The Innovation Engine Podcast

On this special edition of the Innovation Engine Podcast, David DeWolf, Founder and CEO of 3Pillar Global, and Jessica Hall, 3Pillar's Vice President of Product Strategy and Design, discuss their new book, The Product Mindset: Succeed in the Digital Economy by Changing the Way Your Organization Thinks. During our discussion, we'll unpack the key characteristics of successful digital products and the three core principles that drive their creation: minimizing time to value, solving for need, and excelling at change. We'll also talk about the challenge of an antiquated IT mindset and how leaders can embrace company-wide thinking that leads to great products and thriving businesses. We are also joined by Shawn DuBravac, Founder and President at Avrio Institute and author of the New York Times bestseller Digital Destiny, who will moderate the discussion. Resources:Learn more about The Product Mindset at productmindset.comConnect with Shawn at shawndubravac.com Digital Destiny: How the New Age of Data Will Transform the Way We Work, Live, and Communicate by Shawn DuBravacLearn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

We discuss whether to view innovation as a top-down or bottom-up function, why innovation measurement is a mirage, and why places like Google X believe that rewarding failure is a way to fuel future successes. Joining us to talk about all of that and more is Taylor Ryan, the CMO of Valuer.ai, which helps corporations, accelerators, and investors find high-potential startups that specifically fit the corporation's strategic innovation requirements. In order to achieve this, Valuer has developed a platform that uses crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to detect, predict, evaluate, and select startups that are particularly relevant to large companies. Resources:Learn more at Valuer.aiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylorryan/Watch: “Astro Teller: The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure | TED Talk”Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

On this episode, we’ll be talking about the growing importance of the role of the Chief Product Officer at driving innovation in many companies. Among the topics we’ll discuss are the most important functions the CPO should perform, what kinds of companies are best suited to hire CPOs, and how you’ll know if your company is ready for one.Joining us to talk about all that and more is Ben Foster. Ben is the Chief Product Officer at GoCanvas and an Executive Product Advisor to more than 50 product companies. His career includes 4 years in product positions at eBay, as well as VP level product positions at companies like AdChemy and OPower. Among the more than 50 product companies he has advised since his days in the Bay Area are well-known innovative software companies like Contactually, Aquicore, StoryBlocks, and many more.Resources:Visit the GoCanvas website: https://www.gocanvas.com/Connect with Ben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benfoster/Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

In this episode, we'll be looking at Loonshots and how to nurture the crazy ideas that win wars, cure diseases, and most importantly here on The Innovation Engine, transform industries. Among the topics we'll discuss are why structure eats culture for breakfast, how and why phase transitions make the perfect environment for innovation to flourish, and the difference between P-type and S-type Loonshots.Joining us for this episode to talk those topics and more is Safi Bahcall. Safi is the author of Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas that Win Wars, Cure Diseases,and Transform Industries, which published the very same day this episode airs. The Washington Post named Loonshots one of the 10 Leadership Books to Watch in 2019 and Business Insider called it one of the 14 Books Everyone will be Reading this Year.Resources:Read: Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform IndustriesLearn more at https://www.bahcall.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/SafiBahcallLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/safi-bahcall/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loonshots/Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we discuss how to become an insights-driven business and how what we at 3Pillar call the Product Mindset can set you on the path to becoming one. Among the topics that we'll discuss are what it means to be insights-driven, the advantages that are inherent in focusing your efforts on driving business outcomes, and the (possibly surprisingly) role that is becoming the driving force behind this shift within organizations.Joining us on this episode to talk those topics and more is Tyler McDaniel, Vice President of Buyer Experience Analytics at Forrester. Tyler manages a team of product managers and analytics insights professionals who help Forrester clients understand technology adoption trends, buyer behavior, and customer journey information for purchases of products and services.Resources:Learn more at https://go.forrester.com/Connect with Tyler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-mcdaniel-b53213/Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we'll be looking at unlocking the customer value chain. Among the topics we'll discuss are why companies need to be thinking more about business model innovation than technology innovation, why they should focus far less on the competition and far more on their customers, and what we really mean when we talk about the concept of digital disruption. Here with us today to talk about all that and more is Dr. Thales Teixiera. Thales is a professor at the Harvard Business School and HBS's marketing unit, and his focus is researching digital disruption and the economics of attention. He's also the author of the soon-to-be-published book Unlocking the Customer Value Chain, which focuses on decoupling disruption and innovation, helping readers uncover the true drivers of change in business today, and why the answer isn’t technology (as we're so often led to believe). Resources:Learn more at https://www.decoupling.co/Pre-order: Unlocking the Customer Value Chain (Feb. 19, 2019)Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThalesHBSLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thales-teixeira-391587/Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

