Innovation Metrics Podcast

About the Episode Corporate innovation pioneer and former Citi Chief Innovation Officer Amy Radin joins host Elijah Eilert to explain how large, regulated organisations can move quickly without losing control. Amy shares how to turn likely vetoes into informed sponsorship. The conversation covers why disciplined, low-cost experiments generate decision-ready evidence, how strategic advocacy helps i...

EP 21 - Too much Hype, too little Impact: How to Avoid the AI Failures of Others About the Episode AI adoption is skyrocketing, but most AI projects don’t deliver on their promises. In this episode, Dr. Evan Shellshear, Managing Director and Group CEO of Ubidy, breaks down why 80% of AI projects fail and what organisations can do to improve their chances of success. Drawing insights from his book...

About the Episode In this episode, Elijah Eilert sits down with Étienne Garbugli . Étienne, the CEO of Sliced, veteran founder, and author of several books, shares his insights. The conversation centers around Étienne’s most recent book, Find Your Marke t. The book explores how to effectively find Product/Market Fit when innovations are already built or at least partially developed without having...

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Peter LePiane about innovation within large organizations. Part 2 of the podcast explores various aspects of innovation related decision-making. Peter opens up about his background in science and computer science, his Startup journey and how he nearly founded Airbnb and Shopify. He introduces Estimatic, his latest venture, software designed to model un...

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Peter LePiane about innovation within large organizations. Part one of the podcast, explores the core principles of innovation, the challenges associated with measuring its impact, and the formidable obstacles faced in corporate landscapes. Starting with the question of “What is Innovation?” Peter offers his perspective, emphasizing the fusion of novel...

Elijah Eilert is talking to Kumuda Suppayah an Innovation strategist, and business transformation expert in the Oil and Gas sector.  The second part of this episode delves into the fascinating world of corporate venturing and organizational adaptability with insights from a research paper that Kumuda co-authored titled, "Enhancing Organizational Adaptability through Corporate Venturing." The...

Elijah Eilert is talking to Kumuda Suppayah an Innovation strategist, and business transformation expert in the Oil and Gas sector.  Part 1 of the episode is designed around three main questions: What is innovation? How should innovation be measured? What are the biggest blockers to innovation in large organisations?  This podcast episode explores the broad concept of innovation and its...

Title Episode 15 - Psychological Safety, Cognitive Diversity, Trust & Fear in Innovation  About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Susie Braam and Ed Essey , two seasoned innovators. The episode takes you on a corporate innovation journey, covering how to define innovation and tips and tricks on how to measure it. The discussion sheds light on both innovation blockers and enablers, e...

About the Episode Elijah Eilert is talking to Ed Essey Director of Business Value at the Microsoft Garage. In this episode, Ed introduces an analogy of an fruit tree to explain innovation. The tree represents the innovation system that delivers fruit or innovation projects. The soil is the nourishing culture for the tree to produce. Unsuccessful fruits fall down and become fertilisers for the tree...

Elijah Eilert is talking to Matt Clancy about what makes people become entrepreneurs and how the accessibility of information fosters innovation. The episode is guided by some of Matt's publications that he summarizes for us before discussing the findings further. The first main topic of discussion is about the "idea" of being an entrepreneur and how entrepreneurship is contagious. The findings fr...

Elijah Eilert is talking to Joseph Brookes about the Innovation Metrics Review, a report that assesses the way Australia is currently measuring innovation, and then makes recommendations on how it can be improved. The Australian Government commissioned the review discussed in this episode due to a recommendation from Innovation and Science Australia in 2017. The review was finally released by the...

Elijah Eilert is talking to Susie Braam about what keeps innovators within large organisations going and what makes it really hard for them. Susie shares what good leadership behaviour looks like, the problems with short-term thinking and how to carve out the necessary space for a strategic approach to innovation.

Elijah Eilert is talking to Oliver Durrer . Oliver is sharing insights from his accomplished career in corporate innovation. He is also helping Elijah do a Retro on the podcast for this 10th episode: What went well? What didn’t go well? What to do next? This episode is a bit different from others as it focuses less on specific lessons for innovation teams and leaders and more on personal experienc...

About the Episode Elijah Eilert  is talking to  Tendayi Viki  about the power and pitfalls of storytelling in the context of innovation management.  A well told story has the power to move us, we are biologically programmed to buy into storytelling. The problem is that often in an innovation context a well told story bypasses logic and reason, selling a tall story devoid of fac...

01:00 Introducing Esther 03:00 Esther's reasons for writing the Innovation Accounting Book include finding an answer to corporates hindering governance structure to transformational innovation by outlining a second system that operates in parallel to the core. 06:00 On the process of writing a book and, moreover, a book that is pushing the boundaries. 09:30 Defining innovation accounting “The tool...

About the Episode Elijah Eilert speaks to Paul Orlando about his book Growth Units to discover how to best calculate Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value. Paul tells us how to significantly improve common calculation methods and how to use those to make critical business decisions. Understanding revenue and cost on a per unit basis for Startups/innovation projects is vital but even establi...

About the Episode Elijah Eilert speaks to Andy Cars , the founder and CEO of Lean Ventures International, about ISO standards for innovation management. Having participated in the ISO creation process, Andy Cars will discuss the concepts around ISO standards and how organisations can benefit from them. The aim is to create a long-term innovation strategy and transform an organisation's culture int...

About the Episode Elijah Eilert  speaks to  Tristan Kromer  about the fundamentals of a VC-like funding approach for corporate innovation that releases resources over time in exchange for specific evidence. Funding a startup or corporate venture from idea to scale is becoming increasingly outdated. Applying traditional stage-gate funding models for innovation projects come with a se...

About the Episode Elijah Eilert speaks to Jael Kong who until recently was working with a leading FMCG company. She is jam-packed with insights and will speak with us about the systemic problems large organisations have when making (kill, pivot, persevere) decisions specifically after launching new products.  Jael also gives us a glimpse into an early post-launch tracking approach that levera...

About the Podcast The Innovation Metrics podcast provides insights on measuring innovation, innovation accounting and managing the uncertain process of developing new, sustainable and profitable business models. About the Episode Tristan Kromer  speaks with us about the pitfalls of early-stage predictions in startups and corporate innovation initiatives, and how to drastically improve them.&n...

Title  Why Innovation Teams have to be Measured Differently and How to do it - with Tristan Kromer About the Episode Tristan Kromer is talking to us about why innovation teams need to be measured differently from other product teams and how to do it. In other words, we are talking about how you can take practical steps to implement innovation accounting on a team level.  Please let us kn...

From Quarterly to Weekly Learning Cycles or “The Man in the Mirror” – with Oliver Durrer Hosts/Guests Oliver Durrer , Elijah Eilert   About the Episode Oliver shares his hands-on experience on corporate entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership and learning from his time at Nestle and Migros , building corporate startups and developing an innovation lab. He explains how they went from quarterl...