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In today's episode, we speak with Ray Fleming, the Higher Education Director for Microsoft Australia.

We speak about how Microsoft went from losing its status as a worldwide innovator to rediscovering what it takes for innovation to succeed at a large, well-established company.

See the full original episode at https://wp.me/p6pllj-1pI

Topics discussed in this episode:

• 00:01:30 - How to connect technology to business purpose
• 00:02:30 - How Satya Nadella joining as Microsoft's CEO completely changed the company culture in the past 5 years
• 00:04:15 - Why having someone from engineering and product development leading the company changed their outlook towards solving new problems
• 00:06:00 - Moving from a company of Know-it-Alls to an organisation of Learn-it-Alls, which allowed Microsoft's team members to take more risks and move faster
• 00:08:15 - When you were an Enterprise Service provider, you couldn't afford to Move Fast and Break Things. However, now Microsoft has changed the way they iteratively release products
• 00:10:00 - How Microsoft put their solutions on other people's platforms because that is what the consumers wanted
• 00:13:15 - What it took for culture to change. One way was to embed continuous learning
• 00:15:15 - How becoming a data-led decision-making organisation allowed them to make the right decisions. This helped to move away from HiPPOs.
• 00:19:00 - How academic models need to change in order to provide skills of the future
• 00:21:00 - To demonstrate the importance of a culture of innovation, start from the top. Have senior leadership communicate what they are doing to continually learn and try new things.

Links discussed in this episode:

• Ray's Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rayfleming/ 

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