Engines of Creation | Applied Complexity & Systems Thinking with Christian Mastrodonato

In this episode we are meeting a wonderful guest, Luca Minudel, an expert agile practitioner who works at the forefront of novel methodologies to improve the way we work and create value. Luca worked in very interesting companies, as we’ll soon find out, but more importantly he is also a practitioner of Complexity Thinking and he wrote a very helpful book titled Living complexity, about how to man...

In this episode we will delve into the interesting world of System Design, and we’ll do it with an incredible thinker like John Willshire, founder of Smithery and Professor of Innovation and Future Thinking at the Design School IED in Barcelona. Interestingly it seems that to work in System Design, you need to be an anti-disciplinarian, as suggested by Gianni Giacomelli in the last podcast episode...

In this new episode we are meeting a great new guest Gianni Giacomelli, Gianni is a fellow member of the Exponential Do community, and he is the Head of Design Innovation at the MIT Centre for Collective Intelligence, and we are going to dive with him in the fascinating field  of augmented collective intelligence. When in this podcast we talk about Intelligence, we usually look at it as an emergen...

In this episode we are meeting Aleksander Poniewierski, Aleksander is partner in EY and he leads the consulting practise for Digital and Emerging technologies, not only he brings a huge breadth of experience in implementing new innovative solutions, but  he managed to condense all this knowledge in a very interesting book title Speed No limits in the digital era, which will be the center of our co...

In this episode we are going to meet Luca Dellanna, an expert in people and operations management, and one of my favourite contemporary authors, who can cover extremely complex topics alway providing clear and practical examples to relate them to our daily experience, as you will soon find out. In this conversation we will mainly discuss about 2 of his books, which cover topics strictly related to...

On today’s episode we are going to meet a real Web pioneer, Kevin Marks, if you don’t know him I suggest you look at the Wikipedia page dedicated to him, because, yes the guests of this podcast do have their own Wikipedia page :)  Kevin is a SW Engineering expert who worked in companies like Apple, Google and Salesforce and have been at the forefront of Digital Innovation from the 90s. He brings a...

Change is at the core of everything, that's what I've learnt from the experience of all the people I've interacted with and that managed to become successful. If we really understand it and we can change our beliefs according to this fundamental assumption, the way we work can completely change.

For the second episode of the podcast we are going to meet a very special person, Sudha Jamthe, as you will hear from her own introduction, she is a true innovator, and she is an inspiration for me as a true leader who appreciates and embraces complexity, in particular with her passion for communicating complex business and technology topics in engaging and effective ways.  We are going to discove...

Through Engines of Creation episodes, we will understand the culture, the mindset, and the ways to identify and manage complexity in evolving businesses and organisations. We’ll explain how, by creating the right conditions for the individuals and the teams, innovation and creation emerge naturally and spontaneously.