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Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 68: Moderna's AI Journey into Generative AI with Andrew Giessel, Executive Director of Data Science and Artificial IntelligenceEpisode description: In the season finale of Agile Giants, we're thrilled to welcome Andrew Giessel, Executive Director of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Moderna. I first crossed paths with Andrew when Moderna’s AI Academy was launched in collaboration with CMU. I can attest to the incredible work he's been doing for years at Moderna. Andrew was the first member of Moderna’s Data Science team and he has been at the forefront of Data Science and AI at Moderna for years. His involvement hasn’t stopped with this current Generativ...2024-02-2238 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 67: Decoding Analytics: Richard Clarke Unveils Highmark Health's Strategic Approach to AI in HealthcareEpisode description: In this podcast episode, we engage in an insightful discussion with Richard Clarke, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Highmark Health. With an impressive 8-year tenure, Richard offers a unique and seasoned perspective on the evolution of analytics and data science. He and his team have built a remarkable foundation at Highmark, skillfully leveraging it during the recent surge in Generative AI, while simultaneously investing in high ROI projects across the spectrum of data science and analytics projects. This episode isn’t just pivotal for those at the forefront of healthcare or...2024-02-1538 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 66: Corporate Innovation Reimagined: Karsten Rönner's Vision of AI and Emerging Technologies at Bosch’s grow platformEpisode description: In this podcast episode, we welcome Karsten Rönner from Bosch's grow platform, who shares his journey and insights into AI and emerging technologies. Discover how Karsten's entrepreneurial background influences his leadership at Bosch, shaping the company's innovative approach in adopting advanced generative AI. The episode highlights how AI has revolutionized Bosch startups, showcasing its impact in the competitive tech market. Join us for a fascinating dive into the world of AI-driven innovation at Bosch. Show links: Bosch's grow platform website: www.growplatform.com 2024-01-2532 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 65: Pitching Generative AI to the C-Suite with Melissa MurphyEpisode description: In this episode of Agile Giants, we are joined by Melissa Murphy, a distinguished service professor at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Melissa, a seasoned educator and dynamic force in business education, sits down with us to share her insights on "Pitching Generative AI to the C-Suite." Melissa recently presented this canvas at our Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum, focusing on the intricacies of presenting Generative AI concepts to high-level executives. Today, she generously shares this wealth of knowledge with our podcast audience. Show links: Li...2024-01-0422 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 64: Improve your LLM Prompts: Decoding the TELeR Taxonomy with Santu Karmaker and Dongji FengEpisode description: In this episode, we sit down with Santu Karmaker and Dongji Feng, creators of the TELeR Taxonomy. This pivotal framework is revolutionizing the way computer scientists benchmark complex tasks in Large Language Models (LLMs). Our conversation goes beyond the academic realm as we explore how the TELeR Taxonomy is not just a theoretical construct but a practical tool. I've personally leveraged this taxonomy to significantly enhance the prompts I'm crafting. Whether you're a researcher, developer, or just LLM-curious, this episode promises to offer valuable perspectives and strategies. As many of you k...2023-12-2341 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 63: A Deep Dive on Leveraging Generative AI with Marshall KirkpatrickEpisode description: Explore the transformative power of AI as special guest Marshall Kirkpatrick, Editor of AI Time to Impact, unravels creative ways of integrating artificial intelligence into different facets of your professional life. We discuss Marshall's journey and gain valuable insights into the inspiration that propelled him to initiate his newsletter. Don't miss this thought-provoking episode on the Agile Giants Podcast, where innovation meets practicality. Tune in now to discover how AI can be a game-changer and how we can strategically use it to our advantage. 2023-12-1456 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 62: Karl Ulrich on Using Generative AI to Generate Startup IdeasEpisode description: In this episode, we sit down with Karl Ulrich, CIBC Endowed Professor at the Wharton School, as we dissect his recent research experiment comparing startup ideas from Penn Students from those generated by ChatGPT. We discuss the experiment's goals, key takeaways, and the game-changing speed of AI in idea generation. Explore the motivation behind this experiment and the collaborative dynamics between AI and humans. Karl highlights the teamwork aspect, envisioning a future where both AI and humans play crucial roles in the ideation process. Don't miss this exploration o...2023-12-1432 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 61- Piotr Mirowski on Google DeepMind's Dramatron: Redefining Creativity in the Age of AIEpisode description: Piotr Mirowski, Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and co-creator of Dramatron shares his insights on the future of human-machine co-creativity especially with all the recent developments in Generative AI. Piotr’s been exploring this space for years and his thought leadership continues to have a profound impact on my thinking. In this episode, we explore the brilliance behind the language models driving Dramatron and the innovative use of AI in creative writing. Learn more about the system's functionality, and delve into specific examples that shed light on the benefits and chal...2023-11-3032 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsSeason 4 Finale- Q&AEpisode description: As we wrap up an incredible season of the podcast, we're going out with a special episode. Join us for a Q&A where we turn the spotlight on YOU, our dedicated audience. Your questions have poured in and they fell into three broad categories: Corporate-Startup Collaboration: Given this season's exploration of the corporate-startup collaboration landscape, it's no surprise that many of you were curious about partnerships, their impact, and their role in a company's innovation strategy. Current Trends: Business is changing faster than ever, and there were queries t...2023-09-2223 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 59: Navigating Innovative Collaborations with Joel Krikston of Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and Michael Meucci of ArcadiaEpisode description: In this week's episode, join us as we uncover the dynamics and strategies behind fostering successful collaborations between established corporations and innovative startups in the digital health industry. We delve into a real-world example of strategic partnership as we sit down with Joel Krikston, Managing Director at Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and Michael Meucci, CEO at Arcadia. Listen closely as they provide an invaluable roadmap to navigate the intricate terrain of corporate-startup collaboration -- both raising capital and value add beyond that capital. Drawing from their 6-yea...2023-08-2541 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 58: Sari Kaganoff on Navigating Innovation and Partnerships for Digital Health Startups Join us on this week's episode of Agile Giants as we dive into the world of digital health startups and the crucial role of partnerships in driving innovation. Our guest, Sari Kaganoff, General Manager of Consulting at Rock Health shares her expertise on how enterprises and startups should approach partnerships as part of their overall innovation strategy. Beyond the obvious benefits of resource access, she reveals the hidden advantages that startups can gain through collaboration with enterprises. Drawing from Rock Health's extensive network, Sari provides real-world examples of companies they work with and the diverse...2023-07-2132 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 57: Chris Carde on the Crucial Role of Corporate-Startup