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- The Most Innovative Folding Bike Ever
The folding bike market is booming with new innovations and sustainability at play. Brompton bicycle has been a major player in the global market for over three decades with their innovative products and aligning everything R&D teams come up with through true customer service.
In the show, we examine key strategies for adoption in global markets, what the upcoming trends are ahead and how sustainability plays a huge role on the market.
What we cover in this episode:
- 02:26 Why sustainability is crucial
- 06:39 Our product differentiator is the ingenious design
- 08:49 Inhouse R&D and external partners
- 10:24 Brompton community biggest source of insights
- 14:19 Changing behavior and getting more cyclists on the road
- 14:30 partnership to create urban freedom
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- Juliet Scott-Croxford
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What is “The Innovative Executive”?
Insightful conversation with business and thought leaders who share knowledge and stories about project selection and company growth. With a focus on Rethinking your business model, innovation and collaboration and leveraging technology. You’ll learn how to strengthen your innovation capabilities.
20 min - Discover the Latest Trends and Insights from Contract Manufacturing
Contract manufacturing has grown into an integral part of product development. In this week’s podcast, we discuss several leading practices while working with contract manufacturing which entails idea generation to production processes, decision making around critical steps in projects that involve these companies among things like market regulation.
What we cover in this episode:
- 03:34 collaborative process in manufacturing
- 07:01 Sustainability focus on ingredient side shifting to packaging side
- 09:55 motivating culture
- 11:21 using lean manufacturing activities to increase safety and engagement
- 12:43 identifying key stakeholders early on
- 16:04 learnings from boards, manufacturing, and non-profits
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- Julie Christiansen
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- Pre-order my book: The Innovative Executive Leading in the Age of Disruption
What is “The Innovative Executive”?
Insightful conversation with business and thought leaders who share knowledge and stories about project selection and company growth. With a focus on Rethinking your business model, innovation and collaboration and leveraging technology. You’ll learn how to strengthen your innovation capabilities.
20 min - How Smart Brands are Engaging Gen Z and Millennials
Today I’m joined by Candace MacDonald, Co-Founder & Managing Director of Carbonate, Inc. Her agency helps clients with brand strategy and Integrated Marketing Communications for the Hospitality Industry.
Candace is a brand strategist, experienced at translating insights and creative vision into marketing programs that build brands. Her areas of expertise include restaurants, hotels, real estate, products, and technology. Candace shares with us the importance of collaborating with customers, what marketing practices looks like for Gen Z and millennials and how brands are shifting focus on sustainability marketing.
What we cover in this episode:
- 05:00 Gen Z audience are influencing buying decision for peers ad prior generations
- 06:47 Short-form content offers tremendous potential to engage audience
- 09:07 Nimble solutions from start-ups
- 13:45 Food technology trends
- 17:02 How brands are using influencer marketing
- 20:59 Rise in sustainable marketing
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What is “The Innovative Executive”?
Insightful conversation with business and thought leaders who share knowledge and stories about project selection and company growth. With a focus on Rethinking your business model, innovation and collaboration and leveraging technology. You’ll learn how to strengthen your innovation capabilities.
24 min - Innovating on Behalf of Your Customers
The struggle for clarity in organizations is a constant one. The organizational strategies created by leaders are often vague and ineffective. They result in inefficient company that is not coherence with its own structure and don’t know how to prioritize on key growth strategies. On the show, I speak with Former Director of Amazon – John Rossman in which he shares with us lessons about Amazon’s customer obsession, finding ways to simplify, and leadership mindset of being collaborative, iterative, and strategic.
What we cover in this episode:
- 0:45 Constraint theory in a time of scarcity
- 05:15 Using technology with customer in mind
- 09:45 Knowing how to mobilize strengths for marketing and operations teams
- 13:26 Invent and create the future – Day 1 mindset
- 23:43 Explore process automation more
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What is “The Innovative Executive”?
Insightful conversation with business and thought leaders who share knowledge and stories about project selection and company growth. With a focus on Rethinking your business model, innovation and collaboration and leveraging technology. You’ll learn how to strengthen your innovation capabilities.
28 min - Cornerstone of Leadership: Simplifying the ComplexityMany organizations are struggling to respond and create the necessary plans to a better future. Business leaders can start by defining long-term goals, listening to customers and their organization, and create openings for dialogue. In the show, we discuss the functions of alignment and responsiveness that support growth and strategy. Chuck argues that it’s critical for companies to have strong customer engagement early on and discusses the importance of leveraging diverse stakeholders within the company and accessing global markets for innovation. He shares with us his lessons on the challenges around innovation he has encountered are almost universal and that solutions often require a change in approach.
What we cover in this episode:
01:50 Qualities needed for leadership today
03:52 Common roadblock in innovation
12:59 Metric around Innovation
14:00 Technology impacting business models
16:52 Change in industry mindset
19:58 Finding global market access
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Insightful conversation with industry experts and thought leaders who share knowledge and stories about applying key innovation capabilities to create new company growth. With a focus on Rethinking your business model, innovation and collaboration and leveraging technology. You’ll learn how to strengthen your innovation capabilities.
24 min - Innovating to Grow
Businesses that are not prepared for disruption will be replaced. The business landscape is changing faster than ever before, companies could face extinction over the next ten years if they don't adapt quickly enough to survive in this new environment where technology-based disruptors like Amazon rainmaker Jeff Bezos can come from behind with a surprise attack at any time--even suggesting what customers might want even before those products exist!
The Innovative Executive podcast show is for you if you’re looking to generate new growth and want to reallocate your R&D towards a better future. In each episode, we explore how innovative executives are driving their businesses forward by focusing on innovation that comes from customer priorities or new market opportunities - examining capabilities they use which have made them successful as well as mindset when dealing with uncertainty. If you're ready to focus on the future, subscribe and let's get started.3 min - Trailer: The Innovative Executive
Insightful conversations with industry experts and thought leaders who share knowledge and stories about applying key innovation capabilities to create new company growth. With a focus on Rethinking your business model, innovation and collaboration and leveraging technology. You’ll learn how to strengthen your innovation capabilities.
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About The Innovative Executive
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The Innovative Executive is a show that tackles the importance of innovation to create new growth opportunities. It focuses on 3 main areas: Rethinking your business models, collaboration, and…
leveraging technology. Our guests are industry experts who share powerful insights and deliver practical theories. We explore how innovative executives are driving their businesses forward by looking to focus on innovation that comes from customer priorities and new market opportunities. Furthermore, the show examines innovation capabilities that have made them successful and the mindset that’s needed to deal with uncertainty.