“You incur an even greater risk by doing nothing.”

How does digital transformation interact with innovation? In today’s episode of Innovation Matters, Brian Regan welcomes Colin Parris to the show. Colin is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at GE Digital, the GE subsidiary focused on industrial automation software and services. Colin offers a fascinating view of what he sees as the three components of innovation: adaptability, sustainability and creativity. He also describes how he sees risk and failure as playing an integral role in innovation and how businesses can best use data in their innovation journey.

“In a free enterprise, a community is not just another stakeholder in business but is, in fact, the very purpose of its existence.”

What role does innovation play in the corporate conscience? In today’s episode of Innovation Matters, Brian Regan welcomes Praphul “KP” Pradeep to the show. KP is the Head of Technology & Innovation, Global CSR Partnerships for Tata Consultancy Services. KP discusses the need for social innovation in the COVID era as the pandemic is forcing tectonic shifts and changes in business culture and human engagement. He also talks about the imperative of tolerating failure the importance of building corporate conscience into your innovation journey.

“If you are trying to be innovative, you need to be prepared to fail a lot because out of the failure comes successes.”

In this episode of the Innovation Matters Podcast, Brian Regan sits down with  Gopi Kallayil, Google's Chief Evangelist for Digital Transformation and Strategy. Gopi is a lifelong student of innovation  who shares his unique insights and experiences in working with brands on their digital transformation journeys. i. Gopi talks about Google’s nine principles of innovation including his favorite, designing and innovating for the end user first (and profit will follow) and shares the valuable lesson of the toothbrush test in innovation.

“The greatest threat…is not innovation. The greatest threat is losing sight of customer experience.”

In this episode of the Innovation Matters, Brian Regan welcomes to show Ciaran Dynes, Senior Vice President of Products at Talend, a leading global big data and cloud integration company that helps companies answer the big tough and challenging questions they ask themselves about data information and digital transformation. Ciaran stresses the importance of improving the data; enhancing trust in the data, the quality of the information and where it comes from; and finally, leveraging the timeliness of the data in order to meet the customer in the moment.

Today on the podcast Rob LoCascio, founder and CEO of LivePerson, the pioneering and innovative AI-powered conversational commerce company. Rob and I discuss his early entrepreneurial inspirations, growing the business and moving from the role of lone innovator to corporate innovation catalyst, his belief, unlike Elon Musk, in the promise of AI and the emerging impact of intent recognition, and the need for government to stay focused on maintaining competitive advantage in innovation on the global stage. 

Today on the podcast Tony Colon, SVP of Customer Experience Engineering and Product Incubation, Cisco. Tony and I discuss how you manage innovation on a large scale, overseeing a global team of 1,200, the importance of customer experience in designing technology innovation into digital transformation, the myth of innovation labs as a silver bullet, the future of work in the midst of a global pandemic and the innovative approaches Tony is taking for Cisco’s customer’s looking to the company to help them create what he calls “the self-driving network

Today on the podcast Liz Miller, VP and Principal Analyst, Constellation Research.Liz and I discuss the importance of putting the customer first, innovation as a team sport, the need to “think big, fail fast and fail forward,” the fallacy of “innovation action as a destination,” and questionable motivations behind bringing in a Chief Innovation Officer, and Liz’s comic - and timely - thoughts on the forced move to virtual events, trade shows and customer extravaganzas, and how that is spurring innovation in its own right.

In this introduction to “Innovation Matters,” host Brian T. Regan sits with longtime partner Michael Young (host of the “Purpose, Inc.” podcast) for a wide-ranging conversation touching on the many dimensions of innovation and its sources of inspiration, current social, cultural, policy, technology and healthcare events re-shaping approaches to innovation and some of the guests set to appear on Season One.