Partnerships in Driving Innovation for the EV IndustryEpisode description: In this week's episode of Agile Giants, Chris Carde, the CEO and Founder of HeyCharge, joins the show to discuss the importance of corporate-startup collaborations in advancing the EV industry. As an industry veteran, Chris provides valuable insights into how startup companies should approach partnerships as part of their overall innovation strategy. He also shares his perspective on how to measure the success of a collaboration with a corporation, drawing from his extensive experience leading HeyCharge's partnership efforts with established companies in the automotive and energy sectors. Tu...2023-06-2324 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 56: David Rogers on Overcoming Barriers to Digital TransformationIn this episode, we are joined by David Rogers, a professor at Columbia University, and the author of The Digital Transformation Playbook and The Digital Transformation Roadmap. We dive deep into digital transformation and explore why so many businesses are struggling to adapt. Drawing on his extensive expertise and research, David shares practical strategies and actionable steps that leaders can implement to empower their organizations to thrive amidst the constant waves of change. Through real-world case studies and insightful analysis, he sheds light on the challenges and opportunities faced by leaders in today's dynamic business environment. 2023-06-0935 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 55: Ed Rakiewicz on the Importance of Corporate-Startup Collaboration in the Evolving Landscape of the Materials IndustryIn this podcast episode, we delve into the history and transformation of PPG, a global maker of coatings, paints, and specialty materials that has been around for over 140 years. We are joined by Ed Rakiewicz, a Corporate Fellow at PPG, as he shares insights and experiences on the importance of corporate-startup collaboration in driving innovation and growth in the industry. He talks about PPG's approach to partnering with startups, the benefits of such collaborations, and the challenges that can arise. Ed also discusses some of the key trends and technologies shaping the industry, and how PPG is leveraging innovation...2023-04-2131 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 54: Kevin Acklin on Driving Innovation in Sports and BusinessIn this episode, we are joined by Kevin Acklin, President of Business Operations for the Pittsburgh Penguins, to discuss the team's collaboration with startups to solve real problems in sports and business. The conversation touches on the concept of open-source problem-solving and the team's willingness to share their solutions with other companies. They also discuss the social impact of these collaborations and how this helps in their vision of the city of Pittsburgh. This episode offers valuable insights into the benefits of collaboration and the importance of leveraging existing platforms to drive innovation for sports o...2023-03-3150 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 53: Nick Ellis on Amazon Climate Pledge Fund's Approach to Collaborating with StartupsIn this episode, we sit down with Nick Ellis, Principal of the Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, to discuss their approach to investing in startups and how they work with their portfolio companies beyond just providing capital. Learn about Amazon's approach to open-sourcing their expertise and how collaborations can benefit both the company and the entrepreneur. Don't miss out on valuable insights and actionable advice for entrepreneurs! Show links WEBSITE- https://www.theclimatepledge.com/ LINKEDIN- https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickellis/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon/ 2023-03-1728 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 52: Chirag Patel on Cultivating the Startup Spirit in a Corporate EnvironmentJoin us for a fascinating conversation with Chirag Patel, Leader of EY Foundry, as we explore how this corporate venturing unit is driving transformational growth for one of the world's largest companies. Discover how EY Foundry identifies new markets and develops new businesses, with a focus on digital ventures that rely less on human capital. In this episode, we also dive into the success story of EYTaxChat, an on-demand mobile tax preparation service, and learn how EY Foundry integrated an external startup into EY's services. Tune in now to discover the challenges of bringing a...2023-03-0329 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEpisode 51: Greg Coticchia on the Importance of Partnerships on Scaling StartupsThis season will be a series of interesting conversations about how large companies and startups can partner to deliver transformative innovation together. In our first episode of the fourth season of Agile Giants, we sit down with Greg Coticchia, CEO of Sopheon. Earlier in Greg’s career, he was a serial entrepreneur and participated as an executive in fourteen start-ups (founding four) including being the co-founder & CEO of eBillingHub. We will discuss his experience scaling a successful company through innovative partnerships with large players in the industry. We start off with a deep dive into a...2023-02-1730 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsOpen Innovation Challenges with Josh Gould, Head of Duquesne Light Innovation CenterJosh Gould is the Director of Innovation at the Duquesne Light Company. He & his team have kicked off a $750k open innovation challenge around monitoring underground electrical cables. He talks a little bit more about this on the episode. The submissions are due March 15th so we wanted to get this out there, make you aware of it in case it fits any of your startups. I also think for anybody listening to this, it’s really a great perspective around how to do outside in kind of external innovation. Show Links: https://www...2022-02-1628 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsDavid Schonthal author of The Human ElementWe'll be back later this fall with another full season of Agile Giants, but I wanted to interrupt our break to share a conversation I had with David Schonthal. David is the Clinical Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Business, and the reason I'm interrupting this is he's got a book that came out on October 5th called The Human Element It looks at how resistance to innovation and change can be overcome using some really interesting techniques. I think there are applications obviously, for introducing new products and services, but there are...2021-10-2028 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsTesting Business Ideas with David Bland, CEO & Founder of PrecoilDavid is probably best known as the co-author of Testing Business Ideas which he co-authored with Alexander Osterwalder. However, he’s had an incredible impact on innovation both at startups and large companies. He helped GE develop their infamous FastWorks program in partnership with Eric Ries. He also coached emerging product teams at Adobe and even helped Toyota apply the Lean Startup practices to their innovation groups. Before his transition into consulting, David spent over 10 years of his career at technology startups, and he stays connected to the startup scene today through his work at several Silicon Valley accelerators....2021-04-0830 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsOptimizing Your Team for Innovation Impact with Stefano MastrogiacomoThere may be no more important topic in 2021 to innovation leaders than how to think about managing and organizing your team. On this week's episode of Agile Giants, I sit down with Stefano Mastrogiacomo to talk about his new book High-Impact Tools for Teams. Show Links: High Impact Tools for Teams (Amazon) Stefano on Twitter Team Alignment website 2021-02-2535 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsOperationalizing an Innovation Mandate with Tendayi Viki How do you truly operationalize a mandate to become more innovative? There are plenty of resources that talk about the importance of innovation, but over the year's I've really grown to appreciate author & innovation consultant Tendayi Viki's pragmatic advice. On this week's episode, we talk about his work and walk through companies at different points in their innovation evolution and Tendayi offers practical advice he'd offer their leadership teams. 