Innovation doesn't just happen. It's not like the cartoons - a lightbulb flashes on above someone's head and that's it. No - it's a journey and we need to understand how best to prepare for that journey, whatever kind of value we are trying to create. This podcast is about some useful lessons we might take on board to help develop our capabilities.For more, see my website:https://johnbessant.org
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Roman Garcia is the host of the Creating a Culture of Innovation Podcast and has provided small to medium sized businesses IT solutions and services for several years. With a focus on valueing employee, Roman provides his team with the tools to succeed. With the Creating A Culture Of Innovation Podcast, Roman hopes to spread this value with the world, changing company cultures for the better.
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Bridging different worlds - unlocking the power of recombinant innovation
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Send us a text Wandering around Chicago in 1912 William Klann was a man on a mission. He was part of a team set up to explore ways in which they could reduce the costs of manufacturing a car to fulfil Henry Ford’s vision of ‘a motor car for the great multitude’. They had already developed many of the ideas behind mass production — standardized and …
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Continuing continuous improvement
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Send us a text Why high involvement innovation matters more than ever — and how to make it happen We’ve always known that employees could be a source of ideas, especially in terms of improving the processes in which they work. Suggestion schemes have been around in some form or other back in the mists of time. Elements of the approach can be found …
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Irresonsible innovation anyone?
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Send us a text Responsible innovation (masquerading under many different labels over time) is now highly visible in conversations around innovation. Whether we’re looking at AI or genetic engineering or geo-engineering we can see the issues being widely debated and discussed. Organizations, public and private, are increasingly measured on their com…
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Hitching a ride to higher productivity
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Send us a text How one man’s innovation provided the missing link for 20th century agricultural revolution. Harry Ferguson is not a name which instantly springs to mind when thinking of entrepreneurs who changed the course of history. Yet his contribution to the world of agriculture was on a level with that of Steve Jobs in terms of providing the e…
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Cartography matters! - the importance of maps in navigating the uncertain journey of innovation
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Send us a text It’s easy to take maps for granted — but we’d be pretty stuck without them. Maps have been one of the most important human inventions for millennia, allowing humans to explain and navigate their way through the world. They seem to have been — independently invented by many cultures across the globe, and they’ve been around a very lon…
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Impact intrepreneurship - leveraging the power of organizations for social innovation
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Send us a text We've got a huge challenge around social innovation - to help fix the planet with all the things that we're doing to it and all the things that are happening it's going to take a lot of effort. More precisely a lot of innovation. Even the Secretary-General of the UN has said we can only hit our Sustainable Development Goals through i…
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Send us a text ISPIM — the International Society for Professionals in Innovation Management — was founded in 1974 to create a community of practice around innovation management. It was an early response to the challenges of actually making it happen — and it remains one of the best meeting places to mix-up academic researchers and teachers, policy …
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Send us a text Long fuse, big bang. A great descriptor which Andrew Hargadon uses to describe the way some major innovations arrive and have impact. For a long time they exist but we hardly notice them, they are confined to limited application, there are constraints on what the technology can do and so on. But suddenly, almost as if by magic they m…
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Send us a text We spend so much of our time thinking about important innovation but maybe we should spare a thought for what might be called ‘irrelevant innovation’? And explore round the edges of this phenomenon — is it all wacky stuff or are there circumstances where it has more to offer? Is it a matter of framing, are we missing an innovation tr…
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It's not (only) what you know...
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Send us a text Innovation is a multi-player game. The image of the lone hero innovator is a myth. Even celebrated soloists like Thomas Edison or James Watt had their army of assistants working behind the scenes. Alexander Bell wouldn’t have been able to bring the telephone to the world without being able to demonstrate the device by having Mr Watso…
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Beating the scaling innovation blues
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Send us a text Another innovation song.... Last week I was helping run a series of workshops supporting social innovators from across the United Nations system in thinking through how they were going to scale their great innovations now that they had successfully piloted them and proved their value. Scaling innovation isn’t easy but it’s increasing…
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Changing the world, one innovation at a time
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Send us a text Necessity may the mother of invention — but in today’s world she’s a pretty fraught mum, trying to deal with thousands of kids tugging at her skirts, pulling at her arms and wrapping themselves around her legs. All screaming out for attention. We’re not short of challenges which affect the very basics of trying to live our lives — ge…
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Innovation lessons - from a skateboard!
