Innovation Talks

We all spend a significant amount of time in virtual meetings, whether it’s within our businesses or with other companies. The perception of an increased number of meetings is being noticed throughout the workplace, and people are beginning to express that they are having trouble keeping up, running from one meeting to the next. But, is meeting prevalence on the rise as more people work from home?

Are we really spending more time in meetings, or is this simply a matter of perception?

In today’s episode, I share how technologies are causing new problems for virtual collaboration as professionals begin to experience virtual meeting fatigue. I look at some of the issues we are experiencing in meetings, including privacy issues and the difficulties in arranging meetings with external participants. I discuss the technology that currently exists and is under development to help with the challenges of virtual meetings, including AI meeting management software, transcripts and recordings, background noise, and video filters. I also share why we should pledge to stop multitasking in meetings to improve meeting dynamics and build our abilities to participate, contribute, and understand.

“AI is going to be an important part of the way we communicate.” - Paul Heller

This week on Innovation Talks:

• How cameras and the visual aspect of a meeting differs from the physical conference room and causes more cognitive activity in the brain
• The rising trend for out-of-hours meetings in global companies
• The benefits of recording sessions and synchronized transcript technology
• The opportunities for technology and AI in virtual meetings
• Why you should stop multitasking in meetings, focus on the meeting, and pay attention
• The risky balance between meeting automation and human participation

Resources Mentioned:

• National Geographic: Zoom fatigue is taxing the brain. Here's why that happens.

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Chris Colbert has helped build and run several domestic and international companies focused on innovation and business optimization. He was previously EVP for Strategy Scholastic's core publishing business, which he left in 2014 to explore the world of higher education and technology-enabled learning systems for adults. He was the Managing Director [...]

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Chris Colbert has helped build and run several domestic and international companies focused on innovation and business optimization. He was previously EVP for Strategy Scholastic’s core publishing business, which he left in 2014 to explore the world of higher education and technology-enabled learning systems for adults. He was the Managing Director at Harvard Innovation Labs and is now focusing on adaptive culture and the human potential. He is the host of the Insert:Human podcast, and is working on his second book about innovation and people, exploring how technology needs to be designed with both in mind to succeed.

Chris joins me today to discuss the losses in collaboration and ideation due to changes in remote work. He shares insights into why corporate innovation fails and the vital role of leaders and entrepreneurs in understanding and listening to others. Chris highlights why financial gain is not the real measure of success and innovation and explores the desired nature of your existence. He shares why the child’s approach of not trusting workers stifles creativity and collaboration and presents three questions to ask yourself if you want to achieve successful innovation. Chris also discusses why you need to have the courage to ask the hard questions, be supportive of failure, be prepared to change your stance, and steer technology integration appropriately.

“If you want to increase the chances of innovation and success, find the courage within yourself to be open to the truth about the customer or the human that you are innovating for.” - Chris Colbert

This week on Innovation Talks:

• How Chris got involved in innovation management and starting a business in the 80s to bring technology into marketing
• Why most corporate innovation fails and getting humans to adopt ‘the thing’
• Rising above biases to better understand the ‘other’ and recognizing that to adopt something, the individual must give up something
• The measure of innovation and success and why it is not making money
• The desired nature of existence and how to find your point and life intention
• Why the assembly-line model no longer works and why leaders need to give workers the latitude to think, create, and collaborate
• The importance of being human and treating employees and customers as humans
• The three questions to answer to be successful at innovation

Resources Mentioned:

• Insert Human podcast: Learning Not To Forget
• How I Built This podcast

Connect with Chris Colbert:

• Chris Colbert’s website
• Book: This Is It
• Chris Colbert on LinkedIn
• Chris Colbert on Instagram
• Chris Colbert on Twitter

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We often hear that Stage Gate equates to Phase Gate and that it is tied to development. If you search Wikipedia, you are directed to something called the Phase Gate Process. The article explains it as “a phased approach for making investment decisions” but then cites Phase Gate as something NASA created for development and defines Stage Gate as a variant of Phase Gate. According to Wikipedia, “Phase Gate processes are often called front-end loading or big design upfront” processes, but this really isn’t the case.

In today’s episode, I share my perspective of Stage Gate, from its upfront parts to development, launch, and retirement. I highlight the people you need in a stage gate to make effective decisions and why determining the decision to make is vital. I explain the stages of a classic Stage Gate model, including phase 0, scoping, building the business case, development, testing and validation, and product launch. I explore how you might stifle creativity and flexibility, whether development should occur before or after the market assessment and business case, and how to determine when you are ready for testing and validation. I also share why it used to be rare that products would get killed or put on hold during or after the testing and validation stage and how that changed when the coronavirus hit, when many products that were due to launch no longer had a market or would be insensitive to launch.

“Stage Gate is mostly about reducing risk. It is not about getting things done.” - Paul Heller

This week on Innovation Talks:

• Why the upfront parts should be lean and about quick screening while dealing with imperfect information
• How score cards bring order and why Stage Gate is not about development
• Comparing tunnels and funnels and the differences between Stage Gate and project management
• Why the gate is the most crucial part of the process and the governance of who should be involved in making decisions
• The elements that make good portfolio management
• How the decision of a single product release to the market is often a portfolio decision
• The parts of a Stage Gate model and where - and where not - to take a heavy approach
• What happens after a product launch and why the portfolio process should be extended to cover products in the market

Resources Mentioned:

• Phase-gate Process - Wikipedia
• Stage Gate Methodology Basics
• Single versus Multi-Product Mindsets: What’s The Difference and Why It Matters

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