Unlock Innovation

Every employee impacts an organization's direction, but leadership has by far the largest and most direct effect on company culture. At the end of the day, leaders are the ones who can make or break it, the choices they make impacts employees engagement, and performance which in the end will influence the business results and performance. It's one thing to say it. It's another thing to see it in action. Listen to Jeff Hastie and learn from his 19 years of experience at Bose, where he developed a systematic approach to solutions development and change adoption for Bose. "So the world keeps changing and getting more complex. And if you don't bring your people in your capability, your systems management systems along to compensate for that, you will not be able to keep up." Jeff Hastie

Digital transformation is driving business innovation in many industries, and many companies are failing to actually take the leap and digitalize their communication with their customers, partners, and even within their own organization. Driving digital innovation is hard work and is not all about technology. Listen to Charlotte Nytoft and learn more about how to drive digital innovation across businesses, departments, borders, and cultures. "Digitalization can lead to process innovation and efficiency by simplifying the way information is accessed" Charlotte Nytoft.

The value of digital data collection is on everybody's mind and there are a lot of benefits of how data collection and innovation can increase project productivity and efficiency. It has never been more important than now to begin your company's digital data collection. If executed correctly, it drives efficiency and transparency. Listen to the podcast with Louise Them Kjølholm and learn more about a newly developed assessment tool enabling project efficiency, project transparency (for users and stakeholders), which has initiated the digital data collection journey. "I have a passion for innovation because I love to improve processes in order to achieve better results" Louise Them Kjølholm.

This podcast episode features Norbert Majerus, Business Owner & Retired from The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co When working with lean product development in R&D, the process is easy, it's the people part that is the difficult one. You get benefits from a lean transformation, but if you don't get the whole organization engaged you won't succeed. Those benefits go up exponentially if you get everybody engaged.

With lean we talk about that we want things to be simple. You are making things easier for people, either making it easier for your customer or the work easier for your employees or you're making it easier for people to grow and learn. So it's always about: can you make things better for people? In the end: it's all about the people - become better problem solvers

This episode features Bob Melvin, Vice President of Engineering at Teledyne Marine Systems. Here, he shares his passion for lean and how he started practicing lean product development principles early on in his career and didn't know back then that it was called lean.