All Podcast Season 4 articles

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  PodcastLeveling Up Customer Empathy at Fitbit & More

  July 7, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken

  How can teams use empathy to understand their customers? Irina Kozlovskaya, Director of Industrial Design at Fitbit, shares how her team uses empathy to design better products.
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  PodcastHow R&D Keeps the CPG Industry on the Cutting-Edge

  June 23, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken

  In this episode, we wanted to find out: “How is the CPG industry innovating to meet consumer demands?” Ranjani Varadan, VP of R&D at Impossible Foods, discusses how her team gets consumers to buy in to their future-forward vision. Jodi Benson explains why her team had customers write break-up letters to...
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  PodcastPodcast: Why Corporate Innovators are Like Pirates in the Navy

  June 16, 2020

  In this installment of Innovation Answered: Essentials, Tendayi Viki offers a look at his most recent book and discusses the importance of the “privateer” attitude. 
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  PodcastHow AARP Keeps the 50+ Market at the Center of Innovation

  June 9, 2020

  How does AARP use innovation to empower people as they age? Vice President of Product and Startup Engagement Rick Robinson explains…
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  PodcastHow Changemakers Innovate Within Government Agencies

  May 26, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken

  In this episode of Innovation Answered, we wanted to know, “What does innovation look like in government? ” To get best practices, InnoLead’s Kaitlin Milliken sat down with Tanya Hannah, the former Chief Information Officer of King’s County Washington. Steve Rader, Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative...
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  PodcastRunning High-Performance Innovation Labs

  May 19, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken

  How have innovation labs shifted during this period of remote work? What sets labs up for success?  Linda Elkins, Chief Technical Officer of W.L. Gore’s Silicon Valley Innovation Center, shares.
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  PodcastWhat Corporate Venture Funds can Learn From VCs

  May 12, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken

  What are the risks when large companies dive into the venture capital game? How are venture teams responding to challenges posed by COVID-19? All that and more in this episode…
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  PodcastCreating Culture at Wayfair

  May 5, 2020

  How can digitally-native companies maintain their innovative culture as they grow? To find out, we visited Wayfair’s co-founder Steve Conine at the company’s Boston office.
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  PodcastComing Soon: Innovation Answered Season 4

  April 7, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken

  Innovation Answered’s fourth season starts May 5, 2020. Find out what you can expect to learn from the show’s producer, Kaitlin Milliken, and intern, Molli DeRosa.