Capitalism is great One failure of capitalism: if a great idea has no business model, it's unlikely to be pursued - if it doesn't make money, it won't happen. For innovative new products, we need to measure a different metric - JOY Some ideas are AMAZING, but they don't make money Even if they are great, you have to look at them through a commercial lens The ideas go away when companies can't figure out how to make money at it The idea must fulfill the customer's desire - you must bring them joy, and the money will follow. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We humans actively seek out the new, and the Cybertruck is that Even though I don't believe in electric vehicles, I love the DESIGN Electric cars are just REPOSITIONING the electric generation It looks DAMN COOL and AMAZING Every car on the road looks exactly the same Every car maker is stealing ideas from other carmakers Even the Teslas are boring Cybertruck is the future. I want to be part of that future If the design stays mostly the same, then I will buy it We are sponges that want to learn everything when we are born Our brains are still primed to seek out the new We want the next dopamine fix Attention other carmakers: note the Cybertruck design --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

http://thinkfuture.com  ** FEEL FREE TO LISTEN AT 2X SPEED **   Why are we in this innovation "rut"? Its safety over innovation From the 1880s to 1950s where there was so much innovation going on - it was crazy Since then, we've hardly invented anything We are so concerned about hurting ourselves that we are holding ourselves back Look at the invention of the car and the plane. People used to be willing to be hurt or die in the pursuit of innovation. Now we don't Every disaster pushes us back so far. Why can't we just move forward? Right to try is the right way to go We've pulled back on ourselves - we ask "should we" too often We need to be willing to innovate at the expense of our safety and security We need to create innovation zones where people are free to innovate without fear. Inventions can run free. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

http://hellofuture.co Are you truly understanding and delivering on your customer's core desires? Probably not. Customers want great THINGS and EXPERIENCES, not to pay bills, get mortgages, or negotiate to buy a used car. How close is your product and service to address your core customer desires? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

It's not only about applying digital to your current processes Digital is just an application of technology Terrible processes which are digitized aren't any better People look at digital-first before they think about transformation when it should be the other way around Digital is simple compared to the transformation The tough part is transforming your business first. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Keith Keating has a career spanning over 20 years in learning and development (L&D). He is well known in the industry as a workforce futurist, design thinking practitioner, and L&D thought leader. Keith is currently pursuing his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania’s chief learning officer program. https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-keating-1976963a/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Digital shaper, speaker, and thought leader. Award-winning technology marketer. Startup and entrepreneurship lecturer. Founder of the world’s first App stores. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