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Send us a text What have ollies, decks, trucks, popsicles, cruisers and kicktails got in common? If you’d asked me that back in December I would have quietly assumed you were from another planet. But now I’m happy to say I’m in a good position to enlighten you… They are all terms used in skateboarding, a subiect in which I;ve had a crash course cou…
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Send us a text Why waste recycling and reuse may represent a valuable entrepreneurial opportunity… There's a well-known piece of Yorkshire wisdom, ‘where there’s muck, there’s brass’. Waste needn’t be a problem to be hidden away — buried or burnt to get rid of it. Instead there are real opportunities in waste — as plenty of innovators have already …
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Send us a text Some seasonal thoughts to accompany all good wishes....! (You can find the transcript here) If you'd like to explore more innovation stories, or access a wide range of resources to help work with innovation, then please visit my website here. You can find a rich variety of cases, tools, videos, activities and other resources - as wel…
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Start-up success - an interview with Faisal Abid, Co-founder and CTO of Eirene Cremations
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Send us a text Start-up success - or not? Faisal Abid shares some fascinating insights into the do's - and don't's of trying to launch and grow a new venture, drawing in particular on his experience in founding and growing a number of businesses including AI start-up zoom.ai and his current work with Eirene Cremations where he is trying to disrupt …
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Send us a text Taking an innovation from a small-sized success story to something which delivers value at scale is not an easy one. The Holy Grail of impact has a lot in common with that elusive quest pursued by King Arthur’s knights, taking them along strange paths, meeting with dragons and disasters and lasting a long time. Similar odds of succes…
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Send us a text We talk a lot about learning by doing in the agile innovation process, especially in the context of start-ups. But it’s hard to capture that learning as you go along when so much else is happening as you desperately try to find your way through the fog of uncertainty. Which is why it’s really valuable to have someone who runs a succe…
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Tell 'em a story - another innovation song
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Send us a text Innovation is all about trying to convince others — people to help develop your idea, sponsors to back you, markets to buy in to your great new thing. So it makes sense to spend time and effort crafting a tale which will draw them in, intrigue them, capture their attention. Of course you don't want to oversell but as long as you've d…
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Send us a text Why evidence is so important for scaling innovation A good idea will sell itself, right? Unfortunately not – Emerson was spectacularly wrong when he suggested that all you needed to do was build that better mousetrap to have the world beating a path to your door. History is full of examples of innovations that, whilst being good and …
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The entrepreneur's journey - another song
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Send us a text I'm running a course on entrepreneurship and was looking for a way to help students remember some key milestones on the journey - value proposition, minimum viable product, prototyping, business model development, etc. So trying it out in the form of a song.... You can watch it on my YouTube channel here, complete with lyrics If you'…
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Send us a text For our ancestors, creativity was a matter of survival. Not being big, strong or fast meant that if we couldn’t think our way out of a problem (like an approaching predator), then we’d not be around for long! Dealing with the daily struggle to survive required us to be innovative, and the key to that was the ability to imagine and ex…
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The power of position innovation
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Send us a text How creating experiences for underserved markets can be a key innovation strategy It’s summertime, at least here in the northern hemisphere and chances are that August is a holiday month. Which might well see you sitting somewhere and watching an exotic sunset, glass of something suitably refreshing in your hand. As you see that gold…
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Crystallising the spirit of innovation
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Send us a text An interview with Hannes Erler, Strategic Director for Innovation Ecosystems, Swarovski This wide-ranging interview looks back at how a major European company grew over a hundred-plus years from a small engineering start-up to become a global player in the fashion, jewellery and accessories business through constant attention to inno…
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Why value networks matter in scaling innovation
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Send us a text There comes a time in innovation when you realise you might have taken on something a bit too big. No matter how hard you throw yourself into the challenge, creating value from your idea is going to need a little help. Changing the world, or even a small piece of it, takes a lot of push. That’s the moment when you realise you need ‘c…
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Cracking the innovation code - an interview with Robyn Bolton
