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Innovation Driven Growth

David L. Petersonpodcaststhatmatter.co
The Innovation Driven Growth podcast is hosted by fintech pioneer, entrepreneur and author, David L. Peterson, and features interviews, insights, and ideation focused on how to unleased our inherent creativity to produce Innovation Driven Growth. Each episode is about igniting strategic innovation in work and life—no matter your skill set or job title.
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Episodes

30. Why CX Matters

📊 CX measurement is not empirical. 01:12 ⚖️ The balance of ascertaining customer sentiment: benefits of higher CX level. 03:04 👍 FIs growing proficiency: good self-service beats great personal service every time. 04:46 🤝 Innovation attracts younger generations: CX will not improve without employee education.06:54 💡 Ideas worth exploring: a CX Focus Group, Tech Wolves, OmniChannel. 07:37 ✅ Question of the overall impression before any specific question. 10:43 📈 CX concept is like holding a h...

Dec 16, 202213 min

29. It’s Conference Season - Get Educated!

🤝 A conference is a gathering of people with a common reason for meeting at a centralized location. 02:17 🕴️ Have virtual meetings stopped us from having important “chance meetings?”04:50 👔 Suggestions for sending directors to meet up. 05:24 💲 Access to the vendors is much more than tchotchkes and prize drawings. 08:07 💼 Send at least one person to your state organization or regional Association conference. 09:00 🎓 Give students and future leaders all the experience and elements of busines...

Dec 02, 202215 min

28. Education is Fundamental – But Don’t Leave Out the Fun

😒 Presentations in the financial services industry are just kind of - boring. 01:41 👍 Spice up the class - "Four horsemen educating" - fun and high quality. 02:42 💲 When teaching in person, use dollar bills from your pocket. 05:21 🤡 Self-deprecating humor makes the whole mood lighter. 06:37 😹 Humor often comes in 3 parts where the last one doesn't fit in. 07:27 ✅ Irony works. 08:26 👨‍🏫 The presentation should have more engaging content, especially for younger generations. 09:31 🖱️ Compan...

Nov 18, 202214 min

27. How to Properly Maintenance the Machine – The Importance of Employee Education

🚜 All bank loans are secured by some kind of collateral, and it’s usually equipment. 00:47 🧠 Banks run on a different type of “machinery” - the human capital also needs maintenance. 02:16 👨‍💻 Job-specific education and certifications: look at each employee and determine what training and/or certifications may be appropriate. 03:39 💼 General/industry education: ICBA annual conference in San Antonio was educational “maintenance” for David Peterson. 06:15 📱 Product/service knowledge that enab...

Nov 04, 202212 min

26. The Great Resignation

🕵️‍♂️ Always be looking for places where you can learn about what's going on in your business. 00:57 😷 The customer can be adequately served while working remotely: COVID pandemic forced financial institutions to shut down all of their branches. 01:14 😕 Intangible skills sometimes make employees excellent candidates: the workforce is unprepared for changes in the future. 02:27 ☀️ Moving from transactions to engagement: having younger employees, having engagement activities. 04:24 ✨ Get the ri...

Oct 21, 202218 min

25. Why is it Important to Know Costs and Revenues of Your Virtual Branch

🤔 How important is your virtual business or branch? 00:53 📊 Dilemma in the business: Decreased branch activity or rise in online activity. 02:19 🌟 When your system shows what I’m talking about over and again: online customers represent significant cost savings. 04:11 📈 But people still use physical branches: how to get an accurate picture of activity breakdown and revenues? 05:39 👉 Overstating the profitability of all your physical branches: Defining your virtual organization's revenue is c...

Oct 07, 202210 min

24. How Important Is Your Virtual Branch?

🏦 Most financial institutions don't actually track the virtual branch in the same way as the physical branch. 00:50 💸 Why do some banks see only expenses in virtual branches and profit in physical branches? 02:04 😵‍💫 Why investing in virtual branches is very difficult for the C-Suite: risk and ROI. 3:21 🤕 Determining the overall profitability of a virtual branch and getting accounting systems in alignment is not easy. 05:20 Link Connect with David: www.linkedin.com/in/dlpspeaks...

