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John Bessant video library
You can find a wide range of my video material on my YouTube channel here .
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Below you can find a wide variety of videos made by other people which give us useful insights into managing innovation.
ISPIM
ISPIM – the International Society for Professional Innovation Management – has a rich library of innovation-related materials including interviews, keynote speeches, webinars and tool explainers.
Frank Piller
In this interview Frank discusses some of the opportunities and challenges in innovation communities
Clayton Christensen on how to build a disruptive business
This is a talk given at a start-up conference which explains in his own words the core themes in his theory of disruptive innovation
Melissa Schilling’s YouTube channel
Melissa Schilling’s YouTube channel is a rich source of video around the theme of innovation strategy.
Eric von Hippel
Eric von Hippel, Professor, MIT Sloan School of management, share various very useful media resources exploring the concept of user innovation.
Nick Himo, The Happy Startup
Nick Himo, The Happy Startup, talking about the 4Ps and innovation space.
Innocent Smoothies, Redgate Software,...
Innocent Smoothies, Redgate Software, Devon and Cornwall Police, and The Met Office. A video detailing four examples of workplace innovation.
Adam Grant
TED Talk – ‘The surprising habits of original thinkers’
Alex Osterwalder
In these videos Alex Osterwalder explains the basic ideas behind the ‘Business Model Canvas’.
Amy Edmondson
TED Talk – ‘Building a psychologically safe workplace’.
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Angela Duckworth
TED Talk – ‘Grit: The power of passion and perseverance’.
Anil Gupta
TED Talk – ‘India’s hidden hotbeds of invention’.
Arunachalam Muruganantham
TED talk on user needs and innovation in low income settings, ‘How I started a sanitary napkin revolution’.
Astro Teller
TED Talk – ‘The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure’.
Charles Leadbeater
TED Talk – ‘The era of open innovation’.
Chris Anderson
TED Talk – ‘How web video powers global innovation’.
Jane Chen
TED talk on social innovation, – ‘A warm embrace that saves lives’.
Jimmy Wales
TED talk – ‘The birth of Wikipedia’.
Ken Robinson
TED talk – ‘Do schools kill creativity?’
Nandan Nilekani
TED talk by the co-founder of Infosys, ‘Ideas for India’s future’.
Nirmalya Kumar
TED talk by professor of Marketing at the London Business School, describing four types of ‘invisible innovation’ currently coming out of India, – ‘India’s invisible innovation’.
C.K. Prahalad
Opportunities at the bottom of the pyramid’ – This is a video of a talk given at Maastricht School of Management in 2008 in which he sets out some of the strategic opportunities opened up in the bottom of the pyramid space.
Grameen Bank
A video case study on Grameen Bank, ‘The Bangladeshi Economic Innovator Lifting People From Poverty’.
Unipart
FT industry editor Peggy Hollinger talks to John Neill, chief executive of Unipart, about the logistics group’s methods for improving productivity, including a ‘university’ and ‘faculties on the floor’ for continuous training and monitoring.
Ray Anderson
TED talk by the founder of ‘Interface’ on building a business around sustainable innovation, ‘The business logic of sustainability’.
Samasource
A video about ‘Samasource’, a social enterprise that gives work to impoverished people around the world, founded in 2008 by Leila Chirayath Janah). And also here from a user perspective.
Stephen Johnson
TED talk – ‘Where Good Ideas Come From’.
Tal Golesworthy
TED talk – ‘How I repaired my own heart’.
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