John Carter is a recognized expert in helping global organizations improve the speed and innovation of product development. As Principal of TCGen Inc., he has advised many top firms such as Apple, Amazon, Cisco, HP, IBM, Roche, and Westinghouse.  He also serves on the Board of Directors of Cirrus Logic (CRUS) a leading semiconductor firm.  John has had roles of CTO (Klipsch Group) and Chief Engineer (Bose).  John was the co-inventor of the Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones and shares the original patent with Dr. Bose. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Show Notes: Nerjada (Ada) Maksutajhas recently completed her MBA at Berkeley Haas and is the 2020 Fellow for the Center for Responsible Business. Prior to business school, Ada worked as a strategy consultant with Accenture advising on digital transformation, corporate innovation, and social entrepreneurship projects with clients including the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and Pearson Education. Post-graduation she will be joining IDEO's Design for Learning studio, focused on lifelong learning and future of work challenges. She previously studied Economics and Human Rights at the University of Chicago. Helpful tools for remote collaboration: · https://miro.com/ o Enterprise-ready team collaboration whiteboard for distributed teams · https://www.shape.space/ o Shape is IDEO’s latest digital innovation tool for building, testing, and refining your ideas · https://mural.co o Digital workspaces for visual collaboration, inspiration, and innovation · https://stormboard.com o Shared Sticky Notes and Whiteboards How to define design thinking? Below you can see how IDEO loosely defines design thinking - There’s no one definition of design thinking. At IDEO, it’s a set of both mindsets and design-based activities that foster the collaboration required to solve problems in human-centered ways. It’s not a fail-safe approach; nor is it the only approach. https://designthinking.ideo.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We talk with Ionut Vlad, the inventor of a crazy, kooky no-human-needed promotion device - works great and generates tons of data. https://www.tokinomo.com (website) https://youtu.be/ydo0Sz4NW7c (Trailer) https://bit.ly/38bv3jo  (shopper’s reaction) https://youtu.be/_xxpdJ8oaAI (Nutella dialogue mentioned) About Ionut Vlad - founder and CEO of Tokinomo Bucharest Art University +10 Years of Advertising (Senior Art Director - Saatchi&Saatchi, Head of Art Pampers Europe) Worked for clients like P&G, Yoplait, Nestle, GSK, Toyota, BestValue Duty-Free Shops Shortlist Cannes Lions Festival, Silver in Golden Drum, Lürzer's Archive About Tokinomo: Tokinomo is an automated marketing solution for brick&mortar stores that bring physical products to life and allows them to interact with the shoppers while providing advanced analytic data and an average of +200% increase in sales with no price reductions. Winner of RetailExpo Innovation Award - London --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Please see the link for the Plug N Play Summer Summit: https://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/summer-summit-2020/ Allen is the Director of Corporate Partnerships at Plug and Play. He develops strategic partnerships and joint ventures with corporations to find business development, licensing, acquisition, and investment opportunities among Plug and Play's startup network. He oversees a team managing partnerships with corporations in Silicon Valley in Mobility, Internet of Things, Real Estate, Energy, and Smart Cities. The team is responsible for defining innovation strategies, POC implementation processes, and exploring new business opportunities. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Plug and Play is a global innovation platform with accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an in-house VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before. Since its inception in 2006, our programs have expanded worldwide to include a presence in over 25 locations globally, giving startups the necessary resources to succeed in Silicon Valley and beyond. With over 10,000 startups and 400 official corporate partners, we have created the ultimate startup ecosystem in many industries. Companies in our community have raised over $9 billion in funding, with successful portfolio exits, including Danger, Dropbox, Lending Club, PayPal, Rappi, and, most recently, Honey. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Veljko Krunic is an independent consultant and trainer specializing in data science, big data, and helping his clients get actionable business results from AI. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an additional MS in engineering management from the same institution. His MS degree in engineering management focused on applied statistics, strategic planning, and the use of advanced statistical methods to improve organizational efficiency. He is also a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Veljko consulted with or taught courses for five of the Fortune 10 companies (as listed in Sept 2019), many of the Fortune 500 companies, and several smaller companies, in the areas of enterprise computing, data science, AI, and big data. Before consulting independently, he worked in the PSO organizations of Hortonworks, the SpringSource division of VMware, and the JBoss division of Red Hat. In those positions, he was the principal technical consultant on highly visible projects for the top clients of those PSO organizations. Veljko's LinkedIn page is https://www.linkedin.com/in/veljkokrunic/. ========= Some deals from Manning Publications (Veljko's Publisher) A permanent 40% discount code (suitable for all our products in all formats)- podfuture20 Five free eBook codes (each good for one sample of Succeeding with AI): suaihfr-925D,  suaihfr-F88C,  suaihfr-76D2,  suaihfr-3783,  suaihfr-91B7 Veljko's product page Enjoy! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Are you stressed?  Are you worried? Are you down? Are you feeling the weight of the world behind you? Are you feeling the pressure? This modern world is lots of reasons why you might be feeling the pressure.  The one thing that I find really interesting about all of these things that are stressing us out is that none of these things are real. Nothing is real.  Time is not real. 2:00 pm is not real. Thursday is not real Weekends are not real Time itself doesn't exist. The only time we are not a slave to our own invention of time is when you can almost sense it when you go on vacation and you completely forget what day it is what time it is whether it's a weekday to the weekend you just disconnect from the world completely from the human world completely. Some people will that's a terrible thing, that they can't handle the lack of control. Other people go that's pretty interesting. That's the world of reality. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Aneri Pradhan is a social innovator who is passionate about using technology to solve large ecosystem problems. She is a 2X Founder; she is the Founder of ENVenture (acquired by New Energy Nexus), an award-winning incubator that finances and trains rural cooperatives in Uganda to start clean energy businesses. She also serves on the Board of Directors of New Energy Nexus, a leading clean energy non-profit that has facilitated approximately $1B into the renewable sector. She was also Co-Founder of ENVision mobile, a fintech platform for emerging markets. She has over a decade of experience working in 15 countries in Africa and Asia on technology adoption in energy and fintech. Formerly, she worked on Facebook's Sustainability and Connectivity Lab, prototyping new social impact technologies. She also served as an Energy Access Officer at the United Nations Foundation, spearheading grassroots mobilization on the Sustainable Development Goals. She was named Renewable Energy World's Top 40 under 40 in the solar, winner of the Vodafone Wireless Innovation Prize, Nasdaq Milestone Maker, an American Express Emerging Innovator, Cordes Fellow, and a member of Forbes Nonprofit Council. She has a Masters in Environment & Development from the London School of Economics and a Bachelors from UNC-Chapel Hill. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Urvi is a Master Connector, Emotionally Wealthy, and a Nomadic personality. She is a 20 year, reformed, Fortune 10 corporate executive. (AT&T, IBM, Coca- Cola, Walmart). The consistent thread in her career is her ability to have an innovative mindset, that creates solutions through collaboration and focuses on the human element, that pushes the business forward. Her mindset is driven by her lifestyle as a nomad and seeing multiple ways of thinking on a global scale. Her vast | diverse network and the trusting relationships she has built over the past 20 years, continue to collaborate with her and others to build the future of tomorrow.   As an executive coach, she works with executives, guiding them through personal radical self-awareness to increase their emotional wealth and propel their professional careers even further. On the other side of the coin, as an executive recruiter & Co-Founder at Peppercorn.ai, she is integrating technology and the human element to help companies recruit the right leaders to cultivate strong leaders.  In a time where "innovation" is more than a buzzword, but a way of being, Urvi embodies, the changing paradigms, to drive businesses forward - to be ready for TOMORROW. She has built her advisory services upon the passion of changing the paradigm of how we live, work, and play by connecting people, places, and projects across the world. She is the bridge between ideas and ... action. She focuses on reality versus the "path" we are expected to follow. Even though she "works" all the time her biggest priority and emotional wealth come from her partner and his two kids, a very large life family (across the world) and her blood family. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Just read some of that far-future hard Scifi and backcast to today.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

