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Combining Startup and Corporate with Jenny Fielding of Techstars

In this episode of the Innovation Ecosystem podcast, we are joined by Jenny Fielding, Managing Director at Techstars, a global venture capital fund for innovative tech startups. Mark and Jenny discuss her extraordinary success scaling and exiting her first startup in three years, how she moved a legacy organization like BBC into the new digital era by founding BBC Labs, and why infusing corporate and startup culture is so powerful.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:24-08:00March 17th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: corporate strategy, digital innovation, ecosystem, legacy, podcast, scaling up, techstars|

Vaccines, Scientific Breakthroughs and Mopping Floors with Jessica Flechtner

In this Innovation Ecosystem podcast, Dr. Jessica Flechtner of Genocea Biosciences discusses her journey progressing the company from startup to going public. Learn from Jessica’s journey and rationale for joining an innovative biosciences startup despite her illustrious research career; her key role in bringing a company from the acquisition of venture capital funding through to going public in year and how she and the Genocea team create a culture of discussing failure and celebrating success that helps them maintain their competitive edge in an ever-changing and demanding pharmaceutical industry.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:27:28-08:00March 10th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: biosciences, ecosystem, med-tech, medical, medical research, pharmaceutical, podcast, startup, venture capital|

The Benefits of Experiential Learning for Leaders with Rocket Scientist Joshua Spodek

In this podcast, Joshua Spodek discusses his journey from PhD student of astrophysics to launching and failing in the business world, and finally becoming a sought-after leadership coach and professor at NYU. He also touches on practical tools and exercises used to build the leadership muscles, and explores the importance of experiential learning or project-based learning for building leadership and personal skills.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:27:27-08:00March 3rd, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: coaching, collective learning, ecosystem, empathy, experimentation, learning, podcast, soft skills|

Exploring the Power of Pause with Leadership Thought-Leader & Korn Ferry Senior Partner Kevin Cashman

In today’s episode of the Innovation Ecosystem podcast, Kevin Cashman discusses with Mark the rationale and research behind "The Pause Principle," which aligns strongly with the notion of “creating space” explored by previous guests like David Allen, Lisa Bodell and Heiko Fischer, among others; about Kevin’s new interest in the concept of “story mastery”; and finally some fresh insights into the qualities of a great versus a good leader.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:21-08:00February 24th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: Creativity, ecosystem, Failure, pause principle, performance, performance measurement, podcast, questions, self awareness, storytelling|

Democratising Elite Performance Tools with Dr. Andy Walshe

Currently leading Human Performance for Red Bull, Andy works with hundreds of international athletes and business leaders to develop and implement elite performance models. In today’s podcast, Andy and Mark sit down to discuss the intricacies of human potential and how certain qualities of elite performers resonate across sectors, industries and arenas; how companies can evolve to enable more talented employees to excel and his project Human 2.0 which looks at how new technologies especially in the arena of Artificial Intelligence encourage us to explore our own potential at a much higher level.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:22-08:00February 17th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: coaching, Creativity, ecosystem, enterprise innovation, experimentation, Failure, motivation, performance, performance measurement, podcast, Red Bull, reward, talent management, top talent, training|

Talking 100% Entrepreneurship & 0% Bureaucracy with Heiko Fischer of Resourceful Humans

What do Europe’s most innovative video games company, a US Navy Submarine Captain and Hewlett-Packard have in common? The answer – autonomy, transparency, simplicity and entrepreneurship. Oh and Heiko Fischer! In this episode, sponsored by a-connect, Heiko and Mark discuss how the RH way came into being through Heiko’s time at Crytek, how the core principles behind the RH philosophy “100% entrepreneurship, 0% bureaucracy” work in practice, and how gamification in the workplace can help us solve the problem of unproductive meetings (among other things).

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:21-08:00February 10th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: autonomy, Communication, ecosystem, efficiency, entrepreneur, HR, meeting, podcast, simplicity, talent management, transparency|

Cutting Complexity with Lisa Bodell of Futurethink

In this episode, Lisa and Mark reconvene to share more essential tools for leaders and teams to simplify their work environment from her second book, Why Simple Wins, they explore insights into how companies like SAP, Southwest Airlines and Syngenta are putting simplification principles into action. Join us to learn how simplicity can give you and your organisation the competitive edge of our time!

