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.
Innovation
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.
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 Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach & Internationally Acclaimed Author, about what organizations have to gain when they embrace the “messiness” of collaborating in complex systems, her approach to the “decision-making trio”, leading with empathy, and more.
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.
Control the Room Podcast: Douglas Ferguson speak with Van Lai-DuMone, Founder of WorksmART, about creative disconnect in the corporate workforce, Van's go-to creativity strategies to improve team work, and the importance to prioritize connection when shifting to a hybrid workplace.
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 Jim Scott, Director of Design Innovation at RE/SPEC, about the multi-layered career of design, benefits of implementing the macro & micro exercise, the lack of diversity the design industry faces, and more.