Inside Outside Innovation

Ryan Paugh is the COO of Community Co and co-author of the book Super Connector: Stop Networking and Start Building Business Relationships that Matter. Ryan offers an entrepreneurial view of what’s important when entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and startup founders connect. He also gives some insight into the type of person who’s most effective at networking and how anyone can foster those sk...

Today's show is from the Inside/Outside Innovation summit we hosted last summer. In his talk, Michael Docherty lays out some really great advice and anecdotes about what disruptive innovation looks like in a large enterprise. Michael also emphasizes the importance of a "both/and" approach to startup collaboration. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Tom Lockwood and Edgar Papke came together with different backgrounds but the same goal: helping large enterprises innovate. Using design thinking and leadership psychology, Tom and Edgar have written seven books between them about making innovation work despite corporate obstacles. They co-wrote their latest book titled: "Innovation by Design." Find out more at lockwoodresource.com For informatio...

Today’s show is from our summit last summer. Carie Davis, who is formerly with Coca-Cola and is now the founder of Your Ideas Are Terrible, gave a talk where she shared the top ten things she and her co-founder Shane Rieser have learned from their work with corporations and startups. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Gregg Garrett is the founder of Connected Detroit Innovates. He talked with Brian about how the program’s membership works, and how it seeks to serve small communities, as well as the larger populace of Detroit, while furthering goals of disruptive innovation in numerous industries. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Today’s show is from a talk Janice Fraser gave at the Inside Outside Innovation Summit in the summer of 2017. Janice has worked with large organizations including the White House, Navy Seals, Lyft, and Proctor and Gamble. She is currently the Chief Product Officer at Bionic Solution. She shared a three-part opera about growth in large and small enterprises and why it's an issue of (gasp) life or d...

Navin Kunde is with open innovation, R&D, and is a business networks leader at The Clorox Company. He talked with Brian about making external innovation a key part of their team’s efforts to be prepared for the future. He also talked about the multiple components of metrics that they use at Clorox and how these metrics can help define what the culture of innovation is or isn’t at a company. Re...

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Jack Elkins is the head of innovation at the Orlando Magic. He talked with Brian about how the NBA is not immune to the need to innovate and how to make everyone equal when they come to the table. He also shared the address you can email to get the ten key phrases that he uses with his team to create a culture of innovation: language@persportives.com. For the Making Innovation Count in 2018 confer...

Ari Popper is the founder of the innovation consulting organization, SciFutures. SciFutures is a fascinating blend of science fiction and corporate innovation in which sci-fi writers team up with corporations to imagine futures in their industry. Brian and Ari talked about how they make these imagined futures tangible and what the responsibility is of innovators as we continue in this era of techn...

Atul Kamra is a managing partner at SixThirty, which is a seed fund based out of St. Louis. Atul talked about what makes SixThirty unique, what attitude is best to adopt for combining startups and corporations, and how to keep a narrow focus to stay on track for your goals. Contact him at atul@sixthirty.co 

Katherine Manuel is the senior vice president of innovation at Thomson Reuters. She has had a vast and varied journey in innovation before coming into her present role a couple years ago. In her conversation with our host Brian Ardinger she talked about the real details of innovation at Thomson Reuters including some specific campaigns they ran to develop thinkers who go outside the boundaries. Ka...

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Tom Rideout, formerly with AAA, is now with Blue Rocket, which specializes in digital product design and development. Tom is also speaking at the Back End of Innovation conference happening this week in Orlando, Florida. We invited him on the show to share about something we haven’t addressed much: coordinating and engaging with boards of executives. Tom shared an exciting example of how to get th...

Santhi Ramesh works for Hershey's as a global lead with Snacks, Refreshments, and Futures. She's also speaking at the Back End of Innovation conference. Santhi and Brian talked about what it takes to launch a product in an emerging market and how to accommodate for all the cultural differences that come with operating in a different country. Connect with Santhi on LinkedIn and with us at insideout...

In this episode about venture capital we're reaching back to hear from previous guests Christina Bechold with Samsung NEXT Ventures and Ann Winblad with Winblad Hummer Venture Partners. Between them they cover: how to find a good founder, how corporate venture capitalists can work with startups, and what it means now that "customers are buyers." Find out more insideoutside.io and reach out to Chri...

Janette Edelstein is the director of external innovation at Johnson & Johnson. She and Brian talked about how to include startups without suffocating them, how to do this in a large corporation, and how mid-sized organizations can jumpstart innovation. Janette is the first in a series of four guests who are all speaking at the Back End of Innovation Summit in Orlando, Florida, October 22nd-25t...

Greg Satell is the author of "Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a Disruptive Age.” Greg talked with our host, Josh Berry about his book and what his goal was in writing it. He also broke down common constructs about innovation including portfolio management and finding the right process for the problem. Greg provided a great list of resources for mid-level companies who want to get mor...

Ken Skistimas, director of User Experience at GE Digital., joined Brian Ardinger to talk about the "the power of sketches." With previous experience at Salesforce and a family background in illustration, Ken has been in and around design all his life. He shared how his small team works on a wide gamut of project sizes and types of problems. Ken emphasized the value in leaving things a little raw w...

Brian Ardinger, co-founder of Inside Outside Innovation and Econic, sat down with Jyoti Shukla, senior director of user experience at Nordstrom. She talked about some of the challenges they’ve faced as a 116 year old retail business transitioning in a world of disruption. Jyoti also gave some specific examples about how to prioritize customers when testing new user experiences and emphasized the i...

Slava Rubin is a co-founder of Indiegogo, the crowdfunding website that helps entrepreneurs and startups validate products and bring them to market. Slava shared with Brian how corporations, such as GE and Whirlpool, are using the platform as well to validate their product research with massive success. He also gave an excellent example of how sites like Indiegogo allow product developers to adjus...

Lindsay Angelo is a former Strategist with Lululemon but is now pursuing a new venture as a strategy consultant. She talked with Josh about trends in the retail space especially around the idea of a self-actualization economy and how democratization of retail influences the way that people invest and the way products are developed. She also touched on what brands she sees doing things right and wh...

Dan Toma is a co-author of the book "The Corporate Startup" along with Tendayi Viki and Esther Gons. He got his start as an entrepreneur working in and around startups and then in accelerators. The book came out of one of his first corporate innovation jobs with Deutsche Telekom, which is the third largest carrier in the world. Dan and Josh talked about some of the trouble spots for corporate inno...

David Robertson, author of Brick by Brick and formerly at Wharton, just recently accepted a new position at MIT’s Sloan school. He also hosts a podcast of his own called Innovation Navigation that’s available on Sirius XM channel 111. David and Josh sat down to talk about what third wave innovation really is and examples from GoPro to Lego about the possibilities for success and failure that go al...

Today’s episode features special guest, Jason Calacanis, longtime angel investor and author of the book "Angel." He and Brian talked about why he wrote this particular book, what it takes to be an angel investor, and how senior executives in a corporation can harness the power of angel investing for the sake of their personal portfolio and the benefit of their company. Jason’s handle on social med...