In this episode, we'll be looking at what the future of digital healthcare holds. We'll cover the role AI and chatbots will have in the future (and are already having, in some cases), some of the inherent challenges in innovating in the healthcare space, and how one leader at a Fortune 100 company in the healthcare space views the intersection of digital and healthcare.Joining us for this episode to talk about those topics and more is Greg Fitzgerald, the Staff Vice President of Digital Product Engineering at Centene. Greg is responsible for the strategic direction and development of the consumer technology products emerging from the Digital Product Engineering team at Centene. His career has included leadership positions in a number of successful healthcare startups, including running engineering teams for LiveHealthier, a digital wellness company acquired by Centene, and HealthCentral, a social community of patients and experts acquired by Remedy Health Media.Resources:Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-fitzgerald-576b333/Read the whitepaper we discuss on the episode: “Artificial Intelligence and Conversational Agents in Healthcare”Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we take a look back at the year’s biggest consumer technology show, CES, which just wrapped in Las Vegas. Among the topics we cover are whether AI lived up to the massive hype at this year’s show; why Allstate’s CEO’s says “mobility is the new transportation” and data is Allstate's key differentiator; and why podcasting – yes, podcasting! – is poised to make a big splash in 2019. We also get the latest from David on his upcoming book, The Product Mindset, to get the Cliff's Notes recap of the book and when it will be hitting bookshelves.  Joining us to talk about all that and more is returning guest David DeWolf, the founder and CEO of 3Pillar Global.Resources:Learn more at https://www.3pillarglobal.com/team-member/david-dewolfConnect with David: Twitter | LinkedInRead: “WHAT’S NEXT IN AI? THE ONE THING I’M LOOKING FOR AT CES 2019”Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

For this very special episode of The Innovation Engine, we talk about a new way of measuring podcast analytics that was recently unveiled by NPR called Remote Audio Data, or RAD for short. Among the topics we cover are why RAD was created, what the process was like for bringing it to life, and what comes next now that NPR is opening RAD up to the open source community.Stacey Goers, a Product Manager for Podcasts and Social at NPR, joins us to discuss those topics and more. For the last year, Stacey has been leading the team responsible for developing RAD. That meant working with a wide range of podcast publishers and media companies to determine what RAD should become.The media companies that support RAD and were instrumental in its development include Cadence13, Edison Research, ESPN, Google, iHeartMedia, Libsyn, The New York Times, New York Public Radio, Voxnest, and Wondery. There are also numerous organizations committed to using RAD, such as Acast, AdsWizz, Art19, AllSound, Blubrry Podcasting, Panoply, Omny Studio, Podtrac, PRI/PRX, RadioPublic, Triton Digital, WideOrbit, and Whooshkaa. Among the organizations responsible for helping bring RAD to life was 3Pillar.For more information on RAD, you can read this blog post Stacey wrote on NPR's website announcing RAD's release.Resources:Learn more at rad.npr.orgAre you a podcaster? Start adding RAD tags at radeditor.ioCheck out the RAD code: https://github.com/nprConnect with Stacey: Twitter | LinkedInLearn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com

On this episode, we'll be looking at choosing the right tech stack to fuel innovation in your company. We'll talk about why the technologies your teams use matter, what the most successful product teams do to ensure the work they're doing has an impact, and how to avoid shiny-new-toy syndrome when it comes to adding new tools to your tech stack.Joining us on this episode is Latif Nanji, the co-founder and CEO of Roadmunk, a road-mapping enterprise SaaS platform that serves thousands of product innovators. Roadmunk's customers include Amazon, The New York Times, Nike, Coca-Cola, Bloomberg, Adobe, and Citibank. Prior to Roadmunk, Latif was a senior product manager at Miovision Technologies and the co-founder and CFO of Pokerspace.com.Resources:Learn more at https://roadmunk.com/Connect with Latif: LinkedIn | Twitter | MediumListen to Roadmunk’s Podcast: Product to ProductRead Latif’s article: “How poker helps you win at product management”Learn more and get the full show notes at: 3PillarGlobal.com