2021-01-2633 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsApplying the Lean Startup Methodology to the Military with Peter Newell - Retired US Army Colonel & CEO of BMNT How do you apply the lean startup methodology to the military? Well, that's the subject of this week's episode of Agile Giants. Pete Newell, whose name may sound familiar because Steve Blank mentioned him at the Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum as the co-author of his upcoming book, Innovation Doctrine. Pete is the CEO of BMNT Inc., a Silicon Valley based innovation consultancy and early stage tech accelerator. He's a retired US Army colonel and the former director of the US Army Rapid Equipping Force. You'll hear on this week's episode a little bit about...2021-01-0634 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsBusiness Model Transformation & Data Based Corporate Startups at Philips with Tim Murphy Tim Murphy leads the One SRC Services group within Philips Sleep and Respiratory Care. He joined our Forum to discuss his experience with data based corporate startups and more generally business model transformation. As mentioned last week, we are in the process of sharing all of the videos from this year’s Forum on the 2020 Forum Website. But I also wanted to share a few highlights here on Agile Giants. 2020-12-2322 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsSteve Blank & Alexander Osterwalder on The Keys to Successfully Driving Innovation in Established Companies Steve Blank & Alexander Osterwalder are world famous entrepreneurs and authors whose work in many ways launched the Lean Startup movement. We had a great conversation at CSL's Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum. We are in the process of sharing all of the videos from this year's Forum on the 2020 Forum Website. But I also wanted to share a few highlights here on Agile Giants. 2020-12-1654 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsRe-Inventing the Convenience Store Chain - Mary Beth Green, Chief Innovation Officer @ SheetzIf you live in Pennsylvania or one of the surrounding six states, you've likely pulled into a Sheetz Gas Station not to get gas, but to order & eat food. That's right high-quality quick serve food customized to your preferences. Sheetz pioneered this "made to order" quick-serve style food in a gas station. On this week's episode of Agile Giants Mary Beth Green shares her experiences building a team and putting an innovation process that is working to re-invent the category again.2020-10-2232 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsInnovation at Johnson & Johnson with Michal Preminger and Stephen PittI'm sure you are familiar with Johnson & Johnson, but do you know their innovation strategy? On this episode we're joined by 2 Corporate Innovators within J&J Michal Preminger and Stephen Pitt to discuss their innovation strategy.2020-10-1444 min
Startup Hypeman: The GOAT to Market ShowS14E10: The Science of Massive, Growth-Catalyzing Events (pt. 1) with Author & Investor Sean AmmiratiYou've heard of Linkedin, but have you heard of Spoke? You know Facebook, but do you remember Friendster? What about Tesla vs. Fisker?Oftentimes when we analyze what propels a company to success, we say things like "Facebook had this, therefore any company who has this should be successful". But that's flawed logic. What about the companies who also had that same thing and weren't as successful? This was the basis for Sean Ammirati's research in authoring the international best-seller, The Science of Growth. He had a very simple premise: When two companies with similar business...2020-10-1135 min
Startup Hypeman: The GOAT to Market ShowS14E11: The Science of Massive, Growth-Catalyzing Events (pt. 2) with Author & Investor Sean AmmiratiIn part 2 of my conversation with Sean, we dig into the 4 specific types of events, exploring what Facebook did that Friendster didn't, How YouTube outlasted Revver, and more.Find Sean online:Social Media: @seanammiratiToday's episode is brought to you by Sales Hacker. The world's smartest community of forward-thinking B2B professionals. Grab their latest expert-created articles, webinars, and podcast episodes at www.saleshacker.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-10-111h 00
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEntrepreneur Turned 2x Corporate VC - Pradeep Tagare of National Grid PartnersAfter transitioning from an entrepreneur to CVC at Intel Capital, Pradeep spent the last two years setting up and leading National Grid's CVC group. We talk about both his experiences launching a new corporate fund in the energy space as well as his experiences and lessons from a career at the storied Intel Capital. We also talk about how CVC needs to react during this Covid crises.2020-10-0730 min
The Entrepreneur Way1707: Compounding Your Work and the Excellence That You Apply to Your work with Sean Ammirati Investor and Partner of Birchmere VenturesSean Ammirati co-founded mSpoke, which was the first acquisition of LinkedIn. His next startup was Peak Strategy, which was acquired by Morgan Stanley. Today, he focuses on being a partner at Birchmere Ventures, where they invest into seed-stage SaaS and marketplace startups. Since their start in 1996, they’ve invested in 135 companies with 51 exits. Sean also teaches entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. “the easy advice is just do it. But we want to be more thoughtful than that. So, the way to unpack that a little bit… I think that entrepreneurs before they start th...2020-10-0654 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsInnovation Pathways (including CVC) with Joseph Cabral from LSUJoseph's papers have been some of the most interesting academic research on corporate venture capital in recent years. We do (eventually) get to this at the second half of the podcast, but honestly I could have talked to him for hours and kept going down fascinating tangents around how innovation really works in the early part of the episode. Each of these topics could have been their own podcast. I hope to have Joseph back on Agile Giants again soon.2020-09-3045 min
Succession StoriesRediscovering Your Entrepreneurial Vision with Sean Ammirati Shift your focus from maintaining your business to reimagining. Laurie Barkman is joined by Sean Ammirati, Co-Founder and Director of the Corporate Startup Lab and Partner at Birchmere Ventures. Listen in as they discuss how mature companies can rediscover their entrepreneurial vision and develop innovation strategies to thrive post-recession. Show notes: LinkedIn - Sean Ammirati seanammirati.com Book: The Science of Growth on Amazon Corporate Startup Lab at Carnegie Mellon 2020-09-2939 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsWil Morgan's Approach to Making Connections Across Jaguar Land Rover's Innovation EcosystemWil Morgan has been an investment manager, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Now he has a fascinating role inside Jaguar Land Rover around corporate innovation. We have an awesome conversation to start Season 3 of Agile Giants, both focusing on his current work at JLR as well as lessons across his career for traditional and corporate entrepreneurs. One of the things I really appreciated about our conversation was focused on making connections (both internally and externally) Wil was across the innovation ecosystem for Jaguar Land Rover.2020-09-2325 min
Onward NationThe Science of Growth, with Sean AmmiratiSean Ammirati co-founded mSpoke, which was the first acquisition of LinkedIn. His next startup was Peak Strategy, which was acquired by Morgan Stanley. Today, he focuses on being a partner at Birchmere Ventures, where they invest in seed-stage SaaS and marketplace startups. Since its start in 1996, they’ve invested in 135 companies with 51 exits. Sean also teaches entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. What you will learn from this episode: Sean’s entrepreneurial journey The philosophy behind “The Science of Growth: Why Some Companies Scale While Others Stall” Why entrepreneurship is more about...2020-09-1600 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsQ&A Season 2 FinaleOn the last episode of Season 2, we do another Q&A episode - focusing on specific questions you the audience have for me. The questions fell into four categories: There were a lot of questions about this unprecedented time we're living in, and especially how it relates to the overall economy, companies commitment to innovation, and to education. I also got a few questions on one of the CSL, the Corporate Startup Lab tools, the Option-Gate. Next, not surprising, given the focus on corporate venture this season, I did have some questions around that as a str...2020-07-1723 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsInnovation from Inside Accelerators to the Fortune 500 w/ Yael HochbergWhen you think about "academic thought leadership" in entrepreneurship, Yale Hochberg is at the top of most lists. For me, as a VC, she is best known for her work on the Seed Accelerator Rankings. But as you'll hear on this week's episode of Agile Giants - Yael has done a ton of interesting work around innovation and entrepreneurship including recently starting a firm focused on corporate innovation. It was a highlight to have her join me on Agile Giants Show Links: Yael's Personal Homepage Yael's Consulting Firm: Flywheel Innovation Yael's Twitter Yael's Rice Website Seed A...2020-07-0137 min
