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Innovation doesn't just happen. It's not like the cartoons - a lightbulb flashes on above someone's head and that's it. No - it's a journey and we need to understand how best to prepare for that journey, whatever kind of value we are trying to create. This podcast is about some useful lessons we might take on board to help develop our capabilities.For more, see my website:https://johnbessant.org
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Roman Garcia is the host of the Creating a Culture of Innovation Podcast and has provided small to medium sized businesses IT solutions and services for several years. With a focus on valueing employee, Roman provides his team with the tools to succeed. With the Creating A Culture Of Innovation Podcast, Roman hopes to spread this value with the world, changing company cultures for the better.
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For our ancestors, creativity was a matter of survival. Not being big, strong or fast meant that if we couldn’t think our way out of a problem (like an approaching predator), then we’d not be around for long! Dealing with the daily struggle to survive required us to be innovative, and the key to that was the ability to imagine and explore different…
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How creating experiences for underserved markets can be a key innovation strategy It’s summertime, at least here in the northern hemisphere and chances are that August is a holiday month. Which might well see you sitting somewhere and watching an exotic sunset, glass of something suitably refreshing in your hand. As you see that golden disc slip be…
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An interview with Hannes Erler, Strategic Director for Innovation Ecosystems, Swarovski This wide-ranging interview looks back at how a major European company grew over a hundred-plus years from a small engineering start-up to become a global player in the fashion, jewellery and accessories business through constant attention to innovation. If you'…
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There comes a time in innovation when you realise you might have taken on something a bit too big. No matter how hard you throw yourself into the challenge, creating value from your idea is going to need a little help. Changing the world, or even a small piece of it, takes a lot of push. That’s the moment when you realise you need ‘complementary as…
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It's hard to disagree with the idea that innovation-led growth is of paramount importance, but how often do we associate it with taking risks and learning? This episode offers an enlightening conversation with Robyn Bolton, founder and ‘Chief Navigator’ of Milezero, a consultancy specialising in helping organizations think through their innovation …
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Time plays a surprisingly important role in innovation, both as an enabler and as a shaper of the process and its outcomes. For example, the early development of reliable timepieces allowed accurate navigation which opened up the possibilities of global trade; without that the whole Industrial Revolution might have been a much smaller affair becaus…
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These days innovation spaces have become something of a fashion accessory; no large organization can afford not to be seen without having one. And start-up spaces have followed a similar trend; there’s been an explosion of support to try and tap into this potential source of local economic growth. On the surface these look like a welcome developmen…
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We know today that smart companies who care about innovation invest in the capacity for innovation — R&D and market research, future scoping, etc. Organized innovation, buying themselves options on the future. All good — but maybe only focusing on the formal means potentially missing out on what might be happening underground. Because by their natu…
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Sustainability matters - of course. You'd have to be living in a bubble not to be aware of the wide-ranging conversation on this theme. But how to translate the rhetoric - whether it be the UN or EU's sustainable development goals or the aspirational strategies of businesses - into something practical? That's the focus of the IMPACT project which i…
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In today's episode, we're talking with Founder & CEO of Earmark and the Co-Host of the Cloud Accounting Podcast Blake Oliver about the future of CPA’s and the digital era of education! Learn more about Earmark: https://earmarkcpe.com/ Listen to Blake and David Leary on the Cloud Accounting Podcast: http://bit.ly/3KgLe4f ----- Want to learn more abo…
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Mexico City, Olympic Games, 1968. The stadium is packed, the wider world looks on via TV coverage. Everywhere there’s an air of expectancy but also an awareness that at such high altitude it’s going to be hard for athletes to beat their best. Records are there to be broken, you have to hope for something special. And in the high jump event they wer…
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Close your eyes and imagine for a moment a computer room in the early days of the industry. Chances are you'll picture large wardrobe-sized metal cabinets whirring away with white-coated attendants tending to the machines. And it won't be long before your gaze lands on the ubiquitous spools of tape being loaded and unloaded. Which might give us a s…
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In today's episode, we're talking with CEO of Norhart Mike Kaeding about how his team has been transforming construction and real estate as we know it! Learn more about Norhart and their new Invest tool, https://www.norhart.com/invest/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerdssupport.com/ Or Contact Us for a FREE IT assess…
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I'm in love with Chat-GPT Another innovation song, inspired by an article in the Journal of Product Innovation Management by Frank Piller and colleagues, in which they put Chat-GPT through its paces as an innovation assistant. It performed surprisingly well at diverse tasks including search and analysis, trend spotting and idea generation. Their co…
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In today's episode, with Founder & President of Amplifi Brent Allen about how business owners can automate and understand their financial data in order to focus on growth! Learn more about Amplifi's Finance tool, CFO Essentials: https://www.amplifigrowth.com/chief-financial-essentials-v2 Use the password "podcast" and promo code "INNOVATION" on the…
