Future² - Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

In today’s episode of Future Squared, we welcome back Evangelos Simoudis, a recognized expert on big data strategies and corporate innovation who first joined usin episode  #20  of Future Squared when we discussed corporate VCs, incubators and startup acquisitions . He has been working in Silicon Valley for 25 years as a venture investor, entrepreneur, and corporate executive. Evangelos...

If you’re a corporate innovator or a startup entrepreneur, reliant on funding to get going, then you need to do one thing, no it’s not raise funding, it’s educate your prospective investors or ensure that they are already educated. What do I mean by that? Listen to find out. --- Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/where  you can discuss episodes, req...

By his 35th birthday Mike Michalowicz had founded and sold two multi-million dollar companies. Confident that he had the formula to success, he became an angel investor... and proceeded to lose his entire fortune. Then he started all over again, driven to find better ways to grow healthy, strong companies. Among other innovative strategies, Mike created the "Profit First" formula, a simple and ext...

  I’d like to take a quick moment to share that I will be taking part in the CEO Sleepout this June to raise awareness of and funds for the homeless. I’m trying to raise $5,000 and if you can spare just $5, I’d love your support. You can donate at bit.ly/sleepoutsteve - every dollar counts. In other news, Collective Campus has just announced a mixed reality startup accelerator in partnership...

Jacob Morgan is a best-selling author, speaker, and futurist. He explores what the future of work is going to look like and how to create employee experiences so that people want to show up to work. Jacob has presented his ideas to organizations such as IBM, Disney, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Mastercard, Microsoft, and many others. He has written three books. His most recent book...

If your organisation is embarking upon an innovation program, you need to get the right people on the bus...at first the prospect or participating in an innovation program will seem exciting to everybody and many people will be putting their hands up, but the reality is very few will be built for it and be in it for the long game. In this episode, we cover 15 attributes of the corporate innovator...

We've made it to the end of the 5 day book free promo and what a journey it's been! The objective of any author who runs a free ebook promo on Amazon is to promote the hell out of it and get their book to #1 in its sub-genres to increase exposure and awareness. I managed to get the book to #1 in all of my target sub-genres within 2 hours of the promo kicking off - including entrepre...

Carrie Green is the founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association, an online platform to inspire and empower female entrepreneurs from around the world to turn their ideas into a reality and build successful businesses. FEA publishes a monthly digital magazine, This Girl Means Business, weekly videos and hosts live, online master classes. With over 100,000 women now involved, it’s become one of t...

It’s day 4 of our 5 day book promo for  The Innovation Manager's Handbook  and the book is still going strong with over 1,500 downloads so far. Want a free hardcopy? I'll send a signed copy to the first ten people who share the free book offer with their Linkedin network by  clicking here  and tagging me in the post! Of course I could not hit #1 in multiple categories on Amazon...

It's day 3 of our 5 day book promotion and we have just surpassed 1,000 downloads! Thanks to everybody who has supported the book and helped to spread the word thus far! Special Offer: If you SHARE the free book offer with your network on LinkedIn I'll personally send you a signed hardcopy! Just head over to bit.ly/innovationbook for a pre-populated share! www.futuresquared.xyz --- Join the conver...

In today's episode of Fast Fix Friday, I discuss how an organisation's environment can be the difference between incremental thinking and breakthrough thinking and draw parallels between this and proliferation of soft, electronic artists in the inner city.  --- Join the conversation on Facebook:  www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/where  you can discuss episodes, request guests,...

It's day 2 of our 5 day book promotion and we are already number one on Amazon! If you haven't already, make sure to download a copy while its free at bit.ly/innovationmanager In today's episode we talk 3 common mistakes that corporate innovation teams make which comes from a list of 50 you can find in the book! www.futuresquared.xyz --- Join the conversation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/f...

