thinkfuture by hellofuture - innovation disruption and the future: Recent Episodes
Chris Kalaboukis
We chat with Bob Sager, author of 101 Freaking Brilliant Business Ideas: And Ten Ways YOU Can Create Your Own
Automation should take jobs that humans are no longer fit to do, so we can be free to do more human jobs
Why is Elon Musk so interesting? He solves problems with solutions of the future - we need to invent new things before we can solve them.
Even if the unknown is better, we still fear it, which is a normal human reaction we need to conquer
Its still too difficult to configure things - we need to figure out a new generation of true plug-and-play
Your crowdsourced innovation program probably created too many ideas, so why not fund them all?
As we go through life, we experience it. And as we experience it, we make decisions to take on things that we need to do, actions that we need to take. As the world floods over us, we filter and capture an infinitesimally small portion of it, then decide to act on it. Its simply too much.
Stern Robots are better than friendly robots if we want humans to just get stuff done - we need our robots to be more proactive
Having your brainstorming sessions in the afternoon, will trigger more creative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Why do we ignore inventors who have submitted ideas into our innovation programs, simply because we dont like giving them the bad news that their idea may not be the right fit right now?
As we travel that road to the future faster and faster, we need to look up, focus our eyes way down the road, put on our high beams, and look as far forward as we can.
Innovation is that at its best, it’s a messy process, very experimental, and like a lot of experiments, there can be many, many failures before you see success
Now is not the time to relax, but to turn up the volume on your innovation efforts. While you may be doing well today, this is the best time for you to prepare for the disruption that tomorrow will bring.
If everything is changing, and will change, how do you deal with the change? How can you anticipate the changes, prepare for the changes, and be ready to make the leap when the time comes?
Which of the companies are more innovative: those who talk about innovation incessantly, but do not provide any mechanism, time, or resources to building innovative products and services, or those who do?
Visionary companies like Google, Amazon and Facebook understand that they cannot rely on their core business forever – they are leveraging these good times to expand into even more market segments, probing for new products and services, and driving innovation
Chris talks about the lost art of curiosity - why have we let it go and if we really wish to innovate we need to bring it back
Chris interviews Craig Shames of Greatest Idea Ever, a site where Craig curates the Greatest Ideas Ever - Very cool, mind expanding new ideas.
Everyone want to be the next Elon Musk, the famous-eccentric-rich-guy-that-I-would-really-like-to-be-like. Here's how.
To change, we need help. We need structure. We need to revise our environment in order to force or trigger ourselves to the behavior that we want.
Today Chris chats with the founder of Lead Cookie, Jake Jorgovan, who grew his business from Zero to $33k MRR productized service in 6 months
We are born curious, with wide open minds. We are genetically and chemically designed to be open to new experiences from the moment we are born
How will you prepare for this future hyper mobile, hyper-connected worker and customer? Will you have the infrastructure to be able to support their requirement for just-in-time-and-place delivery of products and services, which will be their expectation?
Many people feel that innovation is not innovation unless it’s some innovative technology
Anyone driving around in todays world probably agrees that machines should probably be driving instead.
The holy grail for anyone who has to ship objects is a combination of online and offline. Now Amazon can do that, right.
Through our fixation with collaboration, we cant forget those who innovate on their own.
HBR suggests that companies need to reinvent themselves every 5 years - agree or disagree?
In many cases, you wont get the best ideas first time around, if you have had a number of failed innovation programs in the past. You may need to innovate, rinse and repeat.
We dig into different styles of corporate innovation in this show with the founder of Startupsinnovation, Alistair Schneider
Is the customer always right when it comes to innovation? Not necessarily. Plus, some want to be told what they need, and others dont.
In 1983, Robert Cialdini outlined 6 principles of influence salespeople and marketers use to this day. With the advent of the internet and social media, humans can no longer be influenced in the same way.
If people are uncomfortable in your innovation session, if you hear the words creepy and maybe we shouldnt go there, then maybe you are on to something innovative and disruptive
...and what better way to gather ideas for improvement than to run an internal crowdsourced innovation program?
Could You Use A Corporate Philosopher? And How You Expanding Your Luck Helps You Innovate
How do you create jobs only humans can do? Creative skilled manual labor is the way to go.
Today we talk with Sean Carney - both a victor and a victim of the great Innovation Wars - wars we both still fight in.
Today we delve deep into data, how data can give you insights you never new, how the human touch is still important, and if massive data can answer every question
Some firms just install software, then send out an email. A successful innovation program needs to be more than that.
In our first interview show, we discuss conversational interfaces and why they are becoming the next hot space
Learning, Open-Mindedness and Putting Yourself Phyiscally In New Places Adds To Your Innovation Quotient
Automation has touched many areas of business, but sales is the laggard. We aim to change that.
Kirk and Picard had to sometimes break the Prime Directive in order to help. You may have to as well.
