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Mission: InnovationS2 E14 DE&I and Innovation with Ziad AhmedNo introduction is really necessary the final episode of season 2 of Mission: Innovation... I couldn’t be happier to be ending on such a powerful note. I met Ziad Ahmed whilst hosting a panel on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Procurement. It’s a subject that’s close to my heart and has become all the more so with the Black Lives Matter Movement this year. But there is no person more passionate about DE&I than Ziad. When we spoke back in September he reminded that considering issues like Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is not just a good thing for bu...
2020-12-0129 minMission: InnovationS2 E13 Cultural Transformation at Roche with Alain BindelsEarlier in this season, I spoke to Timm Urschinger, CEO of LiveSciences, who introduced me to the idea of self-organisation and how they can empower project teams to deliver impactful innovation. Today, I'm talking to one of LiveScience's clients, Alain Bindels from Roche. As the Head of Innovation Facilitation and Digitalisation at Roche, he is responsible for building innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities within the company. We talk about the cultural transformation that Roche is undergoing, and what some of the biggest principles are that he's turned to deliver on their ambitions to encourage entrepreneurial behaviour. We discuss the challenges they f...
2020-11-2429 minMission: InnovationS2 E12 Consumer Products and Sustainability with Marika LindstromConstantly innovating products to meet the needs of consumers is a challenge in and of itself. But what happens when you add in the layer of developing products and solutions that are sustainable too?Tackling this challenge is CPG giant Unilever. They've set some ambitious sustainability targets, like halving their environmental footprint by 2030. Today, I sit down with Marika Lindstrom, VP of Packaging at Unilever. We talk about how the company is finding ways to balance innovating for consumers whilst meeting their sustainability goals, and what advice she'd give to leaders who have similar ambitions to improve their impact on...
2020-11-1717 minMission: InnovationS2 E11 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems with Rachel DavisNobody innovates in a vacuum. Behind the scenes, you’ll find companies collaborating with Universities, startups, NGOs, regulatory bodies and even competitors. But, we seldom pay attention to how these networks are facilitated. Often, these are engineered through a collaboration between local enterprise and local government. Today, we're talking to Rachel Davis, director of Warwick Enterprise at the University of Warwick. In this role, she works with multiple organisations across Coventry to give entrepreneurs support and access to a network that might help them grow their ideas into compelling business models. We talk about what entrepreneurial networks do and why th...
2020-11-1023 minMission: InnovationS2 E10 The Transport Tech Ecosystem with Skhona KhumaloAmazon, Spotify, the Apple App Store and, of course, Uber are all great examples of platform ecosystems. They’ve transformed the way some pretty traditional industries operate and that’s definitely something that can be said for our guest today, Skhona Khumalo. With his app, Kwela, he's creating more visibility and accessibility to South Africa’s informal public transport system that is used by the majority of commuters in the country. It might sound like just another Citymapper but the challenges are far greater where this mode of public transport has been operating as a closed system, raising problems around safety...
2020-11-0328 minMission: InnovationS2 E9 Creating a Safe Space for Failure with Paresh ModiSomething that frequently comes up in conversations about innovation is the necessity of failure. It’s a popular subject, and an oft-cited example of failure in the face of innovation is James Dyson’s 5,127 prototypes of the vacuum.If we’re all prepared to accept that failure is part of the innovation journey, why is it so hard to create the psychological safety required for innovation teams to thrive? Paresh Modi, Group Head of Business Development and Innovation at Vodafone, talks about what celebrating failure can look like, why it’s so hard to do and what the shift is that lea...
2020-10-2727 min
Mission: InnovationS2 E8 How Agile helps innovation with Bontle SenneA lot of us use Agile methodologies without realising that’s what they are. But big corporates are making a big push towards adopting Agile ways of working. A lot of this has to do with wanting to deliver projects sooner and, just generally, adopting an entrepreneurial mindset. But, what can Agile really do for innovation? And where are its limits? In this episode, Bontle Senne, Executive Director of Transformation at Virgin Media, talks about what Agile is and isn’t, what corporations should be thinking about when it comes to consumer centricity, and what it really means to drive impa...