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How machine learning is transforming the innovation game Machine learning has its roots back in experiments with ‘artificial intelligence’ in the 1970s but has come to represent a powerful technological trajectory as the idea of mimicking human neural networks and their learning capabilities has been explored. And now we have generative AI, which d…
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What do Mickey Mouse, vacuum cleaners, air travel and light-bulbs have in common? More than you’d think, especially if you look to the originators of those widely different things. All of their innovators spent a great deal of time being knocked back, living through failures and generally struggling to take their ideas forward. None of them have a …
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2022 was a record year for home delivery of parcels and packages. After the Covid-19 lockdowns the idea of remote shopping became an even bigger reality and changed the behaviour patterns of millions. It’s a habit which is hard to break — even when there are increasing disturbances in the delivery end of things like strikes and negative publicity s…
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We're back with our interview with Founder & CEO of Audax Wealth Management Christina Gamache about how she educates her clients on how to properly utilize technology to succeed when it comes to business & financial compliance! Learn more about Audax & Christina's Financial Foundations course: https://www.audaxwealth.com/ ----- Want to learn more a…
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Christmas, as my 6 year old never tires of reminding me, is coming. Never mind that technically it’s a month away and forget the efforts I make, Scrooge-like, not to allow any trace of the season to cross our threshold until at least 1st December. She excitedly points out that everywhere — the TV and online adverts, the shop decorations, even some …
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Birds do it. Bees do it. Even educated fleas do it….. Well, I’m not sure about the last one but someone somewhere has probably done some research on the topic. We humans certainly do it, especially when we’re young. I’m not talking about falling in love but about extending Cole Porter’s observations to a different world, something up there in terms…
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Season of mists, mellow fruitfulness — and those rare but wonderful days when the sun smiles down benignly. I was strolling in the park, absorbing the warmth, my attention was taken by an ice cream. Or rather, to the face of a toddler who was very happily getting himself around an eminently lickable cone, with the usual results. We probably don’t r…
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Have you ever felt the urge to kick the photocopier? Or worse? That time when you desperately needed to make sixty copies of a workshop handout five minutes before your session begins. Or when you needed a single copy of your passport or driving licence, it’s the only way you can prove your identity to the man behind the desk about not to approve y…
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This one was written in part as a contribution to the retirement celebrations of the Father of Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough ...... Here are the lyrics: Open innovation 1. We’ve been innovating now for quite a long time It’s the big thing that has helped us to survive Find new ways to do things, keep on learning down the line It’s what keeps yo…
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Multiple independent invention is surprisingly common — there have been many research studies highlighting the pattern. Examples include the blast furnace (invented independently in China, Europe and Africa) and the crossbow (invented independently in China, Greece, Africa, northern Canada, and the Baltic countries). And they reveal an important ho…
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In today's episode, we're talking with Founder & CEO of Meyer Tax Consulting Jackie Meyer about how she innovated the CPA space by building her own accounting tool, TaxPlanIQ! Learn more about Meyer Tax Consulting: https://www.meyertax.com/ Learn more about TaxPlanIQ: https://www.taxplaniq.com/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: …
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In today's episode, we're talking with Managing Partner of HORNE Joey Havens about the importance of CPA firms being able to cultivate a thriving culture & efficient team for tax season! Learn more about HORNE: https://horne.com/ Visit Joey's blog: https://blog.hornellp.com/bebetter ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerd…
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Innovation fails — sometimes spectacularly so. It’s hard enough when that failure comes early on during the start-up phase — that brilliant idea which somehow isn’t quite as brilliant when it collides with the first few encounters with the market. And when no amount of pivoting is going to save it. It’s hard but it’s a matter of squeezing it for us…
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In today's episode, we're talking with former Nerd and VP of Franchise Development at Hite Digital Jeff Zelaya about how they've been able to innovate what it means to be a growing business! Learn more about Hite Digital: https://www.hitedigital.com/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerdssupport.com/ Or Contact Us for a…
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In today's episode, we're talking with Founder & CEO of Valqari Ryan Walsh about how logistics is evolving further than we ever thought was possible! Visit Valqari's website: https://www.valqari.com/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerdssupport.com/ Or Contact Us for a FREE IT assessment at: 305-551-2009 Follow Us on S…
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How innovation management is changing and why we still need strategy There’s no shortage of scary headlines reminding us of the looming challenge of digital transformation. The message is clear. On the one hand if we don’t climb aboard the digital bandwagon we’ll be left behind in a kind of late Stone Age, slowly crumbling to dust while the winds o…
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In today's episode, we're talking with Founder & CEO of Diesel Laptops Tyler Robertson about how logistics & transport companies can increase their maintenance efficiency with technology. Visit Diesel Laptops' website: https://www.diesellaptops.com/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerdssupport.com/ Or Contact Us for a …
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In today's episode, we're talking with Founder & CEO of Inspired Insurance Solutions Jessi Park about how to take a more human approach when it comes to insurance. Check out Jessi's new book "Soul Beneficiary": https://amzn.to/3mZM9eu ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerdssupport.com/ Or Contact Us for a FREE IT assessm…
