Agile Giants: Lessons from Corporate Innovators
Fundamentally, a startup within a company is the same as one inside the proverbial garage: a group of entrepreneurs trying to make the world a better place using new ideas and inventions. Each week, join Sean Ammirati, Co-Founder & Director of the Carnegie Mellon Corporate Startup Lab, as he interviews guests who are doing the important work creating startups inside large corporations. If you already are a corporate entrepreneur, want to become one or are just looking for some advice around commercializing transformative innovation, this podcast is for you.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 69
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2024
Episode 47: Testing Business Ideas with David Bland, CEO & Founder of Precoil
David is probably best known as the co-author of Testing Business Ideas which he co-authored with Alexander Osterwalder. However, he’s had an incredible impact on innovation both at startups and larg…
Episode 46: Optimizing Your Team for Innovation Impact with Stefano Mastrogiacomo
There may be no more important topic in 2021 to innovation leaders than how to think about managing and organizing your team.
On this week's episode of Agile Giants, I sit down with Stefano Mastrogia…
Episode 45: Operationalizing an Innovation Mandate with Tendayi Viki
How do you truly operationalize a mandate to become more innovative? There are plenty of resources that talk about the importance of innovation, but over the year's I've really grown to appreciate a…
Episode 44: Applying the Lean Startup Methodology to the Military with Peter Newell - Retired US Army Colonel & CEO of BMNT
How do you apply the lean startup methodology to the military? Well, that's the subject of this week's episode of Agile Giants. Pete Newell, whose name may sound familiar because Steve Blank mention…
Episode 44: Business Model Transformation & Data Based Corporate Startups at Philips with Tim Murphy
Tim Murphy leads the One SRC Services group within Philips Sleep and Respiratory Care. He joined our Forum to discuss his experience with data based corporate startups and more generally business mo…
Episode 43: Steve Blank & Alexander Osterwalder on The Keys to Successfully Driving Innovation in Established Companies
Steve Blank & Alexander Osterwalder are world famous entrepreneurs and authors whose work in many ways launched the Lean Startup movement. We had a great conversation at CSL's Corporate Entrepreneur…
Episode 42: Re-Inventing the Convenience Store Chain - Mary Beth Green, Chief Innovation Officer @ Sheetz
If you live in Pennsylvania or one of the surrounding six states, you've likely pulled into a Sheetz Gas Station not to get gas, but to order & eat food. That's right high-quality quick serve food c…
Episode 41: Innovation at Johnson & Johnson with Michal Preminger and Stephen Pitt
I'm sure you are familiar with Johnson & Johnson, but do you know their innovation strategy? On this episode we're joined by 2 Corporate Innovators within J&J Michal Preminger and Stephen Pitt to dis…
Episode 40: Entrepreneur Turned 2x Corporate VC - Pradeep Tagare of National Grid Partners
After transitioning from an entrepreneur to CVC at Intel Capital, Pradeep spent the last two years setting up and leading National Grid's CVC group. We talk about both his experiences launching a new…
Episode 39: Innovation Pathways (including CVC) with Joseph Cabral from LSU
Joseph's papers have been some of the most interesting academic research on corporate venture capital in recent years. We do (eventually) get to this at the second half of the podcast, but honestly I…
Episode 38: Wil Morgan's Approach to Making Connections Across Jaguar Land Rover's Innovation Ecosystem
Wil Morgan has been an investment manager, entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Now he has a fascinating role inside Jaguar Land Rover around corporate innovation. We have an awesome conversation to …
Episode 37: Q&A Season 2 Finale
On the last episode of Season 2, we do another Q&A episode - focusing on specific questions you the audience have for me.
The questions fell into four categories:
- There were a lot of questions ab…
Episode 36: Innovation from Inside Accelerators to the Fortune 500
When you think about "academic thought leadership" in entrepreneurship, Yale Hochberg is at the top of most lists. For me, as a VC, she is best known for her work on the Seed Accelerator Rankings. Bu…
Episode 35: Growing & Innovation Through Transitions
Friend & collaborator Laurie Barkman comes back as the first repeat guest on Agile Giants. Since our first recording, she has launched a consulting firm (SmallDotBig), launched a podcast and returne…
Episode 34: Corporate Startup Lab Public Demo Day
As a special episode this week, we're broadcasting the full audio of our annual CSL Demo Day.
If you would prefer to watch the video, you can see the full video of Demo Day on the Corporate Startup L…
Episode 33: Platform Business Model Transformation
In the last few years, companies have made huge investments in digital transformation. Companies need to leverage these investments to unlock business model transformation.
One of the most common bus…
Episode 32: Investing CVC Dollars into Frontier Tech Startups
Frontier tech - emerging technologies such as robotics, computer vision and machine learning - are transforming so many of our industries.
Established companies need to understand and figure out the …
Episode 31: Innovation in Investment Management with Warren Pennington from Vanguard
Most people probably know Vanguard as the firm that you can buy index and mutual funds from. They were the first investment group to offer index funds to individual investors. On this week's episode…
Episode 30: Innovation in Healthcare
Optum is probably the largest software company that you've never heard of. It does over $100 billion a year in revenue, but is part of United Healthcare Group. United is one of the six largest compan…
Episode 29: Data as Fuel for Innovation
One of the thing's I've observed over and over again from the best corporate innovation leaders is how data can be fuel for their innovation programs. On this episode of Agile Giants, I bring on a tr…