Harness the Power of Open Innovation with Steve Rader

The Evolving Leader

Steve Rader is a leader in the thinking behind open innovation, open talent, and the future of work. In this episode of The Evolving Leader podcast, Steve joins Evolving Leader cohosts Jean Gomes and Scott Allender to share how leaders can learn from his important work and use their learnings to solve complex problems. Steve tells us that open innovation and open talent are key strategies for organisations to stay competitive in a rapidly changing world.
References from this episode:
"Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI" by Ethan Mollick (April 2024)
RapidMiner (https://altair.com/altair-rapidminer)
Other reading from Jean Gomes and Scott Allender:
Leading In A Non-Linear World (J Gomes, 2023)
The Enneagram of Emotional Intelligence (S Allender, 2023)
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Kapitel

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Check-in (00:02:58)

3. How do you answer the question ‘Steve, what do you do?’ (00:03:14)

4. What does open innovation mean? (00:04:49)

5. How can a leader leverage the crowd and do it in a way that is innovative and builds on solving the problem? (00:13:52)

6. What are the mistakes that people might make, for example confusing the solution with a problem statement? (00:20:26)

7. What is the mindset that leaders need to adopt to do this? (00:23:04)

8. Can you walk us through how you would start the process, and how that might play out over several years? (00:32:19)

9. Can you share a little about some of the successes that you and your team have led through open innovation and also how as a leader has this changed you? (00:40:44)

10. How will AI play out into open innovation over the next 5 or 6 years? (00:45:03)

11. Going deeper into the open talent movement (00:48:33)

12. What would you say to younger generations in terms of the skill sets that they should be thinking about? (00:53:32)

13. Connecting with Steve (00:57:44)