Cloud Wars Live with Bob EvansSteve Jobs and Gorilla Glass: Create Your FutureEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight. In this podcast, Sean and I talk about how long it will take until we get the economy back up and moving again.Episode 14Reimagining our companies is on Sean’s mind. We need to figure out what the right innovation strategy is. The world is going to be very d...2020-07-0132 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsGrowing & Innovation Through Transitions with Laurie BarkmanFriend & collaborator Laurie Barkman comes back as the first repeat guest on Agile Giants. Since our first recording, she has launched a consulting firm (SmallDotBig), launched a podcast and returned the Tepper classroom as an instructor. We have a great conversation on growth and innovation especially in times of transition. Laurie's LinkedIn SmallDotBig website Succession Stories webpage LinkedIn Succession Stories Podcast Community Mission statement generator2020-06-1832 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansMicrosoft & FedEx: Reimagining the WorldEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight. In this episode, Sean and I talk about business model transformation and how Microsoft and FedEx are reimagining the world.Episode 13Sean talks about how we’ve gotten to a point where companies have made 80% of the investment they needed to in digital transformation (but he thinks they’ve gotten a...2020-06-1134 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsCorporate Startup Lab Public Demo DayAs a special episode this week, we're broadcasting the full audio of our annual CSL Demo Day. If you would prefer to watch the video, you can see the full video of Demo Day on the Corporate Startup Lab site. You can also learn more about the project course there. 2020-06-0344 min
Thomas Industry PodcastApplying Startup Lessons to Corporate Business Models with Sean AmmiratiEntrepreneurship is often seen as a bastion of lean, forward-thinking startups. But these agile, early-stage businesses aren’t the only ones with the capacity to develop game-changing products and services. Join host Tony Uphoff and Sean Ammirati, author, professor, venture capitalist, and co-founder & director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab (CSL), as they discuss the lessons that established, large-scale businesses can learn from agile startups, the accelerating shift from digital transformation to business model innovation, and why manufacturing business leaders should see themselves as entrepreneurs to help solve industry-wide challenges.
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Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsPlatform Business Model Transformation with Alex Moazed - Founder & CEO of ApplicoIn the last few years, companies have made huge investments in digital transformation. Companies need to leverage these investments to unlock business model transformation. One of the most common business models that we see is this platform model. My guest this week, Alex Moazed, the founder and CEO of Applico wrote the definitive book on platform businesses, "Modern Monopolies". And now his firm operationalizes these insights inside incumbent businesses.2020-05-2630 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsInvesting CVC Dollars into Frontier Tech Startups with Vin Tang: Co-founder of Samsung's Q FundFrontier tech - emerging technologies such as robotics, computer vision and machine learning - are transforming so many of our industries. Established companies need to understand and figure out the right way to react. On this episode of Agile Giants, I sit down with Vin Tang, the Co-Founder of Samsung's Q Fund. The fund's tagline is: "we're more CVPR, less CES." Referencing the annual research event, the Conference Of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition versus the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas. This is clearly a different type of venture fund, but there ar...2020-05-1925 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsInnovation in Investment Management with Warren Pennington from Vanguard Most people probably know Vanguard as the firm that you can buy index and mutual funds from. They were the first investment group to offer index funds to individual investors. On this week's episode, we look at how they are continuing to innovate. Warren leads a group that is doing both inside-out and outside-in innovation. It's a great conversation, three things I encourage you to specifically focus on as you listen: The way they approach startups and how they think about those collaborations. The synergies experienced between outside-in and inside-out. How they think about...2020-05-1330 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsInnovation in Healthcare w/ Paul Nielsen, VP Strategic Programs at OptumOptum is probably the largest software company that you've never heard of. It does over $100 billion a year in revenue, but is part of United Healthcare Group. United is one of the six largest companies in the United States and the largest health insurance company in the US. On this week's episode of Agile Giants, I'm joined by Paul Nielsen from Optum. Paul has had a storied career as an entrepreneur and now has brought that mindset to Optum and United Healthcare. He's really a change agent internally and helping the company rediscover their entrepreneurial vision. 2020-05-0529 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansDisney+ vs. Netflix: 50M Subscribers Can’t be WrongEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 12In this episode: Sean says founders are some of the most creative and innovative people. They have a combination of intellectual courage that makes them pretty remarkable. He says Larry Ellison of Oracle, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, and Mark Zuckerberg are the Mellons and Carnegies of t...2020-04-2929 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsData as Fuel for Innovation w/ Rebecca Nugent the Stephen E and Joyce Fienberg Professor in Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie MellonOne of the thing's I've observed over and over again from the best corporate innovation leaders is how data can be fuel for their innovation programs. On this episode of Agile Giants, I bring on a true academic thought leader on this issue - Rebecca Nugent. Rebecca is a chaired professor in statistics and data science at CMU. She's built some really amazing programs both at the undergrad and graduate level around data science and really across the entire university. She also has partnered with me on some interesting executive education programs. As you listen to this week's episode...2020-04-2835 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsReturning to Corporate Venture Capital w/ Bill Pescatello of Evolv VenturesAbout 18 months ago, Bill Pescatello returned to corporate venture after a stint in a traditional VC fund (Lightbank). Evolv is a $100 million firm created in partnership with Kraft Heinz. Bill already had CVC experience as he started his career post business school working at NBC’s Corporate Venture group. We talked on the episode about why Bill decided to return to CVC and how Evolv Ventures is set up. Show Links: Bill's Twitter Bill's LinkedIn Evolv Ventures Homepage Evolv Ventures Medium 2020-04-1632 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsSong Ma - Assistant Professor of Finance at the Yale School of ManagementWe are continuing our conversation for another week on Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). This time returning to academia and having a conversation with Professor Song Ma from Yale. He has written three papers that influenced my thinking significantly. We talk about each in this week’s episode. You can follow the links to all three from Professor Ma’s Faculty page and also encourage you to follow him on Twitter. https://som.yale.edu/faculty/song-ma https://twitter.com/ProfSongMa 2020-04-0943 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsMatt Carbonara - Managing Director, Venture Investing at Citi VenturesThis week our conversation continues to focus on corporate venture capital. However, we go from Harvard Business School to a “serial CVC” as Matt has been at 3 different corporate venture groups — Comcast, Cisco and now Citi Ventures. Matt has a great perspective from all three of those experiences and we also talk about specific things unique to the approach Citi Ventures takes given reporting structure and overall strategic objectives of the fund. Show Links: Matt's Twitter & LinkedIn Citi Ventures Homepage 2020-04-0126 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansWhen the Tide Goes Out You See Who’s Swimming NakedEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 11In this episode, Sean says he hasn’t been on a plane for almost four weeks – and that’s unusual because he is always on a plane to somewhere. So he has been able to have dinner with his wife and kids, and it’s been incredible. He says it puts...2020-03-3126 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsJosh Lerner Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business SchoolProfessor Josh Lerner is an academic giant. His 2013 article in HBR on Corporate Venturing is constantly being referenced in conversations as companies explore setting up their own Corporate Venture Capital group. He also has written a number of best selling books, which we reference on today’s episode and talk about the impact for each of you as corporate innovators. I think this week’s conversation will put into context a lot of the work you’re doing, from a real academic thought leader. Josh's HBS Site: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=99612020-03-2528 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsMatt Fleckenstein - Sr. Director, Azure Innovation MicrosoftI’m excited to start a second season of Agile Giants with my friend Matt Fleckenstein. Matt has been a VC, traditional entrepreneur and corporate entrepreneur inside Microsoft and Salesforce. Matt & I talk about his observations generally across those experiences as well as his current role where he really leads innovation across an interesting portfolio of Microsoft Products including IoT, mixed reality and quantum computing. (Full Disclosure: One of those traditional startups Matt & I co-founded together with two other founders.) 2020-03-1829 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansCalling Jeff Bezos: It's Time to Spin Out AWS!Each month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 10In this episode, Sean says Andy Jassy has been an incredible CEO of AWS. He says AWS would be one of the 10 most valuable companies in the world the day it went public. And he understands that it basically works for everybody in the world – except for Jeff Bezos...2020-03-0319 min
Millennium Live | A Leadership & Discovery PodcastEpisode 62 | Sean Ammirati, Carnegie Mellon#millenniumlive had the pleasure to chat with Sean Ammirati, Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University and Co-Founder & Director of The Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab. Sean talked all things entrepreneurship, how he predicts ROI for machine learning will take a giant step forward in 2020, and how his passion for helping others begin startups is at the core of what he's doing at Carnegie Mellon, "everyone needs a voice for making the world what it should be."Hosted by Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.2020-02-1812 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansSean's 2020: Walmart Buys FedEx, Slack Sells, AWS Set FreeEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 9In this episode, Sean and I discuss Slack. He says Slack has basically been slashed in half – $42 a share vs. $22 a share. Its market cap is $12 billion. Sean says what would these statistics be worth inside Oracle, Salesforce, Microsoft, or Google. He says that with some of the assets...2020-01-1022 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansDisney+: 10 Million in 24 HoursEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 8In this episode, Sean and I discuss how Disney+ had over 10 million people signed up in 24 hours – and they’re registering 1.2 million downloads a day on the app. He says his wife was one of the 10 million people who signed up for Disney+. And because he has two kids he...2019-12-0828 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansScandals Aside, What Business Is WeWork Really In?Each month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 7In this episode, Sean and I kick off with a new look at the evolving WeWork and Softbank story. Sean explores what it means that SoftBank chose to invest even more money into WeWork, and now owns about 80% of the business. Plus, the fact that the former CEO is m...2019-11-0145 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsDave Knox Author of "Predicting the Turn"Dave & I have known each other for a long time. We first got to know each other through his involvement helping lead a Cincinnatti based startup accelerator, The Brandery. More recently, Dave came out with a book a couple of years ago called Predicting the Turn. There’s a ton I enjoyed about this week’s episode, but actually probably the thing I enjoyed the most was the detour we took into corporate venture capital. Dave’s actually been a corporate venture capitalist twice in his career and has two more traditional financially driven VC work e...2019-10-0230 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansWeWalk: CEO Adam Neumann Ousts HimselfEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 6In this episode, Sean and I discuss the pain and suffering at WeWork, which had roughly a $50 billion market cap, and is now struggling to do one-third that much. Their CEO, Adam Neumann voted to oust himself amid various scandals, and their “community adjusted EBITDA” he calls a made-up...2019-09-3023 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsRita McGrath Author of "Seeing Around Corners"Rita McGrath is a legend in the field of corporate innovation. She developed the methodology used by so many companies today “Discovery Driven Planning” and has written numerous best-selling books. She recently had a new book come out “Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen” On this episode, we talk about her new book as well as observations on how corporate’s perspectives on innovation have evolved and the arc of her career. Show Links: Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen...2019-09-0621 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansEvery Big Company Needs to Be an EntrepreneurEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 5In this episode, Sean and I discuss how he wants everybody to think about themselves as an entrepreneur – and that includes people working inside large businesses. He quotes Jim Collins of “Good to Great” fame by saying good is the enemy of great – and that’s why some entities don’t...2019-09-0633 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsDon't Fall into the Trap of "build vs buy" instead think "build AND buy"!On this week’s episode, I respond to a question I’m getting more and more from you on social media & via email is: How does each of these different techniques highlighted in Agile Giants fit into a company’s overall growth strategy? (Or if not that exact question a version of it) I try to provide some context in this quick episode, but the biggest point is there are synergies across these tactics so it isn’t "build vs buy" but instead "build AND buy"! 