Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Tim Beattie, Global Head of Product of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, about the value of incorporating open innovation groups in your organization to gather customer feedback, the benefits of having direct access to customer feedback when these spaces are created, the importance of having consistent showcase events and more.
Facilitation
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Adrian Howard, consultant, coach, and trainer at Quietstars, about his Scale of Truthiness meeting, what makes it magical, and what it helped accomplish.
How do you set your team up for successful virtual meetings? Voltage control shares 5 strategies for high-engagement and productivity.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Jeff Marple, Director of Digital Transformation Strategy at Keesal Propulsion Labs, about the opportunity for innovation in the legal industry, how knowing “your client’s environment” allows you to offer the most effective solutions to individual businesses' needs, and his point of view on “advocating for your customer”.
Suggestions from the Voltage Control team for how to overcome ideation block and spark new ideas.
Applying enterprise design thinking principles and practices can result in faster innovation and an ability to stay ahead of the competition and minimize uncertainty and risk.
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Taylor Cone, Founder and CEO of Lightshed, about his Collaboration Design Kickoff meetings, why they are essential for all teams to do effective work together, and how they are changing meeting culture.
Don't wait to be in person to run a Design Sprint. Here are 5 tips to adapt the workshop to the virtual landscape & solve big challenges.
Douglas Ferguson speaks with Johannes Petereit, Ph.D. Student at the German Research Center for Geosciences, about the Train Together Forever meeting he and other natural science professionals come together at virtually each week to "change the way science is done."
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speaks with Sarah L. Collie, Associate Vice President for Organizational Excellence at the University of Virginia, about the influence facilitation has played throughout her professional career, how meeting disruption can happen no matter how prepared the facilitator, and more.