Experienced strategist, technology, IoT and innovation leader with a demonstrated history of success in government and private sector industries. Skilled in process improvement, budgeting, operations management, strategy, customer experience, and entrepreneurship. Accomplished in applying technology to improve efficiencies, customer experiences and productivity.
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Ty Montague is co-founder and CEO of co:collective, a creative and strategic transformation company who serves clients like Google, YouTube, IBM, PUMA, Microsoft, MOMA, Infiniti, Capital One, and Timberland. Ty believes that there are businesses who are “storytellers” and “storydoers. “Storytellers” are traditional brands like McDonald’s, United, and Clorox: They tell their stories through classic advertising. But co:collective is more interested in transforming businesses into “storydoers,” whi...
humans love a story
you need both to ideate
I can talk about my projects all day long and bore everyone to tears. It's the transformation that these projects initiate, support, and updraft that is really exciting to me. The projects, however, do not define themselves. Listening to our people's pain points while they struggle towards their vision of a future state is what kick's off a frenzy of defining the problem(s). Being intimate with our infrastructure, culture, and decision-making process allows any innovator the opportunity to shape...
why are we still educating people like it's 1899?
hiring people is broken and we need to fix it
Mikko Dufva is Sitra’s leading foresight specialist. In his work, he examines future trends, the tensions between these trends, and mental images connected with the future. In addition, he seeks to identify signals that may be weak now but are nevertheless significant from the point of view of the future. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dufva
the key to survival is virtualization
why don't our assistants just assist us
Ben Podbielski is Assistant Vice President of the Emerging Technology team at Protective Life where he focuses on applying entrepreneurship principles to internal proof of concepts, with a specific focus towards artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. Ben is a 2017 graduate of Birmingham’s Project Corporate Leadership, was honored as one of the EDPA’s “iMerging” Young Leaders in 2018, in 2019 he was one of 90 people, representing 32 different countries, from around the world sel...
Adam Jackson is the co-founder and CEO of Braintrust, the first user-controlled talent network that provides enterprises with the highly skilled technical and design talent they need. Prior to founding Braintrust, Adam co-founded Doctor on Demand, the popular video telemedicine provider, with daytime talk show personality Dr. Phil, as well as his son Jay McGraw. Other notable ventures include DriverSide, the first website specifically designed for car owners, which was acquired by Advance Auto P...
On Episode 307 Evan Mulcahy Director of Innovation @ Credit Union 1 talks innovation in financial services and the awesomeness of Alaska. --- Evan Mulcahy is a credit union leader, influencer, and future professor of economics. Plus he’s an Alaskan. Evan is known for using analytical thinking to break down and help people understand complex human experiences. Currently working as Director of Innovation for Anchorage-based Credit Union 1, he is responsible for reimagining member experiences for t...
As Chief Innovation Officer, Dave leads GAP in developing, implementing, and supporting an expanded services strategy. He is playing an instrumental role in launching new Strategy and Transformation Service offerings to combine with GAP’s nearshore software development in covering the entire services stack. With over 25 years of experience in technology, Dave has worked in senior leadership roles at IBM, Electronic Arts, DBI, and BMC Software. He is a dynamic technology leader with extensive exp...
Dale P. Johnson: Director, Digital Innovation for the University Design Institute at Arizona State University Wide-ranging interview on the future of education - we discuss the possibilities of adaptive learning, relevancy, memorization, breaking out of the concept of a "class," mass personalization, individualized life-long learning, and critical thinking. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dale-p-johnson/
Innovating in plant-based beverages and foods - Creating 40+ products a year - experimentation works! The Innovation Lifecycle - grass-roots ideation - research and rapid prototyping to test product Agile innovation - tough to create category busting products but it can be done Breaking out of the "shelf-space" slots - no need for shelf space if online Super unique and different: need to gather feedback and iterate - the brand is expected to be different Creating new ingredients starts with pate...