2019-08-0813 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsRich Grant Founder & Managing Director - Touchdown VenturesAfter helping start Comcast Ventures, Rich left with 2 other partners to start Touchdown Ventures. On this week’s episode, we have a great conversation about his perspective on CVC as well as unpacking the model that Touchdown Ventures is pioneering. I’ve asked you for feedback on email, Twitter, LinkedIn & Instagram about the kind of content you’re looking for. I remain interested in that feedback, but one thing I’m consistently hearing is that you want more information about Corporate Venture Capital as a growth strategy. Rich is a great person to kick off these conversations. Show Links: Touchd...2019-07-2234 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansMicrosoft and Oracle: Strange BedfellowsEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 3In this episode, Sean and I talk about decision-making, from a couple of angles. First, we explore the choice that giant global corporations have to make when a new opportunity comes along. Namely, do we do this ourselves, or partner up to make it happen? We also affirm that...2019-07-1737 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsKeith Berry Executive Director - Moody's Analytics AcceleratorAfter 8-years, working in various roles across the organization, three years ago Keith Berry founded the Moody’s Analytics Accelerator at the directive of the Board. This is a group inside Moody’s focused on launching innovative products typically via a partnership with a FinTech startup. As many of you are thinking through how to set up your own innovation lab or accelerator, there are a ton of lessons from Moody’s Analytics experience including: (1) how they partner with Fintechs, (2) how trends influencing their thesis and (3) specifically how they’ve approached AI/ML as a big trend influenci...2019-07-0839 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsQ&AOn this week’s episode of Agile Giants, we’re going to do something just a little different. There’s a lot of questions that I’m regularly asked when it comes to corporate innovation and agile product development. I’ve combined some of those questions with questions that I heard from you on social media and I’ve come up with five common questions that I get. We’ll see how this works, but if this is interesting to you let me know other questions that you might have and maybe we’ll start weaving these in about once a qu...2019-07-0128 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsChristina Weir - Vice President, Enterprise Clinical Operations Highmark HealthChristina has had executive roles in a number of types of healthcare companies. In most of these organizations, at least part of her time was focused on leading innovation. Healthcare is a sector that seems to naturally lend itself to corporate innovation, given balance sheet and incumbency advantages that are often necessary for transformative innovation. This is likely why we've had so many health care companies collaborate at the Corporate Startup Lab. Christina has a great perspective on this, having worked for a number of different types of players in the sector. 2019-06-1730 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsTanya Baker - Global Head of GS Accelerate, Goldman SachsTanya Baker is the Global Head of GS Accelerate. A new initiative inside Goldman Sachs that is “ a platform for people at Goldman Sachs to be able to apply, submit an idea, and go through various rounds of pitching and ultimately they get funded, be an intrapreneur, as we call it within Goldman Sachs.” In many ways, this is similar to many other corporate startup labs being set up at other Fortune 500 companies but they also are taking a very Goldman Sachs approach. Show Links: Tanya Baker's LinkedIn GS Accelerate Career Page Measure What Matters: How Google...2019-06-0441 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsPeter Hughes - Chief Technologist, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterThis is something a little unique for Agile Giants. I was at the IRI Conference and got just a few minutes to sit down with Peter. As you’ll hear on the interview, Peter’s part of a team at NASA that has quite an ambitious mission: to get people back to the moon and then ultimately to Mars. I’m sure when you think about the projects you’re working on in your organization, they may be characterized as “moonshots” but probably not literally attempts to get to the moon. Show Links: NASA Goddard Space...2019-05-1610 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsEric Chaniot - Cheif Digital Officer, MichelinOn this week’s episode of Agile Giants, I’m joined by Eric Chaniot, the Chief Digital Officer of Michelin. Most people probably know Michelin as a tire company, but as you’ll hear in the interview, they actually have a number of different divisions focused on mobility. Eric runs a group that’s responsible for digital transformation across each of these different divisions. Eric had some great perspective on innovation and transformative innovation. Show Links: Eric’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericchaniot/ Eric’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/Force-Within-Technology-Innovation-innovations-ebook/dp/B01NAELV02 2019-05-0933 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate Innovators3 Rivers Venture Fair - The Corporate Venture Capital Value PropositionThis week’s episode of Agile Giants is a little different. A few weeks ago I had a chance to moderate a panel at the 3 Rivers Venture Fair in Pittsburgh, PA. The panel focused on corporation venture capital, and specifically the corporate venture capital value proposition. We had guests from Covestro, Bayer and UPMC, each participated as panelists talking about how each of their individual companies approached corporate venture. If you’re interested in talking more about Corporate VC, feel free to reach out. It’s an area I’m continuing to explore myself and would lov...2019-05-0642 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsRichard Florida - Author, Thought-Leader & ResearcherAfter the last two episodes interviewing two individuals I’d never met but respected from a distance (Beth Comstock & Jeff Sutherland), this week is a little different. I sit down with Dr. Richard Florida — someone who has shaped my career very significantly and I’ve known for over 17 years. Richard is one of the world’s leading urbanist. He’s a researcher and professor. He has written multiple best-selling books. He wrote the forward to my book “The Science of Growth” but our connection goes back to when he was a professor and I was a research fellow at Carnegie Mellon. Richard t...2019-04-2245 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsJeff Sutherland - Co-Creator of Scrum, Founder & Chairman Scrum, IncJeff's work has really had a profound impact on the way I approach a lot of problems. I remember when one of the companies I ran switched to Scrum (mSpoke) and it was like a light switch went on in the organization. I can't really talk enough about how positive Scrum's impact was on that organization and a lot of the companies I've worked with since then. It was really amazing to meet Jeff. He's a brilliant guy and I took away a ton from our conversation. If you're thinking about how to...2019-04-1538 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsBeth Comstock - Author, Imagine It Forward and Former Vice Chair GEFor this tenth episode of Agile Giants, we have quite a treat. I'm joined this week by Beth Comstock. Beth is probably best known as the former Vice Chair of GE, specifically leading innovations. She wrote a really transparent book called Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change, which is a really interesting blend of a reflection on her time at GE, the good and the bad, almost a memoir, as well as a nice set of best practices and observations for corporate leaders responsible for innovation. We use her book as...2019-04-0834 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsPeter Steinberg - President, Innovative ThoughtPeter Steinberg is rapidly becoming a key partner of ours at the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab. He is a well know Rugby coach as well as a leader in thinking through executive education. I’m more focused on the later, but the synergy between these is interesting. The first part of the interview gives you a lens into how Pete approaches exec ed and innovation. Then, the second half of this interview focuses on our collaboration at the Corporate Startup Lab. Show Links: Innovative Thought (Peter's Firm) Carnegie Mellon...2019-04-0140 minCloud Wars Live with Bob Evans$100-Million Lessons from AWS and LyftEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 1In this episode, Sean and I discuss what innovation looks like in 2019: where it’s coming