Innovation
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Learn how top companies foster a culture of business innovation to fuel growth and maintain a competitive edge. Get insights into leadership trends with customer stories, successful strategies, and transformative outcomes to awaken innovative ideas for company growth.
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How leading organizations are driving innovation
Innovation depends on deeply understanding your customers, and enabling anyone with a great idea to test that idea quickly and easily. These companies demonstrate what's possible when you give innovators the right tool for the job, lower the time and cost of experimentation, and make exciting new technologies accessible to everyone.
How Startup Culture Transforms Legacy Thinking
In this episode, we’re unpacking the remarkable cultural transformation of Guardian Life, a 165-year old insurance company that’s embracing startup thinking to drive innovation. Hear from Erin Culek, Head of Financial Protection and Retirement Solutions at Guardian, as she discusses how combining AI solutions with customer-centric innovation has dramatically improved the company’s service delivery, reducing four-week processes to near-instant results.
How IBM is Harnessing Gen AI for Client Success
Brian Bohan, Director of Consulting Partner COE at AWS, sits down with Mahmoud Elmashni, Managing Partner at IBM Consulting, to explore how IBM is leveraging generative AI to transform client success. Mahmoud shares IBM's "Four P's" framework (People, Process, Partnerships, and Platform) and discusses how the company is training its 160,000-person organization to harness gen AI effectively. The conversation delves into how gen AI is accelerating modernization timelines from years to months, improving ROI for clients, and driving practical applications across industries from public sector to financial services.
Innovation Without Fear: Leading e&'s Transformation
Hear from Hatem Dowidar, Group CEO of e&, in a discussion about the company's remarkable transformation from a telecom provider to a global technology leader. Dowidar shares his leadership philosophy of being bold while creating an innovation-friendly culture that doesn't punish failure, emphasizing how this approach has helped e& become one of the fastest-growing brands in the world with operations in 38 markets. The conversation also delves into e&'s strategic partnership with AWS and their joint vision for advancing digital transformation in the UAE and broader Middle East region, with particular focus on AI adoption and closing the digital divide.
PrivatBank: Accelerating Transformation in Times of War
Aleksy Zayet, Chief Technology & Cloud Architect of PrivatBank, shares how Ukraine's largest bank completed a remarkable 43-day cloud migration amid the Russian invasion in 2022. Under missile attacks and with critical infrastructure being destroyed, PrivatBank's journey from on-premises to AWS cloud showcases an extraordinary story of resilience, demonstrating how crisis can accelerate digital transformation while maintaining essential financial services for more than half of Ukraine's population.
Modernizing Public Media for the Streaming Age at PBS
In this Executive Insights conversation, Ira Rubenstein, Chief Digital and Marketing Officer at PBS, discusses the transformation of public media for the streaming age. Drawing from his 20+ years of experience championing digital innovation in Hollywood, Rubenstein details PBS's evolution into a sophisticated digital platform delivering 400 million streams monthly. He highlights PBS's unique challenges as a membership organization of 300+ local stations, its commitment to accessibility, and innovative approaches to digital fundraising. The discussion emphasizes PBS's role as a national treasure adapting to rapid technological change while maintaining its core mission of providing free, educational content to all Americans.
Emotional Intelligence: The Secret Ingredient to Innovation
Innovation, by definition, requires change, and that often stirs up a host of unexpected emotions. In this podcast, AWS Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership and Founder of EQ at Amazon, Rich Hua, outlines the vital role emotions play in your workforce's ability to innovate, and how developing your own emotional intelligence at work can foster an increasingly innovative culture in your organization.
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