Are you denying human nature when you design your products? When you try to make humans better, most of the times your efforts fall flat Do you expect too much of your customers? Like rational behavior? It's near impossible to change human nature, so you need to work with it not against it Communism and socialism fail because they expect people to change their essential human natures Acceptance of Reality is sometimes tough for humans to understand We can't stray too far from the norms of human ...
Sep 26, 2020•10 min•Season 1Ep. 291
3 Tips on Dealing with Time Firstly, people don't start working on stuff until halfway until it's due For example, if your team has a 4-week deadline, then they won't start working on it in earnest in 2 weeks. So always cut your deadlines in half. Work both expands and contracts to fit the time allotted Secondly, imagine in your mind that the work involved to complete a task is much more than it is. For example, if you imagine a task is going to take 2 weeks, even though it's probably a 1-week t...
Sep 21, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 290
Ajita was recently appointed as CEO of Calbright College – a public, online campus founded in 2018 designed to prepare millions for the future of work. Calbright teaches the hard and soft skills required to succeed on day one of employment, and crafts low-to-no-cost online program pathways designed to connect students with new job opportunities. A former higher-education tsar in the Obama administration, Ajita’s job today is to lead the college to help underserved Californians gain greater econo...
Sep 14, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 289
Are you lazy? Are your customers lazy? Do your customers prefer things to be done for them? Then why do you force your customer's through your own hoops? People don't want to "bank", they want their money managed. People don't want a mortgage, they want a home People don't want a car loan, they want a car Are you making your customers jump through hoops to work with you? Are you worried that talking to your customers will reveal how far off your products are from what they want?...
Sep 07, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 288
Are you getting the kind of innovation that you are looking for? Ever wonder why that is? Maybe they aren't incentivized to create billion-dollar ideas? Maybe they are actually incentivized to play politics? What kind of incentives are you dangling in front of your employees? Most companies promote and award people for career movement, not better solutions that delight your customers. Which are you?
Aug 28, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 287
Ever had to deal with Negativity and Negative People? They shoot down your ideas and tell you how things are so terrible What do you do with them? Where do negative people take you? You probably can't change them into something else Negative people have their place - maybe not in your innovation group Get them out of your situation - innovation requires optimism Maybe they say they are mindreading your senior management There are plenty of other places where negative people do a better job...
Aug 22, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 286
So much should have happened by now: Blade Runner, The Eugenics Wars, Flying Cars, Living on Mars, Human Clones, Time Looping Super Soldiers, Khan Noonien Singh, much longer life expectancy We have none of this - although we may have human clones somewhere Everything that is possible will happen - the only question is when What do you want to do tomorrow? The future is up to you Can't do anything about the past - it's done finished, etched in stone We can design our own ideal future...
Aug 17, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 285
Capitalism is great One failure of capitalism: if a great idea has no business model, it's unlikely to be pursued - if it doesn't make money, it won't happen. For innovative new products, we need to measure a different metric - JOY Some ideas are AMAZING, but they don't make money Even if they are great, you have to look at them through a commercial lens The ideas go away when companies can't figure out how to make money at it The idea must fulfill the customer's desire - you must bring them joy...
Aug 08, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 284
We humans actively seek out the new, and the Cybertruck is that Even though I don't believe in electric vehicles, I love the DESIGN Electric cars are just REPOSITIONING the electric generation It looks DAMN COOL and AMAZING Every car on the road looks exactly the same Every car maker is stealing ideas from other carmakers Even the Teslas are boring Cybertruck is the future. I want to be part of that future If the design stays mostly the same, then I will buy it We are sponges that want to learn ...
Aug 03, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 283
http://thinkfuture.com ** FEEL FREE TO LISTEN AT 2X SPEED ** Why are we in this innovation "rut"? Its safety over innovation From the 1880s to 1950s where there was so much innovation going on - it was crazy Since then, we've hardly invented anything We are so concerned about hurting ourselves that we are holding ourselves back Look at the invention of the car and the plane. People used to be willing to be hurt or die in the pursuit of innovation. Now we don't Every disaster pushes us back so fa...
Jul 27, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 282
http://hellofuture.co Are you truly understanding and delivering on your customer's core desires? Probably not. Customers want great THINGS and EXPERIENCES, not to pay bills, get mortgages, or negotiate to buy a used car. How close is your product and service to address your core customer desires?
Jul 20, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 281
It's not only about applying digital to your current processes Digital is just an application of technology Terrible processes which are digitized aren't any better People look at digital-first before they think about transformation when it should be the other way around Digital is simple compared to the transformation The tough part is transforming your business first.
Jul 12, 2020•9 min•Season 1Ep. 280
Keith Keating has a career spanning over 20 years in learning and development (L&D). He is well known in the industry as a workforce futurist, design thinking practitioner, and L&D thought leader. Keith is currently pursuing his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania’s chief learning officer program. https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-keating-1976963a/
Jul 06, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 279
Digital shaper, speaker, and thought leader. Award-winning technology marketer. Startup and entrepreneurship lecturer. Founder of the world’s first App stores.
Jun 27, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 278
John Carter is a recognized expert in helping global organizations improve the speed and innovation of product development. As Principal of TCGen Inc., he has advised many top firms such as Apple, Amazon, Cisco, HP, IBM, Roche, and Westinghouse. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Cirrus Logic (CRUS) a leading semiconductor firm. John has had roles of CTO (Klipsch Group) and Chief Engineer (Bose). John was the co-inventor of the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones and shares the original pa...
