The Innovation Engine Podcast

Today you’re going to learn a practical approach to inventing the future. That may not seem like a particularly practical thing to do, but once you learn the models, all you have to do is take action and trust the process. Joining us is Alexander Osterwalder, inventor of the Business Model Canvas and co-founder of strategyzer.com .  Alexander recently released a new book — “The Invincible Company:...

You’ve done a lot of work to get yourself and your business to where you are today. You’ve learned new skills, implemented new systems, and started working with new people — but that’s not necessarily going to get you over the next hurdle. Joining us to talk about what WILL get your organization over its next hurdle is Andrea Goulet, who is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Corgibytes and...

Join us for a fun and enlightening conversation with Lisa Schneider, Chief Digital Officer of Merriam-Webster. You’ll learn about how Lisa lead a true digital transformation at a company best known for their physical dictionary, the value of leveraging mission and transparency, and how letting the world see who you truly are can be a catalyst for transformation. Plus, you’ll hear about Merriam-Web...

Startups, by their very nature, experience a lot of growth and evolution over a relatively short period of time — and if they don’t, they fail. But simultaneously planning for growth and change, both internally and externally, is a difficult task for even the most experienced product managers. Luckily, our guest today is not just an experienced product manager but also a growth specialist: Jaffrey...

This show focuses on how you can steer a team or organization through growth and change, and one common form of growth — explosive growth, in some cases — is when two companies merge or one company acquires another. In these instances, you have to combine not just different platforms or technologies but different groups of people who have different processes, philosophies, and perspectives. So, in...

We feature interviews with best-selling authors and innovation experts from around the world. We focus on corporate innovation through the lenses of leadership, company culture, and emerging trends and technologies. Recorded & produced by 3Pillar Global, a product lifecycle management and software development company based in Fairfax, VA, with offices around the world.

Today we discuss the transformative potential of design systems and how they can help accomplish alignment and the integration of different silos — key ingredients to any successful transformations or turnarounds. Joining us is Art Rivera, a former member of the 3Pillar UX team and current Director of Product Design for Mobile Posse. In addition to offering his insight on business transformation,...

We’re continuing our series about transformation and turnaround with an episode focusing on how you can get engineering and the business to better understand each other and better solve problems, including how to deal with some nasty technical debt. Our guest also has some thoughts about microservices, a technical transformation strategy that’s still gaining popularity — but probably shouldn’t be....

In the last episode, we started a conversation about transformation and turnaround, specifically regarding what you can do when you’re thrust into a new role, you’re in a tight spot, and you need to create a plan to dig yourself out. Joining us again for part two of this conversation is Tiffany Kleemann, former CEO of Distil Networks (which was acquired) and current Senior Vice President at Imperv...

For the next few episodes, we will be talking about transformation and turnaround with a variety of guests who have gone through a wide range of transformations. So often, we hear about the methodologies and the practices of transformation; what it's like to go from the garage to the fancy building. But I think a lot of people wonder about what happens after you've taken a new role. You&#3...

On this special edition of the Innovation Engine Podcast, David DeWolf, Founder and CEO of 3Pillar Global, and Jessica Hall, 3Pillar's Vice President of Product Strategy and Design, discuss their new book, The Product Mindset: Succeed in the Digital Economy by Changing the Way Your Organization Thinks .   During our discussion, we'll unpack the key characteristics of successful digital pro...

We discuss whether to view innovation as a top-down or bottom-up function, why innovation measurement is a mirage, and why places like Google X believe that rewarding failure is a way to fuel future successes.   Joining us to talk about all of that and more is Taylor Ryan, the CMO of Valuer.ai, which helps corporations, accelerators, and investors find high-potential startups that specifically fit...

On this episode, we’ll be talking about the growing importance of the role of the Chief Product Officer at driving innovation in many companies. Among the topics we’ll discuss are the most important functions the CPO should perform, what kinds of companies are best suited to hire CPOs, and how you’ll know if your company is ready for one. Joining us to talk about all that and more is Ben Foster. B...

In this episode, we'll be looking at Loonshots and how to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and most importantly here on The Innovation Engine , transform industries. Among the topics we'll discuss are why structure eats culture for breakfast, how and why phase transitions make the perfect environment for innovation to flourish, and the difference between P-type and S-t...

On this episode of The Innovation Engine , we discuss how to become an insights-driven business and how what we at 3Pillar call the Product Mindset can set you on the path to becoming one. Among the topics that we'll discuss are what it means to be insights-driven, the advantages that are inherent in focusing your efforts on driving business outcomes, and the (possibly surprisingly) role that...

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we'll be looking at unlocking the customer value chain. Among the topics we'll discuss are why companies need to be thinking more about business model innovation than technology innovation, why they should focus far less on the competition and far more on their customers, and what we really mean when we talk about the concept of digital disruption....

In this episode, we'll be looking at what the future of digital healthcare holds. We'll cover the role AI and chatbots will have in the future (and are already having, in some cases), some of the inherent challenges in innovating in the healthcare space, and how one leader at a Fortune 100 company in the healthcare space views the intersection of digital and healthcare. Joining us for this...

On this episode of  The Innovation Engine , we take a look back at the year’s biggest consumer technology show, CES, which just wrapped in Las Vegas. Among the topics we cover are whether AI lived up to the massive hype at this year’s show; why Allstate’s CEO’s says “mobility is the new transportation” and data is Allstate's key differentiator ; and why podcasting – yes, podcasting! – is poise...

For this very special episode of The Innovation Engine , we talk about a new way of measuring podcast analytics that was recently unveiled by NPR called Remote Audio Data , or RAD for short. Among the topics we cover are why RAD was created, what the process was like for bringing it to life, and what comes next now that NPR is opening RAD up to the open source community. Stacey Goers , a Product M...

On this episode, we'll be looking at choosing the right tech stack to fuel innovation in your company. We'll talk about why the technologies your teams use matter, what the most successful product teams do to ensure the work they're doing has an impact, and how to avoid shiny-new-toy syndrome when it comes to adding new tools to your tech stack. Joining us on this episode is Latif Nanj...

For this episode, we're talking about innovation and the evolution of the Common Application, a nonprofit membership organization composed of more than 800 colleges and universities around the country and around the world with a common mission of promoting access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.  Among the topics we discuss are how the Common App has reinvented itself f...

On this episode, we'll be looking at “cost-ovation,” or innovation that gives your customers exactly what they want – and nothing more. We'll look at how companies like Planet Fitness have become wildly successful by challenging long-held assumptions about what their customers actually want and need, the three core traits shared by companies that excel at costovation, and why setting a vis...

On this episode, we'll look at how to decipher the secret code giving companies like Apple, Google, and Uber their edge. We'll also talk about what it means to go through a digital transformation, how you'll know when you've successfully come out on the other side, and why you don't have to work at one of the world's most well-known tech companies to carve out a place for y...

On this episode of The Innovation Engine , we'll be looking at how to go from idea to inception. We discuss how to evaluate which ideas to actually act on, whether there is such a thing as bad feedback, and whether voice technology is an antidote to screen-based thinking that may help save us from ourselves. Joining us again to talk about those topics and more is Golden Krishna, a Design Strat...

On this week's episode, we look at designing the future and the future of work. Among the topics we'll cover are how we are all capable of designing a better future, how to drive innovation in a global software giant, and what emerging technologies (and human behaviors) our guest believes are set to have a major impact on the way work happens. Joining us to discuss all that and more is Mar...