2020-10-2027 minMission: InnovationS2 E7 Future-proofing through Innovation with Daniel RukareDaniel Rukare, is a professor of Practise at Hult Business School and a leading consultant working with TNT, FedEx and DHL. Alongside his interests in innovation in uncertain times and developing disruptive business models, he works in future-proofing for business. But, is “future-proofing” just another business buzzword? We talk about what future-proofing means and how some of today’s leading businesses are overcoming challenges associated with transitioning their core business. What is Covered:What future-proofing means in the context of business and innovationThe biggest challenges that companies face when trying to future-proof their business modelsExamples of the companies that have had suc...
2020-10-1329 minMission: InnovationS2 E5 The Sustainable Fashion Ecosystem with Nitin KapoorThe fashion industry is coming under increasing scrutiny for its environmentally unfriendly practices and there's no doubt about it that fast fashion needs an overhaul.Nitin Kapoor is on a mission to solve the problems that the garment industry is facing. Through his platform, TexTech, he's cutting costs by making on-demand garment production simpler and more accessible. His company IBA is the top cross-border e-commerce company in India by addressing issues around overproduction at the source. I wanted to sit down with him to understand the interplay between fashion, technology, and the innovative ways they're combining to move towards sustainable pr...
2020-09-2927 minMission: InnovationS2 E4 How Investing Powers Innovation with Anu BhardwajThere’s a mutually dependent relationship between money and innovation. If you’re doing it right, innovation should lead to an increase in wealth. And you also need money to be able to make your innovative ideas work. But, there’s a lot more under the surface in terms of how investing and wealth creation impacts innovation and how innovation impacts our behaviours around investing. We only need to look at the world of startups, Venture Capital and innovation hubs like Silicon Valley to start understanding the interplay. Key Learnings and TakeawaysNew technology brings not only new understanding of money, but als...
2020-09-2224 minMission: InnovationS2 E3 Inspiring Creativity in the Age of Remote Working with Emily ElrodBefore COVID-19 and lockdown, most organisations would run big workshop-style events for brainstorming sessions. The necessity for this kind of work hasn't stopped in lockdown, but it's not as simple as taking what we did in a workshop and doing it online (we've all sat in online sessions where everyone sits on mute and no one wants to contribute). Today, I’m chatting with Emily Elrod. She’s an experienced corporate consultant and entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of empowering people to live healthy, happy and purposeful lives in high stress environments. She helps leaders to engineer environments for people to sh...
2020-09-1519 min
The Magnus ArchivesMAG 168 - RootsCase ########-8A Post-Mortem report for reality.Recorded by the Archivist, in Situ.Content warnings:- Death & mortality- Hypochondria- Potential medical neglect- Cancer- Convulsions- Stabbing- FallingThanks to this week's Patrons: Alex Alowersson, Sam Lydiatt, Jessica Conrad, Amanda Whitehouse, Smruthi Maganti, grayson, Selena Yu, K. C. Millheiser, Destiny Katherine, Meg Tumney, Sara L Maupin, Nicolas Glover, Kayleigh Prusak, alex "1000 beetles in a trench coat" b...
2020-05-2125 min
Stellar FirmaEpisode 48 - Faces and AcesEpisode 48Faces and AcesCLIENT - Tracer P. Zazz Cage, The Face.The Face needs quarters not infested by space cats and it is starting to affect their mission critical work, the work of being The Face.Expeditors’ recommendations: general gushing, do not succumb to the cylindrical cats, force it to be worse to force it to be better, avoid further con…..ALERT, FILE CORRUPTION, SYSTEMS OVERRIDE DETECTEDComedic violenceEmotional abuseAlcoholismPotential suicide ideationMentions of animal harm.Special thanks to Hila...
2020-05-1522 min