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Brian recently sat down for a conversation with Chaz Giles and Neil Soni who are the global heads of external innovation at the Estée Lauder Companies. Both Chaz and Neil use their vast and varied startup experience to cut through the more cumbersome processes of corporate innovation to find meaningful and useful insight on products with an ever-present focus on the customer. They also discussed the ongoing changes in venture capital culture and what these changes mean for startups. Continue the conversation with Chaz and Neil on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/chazgiles and https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilsoni or at http://intrapreneur.co/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

In part 2 of our interview with Daniele Dondi, the co-founder of the ING Innovation Studio, discusses the need for customer validation and sponsor support and the crucial role experiments play in any innovation venture. He also shared his insight on ensuring the experiments are well-designed, even if that involves using an external team. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Part one of a two-part interview with Daniele Dondi, the co-founder of the ING Innovation Studio. Daniele wrote an article titled, "Four Controversial Learnings After Setting Up a Corporate Accelerator." He discussed some of the less-talked about issues that arise in corporate innovation, many of which are absolutely vital to address for the accelerator to be successful. Today, Brian and Josh sat down with Daniele to talk about the specific "controversial learnings" regarding the dynamics of external and internal teams and the environment and timing necessary for the teams to succeed. Check back next week (or subscribe!) to listen to part two of this interview which will focus on crucial, but usually ignored, realizations about validation and sponsors in corporate innovation. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Innovation is an easy thing to get excited about--without actually knowing what it is or how it looks in a specific organization. Josh and Brian dive into discussing the different stages and manifestations of innovation depending on the organization's needs, as well as determining if innovation is vital for a group's growth. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Today, Josh Berry and Josh Ness take a little more time than the typical show to talk about the way StrategyHack is connecting startups and marketers to encourage innovation. Ness discussed his time at The Economist Innovation Forum where he led a StrategyHack workshop and both the problems and solutions produced during these clinics. If you need some help focusing, check out this playlist of angsty teenage music https://open.spotify.com/user/jcness/playlist/1p0pEqnRLINl44I3HXjm3L that Ness personally curated for our audience. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Today, we got a chance to talk to Scott Childs, Senior Experience Design Lead at Capital One, about the Five-day Sprint Design Process. From problem to prototype, we explored how this simple and sleek lean start-up tool can be an excellent tool to develop new perspectives for any business. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Today, Josh Berry and Brian Ardinger are discussing the important factors to figure out if innovation is the right step for your business and after evaluating that, determining what kind of innovation will best suite your company's needs. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

We talked with Celeste Henkelmann from Konica Minolta about how a big corporation with a traditional set of products, positions themselves to be more receptive to innovation and how that plays into their product line. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

We talked with Ken Durand who runs the Atlanta Idea Factory as part of Ericsson's innovation model. He told us how to sift through the existing culture of a company to find the right people to spur innovation from the inside. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

An introduction to a new season with a new podcast: Inside Outside Innovation. This year, we're taking a closer look at the means and methods of innovation both internally and externally. We'll be doing a couple different formats of episodes, some shorter, some longer, with exciting guests from companies such as Ericsson, Capital One, and Konica Minolta. We hope you'll join us. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy