The Innovation Engine Podcast

On this episode, David DeWolf and Jonathan Rivers join us to share an overview of all of the news that was fit to print at this year's Fortune BrainstormTech Conference . We discuss what the prevailing wisdom was in Aspen when it comes to artificial intelligence, how the gig economy is driving a wave of acquisitions and the two-way street of innovation some of those acquisitions have opened up...

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we'll be looking at the connection between story and innovation, why story can be a powerful tool to get teams in the right state for creating the new and novel, how you can learn to tell stories (whether you think you're good at it or not), and how to make sure your stories actually get heard in a world that's increasingly noisy.  Here with us...

We just concluded the second and last - for now - stop of The Innovation Engine ’s Spring 2018 tour, from the floor of Collision in New Orleans. Collision is North America’s fastest growing tech conference, bringing together over 3,000 companies from over 120 countries to see how tech intersects in their lives and businesses. [1:20] Anaid Chacon is a product manager at Dropbox , a secure file host...

For the second part of this double feature of The Innovation Engine , we have six more insightful conversations from Dig South 2018, a conference bringing together more than 2,500 people who are building digital products that will change the way people live, work, and play. As we mentioned in the last episode, The Innovation Engine ’s Spring 2018 tour is still going! We recorded even more conversa...

On this special two-part episode of The Innovation Engine , we’re coming to you with conversations from the floor of DigSouth 2018. DigSouth is the largest annual tech conference in the South, bringing together more than 2,500 people who are building digital products and experiences that are changing the way people live, work, and play. DigSouth took place in Charleston, SC from April 25-27. For t...

On this special episode of the podcast, we're honored to be talking to the brains behind one of the winners of this year's 1776 Challenge Cup. 1776 is a startup incubator headquartered in D.C. with offshoots around the country, and they recently held their annual startup competition, The Challenge Cup, at Anthem, the freshly opened music venue on the wharf in Southeast D.C. We talk about o...

On this week's Innovation Engine, we're pleased to welcome Alex Tapscott back to talk about unlocking the blockchain. Among the topics we'll discuss are how far blockchain technology has come in just a few short years, what your company may be able to learn about organizing teams from a company called Consensus, and why blockchain may represent the “Internet of value.” Alex last joined...

Today on The Innovation Engine , we look at how you and your teams can start Running Lean with the man who wrote the book of the same title. Among the topics we discuss are why practice trumps theory, why your actual product is not really your product, how long it should take to figure out whether you have product-market fit, and why constraints can actually be valuable for anyone looking to innov...

In today’s Innovation Engine , we’re looking at how we can set our product teams up for success in 2018. We discuss the top three things your product team needs to do in 2018, why you and your teams should start viewing the world with a product mindset, and what constitutes a modern day product team. Joining us to talk about those topics and more are Jonathan Rivers and Jessica Hall. Jonathan is t...

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we'll be looking at the evolution of media. We discuss how media companies, or any company really, can make the leap to becoming a digital-first organization, why now is actually a good time to be in the media business (despite everything you may read and hear to the contrary), and what media consumption will look like a decade from now – or our assump...

Today we'll be talking about why becoming an anticipatory organization just may be the key to long-term business success. We'll look at why companies like Sony, Dell, BlackBerry, and Blockbuster (all of which were led by talented executives that knew how to be agile and execute strategy) fell behind the competition; how to anticipate and pre-solve problems before your company has them; and...

On this episode, we talk about how to start flexing what is likely an underused muscle, if you're like 98 percent of the population over the age of 31: the creative muscle. Among the topics we'll discuss are why creativity gets to be so difficult with age, five activities you can undertake regularly to make sure your creative capacity doesn't wane, and how IdeaToValue.com can help you...

Today we examine the dearth of female leaders in technology, and how we can mentor and encourage more female computer scientists. Among the topics we discuss is a new curriculum at Northeastern University, and how that curriculum is evening the demographic playing field.   Our guest is Carla Brodley, Dean of the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. Dean Brodley&#...