Will Wisdom of The Crowd make crowdsourcing cool? Plus Chris discusses hellofuture shifts
The Great AWS Outage of 2017 left me in the dark - in the future it could be much more serious
SNAP may have few revenues, but big audience makes up for it. Plus how to build your own
IBM brings them in, Microsoft sends them out - which is better for innovation and collaboration?
In the near future, you will need to determine where your company fits in your customers life stack
Articulating purpose is the most important action management can take to foster a culture of disruptive innovation
To be creative and innovative you need a chaotic environment and a diverse team. To be productive, you need the opposite.
When 50% of Google is made up of temps, vendors and contractors, you know something is up
What Ever Happened To Not Talking Politics Or Religion? You should have the right to remain silent on your political beliefs if you want to.
Corporations change in the same way people do - through both positive and negative stimulus (although negative is more effective)
If fake news is as big a problem as people say it is, it sounds like a billion dollar opportunity
“We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?” —Steve Jobs
Forget being innovative! What do tiny homes and bone broth have in common? Disruption! Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//127-time-to-rebrand-everything-as-disruptive/
Star Trek is probably the most influential human guide to the future we have ever had. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//126-how-star-trek-created-our-present-and-future/
Why are rents so expensive in San Francisco? The ShouldWes Have Won. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//125-we-need-innovation-in-housing/
How Is the Middle Of the Night Now Suddenly More Productive? Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//124-how-4am-became-the-most-productive-time-of-day/
Twitter needs to become the global method of human communications Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//123-where-does-twitter-need-to-go-next/
I rate the candidates on innovation: short answer, both are found wanting Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//122-who-is-better-for-innovation-hillary-or-trump/
A new series on Innovation Mastery - we begin by setting goals for your innovation program Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p121
VR has incredible promise as the answer to all of our commute woes. VR is already workplace ready. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//120-vr-is-the-future-of-telecommuting/
No Matter How Epic, This Podcast Will Not Change Your Life Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//119-this-podcast-will-not-change-your-life/
Just announced: Microsoft buys LinkedIn, who, if you ask me, never really fulfilled their true promise of being a network to conduct business on Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//118-microsoft-buying-linkedin/
Disruptive Innovation Often Requires Zen Mind - In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the experts there are few. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p117/
Based on the announcements from the latest Google I/O 2016 conference, Google has cemented their status as a fast follower Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p116/
Will the new wave of chat bots finally make technology serve us instead of the other way around? Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p115/
In the disruption of work, we will all need to be generalists to some degree, even roles at large enterprises will require broad skill sets and an entrepreneurial mindset. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p114/
After 4 years in limbo, the JOBS act will finally allow regular people to invest in startups for equity, opening up a huge new funding source. It's a great day. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p113/
Did you know that being bored helps you innovate? Stop consuming and start thinking in those idle moments - who knows what innovative ideas you can come up with. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p112/
Chris goes into detail on how 90% of the internet is now content marketing, people blasting sales messages thinly disguised as content on all channels. Its time to disrupt this. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p111/
Disrupted shows an older worker trying to fit into startup culture where ageism abounds - how do you defeat this stuff? Tolerance, rapport building and busting out of the stereotype Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p110/
Is your innovation program a failure because it didn't produce a unicorn? Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p109/
It wont be long before we will be seeing virtual mates on the market. In fact, people are already getting married to AIs in Japan. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p107/
Most of the sharing economy jobs which are being created are ending up being menial jobs which will eventually be replaced with autonomous cars, drones and algorithms. Show Notes: https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p106/
Chris goes into detail on how audience is more important that almost anything when you are building a business. https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p104/
Looking for disruptive innovation? No matter if your company is big or small, young or old, it all comes down to Open Mind. Show Notes https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p103/
In this episode, Chris talks about two ideas and he invented back in 2006 and 2000 respectively, and how those ideas went on to be great startups - today, but not then. Show Notes https://hellofuture.co/podcasts//p102/
Bars and restaurants and going offline - people are being more meditative and mindful - this is a real trend or just nostalgia?
While the secret to having a successful startup is not really much of a secret - you need passion skill and most importantly demand to succeed.
Australia decides to replace history and geography in elementary school with coding - good to see some real disruption going on in education
Do you look at your day and you are totally booked solid with no time to waste? This may be why you are not innovating. Chris explains why one way to innovate is to purposely waste time
Looking to prepare for the future? Then maybe instead of planning everything out, maybe focus on being resilient instead.
How To Beat the Upcoming Recession? This is the absolute perfect time to run an internal, crowdsourced, innovation program.
Will the future be awesome, or will it suck? Chris talks about social media 10 years out, and what the world will be like, and how we might feel about it.
If you want REAL stability in your work life, you MUST start your own business. Being an entrepreneur returns the control of your life back to YOU.
Worried about the seemingly forhcoming recession of 2016? Now is the time to double-down on your innovation program - now is the time to grow through innovation
Who will win in a war between virtual and augmented reality? Whenever we create virtual things, they are always surpassed by real things. Modifying real things, be it sounds, brains or reality, always wins.
