HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to generate business impact?

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

Definition of impact!

How to change a business model?

How to generate quick success to convince my manager?

You always talk about leadership and empowerment. What about the business?

How to get started with innovation?

How to measure success in innovation?

Is innovation important for business success?

Simon Alexander Ong is an award winning Life and Executive Coach, Business Strategist, Motivational Speaker and Author. We explored his story of how he encountered difficult times in his life and how they enabled him to be who he is today. And we dove deeper into his book Energize - Find Your Spark, Achieve More and Live Better where he explained the story behind it, how he developed the 4 areas of the book, what the benefit for the readers will be and the process of him writing it.

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is How to transform a business

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

What can I do as a manager to manage change?

How can Innovation help businesses to transform?

How to secure a Business transformation long term?

Why should our business transform when everything is well?

How can I support transformations as an employee?

When should a business transform?

Sina Landorff (Mrs. Positivity) Entrepreneur, Leadership Coach for Founders and Managers joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

We explored how leaders can be developed in startups, the 10 skills of great leaders and we discussed the 5 key tips for every entrepreneur which she explains in more detail inside the episode.

HIQA (Human Innovation Questions Answered Live)A format where I answer questions and go deeper into a specific topic.

The topic of this episode was: How not to pitch as a startup

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

• What is the right process?

• How do you structure an innovation department?

• How to convince my manager that we should innovate?

• How to motivate the organization to innovate?

• How much should the innovation budget of an organization be?

Ricardo Rosa Head of Innovation Sonae Sierra, an international Commercial Real Estate Company, joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

In our conversation he shared his story of how he developed from one decade of working in marketing to running the innovation Department in Sonae Sierra. We talk about Innovation in the commercial real estate industry, changing areas inside of it and how he works with Innovation in Sonae Sierra.

HIQA (Human Innovation Questions Answered Live)A new format where I answer questions and go deeper into a specific topic.

This time I will share insights from the Mobile World Congress and the Five Years From Now conference in Barcelona where I listened to plus 50 startup pitches and took notes.

Tony is the pioneer of Jobs-to-be-Done Theory, the inventor of the Outcome-Driven Innovation® (ODI) process, and the founder of strategy and innovation consulting firm Strategyn. Tony has applied his ODI process at some of the world’s leading companies and across nearly all industries to inform breakthrough innovations—achieving a success rate that is 5 times better than the industry average. Philip Kotler calls Tony “the Deming of innovation” and credits him with bringing predictability to innovation. Published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, Tony is also the author of bestsellers What Customers Want and JOBS TO BE DONE: Theory to Practice.

Ivan Jimenez Head of Innovation at Mutualidad Abogacía and Seed Investor at BackFund joined me to talk about mental adaptation, corporate innovation and how corporations can work with startups.

Dr. Tobias Adam, CEO of Parmenides AG joined me to talk about the Creative Process, we explored how you can learn to think creatively to innovate and dove deeper into complex decision making.

Tamara Eberle Certified professional Facilitator with two decades of team leadership and organizational development experience joined me to talk innovation. We talked ideation, why the famous sticky notes are not always sign for being innovative and she shared tips and tricks for innovators to innovate.

Marta del Castillo, CEO of Spain Startup - South Summit joined me to talk innovation.She shares her inspiring story from living on 4 continents in different circumstances. We I talk about the importance of purpose driven organizations , Female Leadership as the core skills and of course innovation in startups and corporates.

Steve Baker Facilitator, Coach and Keynote speaker. Steve shared his story and experience working with great leaders as an employee and later as coach. We talked about company Culture, Leadership styles and Leadership capabilities.

Together we explore their stories, the innovation ecosystem and of course THE CUBE and how especially Andres and his teams use radical innovation to support companies. And how they learned from uber to build and operate a workation spot as THE CUBE extension.

Stephen Brooks the Retail Expert and I explore the definition of innovation, how the Retail Real Estate industry can benefit from innovation and how organizations and leadership can adapt.

Ranjan Pal Travel Writer and story teller

Ranjan is a Travel Writer who stept out of the corporate world and documents his adventures for the most famous travel magazines around the world. We go deep into his process and uncover his learnings.

Monica Canfield Lenfest, Healer, Teacher, Project Manager and curious collaborator of architecting curiosity.

Monica and I explore her story how she early on learned the value of authenticity the physical move to San Francisco changed her life and of course healing, teaching and curiosity in all depth to innovate yourself and business.

Innovation Culture Coding featuring featuring Doug Faulkner

Innovation as a plateau buster

How to innovate through personal impact.

Ulrike Spang-Lessnow, Ron Thurston and Stephen Brooks joined me for the Innovation Breakfast Club Retail edition to explore the innovation through the people on the frontline.

Innovation Culture Coding featuring featuring Bruno Pesec

Disrupting the disruptors

How might a leading European bank grow its market share and remain competitive in the 21st century.