Innovation Sofa

Navigating Complexity - Enabling the Vision & Strategy Enabling scale is getting increasingly harder. Steven Gonzalez Technology Transfer Strategist at NASA talks about how large organisations can overcome these challenges and maximise the opportunities?

Looking into what it takes to drive innovation, the differences between a platform business and traditional business models and key technologies that will impact communication and collaboration for the better.

This podcast features Julien Callede, Entrepreneur, Advisor & Investor and Co-founder of MADE.com on building a new business and innovation. This is an insightful interview covering his journey from small beginnings to a business of 500 people – from getting the first customer and partner to delivery and scale. His advice for growth: talk with your customers. Disrupters of yesterday will be disrupted tomorrow – you have to keep innovating!

With over 20 years experience Paolo Arancio is the Global Head of Strategic Innovation Partnership at Nestlé Skin Health. Paolo talks about the transformation that is necessary to happened in order to deliver innovation. We hear about innovation of meaning vs innovation of solution and how to spot the big opportunities as well as what it takes to overcome the big barriers to scale.

What drives innovation in large corporations, what are the challenges, how do you measure success, what is the impact of micro-releases, what is Adrian's secret of success and much more.

What makes a successful #innovation program, how to #communicate successfully, how to manage #transition times effectively? All this and more in the latest episode with Sarah Kelly the Innovation Program manager at Liberty Global and Boss of Sarah Says in the latest interview for the innovation sofa podcast.

Hear from Jeremy Balking the Head of Innovation at HSBC US. An excellent interview filled with views on change, innovation, technology and culture. A must listen for anyone enabling innovation and driving change!

John Sills, Director at The Foundation by Mihaela Biti

What it happens when creativity and process meets – what it takes to make th next movement in innovation a success? What is your biggest asset? The people – the competitive advantage that you have today – the resources in your organisation. What is Fernanda most looking forwards to in 2018? This and much more on this week’s podcast episode – don’t miss out!

From fintech to agtech. How is Dave managing this transition and what are some of the key learnings he will be implementing in what is one of the most exciting and fast developing sectors, ag-tech. Some very grounded advice is in store for you – make sure to listen if you are leading or part of an innovation lab, in any sector

Survival and growth advice from the industry expert Mike Hatrick, Global Head IP Strategy & Portfolio at Volvo Group. Listen to learn how to manage pressure, what are some of the challenges when working in corporate innovation and how you can overcome them.

How do you drive innovation in a traditional organisation and a market the millennials stay shy of? Kyle Nicholas McCray the Director of Innovations at American Pacific Mortgage is changing things. What are his challenges, his approach and strategy? Make sure to listen to this episode and hear what are some of his go to methodologies.

Featuring Stefan Petzov, the Head of Technology & Innovation at Swisscom sharing his views on the digital technologies impacting organisations and the methodologies that enable change and innovation. Based in San Francisco, Stefan’s perspectives are refreshing, simple and anchored in reality. Are you about to open and innovation lab? Oversee an innovation team? Seek the right approach to change? Make sure to listen to this episode.

Strategic alignment has become paramount to any innovation strategy. Are you feed up with how long it takes to create a strategic plan? Did you now that 90% of all strategies fail? In this episode, we are asking the strategy experts and disrupters Lucy Loh and Patrick Hoverstadt about these challenges and what corporate leaders can do about it. Lucy Loh and Patrick Hoverstadt are also the authors of one of the most refreshing and current books on strategy, The Patterns of Strategy.

Listen to Mary Wharmby, Head of Design Transformation at BBVA talk about design thinking and design transformation. Mary is a design thinking leader, having practiced these methods for over 20 years is now transforming one of the most innovative banking organisations in the world. A trailblazer, sharing insights into the opportunity for design transformation within the organisation as well as with its customers. A must for anyone who is brave enough to change the way things are done, improve and create new products that delight your consumers.