Rigorous innovation and experimentation

Exploring the innovation journey, testing assumptions, and the value and limits of evidence.

View the full transcript here

You can find out more about the live sessions that accompany this podcast here. 

Sources and further reading

Many of the ideas in this podcast were informed and inspired by two brilliant books on innovation in business. The Design of Business by Roger Martin and The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble.

The case study from Vietnam was taken from The Power of Positive Deviance by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin. There are many more examples in the book and more examples and resources at positivedeviance.org 

You can watch Richard Feynman’s full lecture on the importance of guessing to science, including a story about space aliens.

You can watch John Clesse’ reflections on creativity in this clip from a Dutch TV show.

And if you want to watch another excellent video on the importance of imagination to social innovation see this talk from Rob Hopkins or read his book From What is to What If.

You can hear more from Carolyn Curtis and the team in the full Making of Family by Family video. You can read more about Danni and the team’s work on the Virtual Village.

Credits

Music: “▲ 1” from BUNONG ▲ POP SONGS by Les Cartes Postales Sonores From the Free Music Archive CC BY-NC-SA

Field recordings from NOISE ON EARTH Vol​.​1 ៚ CAMBODIA by Les Cartes Postales Sonores From the Free Music Archive CC BY-NC-SA

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