76. Lessons from Unilever's Work with Startups and Social Enterprises - PJ Mistry, Unilever

Welcome once again to the Innovation Roundtable Insights Podcast!In this episode, Ferry Winter, Director of Energy Transition Campus Amsterdam at Shell discusses the company's approach to innovation and strategies for driving innovation across the company. He mentions a centralized technology organization, seed money for startups, academic partnerships, and ventures.  Ferry also emphasizes the need for trust, inclusion, equality and equity for establishing successful partnerships. This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop hosted by Shell in April 2023. Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.

Welcome once again to the Innovation Roundtable Insights Podcast!In this episode, PJ Mistry,  Foundry Strategy & Operations Lead at Unilever discusses  her experience partnering with social enterprises in Africa and Asia to meet the needs of low-income households. She expresses how partnerships and collaboration are critical to address major global challenges.This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop hosted by Shell in April 2023. Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.

Welcome once again to the Innovation Roundtable Insights Podcast. We are thrilled to be back, featuring insights from leading innovation experts across various multinational corporations. Join us as we delve into cutting-edge ideas, strategies, and experiences that are shaping the future of innovation in the global marketplace. In this episode, Ulli, Vice President Artificial Intelligence and IoT at Siemens, discusses various aspects of innovation in the digital age and its impact on businesses. The conversation will cover important innovation principles, approaches to understanding and assessing emerging technologies, creating use cases for leveraging AI and the importance of effective communication throughout the process. Uli also discusses  challenges that come with developing AI solutions in a highly regulated environment and how they can be solved. This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop hosted by Orange in February 2023. Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.Mark your calendar for 7 to 9 November and join us in Denmark, Copenhagen for the Innovation roundtable summit. The world's largest gathering of corporate innovators. Secure your attendance now at exclusive discount rates of up to 30% until October 13. Learn more at InnovationRoundtable.com/summit

Ilaria Iurilli, Global Digital Product Manager at Ingka Centres, explains how her team works on developing digital products for IKEA customers, highlighting how digital should amplify their experience rather than being an experience itself. She also explains the importance of how the connection to the company’s KPIs and business objective is a key criterion, both for selecting and adopting new technologies and for collecting customer data ethically. Finally, she explains how teams can work in both agile and linear ways, and how managing cultural changes, infusing a digital mindset across the whole organization, and ensuring alignment with business objectives are pivotal factors in the digital transformation journey. This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop hosted by Copenhagen Airports in September 2021. Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.

Julia Hitzbleck, formerly Head of LifeHub Berlin/Corporate Innovation Berlin, talks about LifeHub Berlin, an internal incubator for ideas of employees embarking on a journey of learning and applying iterative methodologies such as design thinking, lean startup, and agile to develop new value propositions.This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop hosted by GE Power in Berlin on Digital Services and Startup Collaboration.Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.

Søren Bro, Group Director, Head of Ecosystems & Partnerships at Grundfos, talks about the company’s collaboration model with large players and startups, as well as partnership selection criteria including strategic fit, culture, and values, and how the company is positioning itself in the emerging ecosystems. He also discusses the process of digitalizing solutions, and testing and evaluating new service-based business models.This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop hosted by GE Power in Berlin on Digital Services and Startup Collaboration.Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.

Hartmut Mai, formerly Chief Regions & Markets Officer at Allianz, discusses how organizations should approach emerging technologies and, importantly, how to assess the impact they will have on the business. Mai dives into how Allianz organizes its digital projects, along with how the teams are set up and what is required from leadership. The conversation also tackles the privacy- and security-related concerns with new data-driven offerings.This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop in 2019 hosted by Allianz in Berlin on Digital and Organizational Transformation.Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.

Serge Hermans, Head of Innovation Personal Care at Philips, discusses the role emerging technologies play in enabling new personalized solutions to consumers. In its move beyond products, Philips has implemented a wealth of changes to enable more experimentation and testing with users. Serge deliberates upon a few of his learnings from this work and his current role.This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop hosted by Philips in Amsterdam on AI, Quantum Computing & Digital Experiments.Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.

Bret Snyder, Chair and CEO at W.L. Gore, talks about nurturing a culture of innovation. Based on his work at W.L. Gore, Bret shares stories and lessons learned on the most effective methods, such as the dedicated “dabble time”, emergent leadership approach, and enabling agile play.This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop hosted by W.L. Gore in Newark, Delaware on Ambidextrous Organization and Culture. Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.

Jean-François Barrand, Head of Innovation and Collaborative Work Faculty at Airbus’ AirBusiness Academy, delves into design thinking, lean startup, and agile methodologies to uncover how they can best be applied in large organizations. He also explains how these iterative methods can be combined with the traditional stage-gate framework, and how projects can transition between these approaches.This episode was recorded at the Innovation Roundtable workshop hosted by Airbus in Toulouse on Design Thinking, Lean Startup & Agile.Visit InnovationRoundtable.online to watch this interview and hundreds of other presentations.