Etch Podcast

Today on the Etch Podcast, we are delighted to welcome Suzanne Charlotte Vos, Innovation Strategist and Activator, Consultant & Speaker, currently working as an Innovation Coach & Consultant at ING Labs APAC where here goal is to make innovation business as usual.

Elvin Turner is an award-winning innovation expert and associate professor of innovation, entrepreneurship and marketing for MBA and executive education programmes. His book, "Be Less Zombie: How great organisations create dynamic innovation, fearless leadership and passionate people" came out earlier this year, and it distills 10 years of field research amongst some of the world’s leading innovators into a pragmatic, actionable toolkit. We talk about the innovation particle, leading by experiment and what needs to be true for innovative products to fly through an organisation.

We return with a second Season and an episode that embodies disruption, innovation and influence. Greg Larkin is the international bestselling author of This Might Get Me Fired. A Manual for Thriving in the Corporate Entrepreneurial Underground. We discuss what it takes for enterprise businesses to actually innovate, why working Agile won't save you and how you need to be running a portfolio of experiments to actually generate the return on innovation.

This time, we talk about the growing area of Growth Design with Lex Roman. Lex is a digital Product Designer who believes in measuring the impact of design.

Today's guest is Douglas Ferguson. Douglas is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based facilitation agency that specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design inspired facilitation techniques. He has helped transform teams from U.S. SOCOM, the Air Force, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC.

In our latest podcast, we consider how to transition a massive enterprise to remote by sharing a story of a large organisation that has actually done it.

Can empathy be scaled within an organisation? And if so, how can middle-management get started? We talk to Dana Publicover, founder of Tiny Piñata - a thought partner for changemakers stuck in the grind based out of Greensboro, North Carolina.

What role can design play in a business? No better person to ask than the design manager at Airbnb, Tin Kadoic. We talked about the role of design, the organisational structure needed to make it work and the culture required to enable people to do their best work.

How digital and organisational transformation comes from a user-first place.

Tim sits down with Amy and Harriet to bring you insights and opinions on the rising influence of the solo travel experience. What can be done to attract the market and what are some companies already doing with great success?