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Business Experiments with Sarah Spoto and Vincent Ducret

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Stop Relying on Gut Feeling: How Business Experimentation Drives Innovation

In the ever-changing world of business, instinct can only take you so far. The latest episode of The Innovation Show dives deep into the world of data-driven innovation, exploring how business experimentation can de-risk new ventures and lead to success.

Our Corporate Explorers, Sarah Spoto (Product Marketing Manager for Electric Vehicles & Customer Experience with Cadillac) and Vincent Ducret (ChangeLogic), share their experiences implementing a groundbreaking business experimentation framework for General Motors in China.

This episode unpacks the importance of assumption analysis, prioritizing hypotheses, and iterative experimentation for making informed decisions based on real customer data, not just intuition.

You’ll also learn about:

The challenges of corporate innovation and how to overcome them
How to foster a culture of experimentation that embraces celebrating failures as learning opportunities
A real-world example of business experimentation in action

Teresa Amabile – The Progress Principle

Posted 2 months ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Career Development Creativity at Work Employee Engagement Employee Motivation Inner Work Life Innovation Management Job Satisfaction Leadership Skills Management Strategies Organizational Behavior Positive Emotions Productivity Retirement Planning Small Wins Team Building Teresa Amabile The Progress Principle Work-Life Balance Workplace Psychology

Teresa Amabile, author of ‘The Progress Principle,’ sharesher extensive research on motivation and emotions in the workplace.

Extrinsic Innovation Motivation

Posted 3 years ago Tagged Curtain Twitcher Effect Aidan McCullen Innovation Management Intrinsic Extrinsic Motivation and Innovation Transformation

leaders are time-strapped, but a major part of transformation efforts includes leaders making time to provide the extrinsic motivation necessary to kindle the intrinsic motivation that may have extinguished inside your people.

Too Much Chaos, Not Enough Order: Innovation Needs Structure (Eventually)

Posted 3 years ago Tagged Change Management Chaorder Chaos and Order Innovation Innovation Management Management And Leadership

There is a need for chaos and order. Too much order and you fossilise. Too much chaos and you fall apart. These things are always in fruitful harmony.

Deadheading Business and Renewal

Posted 3 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Undisruptable Change Management Emergent business hibernation and innovation Innovation Management Peter Drucker new busiess Peter Drucker the new always looks so puny Undisruptable Undisruptable Book

Peter Drucker had it right when he said, “The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.”

When Good People Go Quiet: A Swiss Cheese Model of Idea Penetration

Posted 3 years ago Tagged Aidan McCullen Undisruptable Corporate Culture Good people go quiet Ideas Innovation Innovation Management Swiss cheese Model Idea Penetration

Swiss cheese Model for Ideas Aidan McCullen. Have you noticed a colleague who was once full of ideas, who has gone unusually quiet? Perhaps you may assume they are just disinterested? You may think they are having a bad day? Perhaps instead, they have fallen prey to a corporate lobotomy? Perhaps they are worn down? Perhaps they just couldn’t be bothered any more.

EP 231: The Mom Test with Rob Fitzpatrick

Posted 4 years ago Tagged Customer Validation Innovation Management Lean Startup Rob Fitzpatrick The Mom Test Startup Labs Startups

Rob Fitzpatrick is author of “The Mom Test, How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you”
His book details how customer conversations go wrong and how we can do better.

EP 229: Be Less Zombie: How Great Companies Create Dynamic Innovation, Fearless Leadership and Passionate People with Elvin Turner

Posted 4 years ago Tagged Corporate Culture Corporate Innovation Elvin Turner Be Less Zombie Innovation Management

Elvin Turner goes behind the scenes of some of the world’s most innovative companies and decodes the tools, hacks and approaches that help their managers systematically spark ingenuity, agility, and profitable creativity at scale.