The Innovation Engine Podcast

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we'll be looking at why innovation and healthcare do indeed belong in the same sentence, which technology trends are driving innovation for the industry as a whole, and how startups in the healthcare space can (and should) position themselves for success when approaching venture capitalists for funding or partnerships.

We’re joined by Irem Mertol and Anahita Nakhjiri of McKesson Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture fund that helps innovators build and scale businesses that will lead to a stronger and more sustainable future for healthcare. Irem is a Director at McKesson Ventures, where she invests in early to growth-stage companies across health care technology and services. Anahita is a Strategy & Portfolio Development Associate, who is focused on identifying and commercializing opportunities between McKesson Ventures portfolio companies and the larger McKesson ecosystem.

Resources:

• Learn more about McKesson Ventures: Website | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Connect with Irem on LinkedIn
• Connect with Anahita on LinkedIn

Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

On this special episode of The Innovation Engine, the 3Pillar team interviews many of the speakers and attendees at Industry Summit 2017, a product- focused conference that features talks from a wide range of product leaders and tech visionaries.

We chat with…

• [00:50] Nancy Kramer, Founder & Chairman of Resource/Ammirati
• [07:20] Jim Foxworthy, President & CEO of Pragmatic Marketing
• [14:35] Ellen Fink, a consultant for Chick-Fil-A who owns a tool that tracks internal customer data from the mobile ordering app
• [18:45] Lior Abraham, Co-Founder of Interana
• [33:05] Jonathan Rivers, CTO of 3Pillar

Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

On this special episode of The Innovation Engine, the 3Pillar team interviews many of the speakers from the recently-completed Industry Summit, a product-focused conference that featured talks from a wide range of product leaders and tech visionaries.

Industry Summit is one of the biggest multi-day product management summits in the country each year, with over 600 attendees converging to learn about and discuss the latest disruptive trends in the product industry. The conference followed four content tracks over two days: Ideation, Design, Development, and Growth.

Tune in to hear conversations with:

• [1:20] Blade Kotelly, Leader of the Advanced Concept Lab at Sonos
• [11:00] Josh Anon, Director of Project Management at Magic Leap
• [24:00] Melissa Perri, CEO of Produx Labs & Product Institute
• [31:30] Bob Moesta, President & CEO of the Re-Wired Group
• [46:30] Anthony Marchionda, Associate Producer at Purple Films
• [50:00] Vern Kennedy, President of ActiveWrite
• [1:02:30] Nancy Kramer, Founder & Chairman of Resource/Ammirati
• [1:09:00] Jim Foxworthy, President & CEO of Pragmatic Marketing
• [1:20:30] Lior Abraham, Co-Founder of Interana
• [1:35:00] Jonathan Rivers, CTO of 3Pillar

Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

Jennifer Ives and Julia Slattery join us on this episode of the podcast to discuss the upcoming Industry Summit conference taking place in Cleveland this week. Industry Summit is a product-specific conference that will take place on September 14th and 15th and will see talks from product leaders like Bob Moesta, creator of the Jobs to Be Done framework; Jason Fried, the founder of Basecamp; Nancy Kramer of IBM iX; and many others.

3Pillar is one of the event's sponsors, and Julia will be taking The Innovation Engine on the road to Cleveland to record the next episode of podcast. In addition to that tidbit of news, we're also happy to introduce Jennifer Ives to listeners and to share the news that Jennifer will be guest hosting episodes in the future with guests like Shelby Coffey of the Newseum and Carla Brodley of Northeastern University.

Tune in to this episode for a preview of what Jennifer and Julia are most looking forward to seeing and hearing at Industry Summit, as well as to hear more about Jennifer's background and her Talent is Transforming podcast.

• Learn more about Industry Summit
• Connect with Jennifer Ives on LinkedIn or follow her on Twitter
• Listen to Jennifer Ives' Talent is Transforming podcast
• Listen to Julia Slattery's Take 3 podcast, a sister podcast to The Innovation Engine

Today we’re looking at how to build a powerful Customer Experience, and why it is imperative for any company that hopes to find long-term success. We cover why short-term profit seeking can negatively impact customer experience, the DO MORE framework for building positive customer experiences, and how the on-demand economy is changing customer experience as we know it.

We’re joined by Blake Morgan, a Customer Experience futurist, keynote speaker, and the author of More is More: How the Best Companies go Farther and Work Harder to Create Knock-Your-Socks-Off Customer Experiences. Blake also hosts The Modern Customer podcast and a weekly customer experience video series on YouTube.

Resources:

• Connect with Blake: BlakeMichelleMorgan.com | Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram
• Listen to The Modern Customer Podcast
• Pick up your copy of More is More: How the Best Companies go Farther and Work Harder to Create Knock-Your-Socks-Off Customer Experiences

Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we'll be looking at blockchain in the advertising space, why there is currently a staggering amount of waste in the ad tech supply chain, how a new consortium called AdLedger and a company called MadHive are working to combat that waste, and why we may be entering the golden age of personalized advertising.

Our guest Stacy Huggins, co-founder and CMO of MadHive, is an entrepreneur, seasoned marketing executive, and thought leader in applying blockchain technology to media and ad tech. MadHive is a blockchain-based advertising platform and a founding member of AdLedger, a consortium of advertising and publishing executives with the purpose of bringing transparency and data security to the ad tech supply chain by harnessing a blockchain backed peer-to-peer network.

