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QuaranTEAMING, Tatchos, & Caring for Your Customers During Adversity, with Katie Hanson

Katie Hanson, Director of Product Management at Benefitfocus, shares how her company quickly adapted to help their customers find affordable benefits during this global pandemic and how it led to the creation of a new offering. She also talks about the importance of supporting her team during these stressful times by understanding how they are “really” doing.

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Leading Transformation in Diabetes Care - An Interview with Moritz Hartmann

Learn how Roche Diabetes Care used Lean Innovation to reinvent themselves to better address disruptive forces in Diabetes Care.  Moritz Hartmann, head of the Roche Information Solutions shares his leadership lessons learned throughout this journey driving transformation in the highly regulated medical devices industry.

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Invention VS Innovation and the 4th Industrial Revolution

In this episode of SHIFT, we link up with Arthur Daemmrich, Director of the Lemelson Center for the study of invention and innovation at the Smithsonian Institution, to discuss the differences between innovation and invention, and whether or not we have truly entered the fourth industrial revolution.

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Creativity of small businesses during hard times, with Bennett Blank

Bennett Blank, Innovation & Transformation Leader at Intuit shares his observations on the creativity of small businesses during hard times and the grass-roots activation of Innovation tools at Intuit to help small businesses get through this pandemic.

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Innovating the Core Business and IT Function with Ryan Staggs of HCA

Ryan Staggs is the Assistant Vice President of Integration & Mobility Services at the Hospital Corporation of America. In this episode, we dive into how Ryan increases innovation within the IT department and making it more nimble and responsive.

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Metrics and Values for Scaling Innovation with Bennett Blank, Innovation Leader at Intuit

In this episode, we’re honored to have Bennett Blank, Innovation Leader at Intuit, talk about how Intuit has spread innovation thinking throughout the entire organization. Bennett is a Lean Startup in the Enterprise veteran so you’re in for a treat.

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Scaling Innovation and the Product Lifecycle Framework with Sonja Kresojevic, VP of Product Lifecycle at Pearson

In today’s episode we’re excited to have Sonja Kresojevic, the VP of Product Lifecycle at Pearson. In the episode we cover:
- How teams leverage the product lifecycle framework to focus on the right things at the right time.
- How Pearson funds different early stage projects based on stage specific criteria and metrics.
- How Pearson has scaled lean innovation throughout the business and created a culture that enables innovation.

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M&As as a Catalyst to Cultural Change and Growth with Zakaria Ghassouli, People, Finance & Strategy Director at Avito

During M&As, it can often be challenging to effectively integrate two cultures. In today’s episode, Zakaria Ghassouli, People, Finance & Strategy Director at Avito, talks us through how he proactively used the M&A he went through with Avito as an opportunity to create a better culture after taking the passive approach began to lead to some problems.

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Innovation within Compliance Departments and Legal Services with Stephen Poor

As an intrapreneur, dealing with compliance can certainly be a hurdle to overcome. In today’s episode, Moves the Needle co-founders, Brant Cooper and Aaron Eden are excited to talk to Stephen Poor about how compliance departments can better enable innovation and how law firms can be more innovative.

Stephen is the Chairman of Seyfarth Shaw, an international law firm comprised of over 900 lawyers.

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Lean Innovation within a Non-Profit and Social Impact Context

In this episode, we’re really excited to have Cholpon Rosengren, Director of Family Support at United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, on the show with Aaron Eden, co-founder Moves The Needle and Heather Hiscox, leader of our Non-Profit and Social Impact programs and services .

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How Giants are Banding Together to Innovate with Jason Harris, Dir. of Corporate Marketing at UI Labs

In this episode we’re excited to have Jason Harris, Director of Corporate Marketing & Communications for UI LABS. UI LABS is a first-of-its-kind innovation accelerator, addressing problems too big for any one organization to solve on its own. The challenges we are addressing in manufacturing and smart cities are at the intersection of digital convergence: computing, big data, and the Internet of Things (IOT).

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Using Comic Books to Build Leadership Buy-In with Kyle Nel

In today’s episode, we are really excited to host our guest, Kyle Nel. Kyle is the Executive Director of Lowe's Innovation Labs and has a very unique approach toward innovation which was fun to explore in this episode. They leverage a narrative-driven approach that uses story (and comics) as a strategic tool to map out the future for Lowe’s that they are working to bring to life. They then work backward to build that future, rapidly testing technology prototypes to solve everyday problems.

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How to Create a "Built to Last" Innovation Program in the Enterprise

In the latest episode, Dan Kaiser of CUNA Mutual shares his expertise in answering key questions when it comes to creating breakthrough initiatives and launching an innovation center in large, successful insurance companies.

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Innovation Practices within a $20 Billion Defense Company

In the episode, we dive into how BEA Systems, a multinational aerospace, defense, and information security company has organized their innovation strategy into 4 operational buckets and how they not only identify new products but innovate on the core business.

We also talk about how they have done a fantastic job getting rid of the distance between the end customer and new product development teams amongst other things.

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Creating an Entrepreneurial Culture in the Public Sector with Kelly McAdoo, City Manager of City of Hayward

In this episode, we interview Kelly McAdoo, the City Manager of the City of Hayward. We cover lots of ground, including deep dives into topics like:

- How Kelly has been driving impact through creating an entrepreneurial culture within a bureaucratic organization.
- How City of Hayward has been able to drastically shorten the scoping process for new projects using Lean Innovation.
- How City of Hayward is redefining the way public sector entities should function in the 21st century.

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