Eilif Trondsen on EdTech, Networking and Purpose-Driven Ecosystems

06/24/19 • 34 min

Jeff interviews Eilif Trondsen, formerly with SRI and Strategic Business Insights (SBI). Eilif is both an international innovation consultant and futurist. He discusses EdTech, trend-spotting, and how to build your own professional network for a purpose-driven Echosystem.
Some topics discussed include:

The current state of EdTech where Eilif believes the industry is headed (1:45)
The opportunities emerging worldwide for people to jump into EdTech as providers and users (5:30)
How individuals should prioritize their own continuous learning and what criteria should they use to decide what to learn and where to learn it (7:45)
Suggestions for how someone could stay ahead of the curve when planning their learning (11:30)
The values that motivated Eilif's work and how he made career transitions (15:15)
What advice Eilif has for those who want to improve their professional network and develop an ecosystem (19:30)
How Eilif decides who are the right people to trust and collaborate with (23:00)
Advice for mentoring others (26:45)
Eilif’s journey to America (29:15)
How to evaluate companies you might want to work for (31:50)

Check out Strategic Business Insights to learn more about Eilif's work, and learn more about this podcast and Jeff Saperstein at InterconnectedIndividuals.com

The current state of EdTech where Eilif believes the industry is headed (1:45)
The opportunities emerging worldwide for people to jump into EdTech as providers and users (5:30)
How individuals should prioritize their own continuous learning and what criteria should they use to decide what to learn and where to learn it (7:45)
Suggestions for how someone could stay ahead of the curve when planning their learning (11:30)
The values that motivated Eilif's work and how he made career transitions (15:15)
What advice Eilif has for those who want to improve their professional network and develop an ecosystem (19:30)
How Eilif decides who are the right people to trust and collaborate with (23:00)
Advice for mentoring others (26:45)
Eilif’s journey to America (29:15)
How to evaluate companies you might want to work for (31:50)

Check out Strategic Business Insights to learn more about Eilif's work, and learn more about this podcast and Jeff Saperstein at InterconnectedIndividuals.com

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Dick (Richard) Reisman on His FairPay Proposals for a New Pricing Logic

Jeff interviews Dick (Richard) Reisman on his FairPay proposals for a new pricing logic for the digital services economy that improves value and revenue sharing for the customer, while building a better business model for the digital services organization.

Dick Reisman is the founder of Teleshuttle. FairPay is a radical approach to revenue and a cooperatively adaptive hybrid of free and paid content pricing for digital media content that extends to all digital services. He proposes a new “invisible handshake” based on the power of computer-mediated markets to build more collaborative relationships.

In this interview, we explore emergent pricing, empathy in the technology-augmented ecosystem, the role of the investment community and new metrics to value companies based on customer co-creation in pricing and loyalty, and how network and platform distribution disrupts the old transactional model.
Some topics discussed:

Dicks Vision for FairPay (2:25)
The history and flaws with current pricing models and explains some talking points of his value-based pricing model (5:00)
Examples of who decides the price in different buyer-seller relationships (8:40)
The differences between dynamic pricing in models like ridesharing and FairPay’s ambitions to have more transparency and cooperation between buyer and seller (12:30)
Similarities and differences to other value theories which look deeply at everyone in the value chain (18:00)
Dicks ideas about internet regulation, data, disinformation (20:15)
The new logic of the digital economy and flaws in subscription-based pricing (24:25)
The investment community’s role in FairPay (26:50)
The role of empathy in the entrepreneurial mindset and the investor community (30:50)
What Dick envisions for his legacy (36:30)

Check out Dick’s blog posts at FairPayZone.com and learn more about this podcast and Jeff Saperstein at InterconnectedIndividuals.com

Next Episode

Robert Kim Wilson on Purpose-Driven Ecosystems

Jeff interviews Robert “Kim" Wilson, author of “They Will Be Giants: 21st Century Entrepreneurs and the Purpose-Driven Business Ecosystem.” Kim is an executive high-achiever and business innovator with a proven track record working with large, global enterprises as well as start-up entrepreneurs. Kim’s business solution of Ecosystems is an agile, adaptable approach thru which any business leadership team can improve value creation and innovation.

Jeff and Kim discuss the distinction between a network and a purpose-driven business ecosystem as well as Kim’s seven principles for creating and flourishing a business ecosystem.

Some topics covered by Jeff and Kim include:

The definition of a purpose-driven ecosystem and how it differs from a professional network (1:23)
Exercise as a metaphor for purpose-driven activity (11:30)
A detailed description of principles and practices that will help your ecosystem create real value (12:00)
A short summary of each principle for listeners to jot down as a note (25:00)
Advice Kim has as a first step for those who want to improve their professional network and build a purpose-driven ecosystem (27:49)
Why is this personally important to Kim (31:20)

Check out "They Will Be Giants" on Amazon, and learn more about this podcast and Jeff Saperstein at InterconnectedIndividuals.com