An introduction to a new season with a new podcast: Inside Outside Innovation. This year, we're taking a closer look at the means and methods of innovation both internally and externally. We'll be doing a couple different formats of episodes, some shorter, some longer, with exciting guests from companies such as Ericsson, Capital One, and Konica Minolta. We hope you'll join us. 

Ep. 0 - Let's Get Started

We talked with Ken Durand who runs the Atlanta Idea Factory as part of Ericsson's innovation model. He told us how to sift through the existing culture of a company to find the right people to spur innovation from the inside.

Ep. 1 - Ken Durand with the Atlanta Idea Factory

We talked with Celeste Henkelmann from Konica Minolta about how a big corporation with a traditional set of products, positions themselves to be more receptive to innovation and how that plays into their product line. 

Ep. 2 - Celeste Henkelmann with Konica Minolta

Today, we got a chance to talk to Scott Childs, Senior Experience Design Lead at Capital One, about the Five-day Sprint Design Process. From problem to prototype, we explored how this simple and sleek lean start-up tool can be an excellent tool to develop new perspectives for any business. 

Ep. 4 - Scott Childs from Capital One

Part one of a two-part interview with Daniele Dondi, the co-founder of the ING Innovation Studio. Daniele wrote an article titled, "Four Controversial Learnings After Setting Up a Corporate Accelerator." He discussed some of the less-talked about issues that arise in corporate innovation, many of which are absolutely vital to address for the accelerator to be successful. Today, Brian and Josh sat down with Daniele to talk about the specific "controversial learnings" regarding the dynamics of external and internal teams and the environment and timing necessary for the teams to succeed. Check back next week (or subscribe!) to listen to part two of this interview which will focus on crucial, but usually ignored, realizations about validation and sponsors in corporate innovation. 

Ep. 7 - Daniele Dondi from ING

In part 2 of our interview with Daniele Dondi, the co-founder of the ING Innovation Studio, he discusses the need for customer validation and sponsor support and the crucial role experiments play in any innovation venture. He also shared his insight on ensuring the experiments are well-designed, even if that involves using an external team. 

Ep. 8 - Daniele Dondi from ING

In this fast and furious interview, Brian sat down with Amee Mungo who is a product lead with the brand and credit card division of Capital One. She discussed both the challenging and beneficial dynamics of bringing a startup mentality to a corporate worlds. Amee also emphasized the importance of an encouraging leader with a clear goal in motivating innovation within a large organization. 

Ep. 10 - Amee Mungol from Capital One

Liz Elam is on the frontline of the fast-developing sphere of coworking. She is the owner of Link Coworking and founder of the Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC) and the League of Extraordinary Coworking spaces (LEXC). In today's show she discussed the unique dynamics of coworking spaces and the people who fill them as well as how these atmospheres catalyze corporate innovation and partnerships with startups.

Ep. 12 - Liz Elam with Link Coworking and GCUC

With over 187,000 hypotheses tested and almost 180,000 interviews conducted, LaunchPad Central is changing the landscape of innovation. Jim Hornthal explained to Josh how this organization is helping collect and manage learnings for startups and corporations and uses lean methodology to do it.