Top 10 Podcast Episodes on Corporate Innovation
I’ve been hosting the Future Squared podcast for over three years now, having published over 326 episodes in that time with luminaries and thought leaders from fields as disparate as technology, entrepreneurship, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, economics, politics, stand-up comedy, journalism, and corporate innovation.
You can find Future Squared on Apple | Stitcher | Spotify | YouTube… okay, wherever you listen to your podcasts really.
As is often the case with ideas, they come to us when we make space for them. The idea of writing a top ten list of my favorite, most well received and widely shared podcast episodes on corporate innovation came to me in the gym, mid-deadlift…just in case you were wondering!
So here it is, in no particular order, my top ten podcast episodes on corporate innovation.
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, Steve has been part of, or co-founded eight Silicon Valley startups. These have run the gamut from semiconductors, video games, personal computers, and supercomputers. (MIPS, Zilog, Rocket Science, SuperMac, Convergent Technologies, Ardent, ESL) Steve’s last company was E.piphany, an enterprise software company.
Topics we discussed include:
Funnily enough, I hooked ‘the big fish’, Steve Blank, in just episode 12 of the podcast, opening the door for many more big names to follow.
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Scott Anthony is a Managing Director at Innosight.
In his time with Innosight, Scott has advised senior leaders in companies such as Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, SingTel, Kraft, General Electric, LG, the Ayala Group, and Cisco Systems on topics of growth and innovation. He has extensive experience in emerging markets, particularly in India, China, and the Philippines.
We explored myriad topics, including:
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Beth Comstock is a change maker who has helped people grapple with rapid-fire change and open up their companies to transformation. Before she ever led the reinvention of a team or a business, she learned to rely on her curiosity to provoke change in herself. She infused her life with the habit of discovery, seeking out new ideas, people and places and in turn, she built a career path from storyteller to chief marketer to GE Vice Chair. And now author.
We touched on many a topic in this conversation, including:
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Dan Toma is the co-author The Corporate Startup: How Established Companies Can Develop Successful Innovation Ecosystems.
Puzzled by the questions ‘why are innovative products mainly launched by startups?’, Toma focuses on enterprise innovation strategy — specifically on the changes blue-chip organizations need to make to allow for new ventures to be built in a corporate setting, and has worked with the likes of Deutsche Telekom, Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover, Bayer, John Deere or Allianz.
On corporate innovation, expect to learn about:
Having met Dan in person on a couple of occasions, he is also an avid motorcyclist and ice hockey player!
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The WorkFlow podcast is hosted by Steve Glaveski with a mission to help you unlock your potential to do more great work in far less time, whether you're working as part of a team or flying solo, and to set you up for a richer life.
To help you avoid stepping into these all too common pitfalls, we’ve reflected on our five years as an organization working on corporate innovation programs across the globe, and have prepared 100 DOs and DON’Ts.
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