The School of Innovation Junno

Join Yaniv for a conversation with Jenny Wu and Roland Osborne from 500 Startups about how to run successful experiments with startups. 500 Startups believes that following a crisis like that of 2020, doubling down on innovation through startup collaboration is more important than ever. However, these initiatives must be structured and executed with expert care and diligence to minimize waste and for corporates to maintain their reputation in the startup ecosystem.

500 Startups has recently published a report titled "Startup-Corporate Experiments: Finding Success with Proof-of-Concepts." In this report, 500 set out to interview a selection of twelve prominent innovation practitioners from a range of industries to see how internal stewards of innovation are trying to make it happen and what best practices they might share with their peers.

In this episode, Yaniv, Jenny and Roland discuss the report. Jenny and Roland give us a primer on running POCs (or Proof-of-Concept), reveal surprising insights gleaned from their corporate clients, and share a few challenges and ways to overcome them.

It's an episode full of practical and tactical information for any company thinking about or already running POCs with startups.

Download the full report here.



About

Jenny Wu, Director, Global Corporate Growth

Jenny leads program design and delivery for 500’s corporate partners looking to engage with startups around the world. Previously, Jenny led engagements at innovation consultancy Fahrenheit 212, where she created products, services, and experiences from concept to pilot. She has also worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies to establish new innovation functions such as labs and outposts. Jenny began her career in PwC’s strategy practice and holds a B.S. in finance and management from NYU Stern.

Roland Osborne, Practice Director and Entrepreneur in Residence

Roland has served as expert Program Manager for lead pilot, PoC and mobility, including an sponsored accelerator track for General Motors and the Visa Accelerator. Roland is experienced in sourcing seed-stage startups in topics ranging from autonomous fleets and battery tech to sensors. Roland is a 3 time entrepreneur, previously having co-founded Olark Live Chat serving over 10,,000 businesses worldwide where he was VP of product.

500 Startups

500 Startups is one of the most active global early stage venture capital firms. Since our inception in 2010, we have invested in over 2,500 companies across 78 countries, but we aim to extend our global footprint beyond investing. Through our partnerships with corporates, investors, governments and foundations, we are committed to building interconnected startup ecosystems across the world. We have engaged with more than 100 corporates to help them transform their business or identify new sources of growth. We support companies looking to accelerate their growth through external startup partnerships or internal venture acceleration.


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Join Yaniv and Suzanne for a LIVE interview with Scott Anthony. Scott is a Senior Partner at Innosight, where he helps leaders design new growth strategies, build innovation capabilities, navigate disruptive innovation, and manage strategic transformation.

In this episode, we talk about Scott's latest book - Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to make creativity an everyday habit inside your organization. Scott shares how they've used groundbreaking research in behavioral science to provide a first-of-its-kind playbook for empowering individuals and teams to be their most curious and creative—every single day. He also reveals a collection of BEANs—behavior enablers, artifacts, and nudges—they've collected from workplaces across the globe that will unleash the natural innovator inside everyone.

Fun and easy to follow, Eat, Sleep, Innovate is the book you need if you want to make innovation a natural and habitual act within your team or organization.

Get the book: https://www.innosight.com/insight/eat-sleep-innovate/

Connect with Scott: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdanthony/

Learn about Innosight: https://www.innosight.com/

About Scott

Scott Anthony is a Senior Partner at Innosight, where he helps leaders design new growth strategies, build innovation capabilities, navigate disruptive innovation, and manage strategic transformation. Scott has written eight books, including most recently Eat, Sleep, Innovate (2020) and Dual Transformation (2017), which describe how forward-thinking organizations can navigate disruptive change and own the future. Scott is a prolific contributor to Harvard Business Publishing. He is the most published digital author on HBR.org and is Harvard Business Corporate Learning’s most in-demand subject matter expert. He has been based in Singapore since 2010, where he served as a member of the Committee on the Future Economy and a Board member of MediaCorp from 2013-2019. In 2019 he was named one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50, and in 2017 he won the T50 Innovation Award.

Scott is a featured speaker on topics of innovation and growth. He has delivered keynote addresses on six continents and has appeared on Good Morning America, Channel News Asia, CNBC, and FOX Business. Scott served on the Board of Directors of Media General (NYSE: MEG) from 2009-2013 and of Mediacorp from 2013-2019, helping guide both companies through strategic transformations. From 2009 to 2015 Scott chaired the investment committee for IDEAS Ventures, an SGD 10 million fund Innosight ran in conjunction with the Singapore government that invested in 10 Singapore-based companies and generated a 16% internal rate of return.

Prior to joining Innosight, Scott was a senior researcher with Clayton Christensen, managing a group that worked to further Christensen’s research on innovation.

Scott received a BA in economics summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.

About Innosight

We empower forward-thinking organizations to navigate disruptive change and own the future.

Innosight looks at the world differently. We’re in the future business. As the leading expert on disruptive innovation and strategic transformation, we bring a unique set of lenses to growth strategy. We help business leaders develop deep insights into the needs of tomorrow’s customers, align around a shared vision of the future, and then create the organizational momentum to get there. Our approach to innovation consulting is collaborative, and our clients tell us we change the way they think about and see the world, enabling them to do things they could never do before. We build capability, not dependence.


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2020 has been a rollercoaster ride! I look back at what I've learned (from running a podcast to lockdown in general), what were the most popular episodes, and what's going to happen in season 2.

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Marcel is an entrepreneur, engineer, architect, and investor. Through his consulting firm 10xBETA, Marcel has helped numerous medical professionals test, develop and commercialize products ranging from electronic stethoscopes to surgical instruments.

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My guest this week is Hila Cohen from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) where she is the Head of Business Development for its Innovation Accelerator.

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My guest this week is Julia Hitzbleck from Bayer. Julia and I talk about an article she co-wrote titled How a 100,000-strong company is relearning how to innovate.

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