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The Benefits of Experiential Learning for Leaders with Rocket Scientist Joshua Spodek

In this podcast, Joshua Spodek discusses his journey from PhD student of astrophysics to launching and failing in the business world, and finally becoming a sought-after leadership coach and professor at NYU. He also touches on practical tools and exercises used to build the leadership muscles, and explores the importance of experiential learning or project-based learning for building leadership and personal skills.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:27:27-08:00March 3rd, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: coaching, collective learning, ecosystem, empathy, experimentation, learning, podcast, soft skills|

Exploring the Power of Pause with Leadership Thought-Leader & Korn Ferry Senior Partner Kevin Cashman

In today’s episode of the Innovation Ecosystem podcast, Kevin Cashman discusses with Mark the rationale and research behind "The Pause Principle," which aligns strongly with the notion of “creating space” explored by previous guests like David Allen, Lisa Bodell and Heiko Fischer, among others; about Kevin’s new interest in the concept of “story mastery”; and finally some fresh insights into the qualities of a great versus a good leader.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:21-08:00February 24th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: Creativity, ecosystem, Failure, pause principle, performance, performance measurement, podcast, questions, self awareness, storytelling|

Democratising Elite Performance Tools with Dr. Andy Walshe

Currently leading Human Performance for Red Bull, Andy works with hundreds of international athletes and business leaders to develop and implement elite performance models. In today’s podcast, Andy and Mark sit down to discuss the intricacies of human potential and how certain qualities of elite performers resonate across sectors, industries and arenas; how companies can evolve to enable more talented employees to excel and his project Human 2.0 which looks at how new technologies especially in the arena of Artificial Intelligence encourage us to explore our own potential at a much higher level.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:22-08:00February 17th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: coaching, Creativity, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, experimentation, Failure, motivation, performance, performance measurement, podcast, Red Bull, reward, talent management, top talent, training|

Using Design Thinking to make your employees ready for the Internet-of-Things

Recent advances in technology put Internet-of-things (IoT)-innovation on top of the management agenda across industries. It is predicted to increase economic value by $11.1 trillion in 2025 (McKinsey 2015). The Service Science Factory and Noventum collaborated on this article to present a state-of-the art view on the Internet of Things and how to implement this vision within organizations.

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:37:50-08:00February 16th, 2017|Categories: Strategies|Tags: automation, business alignment, business development, Competition, decision making, design thinking, disruptive innovation, disruptive technology, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, idea management, Ideation, Innovation Culture, IoT, mindset, MNC, opportunity, pitch idea, portfolio management, service innovation, smart products, Technology, trend|

Talking 100% Entrepreneurship & 0% Bureaucracy with Heiko Fischer of Resourceful Humans

What do Europe’s most innovative video games company, a US Navy Submarine Captain and Hewlett-Packard have in common? The answer – autonomy, transparency, simplicity and entrepreneurship. Oh and Heiko Fischer! In this episode, sponsored by a-connect, Heiko and Mark discuss how the RH way came into being through Heiko’s time at Crytek, how the core principles behind the RH philosophy “100% entrepreneurship, 0% bureaucracy” work in practice, and how gamification in the workplace can help us solve the problem of unproductive meetings (among other things).

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:21-08:00February 10th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: autonomy, Communication, ecosystem, efficiency, entrepreneur, HR, meeting, podcast, simplicity, talent management, transparency|

Are Corporate Innovation Centers The Last Hope for Companies Too Big To Fail?

Companies once deemed “too big to fail” are increasingly exposed to failure. The threat of disruption is everywhere. Startups are taking on the Goliaths in every market. Scores of malls across the United States are in collapse. Many household brand names are losing ground or even shutting completely. Regardless of industry, businesses face digital Darwinism, the evolution of technology and markets. Disruption is just a matter of when, where and why. To compete, executives must make tough decisions but more so, they must look to new horizons for new insight and direction. Whether companies thrive or cower in the face of digital Darwinism is a choice.

Ideascale2019-10-15T15:24:30-07:00February 9th, 2017|Categories: Enabling Factors, Report, Strategies|Tags: AI, asia, big data, case study, cloud, Competition, corporate innovation, corporate innovation centers, cyber-security, digital era, digital innovation, digital platform, disruptive innovation, ecosystem, europe, fintech, global market, in-depth article, innovation center, innovation centers, innovation hub, IoT, large companies, MNC, silicon valley, startup, talent management, Technology|

Cutting Complexity with Lisa Bodell of Futurethink

In this episode, Lisa and Mark reconvene to share more essential tools for leaders and teams to simplify their work environment from her second book, Why Simple Wins, they explore insights into how companies like SAP, Southwest Airlines and Syngenta are putting simplification principles into action. Join us to learn how simplicity can give you and your organisation the competitive edge of our time!

