The Innovation Show

Timo Partanen, strategy professor and former Nokia market intelligence leader, shares firsthand accounts from Nokia's iPhone threat briefings. He discusses early Apple signals, how the iPhone's ecosystem—not just hardware—upended assumptions, Nokia's hardware-first culture and internal blind spots, plus carrier deals, Symbian limits, and why warnings failed to trigger action.

Timo Vuori, Aalto strategy professor who studies collective emotion regulation, and Quy Huy, INSEAD strategy scholar on organizational emotion, explain Nokia's turnaround. They discuss how structured emotion regulation replaced denial and fear. They cover board practices, staged strategy processes, setting kill criteria, and creating multiple options to cool panic and enable radical pivots.

Quy Huy, a management professor studying emotions and organizational change, and Timo Vuori, an organizational scholar on leadership and strategy, unpack Nokia’s collapse. They explore how fear distorted communication and produced collective silence. They discuss Symbian’s technical traps, leadership pressures, coordination failures, and why emotional dynamics mattered more than technology.

Timo Vuori, strategic management professor who studies organizational attention and emotions. Quy Huy, strategy professor known for research on how emotions wrecked Nokia. They discuss how fear reshapes attention and silences truth-telling. They explore power, poker-face cultures, structural drivers of emotion, and parallels to AI and other corporate failures.

Jacquie McNish, investigative business journalist and co-author of Losing the Signal, traces BlackBerry’s dramatic arc. She highlights the founders’ clash and leadership styles. She recounts the 2011 global outage, the NTP patent war, the failed Storm launch, and the QNX pivot. She explores encrypted messaging’s geopolitical role and the company’s reinvention for automotive systems.

Chuck House, intrapreneur and corporate innovation veteran who created the Return Map, explains why projects die without strategic linkage. He discusses Steve Jobs’ product cycles, four intrapreneur traits, the art of managing up and down, flaws in HQ metrics and engineering tracking, and how a living Return Map forces alignment, accountability, and better forecasting across teams.

David Rogers, Columbia Business School professor and author who wrote the Digital Transformation Playbook, walks through platform strategy, disruption theory, and how AI fits into successive waves of transformation. He explores network effects, platform types, value‑train mapping, and strategic responses to challengers. Practical frameworks and mapping tools are highlighted throughout.

Kevin Evers, author and commentator on music-business strategy, offers a concise mini bio and dives into Taylor Swift's strategic moves. Multiple short sentences cover genre pivots, reputation battles, masters and streaming, the Eras Tour, and an anti-fragile approach to setbacks. The conversation highlights storytelling, fan engagement, and how business lessons emerge from pop stardom.

Kevin Evers, editor at Harvard Business Review Press and author of There's Nothing Like This, offers a strategic lens on Taylor Swift's rise. He covers fearless reinvention, blue ocean moves attracting new audiences, mastery of fan engagement through gamified hints, and the CEO-like vision behind her brand evolution. Short, sharp takes on risk, leadership, and turning artistry into a global business.

Joel Schwartzberg, a communication expert and author, shares insights on effective messaging. He emphasizes that a clear point is essential for influence and innovation. The discussion explores the integration of AI in communication and how remote work has reshaped interactions. Joel provides practical strategies, like the 'I believe' and 'XY' tests, to sharpen messages and handle interruptions gracefully. He underscores that presentation skills can be developed through practice, not talent, and ends with tips on delivering impactful speeches.