Jun 21, 2020•53 min•Season 1Ep. 277
Show Notes: Nerjada (Ada) Maksutaj has recently completed her MBA at Berkeley Haas and is the 2020 Fellow for the Center for Responsible Business. Prior to business school, Ada worked as a strategy consultant with Accenture advising on digital transformation, corporate innovation, and social entrepreneurship projects with clients including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and Pearson Education. Post-graduation she will be joining IDEO's Design for Learning studio, focused on lifelong le...
Jun 14, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 276
We talk with Ionut Vlad, the inventor of a crazy, kooky no-human-needed promotion device - works great and generates tons of data. https://www.tokinomo.com (website) https://youtu.be/ydo0Sz4NW7c (Trailer) https://bit.ly/38bv3jo (shopper’s reaction) https://youtu.be/_xxpdJ8oaAI (Nutella dialogue mentioned) About Ionut Vlad - founder and CEO of Tokinomo Bucharest Art University +10 Years of Advertising (Senior Art Director - Saatchi&Saatchi, Head of Art Pampers Europe) Worked for clients like ...
Jun 06, 2020•50 min•Season 1Ep. 275
Please see the link for the Plug N Play Summer Summit: https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/summer-summit-2020/ Allen is the Director of Corporate Partnerships at Plug and Play. He develops strategic partnerships and joint ventures with corporations to find business development, licensing, acquisition, and investment opportunities among Plug and Play's startup network. He oversees a team managing partnerships with corporations in Silicon Valley in Mobility, Internet of Things, Real Estate, Ener...
May 31, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 274
Veljko Krunic is an independent consultant and trainer specializing in data science, big data, and helping his clients get actionable business results from AI. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an additional MS in engineering management from the same institution. His MS degree in engineering management focused on applied statistics, strategic planning, and the use of advanced statistical methods to improve organizational efficiency. He is also a ...
May 22, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Are you stressed? Are you worried? Are you down? Are you feeling the weight of the world behind you? Are you feeling the pressure? This modern world is lots of reasons why you might be feeling the pressure. The one thing that I find really interesting about all of these things that are stressing us out is that none of these things are real. Nothing is real. Time is not real. 2:00 pm is not real. Thursday is not real Weekends are not real Time itself doesn't exist. The only time we are not a slav...
May 16, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 272
Aneri Pradhan is a social innovator who is passionate about using technology to solve large ecosystem problems. She is a 2X Founder; she is the Founder of ENVenture (acquired by New Energy Nexus), an award-winning incubator that finances and trains rural cooperatives in Uganda to start clean energy businesses. She also serves on the Board of Directors of New Energy Nexus, a leading clean energy non-profit that has facilitated approximately $1B into the renewable sector. She was also Co-Founder o...
May 11, 2020•56 min•Season 1Ep. 271
Urvi is a Master Connector, Emotionally Wealthy, and a Nomadic personality. She is a 20 year, reformed, Fortune 10 corporate executive. (AT&T, IBM, Coca- Cola, Walmart). The consistent thread in her career is her ability to have an innovative mindset, that creates solutions through collaboration and focuses on the human element, that pushes the business forward. Her mindset is driven by her lifestyle as a nomad and seeing multiple ways of thinking on a global scale. Her vast | diverse networ...
May 03, 2020•54 min•Season 1Ep. 270
Just read some of that far-future hard Scifi and backcast to today.
Apr 26, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 269
TL;DR: Inventor has a problem, invents a product to solve his problem, tries the product out with friends and family, friends and family use the product for a completely different purpose, inventor pivots the product to focus on the purpose, profit!
Apr 19, 2020•7 min•Season 1Ep. 268
Beyond diversity - you need cognitive diversity to drive innovation and disruption.
Apr 12, 2020•6 min•Season 1Ep. 267
Coronavirus: Is it finally killing the time suck which is commuting? Plus, how to atomize your normally monolithic block of work. Think LEGO.
Apr 05, 2020•8 min•Season 1Ep. 266
DON’T PANIC: The cover of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is 100% accurate. No matter what you read or hear, do not allow it to drive you to panic. Panic is completely unproductive. QUESTION MESSAGES: Especially news headlines. Headlines are designed to grab your attention, and may not lead to reality. CONTEXT IS KING: Ignore or research statistics without context. Saying that there are 500 cases with Coronavirus in a specific country sounds high, but when you find out that the county has 2...
Mar 29, 2020•16 min•Season 1Ep. 265
Discussing how this experience may push us towards improving the remote experience over the in-person experience. I then go over my WFH setup: internet speeds, backup hotspot, standing desk, timer, wide-screen curved monitor, HD camera, enough light, good gaming headphones, air pods or phone headphones, ember, ulla, fridge (stocked with water and your favorite beverage), chair, 2 UPSes (one for your computer and monitor and one for your wireless router) and last but not least, a nice background....
Mar 22, 2020•13 min•Season 1Ep. 264
If you are looking to build and launch breakthrough products, then you don’t need to be reasonable, you need to be unreasonable. Being reasonable keeps you in the realm of incremental innovation, adding small new features and functions to a product until it gets so complicated and unwieldy that a whole industry has to be built around it (Microsoft Windows and Office anyone?) No, to make breakthrough disruptive ideas, you need to be unreasonable like Steve. You need to push the envelope, push you...
Mar 13, 2020•4 min•Season 1Ep. 263
Our smartphones have already turned us into cyborgs. We should just admit it and understand that we have evolved into a new kind of human - one that cannot survive without augmentation.
Mar 07, 2020•6 min