Sep 23, 20228 min

23. The Importance of Strategically Framing Fees

😤 Thinking about banking as a dry-cleaner shop: no one complains about fees at the dry-cleaners. 01:13 🔔 Bankers failed to show the value of the services they provide to customers. 2:50 🆓 Banking services and word free were used together for years. 3:47 🎯 How do you drive the story of value to your customers? 05:46 Link Connect with David: www.linkedin.com/in/dlpspeaks

Sep 09, 202210 min

22. Six Reasons You Should Innovate

👉 David became a Chief Innovation Officer of FNBB: he started with 10 innovation workshops. 00:48 🧑‍💻 Change in demographics: millennials and Gen Z's have unique banking needs. 01:49 🧐 What are the benefits of innovation? 02:38 🤩 6 reasons you should innovate. 3:07 ⚡ New business potential energy in the company. 03:12 📈 Innovation will enable the growth of your business. 04:00 💪 Innovation will make your company more efficient. 04:53 🌟 Innovation will help you create an innovative brand....

Sep 02, 202210 min

21. The Impact Of Cognitive Biases On Innovation

👉 Impact of cognitive biases on decision-making. 01:01 ✌️ Cognitive biases help us with Information overload, otherwise, it would be impossible to function. 04:07 🧐 The numbing effect of routine or the curse of knowledge. 05:51 👨‍✈️ The more experienced you are, the more you're likely to be on autopilot. 2️⃣ Two types of cognitive biases: information processing and emotional. 09:17 🤓 A three-step process to get debiased. 11:53 😎 Things you say can trigger you and show you are actually worki...

Sep 30, 202137 min

20. IDG interview Kevin Sasser Director of Sales and Marketing in ArgosRisk

😊 Kevin's background and the story about a bad hire day. 02:23 🤯 Making innovative culture interesting: Putting bank regulations in a song "No sleep till Brooklyn, by the Beastie Boys". 05:11 🧐 Consumers are coming to the salesperson more educated about products and services than 20 years ago. 08:06 🔬 Sales professionals now have to know all about the industry, research trends globally, and expand their knowledge base a lot. 09:56 😅 ArgosRisk technology solutions for B2B credit risk managem...

Aug 03, 202153 min

19. Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone – Part 2 with Linda Baskin

🎸David played background music for Linda Baskin’s art show in Dayton. 01:14 🖼️ Stepping out of the comfort zone: Linda's paintings had a theme and the show had its own concept. 04:52 🎯 Professional artist and professional musician. 07:39 🙋‍♂️ Welcome, Linda! 09:12 🎨 The Radical Acceptance art show was about acknowledging the hard times in life but also good, joyful things. 11:29 😃 Linda decided to start painting just 18 months ago. 15:36 🌸 One more example of Linda's stepping way out of h...

May 25, 202146 min

18. How Sun Can Help You Save Money on Your Utility Bills - with Aviv Shalgi

😇 Aviv likes to wake up in the morning and try to solve a problem that nobody else is trying to solve.1:50 👦 He was inquisitive as a child and asked so many questions. 2:56 🌞 The idea behind Solar Simplified. 5:02 ✅ Aviv was not in the solar business before, but he was drawn to it. 🤝 Solar Simplified connects consumers with solar power plants (solar farms) 8:21 ➗ Half of the countries in the US have deregulated markets where private companies are part of the market. 11:08 🔆 Even it is a you...

Mar 30, 202144 min

17. Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone

😂 Gatherings with my sister Linda and brother Larry are always filled with fun, jokes, and love. 🎨 My sister Linda is an amazing painter. 3:06 🖼️ Linda Baskin Art Show preparations. 5:35 🎶 David is going to do background music for Linda Baskin’s upcoming art show on March 27th. 6:15 🎸 David Musical background – learning to play guitar is not easy. 8:17 🎼 David has never performed a “concert” alone, but he embraced music from his college days until today. 11:09 👌 Popular music sets an “exp...

Feb 26, 202139 min

16. IDG Interview with Ryan Green, CEO of Gridwise

🛫 Ryan is an ex-naval flight officer and after the military, he started working in the banking niche. 1:01 🚖 Driving for Uber and Lyft after the military was an amazing experience in gig working and gig economy for Ryan. 3:03 💵 Gridwise app is focusing on the ride-share and delivery area of the gig economy by helping drivers boost their profits. 4:34 🙃 When Ryan worked as a gig driver, he realized that the core problem is in the fragmentation and inaccessibility of key data drivers need to h...