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Send us a text It's hard to disagree with the idea that innovation-led growth is of paramount importance, but how often do we associate it with taking risks and learning? This episode offers an enlightening conversation with Robyn Bolton, founder and ‘Chief Navigator’ of Milezero, a consultancy specialising in helping organizations think through th…
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Send us a text Time plays a surprisingly important role in innovation, both as an enabler and as a shaper of the process and its outcomes. For example, the early development of reliable timepieces allowed accurate navigation which opened up the possibilities of global trade; without that the whole Industrial Revolution might have been a much smalle…
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Cooking up some innovation magic
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Send us a text These days innovation spaces have become something of a fashion accessory; no large organization can afford not to be seen without having one. And start-up spaces have followed a similar trend; there’s been an explosion of support to try and tap into this potential source of local economic growth. On the surface these look like a wel…
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Underground innovation - how giving people space can amplify innovation efforts
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Send us a text We know today that smart companies who care about innovation invest in the capacity for innovation — R&D and market research, future scoping, etc. Organized innovation, buying themselves options on the future. All good — but maybe only focusing on the formal means potentially missing out on what might be happening underground. Becaus…
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IMPACT - Building values-based innovation cultures for sustainable business impact – an interview with Prof. Dr. Henning Breuer
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Send us a text Sustainability matters - of course. You'd have to be living in a bubble not to be aware of the wide-ranging conversation on this theme. But how to translate the rhetoric - whether it be the UN or EU's sustainable development goals or the aspirational strategies of businesses - into something practical? That's the focus of the IMPACT …
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16 - Making CPE's for CPA's Convenient with Earmark's Blake Oliver
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In today's episode, we're talking with Founder & CEO of Earmark and the Co-Host of the Cloud Accounting Podcast Blake Oliver about the future of CPA’s and the digital era of education! Learn more about Earmark: https://earmarkcpe.com/ Listen to Blake and David Leary on the Cloud Accounting Podcast: http://bit.ly/3KgLe4f ----- Want to learn more abo…
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Send us a text Mexico City, Olympic Games, 1968. The stadium is packed, the wider world looks on via TV coverage. Everywhere there’s an air of expectancy but also an awareness that at such high altitude it’s going to be hard for athletes to beat their best. Records are there to be broken, you have to hope for something special. And in the high jump…
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Innovation - we've got it taped!
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Send us a text Close your eyes and imagine for a moment a computer room in the early days of the industry. Chances are you'll picture large wardrobe-sized metal cabinets whirring away with white-coated attendants tending to the machines. And it won't be long before your gaze lands on the ubiquitous spools of tape being loaded and unloaded. Which mi…
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15 - Developing Your Companies Core Strategies with Norhart's Mike Kaeding
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In today's episode, we're talking with CEO of Norhart Mike Kaeding about how his team has been transforming construction and real estate as we know it! Learn more about Norhart and their new Invest tool, https://www.norhart.com/invest/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerdssupport.com/ Or Contact Us for a FREE IT assess…
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I'm in love with Chat-GPT - another innovation song
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Send us a text I'm in love with Chat-GPT Another innovation song, inspired by an article in the Journal of Product Innovation Management by Frank Piller and colleagues, in which they put Chat-GPT through its paces as an innovation assistant. It performed surprisingly well at diverse tasks including search and analysis, trend spotting and idea gener…
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14 - Speeding Up Data Analysis with Amplifi's Brent Allen
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In today's episode, with Founder & President of Amplifi Brent Allen about how business owners can automate and understand their financial data in order to focus on growth! Learn more about Amplifi's Finance tool, CFO Essentials: https://www.amplifigrowth.com/chief-financial-essentials-v2 Use the password "podcast" and promo code "INNOVATION" on the…
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Send us a text How machine learning is transforming the innovation game Machine learning has its roots back in experiments with ‘artificial intelligence’ in the 1970s but has come to represent a powerful technological trajectory as the idea of mimicking human neural networks and their learning capabilities has been explored. And now we have generat…
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If at first you don't succeed...
