It's been a while, but The People Innovation Podcast is back! Season 3 focuses on Leading An Innovation Ecosystem. We're taking the audio from our popular webinar series and making it easily accessible for you where you are, when you want to listen to it. In the first episode of the series, we cover what makes innovation thrive in an organisation and, crucially, how to lead for these elements of the Innovation Ecosystem.

Joe and Zac from The Innovation Beehive outline: 

If you want to explore the Innovation Ecosystem in your organisation, try our free diagnostic here: https://scorecard.innovationbeehive.co.uk 

Steve Cayzer is a Senior lecturer in engineering management at the University of Bath for 10 years. Steve has a PHD in Computational neurobiology and he moved into IT consultancy working in the Energy and Utilities sector, then on to Hewlett Packard before moving to the University. 

We recorded this episode just before Clayton Christensen died. The whole world of innovation breathed a sigh of sadness at his loss. In his words "It's easier to hold your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold them 98% of the time." He absolutely lived his principles. Rest in peace.

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R&D isn’t just about proving something about data it can also be about strategic data. 

Three trends in teaching:

- The increasing need for people to have real-world impact - what you know, what you can do and how you can behave. Can graduates formulate solutions? Attitude to failure, personal development and growth?

- Problem-based learning - we can do better in class that just talking at students. Idea is you give students a fairly large problem and the students access it in a pull basis

- Team-Based Learning - more structured and it had some advantages in building team development. How do you deliver to large groups - the advantage is you have a large number of smart motivated individuals who have chosen to come to the same place at the same time. Therefore how can we harness that.

 - Transformative use of teaching - passivity and anonymity

 - Readiness Assurance Protocol - discussed within team-based learning that Steve implemented with his teams

 - Assessment of courses how it is tied to teaching eg. real-world case study

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Season 2 

Welcome to another episode of the Innovation Beehive in our Learning and Development Series. Today Joe Nagle is speaking to Mehrnaz Tajmira  a PHD Student In Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Bath. Current studying Food waste and Innovation ( Background in Mechanical Engineering) and Henrietta Sherwin, Research Associate on Social Enterprise and Social Enterprise programmes in the School of Management at the University of Bath

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University of Bath 

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Welcome back to Season Two where our focus is on Learning and Development and our guest is Roger Mason Head of Learning and Development at Reed Global.

Reed was set up in the 1960’s by Sir Alex Red, still run by the Reed family and has since expanded into Europe and Asia. Reed is a business is one that started before the internet age that has transitioned to be a leader online.

Roger talks about how one of the biggest things that informed Reed’s strategy are the needs of the business. He talks about how learning is hard to measure and how expectations haven’t existed on how to measure the impact. There is much more focus now on performance, so learning with an outcome. He explains how conversations at Learning conferences are moving from Gamification and e-learning modules off the shelf to train compliance to AI, Analytics and robotics

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Reed Global 

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Miranda Burgum - Head of People

Welcome to Season Two of The People Innovation Podcast, where host Joe Nagle is in conversation with Miranda Burgum, finding out about Gail’s 52 bakeries in local neighbourhoods striving to provide exquisite coffee and bread's for people to enjoy. 

When Miranda joined she described it as being given a blank piece of paper to create a structure to suit the significant growth in its entirety and from a people perspective.

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Innovation White Paper 

Gail's 

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 Zac Curtis 

Welcome to episode six of the People Innovation Podcast. In this episode Joe Nagle will be in conversation with Zac Curtis, the Capability Director at The Innovation Beehive. 

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Follow Zac on Linked in here 

Complete your profile here 

Listen to the full episode and email any questions to [email protected] 

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Doug Faulkner - Performance Coach, The Innovation Beehive 

Welcome to episode six of the People Innovation Podcasts where we hear from Doug Faulkner about his use of comedy used to generate engagement and enhance learning 

Doug lived as a teenager in California and when he returned to UK he studied fashion, before working for Dazed and Confused. He found the first innovation agency and his interview involved buying something for £50 that had a secondary function and his task was to let the interviewer know the primary function is working. 

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Nic Walden - Head of Procurement Advisory Membership Programmes for the Hackett group

Welcome to episode five of the People Innovation Podcast, where we are speaking Nic Walden. Originally from New Zealand, Nick moved back to the UK 20 years ago and worked in strategic finance and procurement before moving into consulting and he’s now been at Hackett for 11 years where he works with over 300 different global clients. 

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How Procurement is experiencing rapid change

How technology is driving a lot of change

Discussion about ‘Innovation scouting’

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From Fragile to Agile: Innovation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Innovation Ecosystem book

Hackett Group Procurement

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Will Reddaway - J Murphy and Sons Group Head of Innovation

Welcome to episode four of the People Innovation Podcast, where we are speaking to Will Reddaway about his career which started in a small firm setting up small integrated systems on luxury yachts

Sailing across the Atlantic - able to make a mobile phone call to colleagues on Oxford Street.

First time - created mini mobile phone network on boat - up to space - down to UK transmitter and to colleagues in early 2000. Left engineering for G4S on the cash management and operational role.Over five years changed a lot of processes, brought in automation and IT systems. Went back to engineering - at Cross Rail as the Innovation Mgr for four years, won an innovation award for best demonstration for innovation in the public sector . Proved innovation can happen in a multi billion project, in a public sector environment, with multi tier contractors and innovation in our industry was rife. Joined Knowledge Transfer Network before joining J Murphy and Sons to lead their innovation capability.

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Culture and capability with a bodyguard from an influential position 

 Magdalena Krön - RISE 

The Engine - the third element in the innovation ecosystem

Welcome to episode three of the People Innovation Podcast. Where we speak to Magdalena Krön who started her own business, building a solution for retail chains, to manage flexible workforce through a digital tool. She worked with Capital Enterprise in a start up space which and built up a service called ‘Capital List’. She now heads Rise London, a fintech incubator in London. Rise connects with what is happening at the cutting edge of fintech. 

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