Jason focuses on next-generation technologies and their impact on the colocation, interconnection, hybrid cloud, and edge computing strategies. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtcarolan
Danielle Carnes, the VP for Innovation and Strategic Partnerships at Edmonds College. We cover: Is higher education still relevant to the faster pace of today? Envisioning the future and backcasting to today Education will be more modular and just-in-time Staying in tune with the job market in much more important Colleges should be teaching critical thinking and how to learn Higher education works in partnerships with tech companies Learning to swim and golf via YouTube and practice Ideas come f...
A great conversation on the present and future of podcasts and audio with Caila Litman, the Director, Podcast Sales & Enterprise Product Innovation for Condé Nast. We cover the past and future of audio and podcasting - from the original 2005 meetups at Tommys Joynt in San Francisco where we thought that podcasts were going to change the world, to how the future will be voice-activated. Just like the movie Her, or Star Trek: The Next Generation.
• Interview with Mark McLellan from UNT • Managing education through COVID disruption • How to revise education in the new normal • Building our cities to let us eat - we need large scale productive farms • The Future of Food - creative use of vegetable proteins • Replicating and Improving the remote experience
I interview Aidan Petrie (112 patents), who runs the New England Medical Innovation Center. We discuss where the health care industry is going in the United States and globally, how we are seeing more systems as opposed to single-purpose devices, how the lines are blurred between devices that need to go through the standard FDA process and which don't. It's a surprise to me that even with all of the strides we've made to speed things up - there is still a lot of time and money involved in bringi...
Dr. Luther Brewster has spent the past 15 years launching health professional schools, developing community-based medicine curriculums and healthcare delivery models that would facilitate evolution in healthcare. Currently, he is a member of an executive leadership team recruited to Roseman University of Health Sciences to create a new medical school for the Southern Nevada region. linkedin: linkedin.com/in/lubrewster twitter: supaluo Academic Ventures: GENESIS: GENESIS.Roseman.edu The Academy: ...
An interesting wide-ranging interview with Economist Badri Gopalakrishnan from Infinite Sum Modeling Technological progress tends to be retarded by policy Does technology or policy drive innovation? How policy can negatively affect innovation Technology is powerful but is only part of the picture Policy always lags technological progress - but it doesn't need to be so Startups don't have to fight policy They should work with policymakers and competitors Would Uber's path have been smoother if th...
http://hellofuture.co i interview martin schneider, the head of corporate strategy at sugarcrm. we cover the future of crm and customer experience. we talk working from anywhere, how ai can help people sell and get what they want, how big data can change things, talent acquisition, how ai can pre-emptively get us jobs, mates, and stuff, intentional communications, and much more. https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinaschneider/
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Good morning everyone, and welcome to the thinkfuture podcast. I'm your host, Crystal Palace, and once again, we're coming in July from deep in the heart of Silicon Valley, California. Now I ask you. Do you find that innovation has stalled lately? The innovation has run up against a brick wall and doesn't seem to be getting anywhere. And I wonder if that has something to do with us stepping away from the concept of competition. Now in a capitalistic system in a capitalist system, competition is ...
Do you feel that innovation is meaningless? An actual quote from the leader of an innovation group "At this point, thinking about the future is meaningless" Falling back on short-term thinking is a mistake They don't see the ramifications of this Look beyond the crisis - surf on it or hide under it Take the crisis and use it as an opportunity for your company to grow Example: we learn to eliminate commuting due to COVID: which leads to healthier employees, an improved environment, and lower faci...
Why do disruptive innovation efforts fail so often? Is innovation all about meeting customer desires? JTBD Theory creates a "job description" of the customer's desires There is the "job" and "how is the job done" Similar to things I've been talking about There is always a mismatch between demand and supply We can use technology to capture the customer's desire and write a job description for the customer. Once we know the job to be done, we can go on and use technology to fulfill the job to be d...
