122 - Jeff Rohrs with Yext and Author of Audience: Marketing in the age of subscribers, fans and followers
November 06, 2018 12:54 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBJeff Rohrs is the CMO of Yext and Author of Audience: Marketing in the age of subscribers, fans and followers, and The Everywhere Brand ebook. He’s also a former VP at Salesforce and ExactTarget. In this episode, Brian Ardinger and Jeff talk about managing content and brands across the web and how hard it is to put perfect information into consumer’s hands everywhere. Yext uses a digital knowledge management (dkm) platform to automate this process. With consumer behavior changing,...
Ep 121 - Herman Miller's Melissa Steach on Design Innovation
October 30, 2018 15:14 - 14 minutes - 13 MBMelissa Steach is an ergonomic specialist with Herman Miller. She works to educate various communities about ergonomics in the workplace while valuing and focusing on the importance of the human for design innovation. Brian Ardinger and Melissa take a look at innovation from a design perspective and how that can impact the workplace and home environments. The built environment helps human growth, relationships and caring for the health of people. New healthcare research is reflectin...
Ep. 120 - Digital Intent's Sean Johnson talks Corporate Innovation Strategies
October 23, 2018 14:45 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBAfter years of working in startups, Sean Johnson and his team began getting approached by enterprises. These companies needed help moving on ideas, accessing specialists and understanding how to be iterative. Today, Sean's company Digital Intent works with venture-backed startups and Fortune 1000 companies wanting to be tech-enabled businesses. He is also a general partner at Founder Equity. Brian and Sean discuss a variety of corporate innovation strategies. Here are a few highligh...
Ep. 119 - Voltage Control's Douglas Ferguson on Inside Innovation
October 16, 2018 14:15 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MBIn this episode, Brian Ardinger talks with Douglas Ferguson, founder of Voltage Control, a company focused on design sprints and getting new products to market. Douglas tries to look at the product as a whole unit and is convinced that ideas are worthless. It’s more about focused execution. Douglas brings an operators viewpoint, as he moves into consulting and thinking about Innovation from a broader perspective. Brian and Douglas discuss some of the problems companies face, when b...
Ep. 118 - ExxonMobil's Christopher Bailey and Kim Bullock on Corporate Innovation
October 09, 2018 14:34 - 23 minutes - 21.4 MBIn this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, Brian Ardinger talks with Christopher Bailey and Kim Bullock with ExxonMobil. They discuss successes and challenges of innovating in a large corporation. Christopher and Kim will also be speaking at the Back End of Innovation Conference in Phoenix, AZ on Oct 17-19, 2018. Key strategies and lessons they learned include: - Create space for idea creation and tools to process. - Protect people and their time from their existing rol...
Ep 117 - Nicole Rufuku, Author of Hiring for the Innovation Economy
October 02, 2018 14:50 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBIn this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, Brian Ardinger has a great conversation with Nicole Rufuku, author of Hiring for the Innovation Economy: Three steps to improve performance and diversity. They discuss how to hire for innovation in a world that’s changing. In her book, Nicole gives teams a set of innovation principals to use in the hiring process. They are: 1. Collaboration 2. Continuous improvement 3. Focusing on the user Nicole also provides three spec...
Ep. 116 - SapientRazorfish's Jeremy Lockhorn on the Fourth Industrial Revolution
September 25, 2018 13:19 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBJeremy Lockhorn is VP, Experience Strategy, Mobile + Emerging Technology at SapientRazorfish and has served a wide variety of roles during his 20-year tenure. The common thread is on a focus of what’s next. In this podcast, Jeremy and Brian Ardinger discuss technology changes over the past 10 years and the implications for the future. They know each other from their days in the digital signage space. When the iPhone was launched more than 11 years ago, it was immediately breakthrou...
Ep. 115 - Doug Branson, Author of The Future of Tech is Women
September 18, 2018 14:31 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBIn this episode, Brian Ardinger talks with Doug Branson about his new book The Future of Tech is Women: How to Achieve Gender Diversity. Brian and Doug start the conversation by looking at trends in the market. Doug outlines the history of women in senior corporate positions. Of the 70 women that have been CEOs of publicly held companies, 70% have MBAs. Of the 27 women that have held exec positions in IT companies (out of 600), two have STEM backgrounds and 25 have business or law ...
Ep. 114 - Canva's Cameron Adams on Democratization of Design
September 11, 2018 15:13 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBCanva, an easy graphic-design tool website, started six years ago, after two of its founders found success making customizable school yearbooks. Through this process they discovered the power of putting easy-to-use tools in the hands of their customers. Cameron Adams, Canva’s Co-founder and Chief product officer joined the team with his design and tech experience, and Canva was born. Today, Canva, an Australian-based company, has over 10 million users and is valued at $1 billion. I...
Ep. 113 - ProfitWell founder Patrick Campbell on Growth, Pricing and SaaS
September 05, 2018 13:14 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBGrowth, Pricing and SaaS Patrick Campbell is the CEO of ProfitWell (formerly Price Intelligently), the software for helping subscription companies with their monetization and retention strategies. ProfitWell also provides free turnkey subscription financial metrics for over 8,000 companies. Prior to ProfitWell, Patrick lead was an Economist at Google and the NSA, an experience he thought was surprisingly similar. With 50 employees in Boston and Argentina, ProfitWell has been funded...
Ep. 112 - Ralph Welborn, Author of Topple on Corporate Innovation
August 29, 2018 14:31 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBCorporate Innovation, Mid-Level Managers and the New 20% Ralph Welborn has spent over 25 years providing business and technology advisory services to both private and public sector organizations globally. He has held a variety of leadership positions, including CEO of Imaginatik, the market-leading innovation advisory and platform company; leader of IBM's Strategy & Transformation business in the Middle East and Africa; senior vice president at KPMG Consulting; and a cofounder of an...
Ep. 111 - Peter Gardner with Startgrid on Innovation Ecosystems
August 22, 2018 02:20 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBPeter Gardner is the Founder and CEO of Startgrid, a company focused on connecting entrepreneurs and enterprises. His mission is to use software to build the density of resources (VCs/accelerators/access to capital/relationships) in innovation ecosystems outside of Silicon Valley. He believes innovation can happen anywhere. In this podcast, Peter talks with Brian Ardinger about how enterprises need to take a collaborative approach. They need to engage with global innovation ecosyste...
Ep. 110 - Shaina Stigler with Betwixt on Building Coworker Trust
August 11, 2018 17:39 - 22 minutes - 20.2 MBShaina Stigler is chief empathy officer at Betwixt, a startup focused on enhancing communication and building coworker trust. With remote work growing rapidly, building trust through technology can be challenging. Shaina spoke with Brian Ardinger about building coworker trust in exclusively digital environments. If we believe success in our work relies on our ability to trust each other, then how do we use technology as a tool to bring us closer together. We need to understand how p...
Ep. 109 - Greg Larkin - Corporate Entrepreneur and Author of "This Might Get Me Fired"
August 03, 2018 02:44 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBGreg Larkin is the author of This Might Get Me Fired: A Manual for Surviving in the Corporate Entrepreneurial Underground. He's also a corporate entrepreneur, launching more than 30 new products with Fortune 500 companies and startups. On this podcast, Greg talks with Brian Ardinger about practical tactics for a corporate entrepreneur forging ahead in new innovation waters. Greg believes innovation only works when there is a very high cost of not innovating. He shares key innovatio...
Ep. 108 - Taylor Dawson with GE on Product Innovation
July 26, 2018 01:33 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBTaylor Dawson is a founding member of GE Appliances’ FirstBuild and CEO of Giddy. In this podcast, Taylor talks with Brian Ardinger about GE Appliances's FirstBuild's origins, the obstacles they’ve conquered and the challenges they’re still solving. They also discussed product innovation and the experiences of building a Microfactory. Taylor was also a featured roundtable speaker at the Inside Outside Innovation Summit in May, 2018 (https://www.theiosummit.com). Learn more about GE...
Ep. 107 - Azeem Azhar with Innovation Newsletter "Exponential View"
July 04, 2018 16:39 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBExponential View - An Innovation Newsletter Azeem Azhar is the author of Exponential View, a weekly newsletter about innovation. He talked with Brian about broad perspectives, geography of innovation, corporate venture capital, and why you shouldn’t take a golf club to a tennis match. Sign up for his newsletter: http://azm.io/EVrocks Twitter: @azeem GET THE LATEST RESOURCES Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in th...
Ep. 106 - Amy Jo Kim - Innovation Consultant and Author of “Game Thinking"
June 28, 2018 04:02 - 17 minutes - 16.2 MBProduct Development to Create Raving Fans Using Game Thinking Amy Jo Kim is a longtime innovation consultant and author of Game Thinking, a step-by-step system for building lasting engagement into product experience and based on design techniques from hit games. With a wealth of knowledge, Amy Jo spoke to Brian about the concept of superfans, mainstream majority and early majority, and why identifying these demographics is crucial for success. Check out her book at https://gamethi...
