Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate Innovators

Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate Innovators


Latest Episodes

Episode 47: Testing Business Ideas with David Bland, CEO & Founder of Precoil
April 08, 2021

David is probably best known as the co-author of Testing Business Ideas which he co-authored with Alexander Osterwalder. However, hes had an incredible impact on innovation both at startups and large

Episode 46: Optimizing Your Team for Innovation Impact with Stefano Mastrogiacomo
February 25, 2021

There may be no more important topic in 2021 to innovation leaders than how to think about managing and organizing your team. On this week's episode of Agile Giants, I sit down with Stefano Mastrogiacomo to talk about his new book High-Impact Tools...

Episode 45: Operationalizing an Innovation Mandate with Tendayi Viki
January 26, 2021

How do you truly operationalize a mandate to become more innovative? There are plenty of resources that talk about the importance of innovation, but over the year's I've really grown to appreciate author & innovation consultant Tendayi Viki's...

Episode 44: Applying the Lean Startup Methodology to the Military with Peter Newell - Retired US Army Colonel & CEO of BMNT
January 06, 2021

How do you apply the lean startup methodology to the military? Well, that's the subject of this week's episode of Agile Giants. Pete Newell, whose name may sound familiar because Steve Blank mentioned him at the Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum as the...

Episode 44: Business Model Transformation & Data Based Corporate Startups at Philips with Tim Murphy
December 23, 2020

Tim Murphy leads the One SRC Services group within Philips Sleep and Respiratory Care. He joined our Forum to discuss his experience with data based corporate startups and more generally business model transformation. As mentioned last week, we are...

Episode 43: Steve Blank & Alexander Osterwalder on The Keys to Successfully Driving Innovation in Established Companies
December 16, 2020

Steve Blank & Alexander Osterwalder are world famous entrepreneurs and authors whose work in many ways launched the Lean Startup movement. We had a great conversation at CSL's Corporate Entrepreneurship Forum. We are in the process of sharing...

Episode 42: Re-Inventing the Convenience Store Chain - Mary Beth Green, Chief Innovation Officer @ Sheetz
October 22, 2020

If you live in Pennsylvania or one of the surrounding six states, you've likely pulled into a Sheetz Gas Station not to get gas, but to order & eat food. That's right high-quality quick serve food cu

Episode 41: Innovation at Johnson & Johnson with Michal Preminger and Stephen Pitt
October 14, 2020

I'm sure you are familiar with Johnson & Johnson, but do you know their innovation strategy? On this episode we're joined by 2 Corporate Innovators within J&J Michal Preminger and Stephen Pitt to discuss their innovation strategy.

Episode 40: Entrepreneur Turned 2x Corporate VC - Pradeep Tagare of National Grid Partners
October 07, 2020

After transitioning from an entrepreneur to CVC at Intel Capital, Pradeep spent the last two years setting up and leading National Grid's CVC group. We talk about both his experiences launching a new corporate fund in the energy space as well as his...

Episode 39: Innovation Pathways (including CVC) with Joseph Cabral from LSU
September 30, 2020

Joseph's papers have been some of the most interesting academic research on corporate venture capital in recent years. We do (eventually) get to this at the second half of the podcast, but honestly I could have talked to him for hours and kept going...

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