Innovation Roundtable Insights
The Innovation Roundtable® Insights Podcast features interviews with leading corporate executives and professors in the innovation landscape. Our aim is to delve deep into innovation issues, ask the hard questions and illuminate perspective in key areas, such as innovation culture, emerging tech, digital transformation, and more.
Episodes
77 episodes
77. Creating an Open Innovation Ecosystem - Ferry Winter, Shell
Welcome once again to the Innovation Roundtable Insights Podcast!In this episode, Ferry Winter, Director of Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam at Shell discusses the company's approach to innovation and strategies for driving innovation...
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76. Lessons from Unilever's Work with Startups and Social Enterprises - PJ Mistry, Unilever
Welcome once again to the Innovation Roundtable Insights Podcast!In this episode, PJ Mistry, Foundry Strategy & Operations Lead at Unilever discusses her experience partnering with social enterprises in Africa and Asia t...
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75. Innovation in the Digital Age: Leveraging AI and Emerging Technologies - Ulli Waltinger, Siemens
Welcome once again to the Innovation Roundtable Insights Podcast. We are thrilled to be back, featuring insights from leading innovation experts across various multinational corporations. Join us as we delve into cutting-edge ideas, strategies,...
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74. Aligning the Digital & Agile Journeys with Business Objectives - Ilaria Iurilli, Ingka Centres
Ilaria Iurilli, Global Digital Product Manager at Ingka Centres, explains how her team works on developing digital products for IKEA customers, highlighting how digital should amplify their experience rather than being an experience itself. She...
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73. Deep-Diving Into an Internal Incubator as Part of a Larger Growth Engine - Julia Hitzbleck, Bayer
Julia Hitzbleck, formerly Head of LifeHub Berlin/Corporate Innovation Berlin, talks about LifeHub Berlin, an internal incubator for ideas of employees embarking on a journey of learning and applying iterative methodologies such as design thinki...
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72. Partnering with Large and Small Players and Moving into Digital Services - Søren Bro, Grundfos
Søren Bro, Group Director, Head of Ecosystems & Partnerships at Grundfos, talks about the company’s collaboration model with large players and startups, as well as partnership selection criteria including strategic fit, culture, and values,...
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71. How Allianz Approaches Digital Transformation and Creating New Offerings - Hartmut Mai, Allianz
Hartmut Mai, formerly Chief Regions & Markets Officer at Allianz, discusses how organizations should approach emerging technologies and, importantly, how to assess the impact they will have on the business. Mai dives into how Allianz organi...
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70. Enabling Personalized Solutions in the Personal Care Space with Emerging Tech - Serge Hermans, Philips
Serge Hermans, Head of Innovation Personal Care at Philips, discusses the role emerging technologies play in enabling new personalized solutions to consumers. In its move beyond products, Philips has implemented a wealth of changes to enable mo...
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69. Taking an Emergent and Playful Approach to Culture in the Search for Innovation - Bret Snyder, W.L. Gore
Bret Snyder, Chair and CEO at W.L. Gore, talks about nurturing a culture of innovation. Based on his work at W.L. Gore, Bret shares stories and lessons learned on the most effective methods, such as the dedicated “dabble time”, emergent leaders...
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68. Balancing Iteration with the Stage-Gate Process in Large Organizations - Jean-François Barrand, Airbus
Jean-François Barrand, Head of Innovation and Collaborative Work Faculty at Airbus’ AirBusiness Academy, delves into design thinking, lean startup, and agile methodologies to uncover how they can best be applied in large organizations. He also ...
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67. Prioritizing Long-Term Innovation and Partnerships through the Chemovator Incubator
Markus Bold, Managing Director at Chemovator, the business incubator of BASF, explains how the incubator is organized and connected to the core, and how partners are selected to engage in the company's innovation projects. Markus also explains ...
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66. How Lego Uses Venture Funds and MVPs to Grow Its Brand
David Gram, Intrapreneur in Residence, discusses how large and valuable brands can experiment with MVPs without risking their reputation. He also details the key characteristics of high-performing innovation teams. This episode was...
