Innovation Roundtable Insights

Mario Pieper, CDO at BSH Group, delves into digital transformation and its impact on the home appliance industry. Pieper explains how to uncover customer needs and turn ideas into feasible projects. Furthermore, he highlights the importance of effective leaders and an innovation culture in digital transformation journeys.

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Linda Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration and Faculty Chain, Leadership Initiative, sat down with us to explain how activating the company's Collective Genius can increase innovation potential and accelerate overall speed-to-market. She also discusses how companies can manage diverse and heterogeneous teams, and how Collective Genius can be enabled within organizations.

Micah Kotch, Managing Director for Urban-X, explains some of the traits, qualities and working styles of the startups' teams that work with BMW. Furthermore, Kotch elaborates on the relationship between BMW and its accelerator Urban-X.

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Marianne Gaulhet, Transformation Leader Services, and Yves Charreire, Agile Coach, sat down with us to discuss how design thinking, agile, and lean startup methods connect with each other. The conversation tackles issues related to creating MVPs and transforming the organization toward agility.

At an event at BP in London in November 2017, SAP’s Head of Business Model Innovation, Claus von Riegen, sat down with us to discuss how SAP goes about creating new business models of incremental as well as radical nature. At SAP, he incubates new businesses within the core performance engine as well as attending to the more radical innovations that are isolated from the core. He further conveys the importance of obtaining customer feedback, experimentation, and continuous pivots in coming up with new business models.