Ideascale2020-03-30T12:12:43-07:00February 7th, 2017|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Organization & Culture, Podcast|Tags: complexity, ecosystem, efficiency, Innovation Culture, meaningful work, motivation, podcast, process improvement, reward, simplicity, speed of innovation, talent management, top talent, transparency|

Reviving the Swiss Watch Industry: The Remarkable Story of Swatch with Elmar Mock

Elmar Mock is the Founder of Creaholic, but he began his career as an engineer in a deteriorating watch industry. Elmar approached top-level management within his company with an insane idea, a new way to completely innovate the industry and improve sales. Everyone thought he was crazy and his co-workers distanced themselves from him, but that turned out to be a good thing.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:19-08:00December 30th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: breakthrough innovation, ecosystem, engineering, inventor, pitch idea, podcast, risk management, switzerland, watch industry|

Hacking Reality to Have a Great Day with Caroline Webb

Caroline is the CEO of Sevenshift, a firm that shows people how to leverage behavioral science to improve their working life. Caroline is also the author of How To Have A Good Day, which has been published in 16 different languages, in more than 60 countries. Some of the topics Mark and Caroline cover on this week’s show are: The secret manifesto Caroline has hidden in the book, which is shared by the Innovation Ecosystem, the 100-plus tools Caroline uses, all of which are scientifically proven, and operate independent of context, culture, or industry, and what you can do to hack reality in service of having a good day.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:19-08:00December 23rd, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: ecosystem, mindfulness, podcast, science, soft skills|

Mind+Machine Strategies to Develop New Innovation Capabilities with Marc Vollenweider

Marc Vollenweider has spent over 15 years guiding Evalueserve to become a global research, analytics and data management solutions provider. In this week’s episode he discusses his transition from being a McKinsey partner to founding a business employing over 3,500 people as well as the counter-intuitive benefits arising from simplification and automation.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:18-08:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: analytics, automation, big data, data management, ecosystem, IoT, podcast|

The Space Between Hesitation and Commitment with Michael Gervais

Michael Gervais is a high-performance psychologist who works in the trenches of high-stakes environments, he is a recognized speaker on optimal human performance, and he is the host of the Finding Mastery podcast. What can Michael teach us about success in the corporate world? Well, just a few of the important topics Mark and Michael discuss on this week’s episode are: Why is an understanding of the space between hesitation and commitment so fundamental to raising performance? What is micro-choking, and how can you dissolve pressure? A definition of failure that challenges us to step up.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:18-08:00December 9th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: ecosystem, Failure, mindfulness, mindset, podcast, psychology, purpose, risk management, skills management, training|

Pre-suasion: How to Influence With Integrity

Professor Robert Cialdini has spent his entire career researching the science of influence. This has earned him an international reputation as an expert in the fields of persuasion, compliance, and negotiation. On this week’s episode, Robert discusses how to enlist the support of your senior managers prior to making an important presentation, how companies can boost their sales productivity by up to 60%, and what we can learn from Warren Buffett on communication.

Ideascale2020-07-10T14:43:03-07:00December 2nd, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: Communication, ecosystem, influencers, pitch idea, podcast, soft skills|

Transformative Constraints — Why They’re Core to Innovation and Inventiveness

They say creativity loves constraint. In fact, if you ask professional, creative people about their “limitations” they naturally see them as exciting and stimulating. Engineers and software designers for instance see constraints as absolutely fundamental to problem solving. So why does constraint get such a bad wrap? Why do so many people see them as things to be managed and talked around and spun? In this week’s episode, Adam Morgan delves deep into this topic and explains his process for creating a framework to understand constraint and a process to help people successfully manage it.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:13-08:00November 25th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast|Tags: challenge, challenge driven innovation, constraint, Creativity, ecosystem, innovation, innovation tool, interviews, podcast, Problem Solving|

High Stakes Industrial Innovation with Paul Brody

Paul Brody is a Global Innovation Leader in BlockChain Technology and a Solution Leader in the Industrial Internet of Things at EY. Paul has spent more than 15 years in the electronics industry and has done extensive research for his clients on technology strategy. Paul understands that technology is deeply rooted in strategy, but it gets complex as new technologies and disruptions arise in our modern world. For example, the moment self-driving cars are perfected, it will cause a huge disruption in our economy, so how can we navigate through it?

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:12-08:00November 18th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Podcast, Strategies|Tags: analytics, automotive industry, big data, blockchain technology, Change Management, collaborative consumption, disruptive innovation, ecosystem, Failure, IoT, podcast, radical innovation, silicon valley, strategy, Technology, uber|

The Most Powerful Question In The World of Business

Michael Bungay Stanier, Founder of Box of Crayons, teaches the principles of how to do less hard work and more good work to managers around the world. In this interview he explains why coaching can transform not only the person receiving the coaching, but also the coach; he reveals what he believes is the best coaching question in the world, and why it is so powerful and AWEsome. And finally, he unpacks habits, how to develop new ones, and their importance in the world of work.

Ideascale2019-11-28T09:24:11-08:00November 11th, 2016|Categories: Innovation Ecosystem, Leadership, Podcast|Tags: coaching, Communication, ecosystem, mindset, podcast, productivity, question|