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Activate Innovation Lounge features real stories from leaders who activate innovators, innovation, and innovation culture within and beyond their organizations. Through conversations with innovation leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs, we explore how organizations unlock the potential of their people, open up to outside ideas, and build cultures where innovation does not just happen once but keeps happening. Each episode shares wisdom about shaping the processes and structures that work, the challenges overcome, and the lessons learned to sustain innovation as a practice, not just a moment.
Unknown Host hosts Activate Innovation Lounge, a business show with 17 episodes published.
If you had an idea in your organization, would you know where to go? That question is the simplest audit of whether you have an innovating engine or just innovation theater. Ben Bensaou asks it every time he walks into a
There are a lot of “why questions” that need to be answered when it comes to purposeful activation of employee innovators. And one of those is why do organizations and their leaders miss on cultivating this capability. T
The most powerful source of innovation in an organization is not the strategy, the technology, or the dedicated innovation team. It is the hidden innovator inside every employee. The agent in the contact center watching
In this bonus episode of the Activate Innovation Lounge, Iliriana Kaçaniku continues her conversation with Jan Fischer of Innosabi, an innovation management platform that has helped enterprises run challenges, source ide
If you’re a leader who got excited and enthused to invite everyone in the organization to share ideas about innovation, please hold on, and don't do it. It may feel like the right thing to do, it may give you the excitem
In the first part of this conversation, Alexis Samuel laid out what he calls the Baker's Dozen. Twelve building blocks for activating grassroots innovation in a large enterprise. From the CEO's call to innovate to psycho
There is a tension in how organizations think about activating employee innovators. Who knows best what needs to be solved? The leader who sees the business from the top? Or the employee who lives the friction every day?
Why do most innovation programs generate excitement but deliver nothing? You collect hundreds of ideas. Award the best ones. Then watch them die in handoff limbo. Alexis Samuel has spent decades building grassroots innov
Innovation is inherently uncertain because it is about the future. That uncertainty is also the reason innovation gets cut first when budgets tighten. Most leaders cannot put a number on the value innovation creates, so
Innovation is not failing because organizations lack ideas. It is failing because the system that should turn ideas into outcomes was never built. And every year it stays broken, bad ideas keep dying slowly, at enormous
About this episode: Every organization should have its own garage. Not just a physical space, but a program that allocates resources and time for employees to tinker, experiment, and push their own boundaries by default,
When Elaine Chin designs a challenge, she is not just writing a problem statement. She is translating years of internal work into a question the world can answer. In this episode of Activate Innovation Lounge, Elaine wal
What if the reason your innovation efforts keep failing is not because you lack ideas, but because you are asking less questions than you should? Stephen Shapiro, author and creator of a 20,000 person innovation practice
In this episode, I talk to Jon A. Fredrickson, pioneer in open innovation and founder of Einstein's 55, who’s dedicated most of his career to working Fortune 500 companies, government, and nonprofit organizations leverag
In this conversation, Jan Fischer discusses the critical role of employee innovation in organizations and how to create a culture that fosters creativity and engagement. He emphasizes that innovation is not just the resp
Leaders complain they don't have enough ideas. Yet every organization is full of people naturally full of ideas. So what's locking those ideas up? Robyn Bolton is Chief Navigator at MileZero and former innovation leade
In this conversation, Iliriana Kaçaniku and Eugene Ivanov explore the evolution and significance of open innovation and crowdsourcing. They discuss the differences between co-creation and crowdsourcing, the importance of
I launched Activate Innovation Lounge with a single mission: uncover how organizations create the conditions that unleash innovation talent already within their teams. In each episode, I sit down with leaders who are bui
Simon Hill
best selling author, Nutritionist and Physiotherapist · Walsall FC
1 appearance on this show
Dan Toma
three-time author and Thinkers50 management thinker · Outcome
1 appearance on this show
Stephen Shapiro
Innovation Instigator & Hall of Fame Speaker · Westside Estate Agency
1 appearance on this show
Robyn Bolton
Founder and Chief Navigator at MileZero · Miles Zero's
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