Future² - Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

In this episode I bring you not one but two guests, Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky - co-authors of the book 'SPRINT - How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days'. Jake Knapp created Google Venture’s sprint process. He has run more than a hundred sprints with startups such as 23andme, Slack, Nest, and Foundation Medicine. Previously, Jake worked at Google, leading sprints for ever...

This Fast Fix Friday focuses on self awareness. Did you hear about the manager who always shot the messenger whenever they brought bad news? He eventually stopped hearing bad news. Unfortunately for him, this wasn’t because there was none to report. This is an anecdote that Dave Gray, co-creator of the Culture Map, shared in a recent episode of my podcast. Sound familiar? I go through 9 tacti...

Arun Sundararajan is Professor and the Robert L. and Dale Atkins Rosen Faculty Fellow at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is also an affiliated faculty member at NYU's Center for Urban Science+Progress, and at NYU's Center for Data Science. Professor Sundararajan's research program studies how digital technologies transform business and society. His current scholarly r...

David Allen is widely recognized as the world's leading expert on personal and organizational productivity. His thirty-year pioneering research and coaching to corporate managers and CEOs of some of America's most prestigious corporations and institutions has earned him Forbes' recognition as one of the top five executive coaches in the U.S. and Business 2.0 magazine's inclusion in their 2006 list...

Dave Gray is an author and management consultant who works with the world's leading companies to develop and execute winning strategies. He co-created the Culture Map with Alex Osterwalder, of business model canvas fame, to help companies measure their culture and move the needle to where it needs to go.  He is the founder of XPLANE, a strategic design consultancy, and co-found...

This Fast Fix Friday focuses on the key questions you need to ask BEFORE embarking on an innovation project in order to optimise returns and give your organisation a significantly improved chance of success. FYI, we've recently released an online innovation management course - for more information head to innovationmanagerscourse.com Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher...

Brian Christian is the author of The Most Human Human, which was named a Wall Street Journal bestseller and a New Yorker favorite book of 2011, and has been translated into ten languages. He is the coauthor, with Tom Griffiths, of Algorithms to Live By, available Spring 2016. The Most Human Human is a provocative, exuberant, and profound exploration of the ways in which computers are reshapin...

This Fast Fix Friday focuses on innovation metrics. I cover the five KEY metrics you need to know in early stage innovation projects which are unrecognisable when compared with traditional accounting metrics which tend to inhibit innovation. Find out why and what these metrics are. FYI, we've recently released an online innovation management course - for more information head to innovationmanagers...

Paul R. Williams, PMP has over twenty years of project, program & portfolio management leadership experience with information technology, innovation management and strategic business initiatives in the investment, banking, insurance, legal, manufacturing and professional services industries. Mr. Williams is credited with being one of the pioneers of ‘Visual Project Management,’ a revolut...

Today's Fast Fix Friday focuses on the power of engaging startups and small companies to drive corporate innovation efforts. I recently caught up with Kmart Australia’s innovation program manager, Fabio Oliveira, on my podcast for a discussion on innovation in retail and what the ‘store of the future’ might look like. One of the key talking points was around how Kmart is engaging startups to...

Alex Tapscott is the CEO and Founder of Northwest Passage Ventures. For seven years in the Canadian and U.S. Capital markets, Alex has worked tirelessly to help entrepreneurs realize their goals, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in critical growth capital and providing sound advice and counsel. A passionate advocate for the disruptive potential of new technology, Alex is also...

In this episode, I chat with top online marketer and one of the top influencers on the web, Neil Patel, serial entrepreneur, investor and blogger. He is the co-founder of online marketing tools Crazy Egg, Hello Bar, and KISSmetrics. He helps companies like Amazon, NBC, GM, HP and Viacom grow their revenue. The Wall Street Journal calls him a top influencer on the web, and Entrepreneur Ma...