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Send us a text What do Mickey Mouse, vacuum cleaners, air travel and light-bulbs have in common? More than you’d think, especially if you look to the originators of those widely different things. All of their innovators spent a great deal of time being knocked back, living through failures and generally struggling to take their ideas forward. None …
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Send us a text 2022 was a record year for home delivery of parcels and packages. After the Covid-19 lockdowns the idea of remote shopping became an even bigger reality and changed the behaviour patterns of millions. It’s a habit which is hard to break — even when there are increasing disturbances in the delivery end of things like strikes and negat…
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13 - Innovating the Wealth Management Industry with Audax's Christina Gamache
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We're back with our interview with Founder & CEO of Audax Wealth Management Christina Gamache about how she educates her clients on how to properly utilize technology to succeed when it comes to business & financial compliance! Learn more about Audax & Christina's Financial Foundations course: https://www.audaxwealth.com/ ----- Want to learn more a…
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A letter to (Innovation) Santa....
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Send us a text Christmas, as my 6 year old never tires of reminding me, is coming. Never mind that technically it’s a month away and forget the efforts I make, Scrooge-like, not to allow any trace of the season to cross our threshold until at least 1st December. She excitedly points out that everywhere — the TV and online adverts, the shop decorati…
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Send us a text Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it….. Well, I’m not sure about the last one but someone somewhere has probably done some research on the topic. We humans certainly do it, especially when we’re young. I’m not talking about falling in love but about extending Cole Porter’s observations to a different world, something up…
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Send us a text Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness — and those rare but wonderful days when the sun smiles down benignly. I was strolling in the park, absorbing the warmth, my attention was taken by an ice cream. Or rather, to the face of a toddler who was very happily getting himself around an eminently lickable cone, with the usual results. We p…
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Send us a text Have you ever felt the urge to kick the photocopier? Or worse? That time when you desperately needed to make sixty copies of a workshop handout five minutes before your session begins. Or when you needed a single copy of your passport or driving licence, it’s the only way you can prove your identity to the man behind the desk about n…
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Open innovation - another innovation song
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Send us a text This one was written in part as a contribution to the retirement celebrations of the Father of Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough ...... Here are the lyrics: Open innovation 1. We’ve been innovating now for quite a long time It’s the big thing that has helped us to survive Find new ways to do things, keep on learning down the line It’…
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Send us a text Multiple independent invention is surprisingly common — there have been many research studies highlighting the pattern. Examples include the blast furnace (invented independently in China, Europe and Africa) and the crossbow (invented independently in China, Greece, Africa, northern Canada, and the Baltic countries). And they reveal …
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12 - The CPA Space with TaxPlanIQ's Jackie Meyer
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In today's episode, we're talking with Founder & CEO of Meyer Tax Consulting Jackie Meyer about how she innovated the CPA space by building her own accounting tool, TaxPlanIQ! Learn more about Meyer Tax Consulting: https://www.meyertax.com/ Learn more about TaxPlanIQ: https://www.taxplaniq.com/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: …
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11 - Cultivating A Culture with HORNE's Joey Havens
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In today's episode, we're talking with Managing Partner of HORNE Joey Havens about the importance of CPA firms being able to cultivate a thriving culture & efficient team for tax season! Learn more about HORNE: https://horne.com/ Visit Joey's blog: https://blog.hornellp.com/bebetter ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerd…
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Send us a text Innovation fails — sometimes spectacularly so. It’s hard enough when that failure comes early on during the start-up phase — that brilliant idea which somehow isn’t quite as brilliant when it collides with the first few encounters with the market. And when no amount of pivoting is going to save it. It’s hard but it’s a matter of sque…
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10 - The Business of Empowering People with Hite Digital's Jeff Zelaya
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In today's episode, we're talking with former Nerd and VP of Franchise Development at Hite Digital Jeff Zelaya about how they've been able to innovate what it means to be a growing business! Learn more about Hite Digital: https://www.hitedigital.com/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerdssupport.com/ Or Contact Us for a…
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