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In today's episode, Roman Garcia talks with Founder and CEO of RevoFi, Justin Caswell, about the future of businesses securing and utilizing their networks! Visit Revofi's Shop: https://bit.ly/3nzMrZ3 Earn $10 USD for every referral as a Revofi Affiliate: https://bit.ly/3bmnLh0 Join Revofi's Community: https://bit.ly/3vRqjwM ----- Want to learn mor…
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In today's episode, Roman Garcia talks with President of Sourcing Industry Group (SIG) Dawn Tiura about building the right team of people to make big and innovative changes for your business. Learn more about SIG: https://sig.org/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerdssupport.com/ Or Contact Us for a FREE IT assessment …
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In today's episode, we're talking with Jim Barnish of Orchid Black about how business owners can be not just a boss, but innovative leaders of their team. Visit Orchid Black's website: https://www.orchid.black/ ----- Want to learn more about us? Visit our website: https://nerdssupport.com/ Or Contact Us for a FREE IT assessment at: 305-551-2009 Fol…
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One of the huge cast of characters created by the wonderful humorous writer P. G. Wodehouse was Wilmot Mulliner. Perhaps not so well known as Jeeves and Wooster he’s nevertheless an interesting subject. We’re introduced to him at a difficult time in his life; he’s employed in the burgeoning film industry, working for Mr Schnellenhamer, the head of …
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Your host, Roman Garcia, talks with Richard Curran of Expo Convention Contractors. Expo Convention Contractors is a full-service tradeshow service contractor and a tradeshow exhibit services company. With over 50 employees in-house at all times, including a highly experienced management and sales team, ECC is available to service the state of Flori…
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Your host, Roman Garcia, talks with Jeffrey Arnold of Rightsure Insurance Group. Rightsure will help you find quality insurance coverage while providing customer service with a high level of professionalism. To learn more about Jeffrey's work, visit https://www.rightsure.com/ If you'd like to be a guest on Creating a Culture of Innovation, click HE…
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I'm Roman from Nerds Support, and welcome to the Creating a Culture of Innovation podcast! We're highlighting up-and-coming or growing businesses that want to show off their culture and what makes them stand out with technology. In today's episode, Roman speaks with the CEO of Nerd Support, Scott Richman. A Managed IT service provider with knowledg…
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Innovation is all about knowledge spaghetti. Just like a plate of pasta innovation involves many different strands. Only this time we are talking about knowledge - technical knowledge, market knowledge, legal knowledge, financial knowledge and so on. They need to be woven together to create value. And these knowledge strands are held by different p…
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These days there are very few certainties but this is one of them. We’re all going to depend increasingly on healthcare innovation for the quality of our future lives. Keeping ourselves healthy, coping with chronic ailments, living into old age with dignity and independence. We all want this — and we’re going to need all the help we can find to hel…
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The suggestion box sounds like a very old approach to the challenge of high involvement innovation - how to engage the majority of people in an organization in the innovation agenda. It conjures images of dusty boxes tucked away in the corner into which people have long since given up posting ideas. But its successors - collaboration platforms for …
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Innovation is all about uncertainty - no-one knows quite what's around the corner. So there's a limit to how far we can plan to work with it - and instead we need to develop the skills of agility. As this song suggests, it’s a bit like learning to dance.... Dancing at the Innovation Ball The thing with innovation, this is something you will learn I…
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The great management writer W. Edwards Deming had a powerful introduction to his talks on quality management. Pulling out a dollar bill and waving it in front of the audience he would point out the wording: ‘In God we trust’ — and then go on to comment that in business life the same principle could be applied, but with the afterthought ‘…everything…
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History is full of examples of innovations which, despite their promise, have been resisted by established players – the ‘not invented here’ effect. And although we’re familiar with the problem it doesn’t seem to have gone away; there are still plenty of examples to be found across today’s innovation landscape. One candidate might be UAVs – unmanne…
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Here’s a challenge. Close your eyes and try to visualise an entrepreneur. There’s a good chance that what you’ve come up with will be one of the usual suspects — Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma, perhaps some of the older versions like Steve Jobs or even Thomas Edison. Hopefully there’s a fair number of women represented, players like Oprah Winfrey, …
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What kinds of skills are going to be needed in organizations as they move towards an increasingly ‘phygital’ (= hybrid physical and digital) world of operations? Why are the skills of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship becoming so important? And how might people be trained on a continuing basis to acquire and deploy these skills inside a l…
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The challenge of digital innovation is everywhere. It’s hard to escape the talk of ‘revolutionary impact’ or ‘digital disruption’ or the need for new strategies to cope with ‘digital transformation’. But what’s really going on, where are the big questions we should be addressing and how might this affect our approach to innovation management? This …
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Podcasts are a bit like London buses. You wait a long time and then three come along all at once! This week we feature more in the series around the challenges to education and training in innovation , creativity and entrepreneurship - the main theme of the VISION project. We’ve already seen that there are likely to be significant shifts across the…
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