The Innovation Engine Podcast

How important are a company’s leaders to ensuring that innovation prospers within their organizations? New & Improved CEO Bob Eckert joins us to talk about the impact C-level executives have on innovation within companies, the importance of continual training for executives and other employees, the benefits it can have for employees in areas of life that extend far beyond the workplace, and the most important traits for innovation leaders to have.

Gregg Fraley of KILN Ideas joins us for the 6th episode of "The Innovation Engine" to discuss Creative Problem Solving (CPS), how to strike the necessary balance of science & creativity to drive innovation, and the importance of measuring innovation. Gregg is an internationally-known speaker who has presented at conferences including TEDxNASA, TEDxStorment, FUSE, and the Creative Problem Solving Institute. He blogs on innovation-themed topics regularly on his own website at www.greggfraley.com, as well as on Kilnco.com, and for the last 2 years he has been named one of the top 40 innovation bloggers in the world by Innovation Excellence.com.  

Jon Fawcett of [Fuse] Chicken and Fawcett Design joins us to talk about building innovative physical products. [Fuse] Chicken which was hatched on the strength of a 2012 Kickstarter campaign that raised more than $200,000, makes iPhone and Android accessories like TŌGŌPOWER and Une Bobine.Among the topics we discuss on this episode of the podcast are the benefits of innovative marketing, crowdfunding as a new form or market research, the impact 3-D printing will have on the world of manufacturing, and how [Fuse] Chicken applies agile software development methods to the world of product manufacturing.

Everybody has ideas, and plenty of them. Humans have on average 50,000 thoughts every day. How do you go from ideas to innovation? And how can you generate more, better ideas? Keith Harmeyer, co-author of "SmartStorming: The Game-Changing Process for Generating Bigger, Better Ideas" and co-founder of SmartStorming, comes on the podcast to talk about those topics and more.

On the third episode of the podcast, we talk with the Center for Creative Leadership's Jonathan Vehar about how organizational leaders can establish a culture of innovation. Jonathan Vehar is a Senior Faculty Member at the Center for Creative Leadership. He has advised companies like Clorox, Disney, GE, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, Pfizer, and Volvo on how to help their workforces become more innovative. Jonathan is an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University and the Center for Studies in Creativity at SUNY Buffallo State College. 

The 2nd episode of The Innovation Engine Podcast, in which we discuss how the Internet, infrastructure advancements, decreased barriers to entry, and the onset of agile has fueled innovation throughout the business landscape. Starring our very first guest, 3Pillar’s Dan Klaussen. 

The first episode in 3Pillar Global's "The Innovation Engine" podcast, in which we discuss our raison d'être, whether innovation is an overused word in the business world, look back at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, and attempt to answer the age-old question, "Is innovation something you can taste?"