Innovation Driven Growth

Innovation Driven Growth

By David L. PetersonBusinessScience
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Innovation Driven Growth episodes

  • 10. An IDG interview with Wayne Miller, Executive director of Venture Center

    Welcome, Wayne Miller. 1:30
    The core concerns every business needs to do well. 4:39
    🤝The Venture Center: supporting the entrepreneurial community in the state of Arkansas and beyond. 8:00
    Collaboration with universities, technical schools, and other corporations. 10:02
    What are ICBA and FIS?
    Venture Center is working very closely to find business leaders and companies for FIS. 13:20
    Accelerator Program - How it helps startups? 20:20
    Venture Center success stories. 24:50
    Future of innovation in financial services. 25:30
    Future of community banks: innovation implementation of High touch and Hitech.  27:48
    Getting beyond the curriculum: Student Education Entrepreneur Collective (SEEC) 33:11
    Fulfilling the gap between startup enthusiasm and business wisdom.   35:29
    The challenges of being an entrepreneur: Wayne's advice to innovators in financial services: 37:53
    Contact Wayne:[email protected] and  https://www.venturecenter.co/   

    42 min
  • 09. Getting Innovation Started


     
    ✅ A good example of getting creative to problem solve. 01:16
     
    👉 "Creativity is going to get us all through this." 04:05
      
    🤔 How can I get innovation started at my organization? 04:26
      
     🏼Immediately fall back into the numbing routine. 06:28
      
    3️⃣ Three innovation categories. 08.34 
     
    🌟 Express ideas clearly: boosting speaking ability with Toastmasters. 12:09

    🪁Forgiveness is easier to get than permission. 13:38
     
     🫣 If you are blocking others in innovation: Stand aside. 15:23
     
     ⚠️ Encourage and harvest all ideas, even if not all of them are winners. 16.55

     
    🥅 What should innovators try to accomplish? 17:55

     
    🧐 Don't punish the ones who are trying to innovate. 19:20 
     
    📋 Make innovation a part of the employees' annual review process.
     
    ✨ Be the spark of innovation. 21:10

    *https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/apparel-companys-t-shirt-idea-coronavirus-relief-
    fundraiser},**https://www.toastmasters.org/ 
     https://davidpeterson.com/

    24 min
  • 08. How Fintech is changing our lives - Interview with Daniel P. Simon, financial communications expert, and writer

    Introducing Daniel P. Simon 1.43
    Daniel's book: “The Money Hackers—a group of misfits took on Wall Street and changed finance forever” 2:55
    The financial industry should empower everyone, not just the richest 9:57
    Financial crisis: East coast bankers and West coast thinking technologists 11:16
    The refreshing style in writing: engaging and light 15:27
    The role of financial advisers 20:00
    Human qualities will be the reason people stick to a financial institution 23:12
    Wake Up call for community financial institutions–need to step up digital banking presence 23:36
    What services will change in the future? 27:40
    Get the book Money Hackers 35:26
    https://www.amazon.com/Money-Hackers-Misfits-Changed-Finance-ebook/dp/B07TH7VLQ3/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=The+Money+Hackers&qid=1586291377&sr=8-2
    https://danielpsimon.com/

    43 min
  • 07. Will COVID19 Change Our Lives Forever

    Did you plan scenarios like COVID19 in your business strategy? 1:56

    A Black Swan Effect  2:38

    Planning for a catastrophic event 4:26

    COVID19 Canceling speaking engagements and ripple effect throughout the entire industry.6:18 

    Virtual conference. It's a reasonable alternative. 09:01

    Bankarshub - a good example of online innovation. 11:29

    Don’t let the virus leave your organization on the sidelines. 12:20

    Concerts and sports events canceled, but here is an alternative. 13:03

    The innovation brought by Streamers and eSports *** 15:56

     SoftGiving.com Charitable giving and online Galas 17:32

    Silver lining to COVID19:  outdated models of business 20:10

    Don’t let this wave of inactivity damage your business, get in touch with experienced innovators 23:00


    http://www.bankershub.com/

    https://softgiving.com/

    ****https://fight2fund.org/
    ***www.twitch.com

    25 min
  • 06. Leaders Don't React

    How is the "Flight, Fight or Freeze" response wired into our physiology? 02:29
    You can train yourself to respond instead of reacting 04:15
    How to keep your head in any crisis, big or small? 05:06
    Fishing on the raft experience 05:58
    How can you practice this response vs. reaction in your everyday life? 11:05
    Which situations require an immediate response to remediate the crisis? 12:47
    Don't make decisions based on what others might think of you or your response. 13:20
    If you're a senior leader, you can work specifically to change reactions into responses.15:42
    Navy Seal Breathing technique to keep you calm in the times of the greatest stress 17:27

