In this season of Innovate, Validate, Repeat, we’ve explored industry-to-industry disruption and the innovative business models that are creating opportunities for leading companies to reestablish their competitive advantage within their own industry and adjacent sectors.

And what we’ve learned is that business building and start-up ecosystem engagement is no longer a fringe function, operating at the edges of big corporate spheres—it has become a core function of every business. Yet, the learning curve is steep, and every organization faces its own specific set of challenges.

In this episode, Lee Brailey speaks with Neal Hansch, CEO and managing partner of Silicon Foundry, and Michael Roemer, founder of FFWD, Kearney’s business builder and partner at Kearney, to discuss their perspectives on the latest tech trends impacting industry, how ecosystem collaborations are the only way to create impactful change, and why it is now more pressing than ever for leaders to double down on the need for speed.