Ep. 105 - Randy Komisar with Kleiner Perkins and "Straight Talk for Startups" Author
June 20, 2018 13:05 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBStraight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules Randy Komisar is author of "Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds--From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity." He is also an entrepreneur and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, a Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm. In this episode, Randy and Brian Ardinger discuss why experience is so valuable now and why startups can stop worry...
Ep. 104 - Shane Snow - Author of "Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart"
June 13, 2018 21:08 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBBuilding Dream Teams Shane Snow is an award-winning journalist and entrepreneur. He spoke with Brian Ardinger about his new book, Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart. In Dream Teams, Shane uses psychology, neuroscience, and business, to reveal what separates groups that simply get by together, from teams that get better together. His examples range from rap groups to pirate gangs, and buddy cops to pioneering women in journalism. A dream team combines the familiar ...
Ep. 103 - Andi Plantenberg, Expanding Entrepreneurial Capabilities in Teams
June 06, 2018 01:55 - 16 minutes - 15 MBBuilding Entrepreneurial Capabilities in Teams Andi Plantenberg is an innovation consultant who helps companies, that are preparing for disruption, by building entrepreneurial capabilities in teams. She teaches them to operate more like startups— creating competencies in experimentation, validated learning, rapid prototyping and entrepreneurial management. Her history includes consulting with large organizations (NASA Ames Mission Control, The Lending Club, Public Library of Scienc...
Ep. 102 - Sunayna Tuteja with TD Ameritrade on FinTech Innovation
May 30, 2018 06:43 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MBFinTech Innovation Sunayna Tuteja is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Emerging Technology at TD Ameritrade and a speaker at the Inside Outside Innovation Summit 2018on Fintech innovation. In her conversation with Brian Ardinger, she shares a preview of what’s to come including the four pillars of their approach to innovation at TD Ameritrade, up-and-coming trends for startups and corporations to keep their eyes on, and why FinTech is in a unique position when it comes to innovati...
Ep. 101 - Daniel Fozzati with IdeaLondon on System Innovation at 30,000 Ft
May 23, 2018 03:00 - 18 minutes - 17.1 MBSystem Innovation at 30,000 ft Daniel Fozzati is Head of Product Development and Commercialization at IdeaLondon, an innovation center by Cisco, EDF and UCL. As a product engineer who always finds himself frustrated by the ground constraints of innovation systems, he takes the 30,000 foot view and works to help facilitate both visionary and nitty-gritty system innovation. Daniel talked with Brian Ardinger about Idea London, China’s involvement in European innovation, and up and com...
Ep. 100 - Tom Bianculli w/ Zebra
May 16, 2018 18:13 - 15 minutes - 14 MBTom Bianculli is the Chief Technology Officer at Zebra Technologies. Before Brian and Tom's conversation, Tom took part in a panel about the Internet of Things held at The Economist's Innovation Summit in Chicago on March 22, 2018. In this episode, we pulled a clip from the panel discussion, and then we transition into their conversation. Key takeaway: there’s still so much more to develop with IOT, but you don’t have to know where you’ll end up to get started. For information regar...
Ep. 99 - Ryan Jacoby w/ Machine
May 09, 2018 05:41 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBRyan Jacoby started in systems engineering doing consulting but when he went to grad school he stumbled upon a class that changed his trajectory fundamentally just as design thinking and development has changed the business and innovation world. Now Ryan, with a ton of experience behind him is eager to tell others about what’s different now and how to take full advantage of these massive improvements. His new book, "Making Progress: The 7 Responsibilities of the Innovation Leader" i...
Ep. 98 - Sean Ammirati with Birchmere Ventures, Carnegie Mellon and Author of The Science of Growth
May 02, 2018 19:39 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBSean Ammirati really knows both sides of the table. He’s gone from founding multiple companies to being a partner at Birchmere Ventures and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s written numerous books including “The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster” and will be speaking at the Inside Outside Innovation Summit happening May 29th-31st. In his conversation with Brian Ardinger, Sean talked about his unique journey, big versus small, and tools that have helped hi...
Ep. 98 - Sean Ammirati w/ Birchmere Ventures
May 02, 2018 19:39 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBSean Ammirati really knows both sides of the table. He’s gone from founding multiple companies to being a partner at Birchmere Ventures and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s written numerous books including “The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster” and will be speaking at the Inside Outside Innovation Summit happening May 29th-31st. In his conversation with Brian, Sean talked about his unique journey, big versus small, and tools that have helped him help others. For...