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  • #254 - Design as a strategic partner

    Jenna Date is the Chief Experience Officer for Hospital and Health Systems at Altera (formerly known as Allscripts). Jenna's life mission is to Lead Design for a Compassionate World. In this episode, she unpacks how she uses design as a catalyst for connecting and creating experiences that engage and impact. She leads with a strong passion to serve by creating meaningful and exceptional products and services that are only possible to come alive when there is a strategic and sustainable vision embedded early into the process. Jenna believes that every organization needs to have a CXO who can bring human centricity to the system thinking approach. Her beautiful empathy for the persons she serves comes across through this conversation.

    35 min
  • #254 - Design as a strategic partner

    Jenna Date is the Chief Experience Officer for Hospital and Health Systems at Allscripts. Jenna's life mission is to Lead Design for a Compassionate World. In this episode she unpacks how she uses design as a catalyst for connecting and creating experiences that engage and impact. She leads with a strong passion to serve by creating meaningful and exceptional products and services that are only possible to come alive when there is a strategic and sustainable vision embedded early into the process. Jenna believes that every organization needs to have a CXO who can bring human centricity to the system thinking approach. Her beautiful empathy for the persons she serves comes across through this conversation.

    35 min
  • #253 - Where does the "knowledge" live today?
    Brant Cooper, is the CEO and Founder at Moves the Needle, an agency that ignites entrepreneurial action within large organizations by educating, enabling and empowering employees to be closer to the customer, move faster and act bolder. Brant shares some amazing stories about how orgs are still not investing in the human side of digital transformation. He points out where the business knowledge lives in today's digital world and how leaders need to tap into these massive opportunities sitting in plain sight. He shares some practical tips for leaders to think with a startup mindset as they think about value creation.
    33 min
  • #252 - The winning duo of Data and Design

    Vishal Kapoor is the Head of Product, Data & Innovation at Prospection, a Pioneer in healthcare data analytics. His team brings insights that help pharmaceutical companies and healthcare professionals drive better healthcare outcomes for patients, using predictive analytics and machine learning. Vishal shares his exciting journey of launching an award winning product called - Patient Finder which informs healthcare professionals ahead of time about any indications for a possibility of a rare disease. Vishal is a huge practitioner of bringing the data teams and design teams one step closer to each other to create extraordinary results.

    28 min
  • #251 - If garments could tell a story, what would I want my outfit to say?

    Mike Colarossi, Vice President, Product Line Management, Innovation and Sustainability at Avery Dennison joins the Fail Faster show to share his belief that "Anything is Possible" if you put the right energy, curiosity, and conviction into the mix. He gives us a glimpse of an exciting future for the apparel industry, where digital triggers tell a garment's story. A QR code on a care label, linked to an app, can reveal details such as which farms the cotton came from, how it was weaved and stitched, and transported to the consumer. Digitizing vital information about recycling the garment can help consumers contribute to a circular economy too. This episode is a peek at early ideations that lead to huge disruptions.

    25 min
  • #250 - Driving daily transformations towards rich customer experience globally

    Veena Dandapani SVP, Global Head Product Strategy & Management at Western Union joins us to share her journey of falling in love with amazing possibilities Technology can unleash at an early age. Today Veena uses tech to lead with a clear goal of serving her customers who deserve better experiences as they transact on the go anywhere on the planet. She brings design, tech, legal, marketing, and business teams in alignment to drive true transformations everyday at Western Union. There are a lot of complexities she unpacks in this episode, let's jump in.

    21 min
  • #249 - User interactions are like unwrapping a gift!

    Stephen Miranda is the Director of Design at Red Ventures, a world-class intelligence/analytics company making it easier for people to find information and relevant products and services for their health, travel, finances, homes, education, and entertainment. Stephen shares how his love for making personalized gifts from his early days as an artist still guides his approach as he designs software products. He sees the early user interactions as unwrapping a gift to see how users are receiving the creation. Stephen shares his perspective about how we all have limited time to make an impact in our roles as people change and leadership shifts and what priorities we thought were important shifts too. Are we doing our best to maximize our impact?

    36 min
  • #248 - Are you being yourself at work?
    Rob Swymer is the business and life strategist and a leader at Splunk, powering the enterprise to help tens of thousands of organizations turn data into doing so they can unlock innovation, enhance visibility into their data and drive resilience. Rob shares about driving excellence as a leader by bringing empathy, care, and love to the enterprise's work culture. He talks about how he has earned business year after year by retaining customers and delivering continued value. We are thrilled about his new book launch with great tips on conquering adversity in business and life.
    21 min
  • #247 - Only designers can polish designers
    Albert Wang, Director of Product Design at Bloomreach, a Commerce experience provider empowering brands to deliver hyper personalized customer experiences. Albert shares how he thinks about Design as a way to serve society. He has some great methodologies to measure design success especially when you are the only designer in your organization. Solving a problem from a system revamp perspective rather than a single product solution view might be a complete gamechanger.
    44 min
  • #246 - Measuring engagement using metaverse of work
    Ryan Frederick, Principal AWH shares about his newest product creations that enable multi-sensory experiences using metaverse for work environments. His work is super fascinating as it unpacks why we might be feeling Zoom fatigue and how we might be able to shake things up to experience more immersive and engaging virtual working environments. This episode uncovers unique ways of strengthening and improving the quality of our work relationships that we are slowly losing in our transition to remote work.
    33 min

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