Jan 26, 202151 min

15. Values of Mistakes in Innovation Processes

🤯 A large number of products were discovered by a mistake. (Roundup, Play Dough, Men's Rogaine etc) 1:04 🙈 Why are we so afraid of failure? 5:26 🙃 Being A student or F student: Being a successful innovator means you have to have a ton of bad ideas. 9:11 ✌️ Start off by thinking failure is good and don't let anybody limit your ability to come up with an idea.12:00 👀 People who come up with ideas will get noticed by time. 13:42 ☝️ There is a big difference between error in innovation and error...

Nov 30, 202034 min

14. All the Challenges in Hemp Agribusiness, IDG Interview with Justin Fischer, CEO of RiskScout

👨‍🌾 Farmers are experiencing all challenges related to a business, plus they have soil and weather issues. 1:11 💻 Justin Fisher is a FinTech guy, with experience in farming 2:47 🤓 How is hemp different from marijuana? 6:46 😳 Because of legislation issues, you can plant hemp legally, but it can grow to be illegal. 10:00 📈 About the legal framework of farming hemp and growth of interest for hemp in many agricultural states. 15:54 👂 Cannabinoids: CBD is challenged, as the FDA hasn't set clea...

Oct 31, 202048 min

13. Innovation can Change the World or Just Change You, but Only if You Pursue It

😲An engineer working for Tesla has re-engineered the chocolate chip! 0:56 👍He did it better but it took him a few years. 02:31 💪Salesman invented the extension of a wing for a sailboat. 4:06 ✨What really matters--find ways to make improvements. 4:50 🎯Every single individual in the company needs to be innovating. 6:25 📣How you get those ideas heard? 7:40 ✌️Allow time for innovation in your company and people will be engaged. 13:52 🔔Innovation Challenge as a path for all HR issues with long-...

Sep 29, 202032 min

12. An IDG Discussion with Binna Kim

🔀 Marketing and PR may not overlap. Being channel-agnostic. 02:42 ❄️ "We are used to personalization." 04:49 😷The Covid-19 crisis impacted the ways we interact with brands. 09:43 💣 How to tailor a message that will not be offensive to anybody? 13:58 ⏰ Algorithms and recommendations. How they save time. 21:25 🏅 Innovations in the financial industry. Behind the scenes. 27:46 🛍️ B2B vs. B2C and factors that influence customers' decisions. 30:57 ✨ Importance of representation and diversity in m...

Aug 31, 202046 min

11. Finding Innovation All-Around You

🦠 Public activities during COVID-19 01:32 👏Kudos to the City of Montgomery: Innovative 4th of July parade. 2:24 ⚽Innovation from Argentina: human foosball. 5:36 🙌Don't be afraid: find the intersection of necessity and opportunity. 8:40 👦My grandson's creation and working "with a purpose". 11:11 🌷When a young person shows any creativity, encourage it, and let it flourish! 14:06 😲Kelvin Doe aka DJ Focus - a 15-year old innovator. 16:08 🌱David Senge's ongoing program for young innovators. 17...

Jul 26, 202021 min

10. An IDG interview with Wayne Miller, Executive director of Venture Center

Welcome, Wayne Miller. 1:30 The core concerns every business needs to do well. 4:39 🤝The Venture Center: supporting the entrepreneurial community in the state of Arkansas and beyond. 8:00 Collaboration with universities, technical schools, and other corporations. 10:02 What are ICBA and FIS? Venture Center is working very closely to find business leaders and companies for FIS. 13:20 Accelerator Program - How it helps startups? 20:20 Venture Center success stories. 24:50 Future of innovation in ...

Jun 29, 202042 min

09. Getting Innovation Started

✅ A good example of getting creative to problem solve. 01:16 👉 "Creativity is going to get us all through this." 04:05 🤔 How can I get innovation started at my organization? 04:26 🏼Immediately fall back into the numbing routine. 06:28 3️⃣ Three innovation categories. 08.34 🌟 Express ideas clearly: boosting speaking ability with Toastmasters. 12:09 🪁Forgiveness is easier to get than permission. 13:38 🫣 If you are blocking others in innovation: Stand aside. 15:23 ⚠️ Encourage and harvest all...

