201: Design Thinking and More Deep Thoughts With Marine Leroux Of Thompson-Reuters
We dig deep into design thinking, lean, agile, AI, Chatbots and the Future of Work

We dig deep into design thinking, lean, agile, AI, Chatbots and the Future of Work
What exactly is innovation, and do you know how to innovate?
Now is not the time to relax, but to turn up the volume on your innovation efforts. While you may be doing well today, this is the best time for you to prepare for the disruption that tomorrow will bring.
If everything is changing, and will change, how do you deal with the change? How can you anticipate the changes, prepare for the changes, and be ready to make the leap when the time comes?
Which of the companies are more innovative: those who talk about innovation incessantly, but do not provide any mechanism, time, or resources to building innovative products and services, or those who do?
Visionary companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook understand that they cannot rely on their core business forever – they are leveraging these good times to expand into even more market segments, probing for new products and services, and driving innovation
Chris talks about the lost art of curiosity - why have we let it go and if we really wish to innovate we need to bring it back
Chris interviews Craig Shames of Greatest Idea Ever, a site where Craig curates the Greatest Ideas Ever - Very cool, mind expanding new ideas.
When you say Innovation is everyones job, then you may have just made a huge mistake
Everyone want to be the next Elon Musk, the famous-eccentric-rich-guy-that-I-would-really-like-to-be-like. Here's how.
To change, we need help. We need structure. We need to revise our environment in order to force or trigger ourselves to the behavior that we want.
We will still need humans for a long time...
Today Chris chats with the founder of Lead Cookie, Jake Jorgovan, who grew his business from Zero to $33k MRR productized service in 6 months
We are born curious, with wide open minds. We are genetically and chemically designed to be open to new experiences from the moment we are born
If you feel stuck or uncreative, try killing your feed
How will you prepare for this future hyper mobile, hyper-connected worker and customer? Will you have the infrastructure to be able to support their requirement for just-in-time-and-place delivery of products and services, which will be their expectation?
Many people feel that innovation is not innovation unless it’s some innovative technology
Why Aren't You Innovating?
Inertia might keep the universe expanding on its own, humans need a push
Groups and Identity Politics Never Help - We Need To Treat Individuals Individually
If you dont let your senior leadership take risks, who wil do it?
If you want to provide exceptional service, let your people be human
Welcome to the 7/24 universe of work
Forget Space: Its time for startup foudners to tackle time
How do you get your employees to care? Chris has the answer, and its only one word
Anyone driving around in todays world probably agrees that machines should probably be driving instead.
The holy grail for anyone who has to ship objects is a combination of online and offline. Now Amazon can do that, right.
Through our fixation with collaboration, we cant forget those who innovate on their own.
HBR suggests that companies need to reinvent themselves every 5 years - agree or disagree?
In many cases, you wont get the best ideas first time around, if you have had a number of failed innovation programs in the past. You may need to innovate, rinse and repeat.