All Podcast Season 8 articles

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  PodcastThe AI Experiment: How Corporate Innovation Will Change in 2025

  December 9, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner

  For this ep, we looked at all of the AI tools that could possibly help us create a podcast episode — and then leveraged a handful to summarize some of our best content from 2024, and also hone in on some of the important dynamics that will impact corporate innovation work...
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  PodcastInnovating Disney’s Theme Parks

  October 1, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner

  In this podcast episode, we talk with Bob Weis, the former president of the legendary Imagineering division at Disney, and author of the new book "Dream Chasing: My Four Decades of Success and Failure with Walt Disney Imagineering."
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  PodcastHow LG Electronics Brings Outside Ideas In

  August 6, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner

  In this episode, we connect with Dr. Sokwoo Rhee, EVP of Innovation at LG Electronics and Head of the LG Nova Innovation Center in Silicon Valley. Rhee shares his advice about making change happen in big organizations, including the government.
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  PodcastAI and Innovation Converge at Harvard Business Publishing

  July 8, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner

  In this episode, we talk to Laura Northridge, Senior Director of the AI Innovation Lab at Harvard Business Publishing. As is the case with many corporate innovators, she’s helping shape AI strategy and policy for the Boston-based nonprofit, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. It’s one of small number of...
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  PodcastSteve Blank on Why ‘Innovation Heroes’ are a Bad Sign

  July 1, 2024 | By Hadley Thompson

  In this episode, we talk with Steve Blank about why celebrating innovation heroes is symptomatic of a problem in large organizations. Blank also talks about the significance of AI: "I think this is as important as anything we've seen in tech in probably the last 50 years."
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  PodcastGenAI Hits the Road with Mercedes-Benz

  June 10, 2024 | By Hadley Thompson

  In this episode, we connect with James Liu, the Head of MB.OS Customer Experience at Mercedes-Benz. Liu oversees a team responsible for human-machine Interface concepts, UX design, front-end engineering, speech, and AI platforms. That includes prototypes that leverage generative AI technologies like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion.
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  Podcast‘AI Springs,’ Automotive Futures, and Silicon Valley Innovation Labs

  May 6, 2024 | By Hadley Thompson

  Evangelos Simoudis, author and investor, delves into the future of cars, what has happened to Silicon Valley innovation labs, and the latest "AI spring."
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  PodcastInnovating Coffee, with Starbucks Veteran Mesh Gelman

  April 15, 2024 | By Hadley Thompson

  In this podcast episode, we talk with Starbucks veteran Mesh Gelman about coffee trends; developing a new product from scratch; the difference between big organizations and start-ups; and his past work as an innovation consultant.
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  PodcastGeoffrey Moore on Generative AI: This is ‘Digital Transformation, Act 2’

  February 26, 2024

  If you’ve ever talked about a technology "crossing the chasm" from the realm of early adopters into the early majority, or your company has put a high-potential project into "the incubation zone," you’ve been using language given to us by Geoffrey Moore. He joins us to talk about generative AI,...
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  PodcastPodcast: Driving Innovation in Biopharma and Other Regulated Industries

  February 7, 2024

  “No.” In regulated industries, there are a lot of well-paid people in legal, compliance, and risk roles who are very good at saying that word. Dan Seewald, the former Head of Worldwide Innovation at Pfizer, compares them to goalies on a soccer pitch: They “don’t get rewarded for scoring that...
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  PodcastPodcast: Who is Leading the Charge on Gen AI in Big Companies?

  January 29, 2024

  Paul Baier, CEO, and co-founder of GAI Insights, answers questions about the shifts in corporate structures, the challenges faced by leaders, the fascinating use cases that are reshaping industries, and more.
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  PodcastPodcast: What Does Act Two of Corporate Innovation Look Like?

  January 9, 2024 | By Hadley Thompson

  Act One of corporate innovation is over, says Todd Dunn. What happened? "Many organizations have not developed innovation as a strategic and ongoing source of competitive advantage," he writes in a recent LinkedIn piece.