Resources:

• Become a founding member of AdLedger
• Learn more about MadHive
• Connect with Stacy: [email protected]

Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

Jonathan Rivers joins us on this episode of The Innovation Engine to explain why innovation labs usually fail. We'll look at why innovation labs often have the opposite effect from what's intended, why Jonathan shut down 3Pillar's Advanced Technology Group (or 3Pillar Labs) within a few months of being hired, the vast difference between tweaking and transforming, and what you can do if your organization already has one.

Jonathan Rivers is the CTO of 3Pillar. He leads 3Pillar's product and engineering organizations, which includes more than 600 software engineers, product consultants, product managers, quality assurance, and user experience professionals. Jonathan also works with 3Pillar team members in each of our locations worldwide to foster product development best practices that lead to business value for our clients.

Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

Resources:

• Learn more about Jonathan Rivers

John Sonmez joins us on this episode of The Innovation Engine to discuss whether coding is a skill everyone should learn, how to lead a team of developers when you find yourself in a leadership position, and what the programming language (or languages) of the future will be.

John is the Founder of Simple Programmer, a website where he tirelessly pursues his vision of transforming complex issues into simple solutions, and the author of newly-released The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide. He also helps software engineers, programmers, and other technical professionals boost their careers and live more fulfilled lives.

John is launching The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide at a special price of $0.99 for the Kindle version on launch day, July 19th, 2017. Go to SimpleProgrammer.com/careerguide to get something special in addition to the $0.99 price.

Resources:

• Learn more at Simple Programmer
• Read John’s books: The Complete Software Developer’s Career Guide
• Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual

For a very special episode of The Innovation Engine, we're bringing you a number of interviews from the floor from last week's TechCrunch Disrupt New York. TechCrunch Disrupt is a bi-annual event that features panel discussions with some of the leading minds in the technology space and serves as a launching pad for the next great batch of tech companies looking to change the world.

3Pillar was a sponsor of this year's conference, so we had a prime location on the showroom floor, which gave us the opportunity to talk with the winners of the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon about their VR app to help diagnose ADHD, the co-founder of a company that's making bike helmets that can be condensed to the size of a water bottle, the founder of a company who's looking to make filing your tax returns as easy as sending pictures of your w-2 to a certified CPA, and many more.

Sit back, relax, and enjoy this extended episode of The Innovation Engine!

In order of appearance, the guests who joined us for this episode of the podcast and their companies are: 

• Ruth Chandler Cook, Founder & CEO of HireHer, an HR tech company focused on connecting top female STEM talent with employers
• Paulina Chapa, Director of Business Development at Paranoid Fan, an app and SDK that digitizes venue management and navigation
• Akshaya Dinesh, Sowmya Patapati, and Amulya Balakrishnan, the team behind the Hackathon-winning VR app, reVIVE
• Steven Radley, the SVP of Product Innovation at iHeartRadio, who talks about areas like AI and the connected home that iHeart is currently working on
• Nick Titus, founder of Myonic, a hardware company looking to help those with paralysis move their limbs again
• Jordan Zucker and Jordan Schuetz of PubNub, which they describe as "back-end as a service" 
• Bobbie Carlton, the founder of Innovation Women, an online speakers bureau for entrepreneurial and technical women 
• Richard Bezjian, President & CEO of vQuick, a mobile video creation platform for creating short video clips 
• Jason Frishman, Founder & CEO of NetCapital, a service that allows founders to sell equity in their companies to pools of individual investors
• Jordan Klein, Co-Founder & CEO of Park and Diamond, a company that's making bicycle helmets that can be condensed to the size of a water bottle without sacrificing safety
• Sama Jashnani, Founder of Down to Dash, a mobile app targeted to college students that connects people with similar interests 
• Alice Chang, Founder & CEO of TaxDrop, a service that connects individuals to CPAs to easily file their taxes by just submitting photos of their tax documents
• Barika Edwards, Co-Founder & CEO of OweYaa, a company that connects veterans looking for work with employers
• Francesca Lubbock and Michael Leviev of iSwile, a company that makes a battery-powered motor with a number of different possible applications, from skateboards to shopping carts to strollers

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we bring the podcast inside the Refraction headquarters to talk again with Rachael Stott on how place and space interact with and influence employees. Rachael joined us for a previous episode of the podcast, where we talked about her co-working space, Refraction, and how the physical environment of a workplace can have a marked impact on the performance of the teams in it. We decided to bring the podcast into the space to see how she put her ideas and designs into practice.

Rachael Stott joins us again to lead us through the Refraction headquarters and show us how her ideas have come to life. Rachael is the Director of Refraction, a co-working space in Reston, VA for business leaders, creatives, and philanthropists. Refraction is a curated hub of creativity, collaboration, and innovation that helps businesses build more dynamic teams and grow their company.

• Follow Rachael Stott on Twitter: https://twitter.com/rachaelstott
• Visit the Refraction website: http://www.refractionpoint.org/
• Follow Refraction on Twitter: https://twitter.com/refractionpt