    **http://motto.time.com/4316151/breathing-technique-navy-seal-calm-focused/

    20 min
  • 05. Innovation Leadership - Incorporating ThinkTime

    How to get creative and harvest ideas for potential innovation? 00:08

    🧠 What is the value of creative and strategic thinking? 01:25

    The definition for innovation is “creativity: expressed, manufactured and consumed” 02:45

    Why you need a specific systemic method to come up with and harvest creative ideas? 04:06

    What are the four elements required to allow true creativity to flourish? 05:02

    What spaces can you use as your “space for thinking”? 05:30

    Why is it necessary for you to specifically allocate time to think? 10:25

    Why do you need to relax and let your mind settle first before you start thinking? 13:55

    🙃 Why is it critical to capture your ideas, no matter how silly or insignificant they might seem? 15:13

    Take time to develop your ideas further, and give your right brain time to be creative 17:57

    Nothing kills creativity, more than self-doubt 24:50

    Tips to unlock creativity if you are a manager or an office clerk 27:52

    Stop trying to think of good ideas and just think of ideas 31:53

    36 min
  • 04. Leaders Be Wary of Autopilot Thinking!

      Is the model of Higher Education going to radically change? 00:45
    Autopilot thinking – how many decisions do you make in a day? 04:05
    More experience - less chance of coming up with innovative ideas 05:42
    What is the numbing effect of the routine process? 07:01
    Why is the autopilot thinking the killer of creativity? 07:11
    🧠 How the left brain and the right brain work together? 07:22
    🤯 How to remember the insights that your right brain provides? 12:56
    Developing an ability to look for ways to do things differently 13:42
    Important - get outside input on your products and your processes 17:10
    Why autopilot thinking is not enough for our future success 24:18
    Why we must find ways to unlock our right brain 25:16


    27 min
  • 03. An IDG Interview with Dr. Jon Krispin

    Where innovation falls in a business 03:25 //
    Innovation and creativity 04:17 //
    Innovation vs invention 05:10 //
    How connections between technologies are driving economic growth 06:39
    Understanding and dealing with the gap between seemingly unconnected technologies when starting and running a business 08:11 //
    The concept of exomorphosis. This idea that change is happening around us. 11:55
    Why is it important to listen to people who work with customers? 13:48
    Why is it beneficial for older generations to appreciate the new generation's fresh points of view? 15:20 //
      How virtual classroom is covering the gap between teaching explicit knowledge and practical knowledge? 19:30 //
    Business plans: How do you make small mistakes that enable you to learn without your business dying?  22:05 //
    A business simulator: how well would you do in a competitive environment? 26:10
    Making a team: why cross-functional teams work best? 30:18 //
    Successful teaching stories: how to be an effective leader a...

    50 min
  • 02. From Tradition to Exomorphosis

    The difference between innovation and creativity—and why it matters. 01:54
    Why we should brainstorm just ideas—not only earth-shattering ones. 4:26
            What the Wesleyan Quadrilateral has to do with innovation. 6:25

    ️ How tradition impacts our behaviors (aka why we’re on autopilot). 10:10 The birth of velcro, and how to use the experience as inspiration. 12:43 How to harness your creative brain with reason. 15:11

    What is exomorphosis and how it impacts the way we live and work? 19:08
        How exomorphosis can apply to the financial world (let’s talk about Venmo). 24:21
        What we can learn from the fatal flaw of the taxi industry. 25:39
     
    Why we must listen to the newest employees to stay ahead of exomorphosis. 28:41
     
    Advice for Millennials: how to communicate with older generations. 33:04
     
    Why you have to create ideas (even bad ones) to get to innovation. 38:17

    *Wesleyan Quadrilateral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesleyan_Quadrilateral
    **Birth of velcro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_de_Mestral 


     

    43 min
  • 01. Think You Would Know An Innovation If You Saw One?

    🤔We need to think about innovation differently. 0:00


    How innovative are you—really? 1:42


    Why are we playing the innovation blame game at work? 3:18


    What a candy bar taught me about innovation. 5:03


    Why innovation doesn’t have to be a big, disruptive breakthrough. 7:48


    What to do if you do have a revolutionary idea. 13:01


    You may not have any big ideas, but you can still have incremental innovations. 14:36


    What sailing in the 1800s can teach us about innovation today? 18:17


    My official definition of innovation. 23:37


    Creativity vs. innovation—as demonstrated by jumping to the Earth from space. 29:14


    What does it take for innovations to be wildly successful? 33:18


    How to come up with innovative ideas. (Hint, it takes a lot of bad ones!) 37:50


    Why small innovations are crucial. 39:49


    Will you be innovative? 41:36

    46 min

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The Innovation Driven Growth podcast is hosted by fintech pioneer, entrepreneur and author, David L. Peterson, and features interviews, insights, and ideation focused on how to unleased our inherent…