054: Does Your Culture Inspire Innovation? (Dr. Mehta Kumar)

“When companies innovate, all of our lives are better.”

– Dr. Kumar Mehta

In this episode of The Pivotal Leader, Gina Trimarco interviewed Dr. Kumar Mehta, author of the new book THE INNOVATION BIOME:  A Sustained Business Environment Where Innovation Thrives. He has been at the forefront of innovation, research and data analytics for over 25 years. Dr. Mehta founded Bridges Insight, an innovation think tank committed to researching innovation and helping organizations accelerate their rate of innovation. Kumar has studied innovation before innovation was a buzzword, basing his 1990 Ph.D. dissertation on the diffusion of innovations. Since then he has applied many innovation frameworks in his 14 years at Microsoft and throughout his tenure building out innovative companies. Just as Kumar built a successful enterprise with a vision around the institutionalization of data analytics a decade ago, today he is embarking on a journey to institutionalize innovation science.

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Podcast Topics Include:

• Building a sustainable environment where innovation thrives
• Becoming more innovative
• Understanding the meaning of biome
• Types of creativity and characteristics of innovative people
• The correlation between intelligence and creativity
• Harvard study on Brainstorming vs Individual Thinking and understanding why brainstorming creates an unwelcome setting for creativity
• How to attract and retain innovative employees
• Why employees leave and become entrepreneurs (and take their talent with them)
• Creating a culture of innovations in every single area of a business (product, packaging, marketing and more).

Full Show Notes: https://pivot10results.com/podcast54-mehta-innovation