Product Quest Podcast Scott, Jonathan and Yann

Today we have Robyn Bolton as our guest. Robyn M. Bolton is the Founder & Chief Navigator of MileZero, an innovation consultancy that works with leaders of medium and large businesses to navigate the uncertainty of innovation's "fuzzy front end" to confidently grow their businesses.  Before founding MileZero, Robyn was a Partner at Innosight, the innovation and strategy firm that does not need an introduction here since it was created by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen. Robyn worked at BCG and was a Brand Manager at P&G where she was on the team that developed and launched Swiffer and Swiffer Wetjet. 

Today, we welcome Brandon Cornuke. Brandon is Senior Director of Innovation for University Hospitals Ventures, an organization charged with deploying healthcare innovation at scale.
He’s the author of The Value Proposition Matrix, something that we’re sure to get into today.

Today, we welcome our special guest, Dr. Theomora Ziamou. She is a behavioral scientist who has worked for the EU through the European Commission, Ernst & Young,  UNESCO - and today with her own consultancy, Enlexis.
Our stated goal on the Product Quest Podcast is to better understand innovation and product strategy. A real mystery that most product managers and leaders face - is the uncertainty with how their customers make decisions.

Today we’ll be chatting to Greg Larking who calls himself a business punk. From what I can see the emphasis is on both: business and punk.
He predicted the subprime financial crisis in 2006 and worked as a director of product innovation at Bloomberg. Now he advises companies such as Google, PWC, Uber, Sky and other Fortune 500 companies to launch transformative products and empower entrepreneurs. He has also built a vetted, invite only community of 200 business punks around the world called Punks & Pinstripes and he's written a book “This might get me fired”. 
Check out https://www.punksandpinstripes.com/

In this episode, Jonathan Edwards, Yann Vermuth, and Scott Burleson talk to Professors Daniel Trabucchi and Tommaso Buganza from the School of Management at Politecnico di Milano about their book "Platform Thinking" (more at: https://platformthinking.eu/). They talk about the different kinds of platforms and how platform thinking can be used to think about businesses and foster innovation.
You will learn how renowned companies, such as Uber, Airbnb, Apple, and Google, but also others are revolutionizing the industry by leveraging platform models in unique ways.
How can platform thinking lead to strategic opportunities? and how can traditional businesses' develop their own platforms?
Gaining insight into the true nature of platform-based businesses helps foster innovation and creativity, and to develop new avenues for your business.
Tune in to this episode and start your journey on the path of platform thinking!

Many listeners will know that this podcast has a JTBD affection to put it mildly. In this episode we will do something very Un-JTBD like: We will talk about a solution! It’s a solution that everyone is talking about right now: Artificial intelligence. What we want to do today is look at AI from two perspectives. The first one is how AI is or might be useful in the context of the Jobs-to-be-done philosophy and practice. The second one is more general: What customer jobs might AI help address? When we think about a company context: What jobs is AI well suited to do? It’s the PQP-Team only this time and we jump right in.