TL;DR: Inventor has a problem, invents a product to solve his problem, tries the product out with friends and family, friends and family use the product for a completely different purpose, inventor pivots the product to focus on the purpose, profit! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Beyond diversity - you need cognitive diversity to drive innovation and disruption. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Coronavirus: Is it finally killing the time suck which is commuting? Plus, how to atomize your normally monolithic block of work. Think LEGO. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

DON’T PANIC: The cover of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is 100% accurate. No matter what you read or hear, do not allow it to drive you to panic. Panic is completely unproductive. QUESTION MESSAGES: Especially news headlines. Headlines are designed to grab your attention, and may not lead to reality. CONTEXT IS KING: Ignore or research statistics without context. Saying that there are 500 cases with Coronavirus in a specific country sounds high, but when you find out that the county has 2 million residents, the percentage of cases is 0.02%. If your child brought you a paper graded “10”, would you be happy or unhappy? Doesn’t it depend if it’s out of 10 or out of 100? NEWS IS RARE: That’s why they call it news. Ever wonder why the flu is not reported on, even though it has a much higher mortality rate? It’s too common. If something happens every day, there will be no reports. BEWARE OF SPECULATION: There is still too little data to make good decisions on this. This fact does not stop the torrent of models, speculation, and other information, bombarding us from all sides. USE REASON: Humans have one exceptional quality that separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom, and that it is the ability to reason. However, when we go into uncertain times like this, we fall back into instinct. Rise above it and use your human abilities to think things through, before you jump to instinctual conclusions THINK PAST IT: a trick I use when I’m about to do something I don’t necessarily like (like a dentist’s appointment) is that I focus my mind on a timeframe AFTER the event which I am dreading has occurred. For example, think about the delicious lunch you will pick up after the appointment. Think about the first thing you will do after the crisis, and focus on that. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Discussing how this experience may push us towards improving the remote experience over the in-person experience. I then go over my WFH setup: internet speeds, backup hotspot, standing desk, timer, wide-screen curved monitor, HD camera, enough light, good gaming headphones, air pods or phone headphones, ember, ulla, fridge (stocked with water and your favorite beverage), chair, 2 UPSes (one for your computer and monitor and one for your wireless router) and last but not least, a nice background. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

