Listen to conversations with innovation practitioners from global organizations to gain pragmatic advice and best practices for turning 'innovation' into a strategic, reliable tool for your enterprise.
Statoil on New Market Development
Featuring: Cato Wille, Chief Researcher, Statoil
Hosted by: Jeff Boehm, Chief Marketing Officer, Invention Machine
Statoil is tackling one of the largest issues in its industry: wax buildup in pipelines that not only impacts the flow of oil, but leads to production loss of several million dollars a day. In this podcast, Cato Wille discusses Statoil's innovation strategy and how the company is looking to resolve the problem in an eco-friendly way.
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Leggett & Platt on New Innovations
Featuring: Vincent Lyons, VP, Engineering and Product Development, Leggett & Platt
Hosted by: Jeff Boehm, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Invention Machine
Despite the economy, Leggett & Platt continues to invest in R&D and deliver innovative products -- from anti-snoring bed to wireless charging technology which eliminates the need for power cords and battery chargers. In this podcast, Vincent Lyons talks about the company’s innovation strategy and success.
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Chemtura on Reaching New Markets
Featuring: Brigitte Benage, Innovation Process Leader, Chemtura Corporation
Hosted by: Jeff Boehm, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Invention Machine
This podcast focuses on the need for continuous innovation and the technology Chemtura used to identify new market opportunities to help increase revenue.
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Boston Scientific on Sustaining Every Day Innovation
Featuring: Dan Kussman, R&D manager, Boston Scientific
Hosted by: Jeff Boehm, vice president, Marketing & Strategy, Invention Machine
Dan Kussman, R&D manager, Boston Scientific Jeff Boehm, vice president, Marketing & Strategy, Invention Machine
In this video podcast, Kussman discusses Boston Scientific’s definition of innovation and their bottom-up approach where everyone in the company is involved in the innovation process. He also talks about the need for sustainable and continuous innovation process to meet business goals, and offers tips to drive innovation.
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Johnson & Johnson on Fostering Innovation Culture
Featuring: Ray Jakubowicz, senior engineering fellow, Johnson & Johnson
Hosted by: Jeff Boehm, vice president, Marketing & Strategy, Invention Machine
In this video podcast, Jakubowicz talks about the role of sustainable innovation and how it’s viewed as a key competency for the future of J&J. He also discusses the challenges of spreading innovation disciplines across independent operating companies in a larger organization, and the need to develop new metrics to measure corporate return on innovation.
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Aberdeen "Greening Today's Products" Benchmark Report (read media alert)
Featuring: Chad Jackson, Research Director, Global Product Innovation & Engineering, Aberdeen Group
Hosted by: Jeff Boehm, vice president, Marketing & Strategy, Invention Machine
Aberdeen Group recently released the “Greening Today’s Products” benchmark report, focusing on sustainable design and product innovation.
In this video podcast, Chad Jackson, author of this report, discusses drivers behind green product development and why 96% of survey respondents are pursuing green initiatives. He also talks about the changing business landscape and tools used by best-in-class companies to deliver eco-friendly products. The growing challenge for engineers today is designing green products without missing project deadlines or exceeding development budget. According to Jackson, to be successful a company must effectively execute on green strategy by implementing a formal process for innovation and use a semantic concept retrieval tool to leverage existing technology to design cutting-edge products.
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Interface on Innovation Through Biomimicry (read media alert)
Featuring: John Bradford, Vice President, Operations and R&D, Interface
Hosted by: Jeff Boehm, vice president, Marketing & Strategy, Invention Machine
Companies today are faced with the dual challenge of innovating eco-friendly products and creating sustainable businesses to compete in the global economy. To meet these challenges, a handful of companies are using biomimicry to create innovative and sustainable products. Biomimicry studies how nature solves problems and then imitates this behavior in designing green products. For Interface, a $1.1B carpet manufacturer, sustainability is at the heart of its innovation efforts, from designing and manufacturing eco-friendly products to operations and marketing.
In this video podcast, John Bradford discusses why Interface started mimicking nature to design eco-friendly products, how to turn concepts into design and offers tips on product innovation through biomimicry. Bradford also shares Interface’s ideation process, called “Out of the Box,” which involves understanding customers’ problems and innate desires, employing biomimicry to develop ideas based on how nature solves these problems, and validating these ideas with Invention Machine’s innovation software.
Aberdeen Product Innovation Agenda 2010 (read media alert)
Featuring: Jim Brown, Vice President, Product Innovation & Engineering Research, Aberdeen Group
Hosted by: Jim Todhunter, Chief Technology Officer, Invention Machine
Aberdeen Group’s recent report, “Product Innovation Agenda 2010: Profiting from Innovation Today and Tomorrow”, found that more than 80 percent of companies are focused on driving profitable growth through product innovation, while many participating companies are looking to make innovation a repeatable and sustainable process. In this podcast, Brown discusses the main findings of the study, which analyzed how companies are driving profitable growth by introducing new innovation, product development and engineering techniques and technologies.
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Leggett & Platt on Innovation (read media alert)
Featuring: Vincent Lyons, VP, Product Development & President, Machinery & Technology Group
Hosted by: Jim Todhunter, Chief Technology Officer, Invention Machine
This discussion focuses on innovation deployment challenges, strategies for developing innovation as a value driving core competency and how these strategies are being implemented at Leggett & Platt. Lyons also discusses the creation of Leggett & Platt’s Innovation Design Engineering Acceleration (IDEA) program that has helped the company create innovative products at an accelerated pace, including the world’s first semi-fold box spring.
Episode I:
Universal challenges of innovation deployment.
Episode II:
Strategies for developing innovation as a value driving core competency.
Episode III:
Innovation strategies being pursued at Leggett & Platt.
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