from, who gets funding for their ideas and how, and why cloud has been so transformative in terms of the business models for entrepreneurs and innovators. Sean also shares his thoughts on the re...2019-03-2630 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsPriscilla Beal - Global Head, Digital Health Ecosystem & Engagement at BayerEvery time I sit down with Priscilla, I come away so impressed. The work she’s doing at Bayer partnering with startups to solve internal challenges is a great model for any large company. We first met at a local (Pittsburgh) roundtable discussion and then she recently participated in a reverse pitch the CMU Swartz Center which my lab did in partnership with another local organization Innovation Works. If you are trying to figure out how to work with startups in your organization, I’d strongly consider you to look to Bayer’s G4A progra...2019-03-2526 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsGustavo Lopez - General Manager at MSA The Safety CompanyOn this week’s episode of Agile Giants, I’m joined by Gustavo Lopez a general manager at MS The Safety Company. MSA is over 100-years old. They historically have sold safety devices, things like portable gas detectors. Over the last few years, those devices have started throwing off more and more data about the detection that they’re doing. Two years ago made a decision to launch a new startup within the company called Safety IO. Their corporate startup does big data analytics from the data that those devices are throwing off. I should say for...2019-03-1828 minCloud Wars Live with Bob Evans$100-Million Lessons from AWS and LyftEach month, “Ammirati on Innovation” episodes will look at ways that the disruptive-startup mentality is spreading beyond young entrepreneurs to big established corporations. Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Carnegie Mellon B-school professor Sean Ammirati, who sits at the intersection of these high-change dynamics, provides insight.Episode 1In this episode, Sean and I discuss what innovation looks like in 2019: where it’s coming from, who gets funding for their ideas and how, and why cloud has been so transformative in terms of the business models for entrepreneurs and innovators. Sean also shares his thoughts on the re...2019-03-1529 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsLaurie Barkman, CMO/Business Development at Burns White - Lessons from Corporate StartupsOn this week’s episode of Agile Giants, I’m joined by Laurie Barkman. I’ve known Laurie for a long time. She ran marketing for a startup that I invested in years ago and more recently she’s been an advisor and mentor at the Corporate Startup Lab that I run at Carnegie Mellon. We’re also — for full disclosure — on an advisory board together of Safetyio, a corporate startup within MSA, that will actually be featured in next week’s episode of Agile Giants. Laurie has some really interesting insights into the similarities and differences be...2019-03-1153 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsSylvia Vogt - President, Carnegie Bosch InstituteOn this week’s episode of Agile Giants, I sit down with Sylvia Vogt. Sylvia is the President of the Carnegie Bosch Institute, and a co-instructor of the leading innovation executive education course that I talked with last week at the beginning of Dennis Boecker’s interview. Show Links: Tepper Executive Education Leading Innovation Course (the executive education course Sylvia & I teach together) About Damian Killen About The Carnegie Bosch Insitute I enjoyed the entire interview, but particularly would call out: Her definition of innovation vs creativity (starting at 3:03) How different personalities approach creativity and inn...2019-03-0436 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsDennis Boecker - Founder of Chicago ConnectoryOn this week's episode of Agile Giants, I have Dennis Boecker. In some ways, this is really a continuation of last week's conversation with Terry Lonier. Dennis built one of the innovation labs that she talked a little bit about, the Chicago Connectory. It's a fascinating coworking space and innovation center that I would encourage you to check out if you're in the Chicago area. Show Links: Chicago Connectory - https://chicagoconnectory.com/ Tepper Executive Education Leading Innovation - https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/executive-education/innovation/leading-innovation/index.html 2019-02-2531 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsTerri Lonier - Advisor to Chief Innovation OfficersOn this episode, host Sean Ammirati, Co-Founder and Director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab, sits down with an advisor to Cheif Innovation Officers Terri Lonier. Terri and Sean have a great conversation, including Terri's insights on: opportunities and traps around companies setting up innovation labs (starting at 9:07) the Creative Canvas she developed (starting at 12:01) the importance of having a diverse set of thinkers involved in innovation (starting at 15:47) Show Links: You can learn more about Terri here: https://terrilonier.com/ You can download the Creative Canvas she developed here: http...2019-02-1825 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsRyan Thomas - Vice President, Innovation at the JM Smucker CompanyHost Sean Ammirati, Co-Founder and Director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab, sits down with Ryan Thomas Vice President, Innovation at The J.M. Smucker Company. As a leader of innovation within a $8B Food, Beverage & Pet company, Ryan provides great perspective. There's a ton of lessons here both for how to do innovation inside a consumer-facing brand like Smucker's, as well as just generally how large companies should approach these processes. You'll also see many similarities if you're a traditional entrepreneur to the lean startup methodology and design thinking. Show Links: Carnegi...2019-02-1144 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsNeil Soni - Author, The Startup GoldmineThe premiere episode of Agile Giants. Host Sean Ammirati, Co-Founder and Director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab, sits down with author and entrepreneur Neil Soni. Author of the book "The Startup Goldmine," Neil and Sean discuss the hidden innovation agendas of large companies to grow your business and how Neil's insights apply to both startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Show Links: Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab https://www.corporatestartuplab.com/ The Startup Gold Mine: How to Tap the Hidden Innovation Agendas of Large Companies to Fund and Grow Your...2019-02-0436 min
Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate InnovatorsTrailerEach week, join Sean Ammirati, Co-Founder & Director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab, as he interviews guests who are doing the important work creating startups inside large corporations. If you already are a corporate entrepreneur, want to become one or are just looking for some advice around commercializing transformative innovation, this podcast is for you.2019-02-0203 min
Inside OutsideEp 131 - Sean Moffitt of WikiBrands & Author of WikiBrands: How to Reinvent Your Business in a Customer Connected MarketplaceSean Moffitt is Managing Director of WikiBrands and Author of WikiBrands: How to Reinvent Your Business in a Customer Connected Marketplace. He focuses on helping people develop a transformational arsenal, including skills in culture and talent, innovation and future proofing, technology and digital, and leadership/pivoting business models. Highlights of Sean's conversation with Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Founder, include: What’s changing the corporate landscape: - Speed at which things are happening. 7x faster than 25 years ago. - Startups and Scaleups are much easier to create. Corporate innovation needs a wake-up call. - Leverage corporate advantages with startup innovation. - Cul...2019-01-2212 min
Inside Outside InnovationEp 131 - Sean Moffitt of WikiBrands & Author of WikiBrands: How to Reinvent Your Business in a Customer Connected MarketplaceSean Moffitt is Managing Director of WikiBrands and Author of WikiBrands: How to Reinvent Your Business in a Customer Connected Marketplace. He focuses on helping people develop a transformational arsenal, including skills in culture and talent, innovation and future proofing, technology and digital, and leadership/pivoting business models.
