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    What is the biggest innovation challenge organizations face?

    Answering Listener Questions

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    In the innovation game, finding and engaging in a community of innovators where you can get your questions answered is important. Otherwise, you face your biggest innovation challenge alone. This weeks show centered around the answers to the most common listener questions. These questions included: What is the biggest innovation challenge (mistakes) organizations face? How did the […]

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    Interview with Matt Bross

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    Matt Bross is the former Global Chief Technology Officer of Huawei, British Telecom and is a well known industry visionary who is passionate about harnessing new technologies and driving service innovations that improve and transform the ability of people to communicate. Matt has a strong track record of understanding key global business trends and translating them […]

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    Why Do 87 Percent of Companies Fail To Execute Their Strategy? S11 Ep34

    Guest: Daniel Prosser (@thirteenersbook)

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    Why are some companies more successful than others? Why Do Only 13 Percent of Companies Successfully Execute Their Strategy? What are the 87 doing wrong? Topics in the show include: Why conversations control everything in your business? What are the 10 conversations that create a connected organization? How can truth combat the the Execution Virus (innovation antibodies) that […]

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    Fighting The Innovation Straitjacket: Innovating Inside Large Organizations S11 Ep33

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    Innovating inside large organizations can be challenging in the best of circumstances. So how do you go about getting leaders inside of established large companies and organizations get it when it comes to creativity and innovation and be successful? How do you get out of the innovation straitjacket? Topics covered in this week show include: What […]

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    Inventing Unique Broadband Solutions For Emerging Countries

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    Innovation can truly change the world but only if the world can access them. One key innovation is broadband. This week, we dive into a new innovation that is bringing mobile broadband access to the rural and developing countries.  We cover such topics as: Dealing with two different types of innovation antibodies The economic challenge of […]

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    Interview with Dr Vanu Bose of Vanu Inc

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    Dr. Vanu Bose, Ph.D., is the Founder of Vanu Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Dr. Bose is the principal inventor of the software radio technology that serves as the basis of Vanu Inc.’s products. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Jumpstart, a non-profit focused on early childhood […]

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    How to go from invention to innovation to commercialization S11 Ep31

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    In this episode, we discussed the process (and challenges) of going from invention, to innovation and then ultimately to commercialization.  The question covered: What are the three attributes of a great innovation roadmap? Why are good requirements so critical for successful innovation and commercialization efforts? Can you create metrics that are meaningful for innovation? Is […]

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    Interview with Tom Cellucci

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    Tom appeared on the Oct 25th show. Dr. Tom Cellucci has been a senior executive in both the private and public sectors for over 32 years. He served as the US Government’s first-ever Chief Commercialization Officer, working for both President Bush and President Obama. Tom leads a successful management consulting firm, Cellucci Associates, Inc., based […]

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    What Kind Of Culture Leads To Innovation Success?

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    [social align=”center”] Culture is critical for teams and organizations looking to be have significant innovation impact. Based on working across large, small, non-profit and government agencies, I’ve discovered what are a common set of four culture attributes in organizations that were highly innovative. We validate these and other attributes that make-up culture for an organization with […]

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