Total Innovation Podcast
Welcome to "Total Innovation," the podcast where I explore all the different aspects of innovation, transformation and change. From the disruptive minds of startup founders to the strategic meeting rooms of global giants, I bring you the stories of change-makers. The podcast will engage with different voices, and peer into the multi-faceted world of innovation across and within large organisations.
I speak to those on the ground floor, the strategists, the analysts, and the unsung heroes who make innovation tick. From technology breakthroughs to cultural shifts within companies, I'm on a quest to understand how innovation breathes new life into business.
I embrace the diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences that inform and drive the corporate renewal and evolution from both sides of the microphone. The Total Innovation journey will take you through the challenges, the victories, and the lessons learned in the ever-evolving landscape of innovation.
Join me as we explore the narratives of those shaping the market, those writing about it, and those doing the hard work. This is "Total Innovation," where every voice counts and every story matters.
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Episodes
49 episodes
48. Gina Lucarelli: Grassroots Innovations: UNDP Accelerator Lab Network
Gina built the world’s largest network of social innovation labs at the United Nations and currently teaches at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The innovation lab network that she built was the United Nation's largest ...
47. Martin Eriksson: The Decision Stack: How Strategic Alignment Unlocks Organizational Momentum
Martin Eriksson has spent three decades helping organisations figure out why they're stuck — and what to do about it.He's been building digital products since 1994, built SaaS before anyone called it SaaS, and has worked his way through ...
46. Vladislav Belousov: How to be a successful solver
Vladislav grew up in Russia. He left to pursue a doctorate in Italy. He has worked in industrial automation, certified himself across robotics and control systems, served an internship at Bosch Rexroth, and built a career working on the kind of...
45. Fernanda Torre: Governing in the Age of AI and Sustainability:
Fernanda Torre is a recognized expert in sustainability-driven innovation and CEO of the consultancy Next Agents, whose mission is to create value for people and the planet—both now and into the future. She is also the co-founder ...
44. Sonia Ferreira: Inside Maersk’s Innovation Ecosystem
Sonia is a global executive, board member and strategic advisor with over 20 years of experience across Europe, USA, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Bringing a blend of commercial strategy, technology leadership and innovation expertise, with a...
43. Marta Jakab: Aligning Strategy, Innovation, and AI
Marta started her journey in innovation in 1998 as the product manager of the first idea management platform, which became a market leader and served global customers such as Pfizer, Cargill, Belgacom and many more, to which she also consulted ...
42. Robyn Bolton: The Value Gap: How Leaders Unlock Real Innovation
Robyn Bolton works with leaders of medium and large businesses to help them navigate uncertainty and confidently grow revenue. At MileZero, she has worked with companies including Medtronic, Ariadne Labs, and Teachers Pay Teachers to transform ...
41. Tom Staley: Why Open Innovation Still Fails – and How the Best Organisations Are Finally Making It Work
Recognised as a Trusted Advisor, Tom works across the Public, Private and Defence Sectors, enabling organisations to establish the foundations to innovate, while leverage the capabilities of a diverse partner ecosystem; from startups to hypersc...
40. Susanna Laurson: The Edge Advantage: Building Innovation from the Faroe Islands
Súsanna Laursen is one of the driving forces behind the Faroe Islands' emerging innovation ecosystem. Based in Tórshavn, she works at Hugskotið — the Islands' startup incubator, founded in 2014 by the municipality of Tórshavn — where she suppor...
39. Alexander Osterwalder - The Era Business Model Innovation
Dr. Alexander Osterwalder is one of the world's most influential thinkers in strategy and innovation. A Swiss entrepreneur, author, and speaker, he is best known as the co-creator of the Business Model Canvas — a deceptively simple one-page too...
38. Expected Value - Chapter 15 & Epilogue
This is final episode of this season and the closing chapter in the Expected Value Story. In this episode, we look at the future of innovation. Innovation without adaptation is just novelty. The future belongs to those who can continuously evol...
37. Expected Value - Chapter 14
In this episode we explore chapter fourteen from metrics to mindsets. Thus far in the story we have seen that the numbers look great. XV across the portfolio was strong. Strategic fit profiles were improving, kill decisions were happening faste...
36. Expected Value - Act 4 Chapters 12 & 13
In this episode, we move to Act 4, where the spotlight moves from frameworks to people. Freya's team can score ideas, prioritize bets, and balance the portfolio. But now they face the harder challenge, embedding innovation into the culture itse...
35. Expected Value - Chapter 11
In this episode we step into chapter 11, learning loops and dynamic resourcing, where Freya discovers the fundamental truth at the heart of innovation performance. Namely, the value of an innovation is directly proportional to how much we learn...
34. Expected Value - Chapter 10
In this episode, we explore chapter 10, Lines of Trust, which takes us beyond governance and into the invisible systems that make innovation work or fall apart. Freya and her team have built structure. The XV model, the fit radar, the S-curve, ...
33. Expected Value - Act 3 Chapters 8 & 9
This week's exclusive release from Expected Value, the system to prove, measure, and scale value. In this episode we enter Act 3, Total Portfolio Intelligence. Most organizations don't suffer from a lack of innovation, they suffer f...
32. Expected Value - Chapter 7
“Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens in cycles”In this chapter, we're diving into one of the most powerful and often misunderstood forces shaping innovation performance, the S-curve. Innovation doesn't happen in st...
31. Expected Value - Chapter 6
"Innovation without alignment is just novelty. Strategic alignment without innovation is just stagnation. The magic happens at the intersection."In the chapters so far, we've moved from understanding value to learning how to mea...
30. Expected Value - Act 2, Chapter 5
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” Albert EinsteinInnovation has no shortage of frameworks, toolkits, or canvas templates. But too often, those tools complicate instead of clarifyin...
29: Expected Value - Chapters 2,3 & 4
In this second episode we move from illusion to understanding. Chapters two through four unpack the real performance gap in innovation and introduce the X V system, a data-informed way to calculate the expected value of ideas. We explore how co...
28: Expected Value - Act 1 Chapter 1
After a summer break, welcome back to season three of the pod. It's going to be a special season. I recently launched my latest book, Expected Value: The System to Prove, Measure, and Scale Value. And thanks to our sponsor Wazoku, across this s...
27: Ludvig Bergstrom - The New Nordics
Ludvig Bergstrom is a tech entrepreneur and founder of Nordic Tech Week. He launched his first tech company five years ago while studying in Copenhagen before relocating to Stockholm. Frustrated by the inaccessibility of the tech ecosyst...
26: Marco Miglioli - Lighting the Way
Marco is an award-winning lighting architect whose work spans cathedrals, museums, theatres—and now, refugee camps.He was the winning solver in the International Rescue Committee’s “Phosphorescence Technology for Lighting” challenge—a ch...
25: Fernanda Torre: Collaborate. Innovate. Act – Together for the Planet.
Fernanda Torre is an educator, innovation strategist, co-founder of Next Agents, and one of the leading voices behind Global Green Action Day: a bold international initiative tackling plastic pollution through radical collaboration, circu...
24: Victoria Milne - ISO56001
Victoria spearheads global innovation initiatives and excellence in innovation management and methodologies, leveraging emerging and advanced technologies across diverse industries. She achieves outstanding growth through qualitative and quanti...