My new book is finally out and it’s going to be a big few days ahead as the team and I make our way through a huge backlog of promotional tasks, including this one! The Innovation Manager's Handbook v2 - Float Like a Corporate, Sting Like a Startup. draws from my experience working with startups and corporate innovation teams at Collective Campus and interviewing countless thought leaders as host...

Tyler Cowen is an American economist, academic, and writer. He is Chair of economics, as a professor at George Mason University, and is co-author, of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution. Cowen has also ventured into online education by starting Marginal Revolution University. He currently writes a regular column for Bloomberg View and has written for such publications as The New York Ti...

‍I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Lawrence Levy, former CFO of Pixar Animation Studios. Levy worked closely with Jobs and the Pixar team to design and implement a roadmap that transformed what was a sleepy graphics art studio into one of Hollywood’s greatest success stories, having since generated lifetime box office revenues of US$10.8B. One thing that most large organisations struggle...

Lawrence Levy was the CFO of Pixar Animation Studios from 1994 through to 2001, so in Pixar terms, from Toy Story to Monsters Inc but maintained a Board role until the smash hit Cars in 2006. Lawrence recently penned To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History, which was an Amazon Best Book of 2016 in Business & Leadership category. The book chronicles ho...

This one is for all of the corporate innovators our there, all of the entrepreneurial thinkers and status quo challengers working for a large company. You might feel a little bit suffocated or restrained by your companies processes...you might often see your ideas get shot down by middle or senior management, you’re probably asked to completed a 50 page business case simply to test an idea that re...

I've been away on business in Singapore and Hong Kong this week, but that doesn't mean I've left you in the lurch. In fact, this week we bring you one of the biggest, most inspiring and influential names in technology and innovation, Dr. Peter Diamandis. Collective Campus resident Grace Lai and Co-Founder of healthtech coompany, Periop Partners, had the privilege of interviewing Peter when taking...

Listen on iTunes:  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher:  goo.gl/OqEVCy I was Hong Kong yesterday giving a talk at Li & Fung, one of the world’s largest supply chain companies when the topic of prototyping came up and how long internal teams should have to build and test an idea which got me thinking about Parkinson’s law and some of my favourite questions to ask. If you've got any questions...

Erik Wahl is an internationally recognized graffiti artist, author, philanthropist and entrepreneur, Erik redefines the term “keynote speaker.” Pulling from his history as both a businessman and an artist, he has grown to become one of the most sought-after corporate speakers available today.  Erik’s on-stage painting seamlessly becomes a visual metaphor to the core of his mess...

Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy Corporate innovators can learn a lot from the music industry. In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I unpack some key insights from legendary music producer, Rick Rubin, and explore how they apply to the world of corporate innovation. Heads up, you can now pre-order my new book at www.theinnovationmanagershandbook.com along with free b...

Omar Zenhom attended Wharton business school and dropped out in frustration to build The $100 MBA. Previously an educator & university manager for 13 years, the $100MBA organisation is on a mission to revolutionise business education. Omar is also hosts the podcast of the same name which now boasts well over 800 episodes and previously won the Best of iTunes award! He is also co-founder of We...

Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy Feedback… when was the last time you asked of objective, honest and critical feedback? I’m not just talking about those mandated and ineffective annual performance reviews, I’m talking about ongoing feedback from not just people above you in the food chain, but your peers and people who report to you. The human brain can only consci...

Mark Robert Waldman is the neuroscience researcher and creator of NeuroWisdom 101. His national bestseller How God Changes Your Brain was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as one of her “must read” books of 2012. A leading expert on spirituality, communication, and the brain, Mark is on the Executive MBA faculty at Loyola Marymount University. The author of 14 books, Mark’s in-depth research has been p...

Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: goo.gl/OqEVCy When I say entrepreneurship in 2017, what comes to mind? Emerging technologies, youthful exuberance, risk taking and social media platforms perhaps. Government rarely comes to mind. However, if it wasn’t for the US Government then you mightn’t be connecting with people via Facebook, searching for information via Google or read artic...