IDEO Futures

Where entrepreneurship meets design.

Episode 9 is a heaping serving of VDTBOM — Venture Design That Blows our Mind! Enjoy!

And Chewbacca.

In this episode of the pod, Joe and Diego return to the theme of Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) and the Taco Truck. For a refresher on DDP, please give a listen to Episode 3.

Along the way, there's a veritable six-pack of venture design-related topics:

- Travis Pastrana

- overshooting your airport

- our obsession with Boston

- cricket protein

- the startup story of Tesla

- hair and power, power and power hair

- what refried beans can teach you about innovation

We hope you enjoy Episode 8!

It's our lucky pod! Number seven is here! This one has a heavy and roll + pop star theme running through it, as well as an Oprah Winfrey reference which will surprise and delight. We guarantee!

We crank up this week's venture design fiesta with an update on IDEO U (our new online learning platform) and the launch of its beta. We're learning a lot, and trying to practice what we preach.

Spoiler alert! Justin Bieber is following IDEO Futures on Twitter. Joe and I discuss this supernatural occurrence with IDEO's own Piper Loyd. How might you use Twitter to grow and develop your new venture? From a venture design point of view, there's a bunch to learn about how and why it came to be that this great Canadian is now our follower.

Joe and I also discuss two things which recently blew our venture design minds, Better All the Time by James Surowiecki, and a new video from OK Go.

Along the way we talk about incentives and organizational structures, and how those fit into the innovation equation. From that point of view, it's really interesting to figure out why things like the UNI-CUB pop out of a place like Honda and not out of other similar (at least on paper) corporate entities.

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Music: "Jimmy H. Boogaloo" by Juanitos with a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France License

Image: video still from I Won't Let You Down

This week the King Ship pod journeys to Boston for an innovation frenzy!

First, Diego was at Harvard Business School for the unveiling of the new IDEO Case.

Next stop was the MIT Media Lab, which was holding its annual Fall member meeting. The theme of the meeting was "Deploy", which of course resonates with all of the staff here at King Ship.

Our special guest this week was Gordon Jones, Managing Director of the Harvard Innovation Lab. Joe sat down to talk with him about whats happening at the i-Lab and his view of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. If you haven't heard Gordon speak before, this interview is for you.

Finally, our inspiration of the week touches on an HBR article that explores how Internet of Things might change business models and peeks into the Future of Transportation, via an awesome newsletter from Reilly Brennan.

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Music: "Jimmy H. Boogaloo" & "Octopussy" by Juanitos with a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France License

This week's pod is one of our best yet, and certainly ranks in our Top 10 ever!

Think of this pod as a sandwich: the middle part of it with all the yummy goodies is our interview with Iain Roberts regarding IDEO's global Startup in Residence Program. In this interview, Iain and Diego go over the origins of the program, talk about what we look for in startups wanting to take part in it, and discuss where it's headed. In the course of the interview, Iain talks about Food Genius, the first startup to take part in the program.

The first slice of bread? Joe and Diego answer some questions from our loyal band of listeners. And also ponder the rather large US Navy amphibious assault ship parked outside of our IDEO San Francisco studio.

The top slice is a look back on a couple of cool venture-design related things which just plain knocked our hats in the creek.

King Ship!

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Music: "Jimmy H. Boogaloo" & "Octopussy" by Juanitos with a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France License

Welcome to Episode 4 of the IDEO Futures podscast!

This week Joe and Diego welcome their first guest, Cory Kidd, to talk about the future of Health Tech.

First, Diego ponders the return of the Good Wife and reads some viewer mail. Joe and Diego celebrate a compliment by cracking a libation and discuss the notion of entrepreneurs as business designers.

Joe interviews his friend, Cory Kidd, a celebrated expert in health tech, robotics and behavior change. The CEO of an exciting new startup, Cory talks about the "embodied cloud" and his new company's approach to supporting behavior change.

Finally, Diego and Joe share inspiration of the week including a close examination of the ups and downs of the WTF framework, a great essay by Sina Mossayeb. Then they avoid—barely— the snakes in the cringe quadrant and jump over to Stephen Soderbergh's unique look at Raiders of the Lost Ark and what it teaches us about the art of staging.

King Ship!

In Episode 3 we discuss a foundational technique for making innovation happen... DDP!

Otherwise known as Discovery Driven Planning, or its more recent incarnation, Discovery Driven Growth, DDP is one of the tools we use to design businesses. We start the pod by describing what DDP is, and why we love it. DDP... it's totally OTT!

We continue by diving deeper into the intricacies of the method by walking through a simple example, a taco truck business. You can download the spreadsheet at our King Ship blog and follow along with us: www.ideofutures.com

Also, robots.

To wrap up, we share this week's Venture Design That Blew Our Minds!. (VDTBOM) Joe shares how an article on the future of iced coffee helped him think about the false choice between quality and scale in a business. Diego talks about what Alex Zanardi taught him about touching the sky and the power of optimism.

We hope you enjoy the discussion, as always send us your thoughts on DDP or anything else!

King Ship!

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music: "Funkula" by Juanitos with a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France License

photo: WhisperToMe with a Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication

In Episode 2, we discuss IDEO's Startup in Residence Program and a startup named Mural.ly, which recently went through the program.

Venture Design That Blew Our Mind: we discuss "Six Ways to Design a Business" by Kerry O'Connor, why you might want to consider being wrong 80% of the time, and an explanation of why Joe is so relaxed right now. Last, but certainly not least, an apology for last week's outrageously loud bleep.

King Ship!

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Music: "Ooh La La Boogaloo" & "El Cha Cha Man" by Juanitos with a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France License

Here we go... Episode 1! Let's go jump off the roof together.

First, we talk about the recent Intrapreneur Lab, a collaboration between Fidelity Investments, the Harvard i-Lab, and IDEO. Hear about how we put it together, what happened over the summer, and reactions from the students who participated in it.

See more about the Intrapreneurship Lab here: http://i-lab.harvard.edu/experiential-learning/intrapreneur-lab

In the second part of this podcast, we discuss the philosophy behind the launch of the new (and first) IDEO Futures website. Our motto? Don't get ready, get started.

King Ship: because shipping is king!

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Music: "Ooh La La Boogaloo" & "Exotica" by Juanitos with a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 France License