If you are looking to build and launch breakthrough products, then you don’t need to be reasonable, you need to be unreasonable. Being reasonable keeps you in the realm of incremental innovation, adding small new features and functions to a product until it gets so complicated and unwieldy that a whole industry has to be built around it (Microsoft Windows and Office anyone?) No, to make breakthrough disruptive ideas, you need to be unreasonable like Steve. You need to push the envelope, push yourself, and push your teams to do more. You can’t just step back and relax. No one ever built a massively huge new industry or company by being reasonable. You need that immense drive to succeed, the energy and passion for moving forward no matter what detrimental things occur, and the skills to make them happen (or at least partner with those who have the skills). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Our smartphones have already turned us into cyborgs. We should just admit it and understand that we have evolved into a new kind of human - one that cannot survive without augmentation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Look around you. Unless you are in nature somewhere - almost everything around you is a human invention. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Just like Frank Lloyd Wright, current architecture is saddled by zoning, rules and regulations. Do you have similar rules when it comes to developing innovative products and services? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Apple can now detect if you are having a heart attack before you even are aware of it and dispatch first responders: this is a) good, because people do not want to die b) not good, because Apple has your health data and c) OK because the positives far outweigh the negatives. This is the kind of help we need.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Who would want smart bots to do all of this stuff for them – how can they be trusted? So I questioned myself, and I’d like to throw this question out to you, dear readers, what do you think? Do you feel that we should be giving up more of our agency to technology – that we can trust it to do what we want – or do you think that we have already given up too much agency and we should wrest it back? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

How often do you hear "let's go for the low hanging fruit"? Why do we always go after the easy stuff - when the sweeter fruit is typically higher up in the tree. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Customers want things to magically happen today - not in some future universe. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

The modern world has filled us with stress since we really haven’t evolved far from tribes wandering the savannah. Think about that for a moment – think about the time before smartphones, before the internet, before computers, before human flight, before cars, before locomotives, before the Renaissance, before the dark ages, before the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Babylonians. Go way back, even before we figured out writing and money. Once you cast your mind back to that time and think about what surrounded us and affected us then, then you will understand actual reality. Almost everything that we worry about, about everything which depresses us and stresses us, is something we have, as human beings, just invented. Let’s say that you are stressed about being late for work to a job in the city center from your home in the suburbs. Cars, suburbs, and even time are all human inventions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

It’s true innovation. Like the Segway, which pushed the boundaries of personal transportation and Google Glass, which pushed the boundaries of wearable devices, Libra is pushing the boundaries of cryptocurrency. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

When you think about it, we are all living in a multiverse of realities. What we each experience is our own reality. Even when more than one of us is in the same time and space, we don’t see an objective reality that we can all agree on – we still see our own realities, they just happen to be overlapping in time and space. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Many jobs are just "wall washing", serving no real purpose. Are you in one of those jobs? Do you know someone in one of those jobs? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Your employees are professional adults - give them a goal to shoot for and just let your folks go. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Is having no personal space at work really the best way to get the most from your people? Maybe it's an underhanded way to get more people to work from home? We've already seen an explosion of purchasing noise-canceling headphones. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

We are already cyborgs - we are already augmented humans - is our life more complex due to our technology or is our technology making our lives more complex. Personally, I feel that we are not using technology properly - it should serve us, not the other way around. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

A wide-ranging discussion on education and why not everyone needs a college degree to get a good job. The founder of AlternativesToCollege.com talks about creating a resource for those who want to skip the college debt cycle.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

