For this weeks podcast, I’m turning the tables on reporters. Usually, I’m the one getting interviewed by the press. But for this weeks podcast, I interviewed Robert Scoble. Why? Well, in his own way, he has innovated the way people deliver news and how technology evangelists can be active parts of a company to help get the word out directly to the consumers....

You may not realize it, but the work of Bob Metcalfe affects many aspects of your life. Whether it’s how you collaborate with co-workers, share data between all the devices in your house – or just want to host a LAN party, Bob’s work is everywhere. In 1973, at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he invented Ethernet, the local-area networking (LAN) standard on...

This weeks podcast is a recording of a recent speech I gave titled “Practical Innovation Skills”. The underlying theme was on using creativity, innovation and ingenuity techniques to achieve ALL of your objectives – not just your work/professional objectives.  What do I mean by objectives? ob·jec·tive  [uhb-jek-tiv] - something that one’s...

This podcast is made possible by support from thenextbench.com and the Heritage of Innovation interview series. Many people think touch is a “new” thing as result of products introduced in the last few years.  In reality, touch is just one example of innovations building on top of previous innovations.  This weeks interview is with Jim Sutton.  Jim led...

Update 1/24/2010: Full transcript now available This podcast is made possible by support from thenextbench.com and the Heritage of Innovation interview series. This weeks interview is with Dave Watson from Ford and Steve Bishop from IDEO discussing their co-innovation project on the Ford Fusion.  The collaboration resulted in the development of the next generation...

This weeks podcast is an interview with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, that occurred during the recent Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.  The interview covered a wide range of topics including: The spark that pushed him to create the web The early challenges that almost caused the web not to happen The roles of CEO’s to support the...

In this episode of the Killer Innovations podcast I interview Chuck House. Chuck is one of those individuals whose impact we’ve all felt but didn’t immediately realize. With the recent anniversary of Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon, Chuck turned out to be timely in this interview. Why? He’s the inventor of the early display technology that resulted in Chuck...

  As part of the continuing set of interviews with innovation thought leaders, this weeks podcast is part 2 of a 2 part interview with Geoffrey Moore. As with any interview, I came in with a set of planned topics that I thought were interesting.  Within the first 5 minutes, they were thrown out the window and we went “off script”.  Geoffrey’s thinking...

As part of the continuing set of interviews with innovation thought leaders, this weeks podcast is part 1 of a 2 part interview with Geoffrey Moore. Geoffrey is the author of Crossing the Chasm, Inside the Tornado, The Gorilla Game and most recently Dealing With Darwin, each of which deals with the challenges of leadership and innovation. He is a co-founder and managing...

    A video of the presenting at the 2009 Forrester IT Forum on the topic of: "Enabling Innovation – A Strength In Any Economy" The content addressed the challenges of innovation during especially tough economic times. The material has been tailored to the audience of CIO’s and other senior IT executives of leading corporations. The content...