Sparking Innovation
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThis irregular podcast focuses on tech enabled innovation and how it's reshaping the business world.
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A designer's route to the boardroom: Aon's CDO Lyle Sandler talks about his career path and success tactics for CDOs.
June 20, 2020 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBDesigners have gradually risen in corporate org charts as companies started to recognize the concrete contribution that design can make to innovation agendas. Many companies now even describe themselves as "Design Led" and a handful of companies have even appointed Chief Design Officers, reinforcing the centrality of design to their success. Aon is one of these trailblazers and, in this podcast, xLabs' Stephen Wood talks to Aon's CDO Lyle Sandler. They talk about Lyle's route from film s...
Clive Grinyer: Design's role in Innovation programmes.
May 04, 2020 16:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBIn this episode of Sparking Innovation, we talk with design luminary Clive Grinyer about the role that design plays within tech-enabled innovation progammes. Over his career, Clive has worked with Bill Moggridege, the father of UX, employed (Sir) Jony Ive and worked with cutting edge tech firms, such as Samsung and Cisco, wrestling with the wicked problem of getting tech-engineering and design to work harmoniously and create great products, great services (and profit). Now leading the Ser...
Personal Financial Coaches: The new battle ground for retail banking customers
March 12, 2020 18:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBWho do you trust to provide you with the best advice about managing your finances? The traditional banks clearly feel that they own this space, but the rise of Open Banking and the increasing sophistication of AI has created new money management apps and opened the door to new entrants. In the battle for retail banking customers Personal Financial Coaches (PFC's) are becoming ground zero. Players understand that winning this battle will define who thrives and who may not survive in the n...
Open Banking: Identifying opportunities beyond compliance and outside of retail banking.
January 06, 2020 15:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBIn this episode we speak with Richard Ransom, Payments lead for Virtusa and banking industry veteran, about the impact of the Open Banking movement and how its reshaping the banking industry. Although most banks initially saw Open Banking as another compliance hurdle and as something that would primarily impact Retail banking, banks are now discovering value from Open Banking in unexpected areas. But will banks move fast enough to meet the needs of their corporate clients?
ENBD Sales Success Story: Virtusa Internal.
November 21, 2019 10:00 - 9 minutes - 6.7 MBVirtusa's Vasudev Telikicherla tells the story of how xLabs engagements with ENBD helped to transform our relationship, enabling us to engage at a strategic level and deliver more projects that delivered real value for the client.
The changing face of innovation labs
October 01, 2019 16:00 - 13 minutes - 9.47 MBAs the first wave of enthusiasm for building corporate innovation labs begins to subside, organisations are starting to question whether formal labs are the best way to stimulate and manage their innovation programmes. Although the pressure from new entrants and tech disruptors means that "innovation" remains at the top of corporate agendas, Virtusa xLabs has seen a number of the initial innovation lab evangelists redefine the role of the lab. In this micro-podcast your host, Audrey Mifsu...