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65. How Air Liquide Experiments, Selects Test Users, and Evaluates Success - Olivier Delabroy, Air Liquide
Olivier Delabroy, VP Digital Transformation, i-Lab & La Factory founder, discusses how Air Liquide sets up experiments and PoCs, how it selects test users, and which criteria it uses for evaluating success. He also details how companies can...
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64. HenkelX Venture’s Agile and PoC-focused Approach to Startup Collaboration - Salima Douven, HenkelX Ventures
Salima Douven, Director Digital Strategy & Innovation at HenkelX Ventures, talks about the unit’s startup collaboration strategy - how the unit leverages PoCs to enable business units to collaborate with startups, the startup scouting and s...
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63. Validating & Developing Projects through Ventures and Accelerators - Axel Menneking, Deutsche Telekom
Axel Menneking, Vice President Startup Incubation and Venturing at hub:raum, explains how startups are selected to be developed in Deutsche Telekom's accelerator, and the conditions which must be in place for their sustained growth. Axel also d...
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62. Learnings from the Chinese Innovation Ecosystem - George Yip, Imperial College Business School
George Yip, Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Imperial College Business School, talks about the differences between innovation in China and the West. In this discussion, George also addresses concerns about the Chinese market such...
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61. Organizing and Growing through Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean Startup - Nina Maldonado, AkzoNobel
Nina Maldonado, Agile Transformation and Digital Innovation Manager at AkzoNobel, discusses the core elements of the company’s agile transformation journey and the importance of having the right mindset to enable that process. Nina ...
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60. Approaching Corporate Venturing at DSM and How to Scale Startups - Pieter Wolters, DSM
Pieter Wolters, Managing Director DSM Venturing and VP DSM Innovation Center at DSM, talks about corporate venturing – from finding the right strategy, to setting up the team, to deciding on which stage of the startups to invest in. Pie...
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59. Making Radical Innovation a Mainstay in Large Companies - Jean-Luc Meyer, Schneider Electric
Jean-Luc Meyer, SVP Strategy, Marketing & Business incubation at Schneider Electric, discusses the primary challenges for making radical innovation a reality in corporations. Jean-Luc also explains the criteria Schneider uses to dec...
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58. How Microsoft Organizes for Innovation and Cultural Change through Hackathons - Linda Thackeray, Microsoft
Linda Thackeray, Director of The Garage, New England Research & Development (NERD) at Microsoft, discusses how organizations can prepare for hackathons, how they can free up time for employees to innovate, and how this can reduce "innovatio...
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57. How Companies Can Innovate through Ecosystem Partnerships - Amy Trejo, P&G
Amy Trejo, Open Innovation Manager at Procter & Gamble, discusses the role Silicon Valley and other "hot" ecosystems play in innovation partnerships. She further elaborates on how companies can protect their IP when engaging in such collabo...
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56. From Investing into Startups to Becoming Their Client - Fabio Tentori, Enel
Fabio Tentori, Head of Enel Innovation Hubs and Startup Initiatives, talks about how startup collaborations at Enel have evolved over time - from an investing model to one that co-creates with startups within different business lines. In doing ...
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55. Grundfos' Approach to Delivering Digital Transformation - Fredrik Östbye, Grundfos
Fredrik Östbye, Group Vice President & Head of Digital Transformation at Grundfos, discusses how digital transformation is approached within the company. Fredrik explains the role of digital platforms within the transformation, how key cust...
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54. Growing Startup-Company Partnerships through Planning, Communication, and Culture - Eric Chaniot, Michelin
Eric Chaniot, Chief Digital Officer at Michelin, discusses how Michelin selects startups for collaboration, how internal teams are assembled to communicate with selected startups, and how digital innovation can be enabled within and outside the...
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53. How Goodyear Splits Innovation Efforts between R&D and BMI teams - Abhijit Ganguly, Goodyear
Abhijit Ganguly, Manager Business Model Innovation and Incubation at Goodyear, discusses how the company does business model innovation and incubation, and how innovation efforts are split between technical R&D and BMI teams. Abhijit also d...
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