In this episode, Chris asks the question - have we lost our individuality to the collective - and if so how will that change the nature of everything that we do when it comes to people? Will all decisions now require the crowd to chime in?
Thinking about building the next app which will take over the world and be the next billion dollar startup? Think again - apps are giving way to smart agents of the seamless world - technology will serve us instead of the other way around
Chris discusses how we could have the future of our dreams, if only we would be willing to be upset and embrace change.
In the future of work, having multiple jobs will be a normal things that we will all be doing. We should prepare for the future.
Finally - it took 80 years to remove the restriction that only rich people could invest in startups. Two years ago Obama signed the JOBS act and just a few days ago, the SEC finally allowed it to be so. Now anyone can invest in startups.
In this day, with millions of both professional and amateur researchers out there on the internet, you cant deceive anyone for long.
We are building a huge new market of introverts - what kind of products and services can we build for them?
Are you a student? Then this episode will hit home - Chris talks about the future of education, and how our current system needs to be disrupted
IMHO, Twitter should go back to its roots and not try to emulate every other social network out there
if your customer demand is moving away from your original vision, dont be afraid to move that way too.
Do we really need to innovate? Seems like sometimes, innovation is the first thing to go when times are tough, but thats when you need it the most.
Just because your company grows doesnt mean that you become less innovative. All you need is a really good internal innovation program with clear communications and a path for these ideas to product or patent.
Have we seen this before? People are accepting equity instead of cash for thier services, hoping that they win the startup lottery
The invention startups Quirky just filed for bankruptcy, what does that mean for the fate of crwod based innovation.
IWhy are some companies treating thier employees better than others? Its a battle between the future of work and the past of work
In order for your startup to succeed or create disruptive innovation you need to take risks, sometimes big ones.
Chris talks about the first job he ever had, and while phyiscally demanding, its wasnt the worst job hes ever had
In the current world of work, work has exploded into LEGO blocks that we fit into life, not the other way around
Its not very hard to figure out why most startups fail - no one really wanted what they were selling
Dont look externally for innovation first - it might end up costing you more than you think
Chris goes through Apples 9/9/2015 product announcements step-by-step and its true: innovation has finally left the building. Making something bigger, smaller, or copying Microsoft Surface is not innovation
In the future, your grandkids will not need to know how to drive - in fact they wont even own cars anymore
Looking for a business idea? Combine people helping people with stuff just lying around doing nothing and you might be riding another unicorn
Dont let anyone tell you what your definition of success should be, dont just be happy with what you have - strive for more and get someone to kick your butt if you cant do it yourself
When you think innovation, do you typically think Silicon Valley, because there are plenty of other interesting hotbeds of innovation out there, like Africa
Just because something is popular, it doesnt mean that its relevant - Chris goes into detail on how the 5 big portals to the internet have choked off relevancy in lieu of popularity
If you ask me, all of this hype over operating systems is overrrated - they should just blend into the background and let you access your apps. And a few words on a new software development service called Gigster
Instead of innovating by buying up interesting companies, maybe you should look internally and see what interesting billion dollar ideas your own employees are cooking up.
Looking to build your own billion dollar business? Chris outlines 5 ways in which billion dollar businesses leverage traits inherit in humanity in order to provide services that appeal to everyone.
If you look at the current state of innovation in the smartphone space, very little new stuff is happening. Where are the folding epaper digital assistants?
One of the biggest failiings of mobile devices is that they dont change based on where they are
Stand in your living room and look around: Bet there are at least 100 on-demand sharing economy businesses to start
Big and Old companies seem to be less innovative than Small and Young ones, but thats just the mindset
Is Hell Other People, as Jean-Paul Sartre famously said? Or are they heaven? Both, actually.
Back in 2007, we came up with something like Meerkat, but both the technology and the market werent ready for it yet.
Have you noted that when you remove the human, you improve the experience. Where else csn humans be removed in your business in order to improve your customers experience?
Is agile software development eating the world, or is life finally infecting software development, and the "ACTUALLY" contest continues
We should boycott the listicle, I mean have you ever learned anything from a listicle? Also, Apple gets into cars and the "ACTUALLY" contest continues.
Considering that mating is one of the core things that humans do, Im surprised that no one has invented the perfect dating app yet. Startup founders, time to figure this one out.
Hyperpersonalization will keep us in a safe cocoon of content. Pull off the feedbag of content and feed yourself for a change
There were plenty of businesses which were originally illegal - don't let that stop you from exploring them.
Looking for another area to develop some disruptive innovation? Try education, its way past ripe
For too long, we’ve neglected it - time to bring it back and connect everyone to everyone
In the wake of Google’s $258M investment in Uber, I wonder what other kinds of rock star experiences can be brought to market?
A business without an innovation group or program is like royalty with no heir: it’s the end of the line