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk awkward silences and why you should EMBRACE them rather than try and put an end to them by saying the first and usually least valuable thing that comes to mind. Particularly if you are working in an environment that calls for creativity and innovation. Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.stitcher.com/podcast/future If you've got any que...

Rand Fishkin uses the ludicrous title, Wizard of Moz. He's founder and former CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing software companies Moz, an online marketing platform that is worth more than US$120M. He’s a board member at presentation software startup Haiku Deck, co-author of a pair of books on SEO, and co-founder of Inbound.org. Rand's an unsaveable addict of all things content,...

In this episode, we dive into topics pertaining to: - corporate VC - corporate accelerators and incubators - acquisition of startups Today's Fast Fix Friday focuses on the questions you can ask to come up with an idea worth exploring within five minutes.   --- We've recently published The Innovation Manager's Handbook - a guide for corporate innovation managers and intrapreneurs. Download it...

Evangelos Simoudis is currently working with Steve Blank on a model for corporate innovation. Evangelos has been working in Silicon Valley as a technologist, entrepreneur, corporate executive, and VC. Today he advises global corporations on startup-driven innovation and information technology and invests in early stage startups working on big data applications. He is a recognized thought...

In this episode of Fast Fix Friday I talk hacking the corporate culture to support innovation, a topic inspired by my recent interview with Silicon Valley godfather Steve Blank. I cover both intrinsic and external motivators and levers that can be pulled to start hacking the culture. For more on this topic visit: www.collectivecamp.us/blog Listen on iTunes: goo.gl/sMnEa0 Listen on Stitcher: www.st...

Garrett Dunham is an entrepreneur, speaker and startup advisor. He’s founded 2 accelerators, including Prebacked, a reverse hackathon connecting corporates with startups, and Singulairty University Labs - his work has been featured in the New York Times, the NBC, Fast Company, Forbes, Tech Crunch and Venture Beat. A Silicon Valley native, Garrett loves to teach about entrepreneurialism. In this po...

In episode #17, I confront an issue that seems all too common amongst large organisations trying to deal with this thing called disruption. Far too often, the response is isolated initiatives or projects, with defined start and end dates, that don't have clearly defined objectives, aren't embedded into the broader organisational BUs, don't tie in with performance metrics, make little funding or re...

Welcome to our very first Fast Fix Friday, a short 5 minute or less morsel of knowledge to inspire and inject some fresh thinking into your day and get you ready for the weekend as you reflect on the week that was! In this episode, I look at Pixar's brain trust - a mechanism the company uses to do away with sugarcoating and the human tendencies to not say what we really think - which ultimately st...

Flow has been defined as a mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus. The term was first coined by Hungarian psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in 1975 and is often referred to as as ‘the zone’, however few people truly appreciate that ‘the zone’ is actually a physiological state. Why did I choose to write about...

Braden Kelley is an experienced innovation and change speaker, trainer, and digital transformation strategist. He specializes in building cultures of continuous and accelerating innovation and change. He is the author of "Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire" and "Charting Change", and has been advising companies on how to increase their revenue and cut their costs since 1996. Braden wri...

Whitney Johnson was recognized as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers in 2015, and was a finalist for the Top thinkers on Talent at the biennial Thinkers50 ceremony in London. She is best known for her work on driving corporate innovation through personal disruption. She is formerly the co-founder of Rose Park Advisors alongside Clayton Christensen, world renowned aut...

Steve Blank is considered by many to be the godfather of Silicon Valley and is credited with spearheading the customer development model which birthed the lean startup, popularised by his former pupil Eric Ries' book of the same name. He is one of the most prominent and widely respected thought leaders in the world on innovation and entrepreneurship. Over the last 35 years, Ste...

In this episode I had the pleasure of chatting with native New York native and one of the most influential CMOs in the world, Ted Rubin. Ted is a leading Social Marketing Strategist, Keynote Speaker and Brand Evangelist and evangelized the term ROR: Return on Relationship™, a concept he believes is the cornerstone for building an engaged multi-million member database, many of whom a...