continuous innovation

More about our guest:

Merrick Furst, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Center for Deliberate Innovation (CDI) at Georgia Tech. In 2011, he founded Flashpoint, a first-of-its-kind deliberate innovation studio, to develop formative leaders and exceptional technology startups. Flashpoint was the thirty-sixth startup accelerator worldwide, very early in the development of business accelerators. Both at Flashpoint and at CDI, Furst works with hundreds of founders and innovators and is developing the discipline of Deliberate Innovation. 

To date, Furst has personally started eight start-ups. Furst has been teaching entrepreneurship in an innovative form since 2006. He was a professor and the President of the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley, and previously, was a professor and Associate Dean in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Furst is known for seminal research in algorithms, complexity theory, and AI. He co-invented probabilistic circuit analysis and planning graphs, which are considered among the most influential breakthroughs in the field of AI planning.  

Know more about him here:

• Dr. Merrick Furst

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Episode Guide:

00:54 - What is Innovation?

2:30 - Falling apart vs Continuous innovation

3:18 - What makes a customer?

4:33 - The puzzle of innovation and indifference dilemma

9:03 - Getting Stuck and Unstuck: Only Yes situations

13:49 - Innovation, education, and interdisciplinary knowledge

17:11 - Creating "threads" in curriculum

19:58 - Innovation, Daniel Kahneman's influence, and economics

22:03 - Innovation, utility, and P&G  

25:27 - Getting people to reassess

28:38 - Drawing from personal experience on demand and supply

31:13 - Advice for Innovators
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Ever wondered how an innovation culture is being built and sustained?

In the world of Innovation Paul Akers is a Star in his own right. He is an entrepreneur, author, teacher. And a lean-maniac (his own words).

His podcast, YouTube channel and books have been watched, heard- and are read by millions. He has his very own way of building and more importantly sustaining his business. Paul is very intense about lean principles which he applies to the business world as well as his private life. It helped him to built a company with sought after products for woodworkers as well as train for two Ironman runs in his fifties.

Find Paul here:

• Paul Akers website
• Paul Akers wikipedia
• Paul Akers - The American Innovator Podcast
• Paul Akers Youtube channel
• FastCap company website & Youtube

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