All you need to know about IP for your startup or great new idea - detailed interview with George Likourezos of Carter DeLuca --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

A masterful show with the master of productivity, Dr. Todd Snyder, a psychologist, productivity coach, and decision consultant. We deconstruct what you need to do to be successfully productive.  Books mentioned on the show: The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months  Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life  Integration Marketing: How Small Businesses Become Big Businesses – and Big Businesses Become Empires  Find Dr. Snyder here: www.toddsnydercoaching.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

I’ve said many times before, being a futurist is like being a meteorologist, you are usually right, but at the wrong time. I think it’s futurist’s bane always to be right – but too early.  I feel as humans, we can look at the clues around us, and with some vision, put together a relatively reasonable scenario of where things will go.  We see things like Amazon Go or the Beta Store or Wheelys and think that yes, one day, we will all shop in stores where there are no workers. As we walk into the store, the store will detect who we are, and it will watch us pick up items in the store and put it into our cart, bag or basket, and then automatically charge us for the items as we walk out. We see this happening in a few places, and it’s not hard to predict that it will be more widespread.  Or autonomous cars – we see it happening and being tested in several areas, several states have made changes in their laws to help facilitate the use of autonomous vehicles. We go to conferences like CES and see not only autonomous vehicles, but also autonomous flying cars (which look like a large drone, sized to carry humans), and we here that companies in Dubai and Los Angeles are starting to test them.  We hear about Elon Musk's idea for Hyperloop, a train so fast that it can take us from San Fransisco to LA in an hour, something it takes six hours to drive now. We also hear about great recent strides in AI, powering virtual assistants, computer vision and machine learning, creating human facsimiles who may even be able to think like us one day. The exciting thing is that all of this is totally possible – some of it is also possible today.  It’s not the technology that is holding us back – many of these technologies exist and can be combined to build all of these innovations. So why aren’t they here today? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

If you see a need, try to fill that specific need as simply, as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Don’t be afraid to put out something half-assed in your own mind; it might be the exact thing your customers want. Sometimes your best is too much, sometimes spending too much time refining, rewriting and tweaking to make something your best, might be the exact thing which kills it as a product. Next time, just start. Get it out there. Show off your best version to the world. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Does persistence always win over talent? Yes, for many reasons, but here are two: 1) if you keep going on anything - writing, dieting, working on your startup, eventually the moment will come when you will luck out and win and 2) persistence is additive - the more you do it, the more you have and the more you want to keep doing it. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

William Shatner's philosophy is something that he developed from the days when he was a starving actor, desperate for roles. It was, simply put, “Say Yes To Everything.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

A wide-ranging discussion on ageism, marketing, the future. Plus some great start-up ideas and activism thrown in for fun. Links discussed on the show: The Unstoppable Rise of the Zaddys -- in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/t-magazine/zaddy.html Getty Images and AARP Launch the Disrupt Aging Collection http://press.gettyimages.com/aarp-and-getty-images-launch-the-disrupt-aging-collection/ Refinery 29: Life Begins At.... https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/ageism Bratt Pitt is Still Searching https://www.gq.com/story/brad-pitt-cover-profile-october-2019 Generations Now - Lisa LaMagna https://getgenerations.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Innovation IS risk, it requires risk, and without risk, how can you innovate? This company has just given the death knell to internal innovation. If the most critical metric in your employee’s objectives for the year is managing risk, how innovative do you think this company will be? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Can you innovate by copying? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Many organizations are planning for 2020. There's a right way and a wrong way to do it.  Some organizations call this “strategic planning,” however since the plan is only a year out, I’d argue that you might not call it “strategic,” although, in this world of extremely short-term planning, let’s say that planning one year out can be considered strategic. Most companies who are looking at completing these strategic planning exercises look at what they are doing today and extend that out a year. They plan by looking at the extensions of what is going on today. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support

Is digital transformation simply applying digital technologies to your current processes, products and services? No, it is much more.  Get you free paper on "Doing Digital Transformation Right" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thinkfuture/support