Ep #8 – How To Innovate Effectively and Using Expert Networks

Episode Contents
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» 00:50 | What are the different ways of growing a business through innovation?
» 02:08 | How can businesses use innovation to overcome uncertainty?
» 03:18 | What are the main challenges you have come across when you have been innovating?
» 04:26 | How have experts helped you and your business through innovation?
» 06:35 | As a business, what questions should you be asking yourself before you engage with an expert?
» 08:11 | What are some of the risks that you see when using an expert network?
» 10:37 | What are the opportunities have come from using an expert network?
» 12:06 | What tips would you give another company in the process of innovating?

 

About the Episode: This episode of the PSI Podcast focuses on innovation and the use of expert networks. David Van Hek is joined by our esteemed guest: Louis Strydom – together they discuss tips around using expert networks, common mistakes, best methods and his own experience in using them when innovating as a part of his role as the Director: Growth & Development – Wärtsilä.About the Pangea SI Expert: Louis has a career plentiful in project development, high-risk investment and innovation initiatives in a range of industries on a global level. He is now a Director of Growth & Development for Wärtsilä, the global leader in technology and lifecycle solutions for marine and energy markets.“The only constant is change, right? So you can never eliminate uncertainty. What you can have is a good strategy for dealing with uncertainty and welcoming the uncertainty as it comes in and adjusting and adapting your business to that.”