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:12:43-07:00February 7th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Organization & Culture, Podcast|Tags: complexity, ecosystem, efficiency, Innovation Culture, meaningful work, motivation, podcast, process improvement, reward, simplicity, speed of innovation, talent management, top talent, transparency|

Organizing within Networks of Collaborators

Our existing organization needs to envisage a changing world full of disruption that calls for radical change. To meet different challenges, to be highly adaptive it needs to begin to organize around ecosystems to deliver on a vision that recognizes it has to be part of a greater collaborating network to thrive in this highly connected world.

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:30:21-08:00January 27th, 2017|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Organization & Culture, Strategies|Tags: adaptation, Collaboration, collaborative consumption, collaborative innovation, ecosystem, global market, networks, organizational structure, sharing economy, strategic partnership, transformation, value proposition, value stream|

Picking the Right Stakeholders for Open Innovation

What external stakeholder groups can you tap into to build value for your innovation initiatives? Are your relationships with these external stakeholder groups solid or do you need to do additional work to build good, mutually beneficial working relationships? Are there potential stakeholder groups that you have not yet tapped at all? If so, what is your plan for reaching out to organizations within these pools so that you can further expand your innovation ecosystem? Are your channels for communicating with your external stakeholders strong or do they need further work?

Ideascale2021-12-14T06:27:35-08:00January 19th, 2017|Categories: Open Innovation, Strategies|Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Competition, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, external collaboration, innovation partnership, MNC, Open Innovation, partnership, relationships, SME, stakeholder management, Stakeholders, strategic partnership|

A Quick Guide to External Collaboration

Working with external partners to bring better products and services to market faster and/or develop better intellectual property has never been more popular in the world of business than what we see today.

Ideascale2021-12-07T16:16:52-08:00January 6th, 2017|Categories: Collaborative Innovation, Leadership, Open Innovation, Organization & Culture|Tags: Collaboration, collaborative innovation, Communication, definitions, ecosystem, executive sponsor, HR, mindset, Stakeholders, strategic partnership, supplier enabled innovation|

Reviving the Swiss Watch Industry: The Remarkable Story of Swatch with Elmar Mock

Elmar Mock is the Founder of Creaholic, but he began his career as an engineer in a deteriorating watch industry. Elmar approached top-level management within his company with an insane idea, a new way to completely innovate the industry and improve sales. Everyone thought he was crazy and his co-workers distanced themselves from him, but that turned out to be a good thing.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:19-08:00December 30th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: breakthrough innovation, ecosystem, engineering, inventor, pitch idea, podcast, risk management, switzerland, watch industry|

Hacking Reality to Have a Great Day with Caroline Webb

Caroline is the CEO of Sevenshift, a firm that shows people how to leverage behavioral science to improve their working life. Caroline is also the author of How To Have A Good Day, which has been published in 16 different languages, in more than 60 countries. Some of the topics Mark and Caroline cover on this week’s show are: The secret manifesto Caroline has hidden in the book, which is shared by the Innovation Ecosystem, the 100-plus tools Caroline uses, all of which are scientifically proven, and operate independent of context, culture, or industry, and what you can do to hack reality in service of having a good day.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:19-08:00December 23rd, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: ecosystem, mindfulness, podcast, science, soft skills|

Mind+Machine Strategies to Develop New Innovation Capabilities with Marc Vollenweider

Marc Vollenweider has spent over 15 years guiding Evalueserve to become a global research, analytics and data management solutions provider. In this week’s episode he discusses his transition from being a McKinsey partner to founding a business employing over 3,500 people as well as the counter-intuitive benefits arising from simplification and automation.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:18-08:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: analytics, automation, big data, data management, ecosystem, IoT, podcast|

The Space Between Hesitation and Commitment with Michael Gervais

Michael Gervais is a high-performance psychologist who works in the trenches of high-stakes environments, he is a recognized speaker on optimal human performance, and he is the host of the Finding Mastery podcast. What can Michael teach us about success in the corporate world? Well, just a few of the important topics Mark and Michael discuss on this week’s episode are: Why is an understanding of the space between hesitation and commitment so fundamental to raising performance? What is micro-choking, and how can you dissolve pressure? A definition of failure that challenges us to step up.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:18-08:00December 9th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: ecosystem, Failure, mindfulness, mindset, podcast, psychology, purpose, risk management, skills management, training|

Pre-suasion: How to Influence With Integrity

Professor Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence. This has earned him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. On this week’s episode, Robert discusses how to enlist the support of your senior managers prior to making an important presentation, how companies can boost their sales productivity by up to 60%, and what we can learn from Warren Buffett on communication.

Ideascale2020-07-10T14:43:03-07:00December 2nd, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: Communication, ecosystem, influencers, pitch idea, podcast, soft skills|