May 28, 202023 min

08. How Fintech is changing our lives - Interview with Daniel P. Simon, financial communications expert, and writer

Introducing Daniel P. Simon 1.43 Daniel's book: “The Money Hackers—a group of misfits took on Wall Street and changed finance forever” 2:55 The financial industry should empower everyone, not just the richest 9:57 Financial crisis: East coast bankers and West coast thinking technologists 11:16 The refreshing style in writing: engaging and light 15:27 The role of financial advisers 20:00 Human qualities will be the reason people stick to a financial institution 23:12 Wake Up call for community fi...

Apr 24, 202043 min

07. Will COVID19 Change Our Lives Forever

Did you plan scenarios like COVID19 in your business strategy? 1:56 A Black Swan Effect 2:38 Planning for a catastrophic event 4:26 COVID19 Canceling speaking engagements and ripple effect throughout the entire industry.6:18 Virtual conference. It's a reasonable alternative. 09:01 Bankarshub - a good example of online innovation. 11:29 Don’t let the virus leave your organization on the sidelines. 12:20 Concerts and sports events canceled, but here is an alternative. 13:03 The innovation brought ...

Mar 27, 202025 min

06. Leaders Don't React

How is the "Flight, Fight or Freeze" response wired into our physiology? 02:29 You can train yourself to respond instead of reacting 04:15 How to keep your head in any crisis, big or small? 05:06 Fishing on the raft experience 05:58 How can you practice this response vs. reaction in your everyday life? 11:05 Which situations require an immediate response to remediate the crisis? 12:47 Don't make decisions based on what others might think of you or your response. 13:20 If you're a senior leader, ...

Feb 19, 202020 min

05. Innovation Leadership - Incorporating ThinkTime

How to get creative and harvest ideas for potential innovation? 00:08 🧠 What is the value of creative and strategic thinking? 01:25 The definition for innovation is “creativity: expressed, manufactured and consumed” 02:45 Why you need a specific systemic method to come up with and harvest creative ideas? 04:06 What are the four elements required to allow true creativity to flourish? 05:02 What spaces can you use as your “space for thinking”? 05:30 Why is it necessary for you to specifically all...

Jan 17, 202036 min

04. Leaders Be Wary of Autopilot Thinking!

Is the model of Higher Education going to radically change? 00:45 Autopilot thinking – how many decisions do you make in a day? 04:05 More experience - less chance of coming up with innovative ideas 05:42 What is the numbing effect of the routine process? 07:01 Why is the autopilot thinking the killer of creativity? 07:11 🧠 How the left brain and the right brain work together? 07:22 🤯 How to remember the insights that your right brain provides? 12:56 Developing an ability to look for ways to d...

Dec 16, 201926 min

03. An IDG Interview with Dr. Jon Krispin

Where innovation falls in a business 03:25 // Innovation and creativity 04:17 // Innovation vs invention 05:10 // How connections between technologies are driving economic growth 06:39 Understanding and dealing with the gap between seemingly unconnected technologies when starting and running a business 08:11 // The concept of exomorphosis. This idea that change is happening around us. 11:55 Why is it important to listen to people who work with customers? 13:48 Why is it beneficial for older gene...

Nov 29, 201950 min

02. From Tradition to Exomorphosis

The difference between innovation and creativity—and why it matters. 01:54 Why we should brainstorm just ideas—not only earth-shattering ones. 4:26 What the Wesleyan Quadrilateral has to do with innovation. 6:25 ️ How tradition impacts our behaviors (aka why we’re on autopilot). 10:10 The birth of velcro, and how to use the experience as inspiration. 12:43 How to harness your creative brain with reason. 15:11 What is exomorphosis and how it impacts the way we live and work? 19:08 How exomorphosi...

Oct 07, 201942 min

01. Think You Would Know An Innovation If You Saw One?

🤔We need to think about innovation differently. 0:00 How innovative are you—really? 1:42 Why are we playing the innovation blame game at work? 3:18 What a candy bar taught me about innovation. 5:03 Why innovation doesn’t have to be a big, disruptive breakthrough. 7:48 What to do if you do have a revolutionary idea. 13:01 You may not have any big ideas, but you can still have incremental innovations. 14:36 What sailing in the 1800s can teach us about innovation today? 18:17 My official definitio...

Sep 02, 201946 min
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