Highlights of Sean's conversation with Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Founder, include:
What’s changing the corporate landscape:
- Speed at which things are happening. 7x faster than 25 years ago.
- Startups and Scaleups are much easier to create. Corporate innovation needs a wake-up call.
- Leverage corporate advantages with startup innovation.
- Culture...2019-01-2212 min
Inside OutsideEp. 120 - Digital Intent's Sean Johnson talks Corporate Innovation StrategiesAfter years of working in startups, Sean Johnson and his team began getting approached by enterprises. These companies needed help moving on ideas, accessing specialists and understanding how to be iterative. Today, Sean's company Digital Intent works with venture-backed startups and Fortune 1000 companies wanting to be tech-enabled businesses. He is also a general partner at Founder Equity. Brian and Sean discuss a variety of corporate innovation strategies. Here are a few highlights: - Companies need to be making lots of little bets, with little bits of funds. Think like investors. Spread the risk. - Corporations innovation teams can have a...2018-10-2322 min
Inside Outside InnovationEp. 120 - Digital Intent's Sean Johnson talks Corporate Innovation StrategiesAfter years of working in startups, Sean Johnson and his team began getting approached by enterprises. These companies needed help moving on ideas, accessing specialists and understanding how to be iterative. Today, Sean's company Digital Intent works with venture-backed startups and Fortune 1000 companies wanting to be tech-enabled businesses. He is also a general partner at Founder Equity.
Brian and Sean discuss a variety of corporate innovation strategies. Here are a few highlights:
- Companies need to be making lots of little bets, with little bits of funds. Think like investors. Spread the risk.
- Corporations innovation teams can have a simila...2018-10-2322 minCloud Wars Live with Bob EvansSean Ammirati, Partner at Birchmere Labs & Birchmere VenturesSean Ammirati is a partner at Birchmere Ventures focused on both SaaS and Consumer Internet investments as well as their Birchmere Labs (www.birchmerelabs.com) initiative and an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School. Most Recently Sean was COO of ReadWriteWeb, one of the most influential sites about the future of technology and innovation. In December 2011, the company was acquired by SAY Media to strengthen its technology channel. Sean was previously co-founder and CEO of mSpoke, which was the first acquisition of LinkedIn. See acast.com/privacy for pr...2018-10-1534 min
Inside Outside InnovationEp. 98 - Sean Ammirati with Birchmere Ventures, Carnegie Mellon and Author of The Science of GrowthSean Ammirati really knows both sides of the table. He’s gone from founding multiple companies to being a partner at Birchmere Ventures and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He’s written numerous books including “The Science of Growth: How Facebook Beat Friendster” and will be speaking at the Inside Outside Innovation Summit happening May 29th-31st. In his conversation with Brian Ardinger, Sean talked about his unique journey, big versus small, and tools that have helped him help others. 2018-05-0223 min
The L3 Leadership Podcast with Doug SmithQuestion and Answer Session with Sean AmmiratiSend us a textThis episode comes to you from our special event series. We had the privilege of hosting a special event with Sean Ammirati. Sean is an Entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist and Professor. He's built and sold his own businesses and now he spends his time helping others grow theirs. One of his companies was acquired by LinkedIn. He's also a professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon. I've also interviewed Sean for the Podcast before in episode #96 & #97. I'll include a link to that in the show notes. We broke Sean's talk into two parts, in this...2016-06-2322 min
The L3 Leadership Podcast with Doug SmithThe Science of Growth for Businesses with Sean Ammirati - L3 LeadershipSend us a textThis episode comes to you from our special event series. We had the privilege of hosting a special event with Sean Ammirati. Sean is an Entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist and Professor. He's built and sold his own businesses and now he spends his time helping others grow theirs. One of his companies was acquired by LinkedIn. He's also a professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon. I've interviewed Sean for the Podcast before in episode #96 & #97. I'll include a link to that in the show notes. We broke Sean's talk into two parts, in this, you'll...2016-06-2228 min
The L3 Leadership Podcast with Doug SmithInterview with Sean Ammirati, Author of the Science of Growth - L3 LeadershipSend us a textThis episode comes to you from our interview series, in which I interview great leaders and try to extract their best leadership practices. In this episode, I had the privilege of interview Sean Ammirati. Sean is an Entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist and Professor. He's built and sold his own businesses and now he spends his time helping others grow theirs. One of his companies was acquired by LinkedIn. He's also a professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon. In this episode, Sean shares his thoughts on entrepreneurship and leadership. For ways to connect with Sean...2016-04-2723 min
The L3 Leadership Podcast with Doug SmithThe Science of Growth with Sean AmmiratiSend us a textThis episode comes to you from our interview series, in which I interview great leaders and try to extract their best leadership practices. In this episode, I had the privilege of interview Sean Ammirati. Sean is an Entrepreneur turned Venture Capitalist and Professor. He's built and sold his own businesses and now he spends his time helping others grow theirs. One of his companies was acquired by LinkedIn. He's also a professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon.In this episode, we talk about Sean's new book, The Science of Growth: How Facebook beat Friendster...2016-04-2640 min
Going Deep with Aaron Watson85 Sean Ammirati, Studying the Sweet Science of Exponential GrowthSean Ammirati joined Birchmere Ventures in 2012 to as the partner leading Birchmere Labs, a seed and studio fund focused on community driven commerce start-ups. Prior to that, he had over 12 years founding, building and selling businesses in the media and software industries. Sean was previously Chief Operating Officer of ReadWriteWeb, one of the most influential sites about the future of technology and innovation. In December 2011, the company was acquired by SAY Media to strengthen its technology channel. Sean was previously co-founder and CEO of mSpoke, which was the first acquisition of LinkedIn. Sean is currently a...2016-04-2526 min