Innovation Book Club

Alex Drago & Wais Pirzad
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The Innovation Book Club is a podcast that explores the key ideas that drive creativity and innovation. In each episode, Alex Drago and Wais Pirzad choose a compelling text from the innovation field, deconstruct its core ideas and then explore what they mean for your innovation practice. Each episode features an in-depth, critically engaged discussion, punctuated by humour, anecdote and occasional diversion. All in all, everything you’d expect from a book club.

  1. 08/14/2023

    Reflections (S3/E8)

    It's the end of another season. Alex and Wais take some time to reflect.

    59 min

  2. 07/31/2023

    Practical Empathy / Indi Young (S3/E7)

    Empathy, empathy, empathy, it's the heart of innovation. Apparently. The problem with empathy is that innovators don't truly empathise, instead, they pick and choose feedback that meets their own preferences rather than the broader picture that better reflects the needs of the user. Indi Young addresses this by providing a better understanding of empathy and offering some approaches to utilising it without falling into familiar traps. Alex and Wais dip in to learn how to empathise...

    57 min

  3. 07/17/2023

    Ten Faces of Innovation / Tom Kelley (S3/E6)

    There are many creative agencies but only one of those agencies is called IDEO, the granddaddy of them all, which traces its history back to 1978, the year after Star Wars was released. IDEO became a named entity in 1991, since which time they've popularised the idea of human-centred design, a process that seeks to empathise with users and embed the understanding that falls from this within the product design process to create better innovations. That's not what this book is about, but it is written by one of IDEO's elder statesmen, Tom Kelley, who believes that innovation requires ten different kinds of people, each of whom contributes in different ways. Alex and Wais discover who they are and get lost in a lot of stories.

    1h 39m

  4. 07/03/2023

    The Myths of Innovation / Scott Berkun (S3/E5)

    Way back in the mists of time, before even the first iPhone was released and kickstarted a seismic shift in digital innovation, Scott Berkun wrote The Myths of Innovation, in which he explores why we have innovation all wrong. Alex and Wais dip into the book and find out what innovation looked like before lean startups and business model canvases were a thing.

    1h 28m

  5. 06/19/2023

    Value Proposition Design / Osterwalder, Pigneur et al (S3/E4)

    In this episode of the Innovation Book Club, Alex and Wais follow up their previous episode about Business Model Generation with a look back at Osterwalder's follow-up, Value Proposition Design.

    1h 24m

  6. 06/05/2023

    Business Model Generation / Alexander Osterwalder & Yves Pigneur (S3/E3)

    If our recent fixation with innovation started anywhere, it was with Osterwalder & Pigneur's Business Model Generation which popularised the idea of business model innovation through the introduction of the business model canvas. Alex and Wais reflect on the book's legacy and relevance to the innovation landscape today.

    1h 21m

  7. 05/23/2023

    ChatGPT (S3/E2)

    In this episode of the Innovation Book Club Alex and Wais take on the beast that is ChatGPT and consider how it's going to change how we use the web, our work and our lives. This conversation was recorded in January 2023.

    1h 11m

  8. 01/31/2023

    The Lean Startup / Eric Ries (S3/E1)

    Alex and Wais discuss Eric Ries' game-changing book The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses (2011). The book (finally) offered software developers and technology entrepreneurs an alternative to the resource-heavy and time-consuming waterfall methodology and has since become a staple of any startup. But is it all its really cracked up to be?

    1h 16m
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The Innovation Book Club is a podcast that explores the key ideas that drive creativity and innovation. In each episode, Alex Drago and Wais Pirzad choose a compelling text from the innovation field, deconstruct its core ideas and then explore what they mean for your innovation practice. Each episode features an in-depth, critically engaged discussion, punctuated by humour, anecdote and occasional diversion. All in all, everything you’d expect from a book club.

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  • Creator
    Alex Drago & Wais Pirzad
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    24
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Alex Drago & Wais Pirzad
  • Show Website
    Innovation Book Club