Today we’re talking about the (underutilized) power of listening. Our guest, Bob London, shares why listening is such a powerful tool in a world that won't stop talking, key questions you should ask when you get the opportunity to talk to customers, and why you should (metaphorically, at least) burn the white board.   Bob is a pioneer in the marketing world – he created the outsourced Chief Ma...

On this episode of The Innovation Engine , we'll be looking at why innovation and healthcare do indeed belong in the same sentence, which technology trends are driving innovation for the industry as a whole, and how startups in the healthcare space can (and should) position themselves for success when approaching venture capitalists for funding or partnerships.   We’re joined by Irem Mertol an...

On this special episode of The Innovation Engine, the 3Pillar team interviews many of the speakers and attendees at Industry Summit 2017, a product- focused conference that features talks from a wide range of product leaders and tech visionaries.   We chat with… [00:50] Nancy Kramer , Founder & Chairman of Resource/Ammirati [07:20] Jim Foxworthy , President & CEO of Pragmatic Marketing [14...

On this special episode of The Innovation Engine , the 3Pillar team interviews many of the speakers from the recently-completed Industry Summit , a product-focused conference that featured talks from a wide range of product leaders and tech visionaries. Industry Summit is one of the biggest multi-day product management summits in the country each year, with over 600 attendees converging to learn a...

Jennifer Ives and Julia Slattery join us on this episode of the podcast to discuss the upcoming Industry Summit conference taking place in Cleveland this week. Industry Summit is a product-specific conference that will take place on September 14th and 15th and will see talks from product leaders like Bob Moesta, creator of the Jobs to Be Done framework; Jason Fried, the founder of Basecamp; Nancy...

Today we’re looking at how to build a powerful Customer Experience, and why it is imperative for any company that hopes to find long-term success. We cover why short-term profit seeking can negatively impact customer experience, the DO MORE framework for building positive customer experiences, and how the on-demand economy is changing customer experience as we know it.   We’re joined by Blake Morg...

On this episode of The Innovation Engine , we'll be looking at blockchain in the advertising space, why there is currently a staggering amount of waste in the ad tech supply chain, how a new consortium called AdLedger and a company called MadHive are working to combat that waste, and why we may be entering the golden age of personalized advertising. Our guest Stacy Huggins, co-founder and CMO...

Jonathan Rivers joins us on this episode of The Innovation Engine to explain why innovation labs usually fail. We'll look at why innovation labs often have the opposite effect from what's intended, why Jonathan shut down 3Pillar's Advanced Technology Group (or 3Pillar Labs) within a few months of being hired, the vast difference between tweaking and transforming, and what you can do if...

John Sonmez joins us on this episode of The Innovation Engine to discuss whether coding is a skill everyone should learn, how to lead a team of developers when you find yourself in a leadership position, and what the programming language (or languages) of the future will be. John is the Founder of Simple Programmer , a website where he tirelessly pursues his vision of transforming complex issues i...

For a very special episode of The Innovation Engine, we're bringing you a number of interviews from the floor from last week's TechCrunch Disrupt New York. TechCrunch Disrupt is a bi-annual event that features panel discussions with some of the leading minds in the technology space and serves as a launching pad for the next great batch of tech companies looking to change the world. 3Pillar...

On this episode of  The Innovation Engine , we bring the podcast inside the Refraction headquarters to talk again with Rachael Stott on how place and space interact with and influence employees. Rachael joined us for a previous episode of the podcast, where we talked about her co-working space, Refraction, and how the physical environment of a workplace can have a marked impact on the performance...

Scott Bales joins us on this episode of  The Innovation Engine to dive into the concept of "innovation wars." Among the topics we'll discuss are what corporate strategy lessons can be borrowed from the battlefield and applied in the boardroom, why trust is an essential element within any innovation team, and why anyone in the product space should get a little more familiar with the con...