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This week on Innovation Minutes Live we're joined by Nigel Andrade, Managing Director of AT Kearney Australia and New Zealand and the global lead for AT Kearney's Proposition and Customer Experience Lab, as we discuss whether big companies can be effective innovators.
We dive into the debate between innovative output vs. internal culture (which is more important and can you be innovative with just one?). And we address all the trendy innovation tools: Lean methodology, tribes, design thinking, etc. — Is there value in these modalities? Or are they just innovation theater?
Nigel tells us the results of his 100 CEO survey on innovation (the results may surprise you), and he offers advice to both c-suite leadership and other employees looking to ramp up their innovation efforts. -
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Before Google, Facebook, Apple & Amazon, who dominated headlines? Big bad invenstment banks were at the forefront, but now the tech industry is front and center. Are the big 4 tech companies too big to fail? And do they own us?
Here's what we cover in this week's episode:
- Are these companies ethical? How do we define evil? Is there a line that companies can cross?
- How long will it take our government to catch up to these new leaders and begin to effectively regulate them?
- These companies market themselves as "connection" platforms, even though they're really about monetization and collecting data. Can we see beyond the marketing?
- How are all these companies integrated with each other? Who does it best?
- What the future looks like: what's the business model when these platforms have amassed all our data? Will Facebook become less of a "requirement" down the line, or are these companies here to stay in some form?
- What would happen if Facebook or Google went under?
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Is Amazon going to eventually take over the world? Is there anything Jeff Bezos doesn't have his hands in? Are you tired of talking about Bezos and Amazon?? In this week's episode of Innovation Minutes Live, we're talking about the future and significance of Amazon and its fearless leader.
Here's what we cover in this week's episode:
Jeff Bezos' current and future projects
How Amazon powers a huge chunk of the internet
How Amazon Prime is slowly being integrated into our everyday shopping experience and what the future of Prime looks like
What's the endgame for Bezos? Where will Amazon be in 10 years?
Is Jeff Bezos a modern day Rockefeller / Carnegie creating an empire, or does he lack focus?
Is the payoff we get from Amazon as consumers — convenience, ease, and savings — enough to make us forgive the fact that it squashes competition and makes less room for small businesses? OR is Amazon actually an important enabler of small entrepreneurs?
Can startups and large companies alike see Amazon as anything other than a threat?
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Is it the idea or the follow-through? Or maybe who does it best? First to market is great, but innovation is about more than who does it first or even who does one particularly thing better. Recently, dating app Tinder has been in the news for wanting to sue Bumble, a similar (but different) dating app. Tinder did it first, but many think Bumble does it better. And the law and consumers may not agree.
This begs the question: what qualifies as innovation, and who has claim to it? If Bumble wasn't doing well, would Tinder be coming after it for "copying its idea"? And how, as consumers, is our perception influenced about who and what is innovative?
Here's what we cover in this week's episode:
- What are Tinder's motives for coming after Bumble (Is Tinder trying to position Bumble as a knockoff to push away other investors?)
- What is proprietary about the user experience of an app if they have an almost identical user experience? Is that something that can be exclusive?
- Does something have to be "original" or revolutionary in order to be considered innovative?
- Is technology the only thing that can be innovative? What about changing human behavior?
- The Uber vs. Lyft example
- Do NDAs really protect your idea? What's more important: execution or idea?
- Silicon Valley vs. New York: how are the innovation mindsets different?
- Is something innovative if it eventually fails?
Plus, we discuss what's exciting us in the world of technology and innovation this week: comment bots and the evolution of music streaming apps.
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