Total Innovation Podcast

The Infinite Loop

Welcome to "Total Innovation," the podcast where I explore all the different aspects of innovation, transformation and change. From the disruptive minds of startup founders to the strategic meeting rooms of global giants, I bring you the stories of change-makers. The podcast will engage with different voices, and peer into the multi-faceted world of innovation across and within large organisations. I speak to those on the ground floor, the strategists, the analysts, and the unsung heroes who make innovation tick. From technology breakthroughs to cultural shifts within companies, I'm on a quest to understand how innovation breathes new life into business. I embrace the diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences that inform and drive the corporate renewal and evolution from both sides of the microphone. The Total Innovation journey will take you through the challenges, the victories, and the lessons learned in the ever-evolving landscape of innovation. Join me as we explore the narratives of those shaping the market, those writing about it, and those doing the hard work. This is "Total Innovation," where every voice counts and every story matters.  Brought to you by The Infinite Loop – Where Ideas Evolve, Knowledge Flows, and Innovation Never Stops. Powered by Wazoku, helping to Change the World, One Idea at a Time. 

  1. 43. Marta Jakab: Aligning Strategy, Innovation, and AI

    4D AGO

    43. Marta Jakab: Aligning Strategy, Innovation, and AI

    Marta started her journey in innovation in 1998 as the product manager of the first idea management platform, which became a market leader and served global customers such as Pfizer, Cargill, Belgacom and many more, to which she also consulted on innovation best practices. Subsequently, Marta moved into corporate technology consulting, then back again into innovation management with a Spanish startup. For the past six years, Marta served as a Strategy and Innovation manager at NatWest bank, where she implemented an intrapreneurship programme and oversaw the delivery of enterprise-grade AI innovation solutions. Outside work, Marta is interested in social innovation and robotics. She currently lives in Edinburgh with her family.

    56 min
  2. 42. Robyn Bolton: The Value Gap: How Leaders Unlock Real Innovation

    MAR 24

    42. Robyn Bolton: The Value Gap: How Leaders Unlock Real Innovation

    Robyn Bolton works with leaders of medium and large businesses to help them navigate uncertainty and confidently grow revenue. At MileZero, she has worked with companies including Medtronic, Ariadne Labs, and Teachers Pay Teachers to transform deep customer insights into viable businesses. She has also worked with organizations including Alexion, Sanofi, and The Cable Center to build their innovation capabilities and cultures. Prior to founding MileZero, Robyn was a Partner at Innosight, the innovation and growth strategy consulting firm founded by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen. She served Global 1000 companies, nonprofits, and startups in industries including healthcare, retail and apparel, and consumer packaged goods. Her teams collaborated closely with clients like Nike, Ahold USA, and Nestle to identify new markets, design and launch new business models, build innovation structures and processes. After earning her MBA at Harvard Business School, she worked as a consultant and project leader for The Boston Consulting Group in both Boston and Copenhagen Denmark.

    42 min
  3. 41. Tom Staley: Why Open Innovation Still Fails – and How the Best Organisations Are Finally Making It Work

    MAR 17

    41. Tom Staley: Why Open Innovation Still Fails – and How the Best Organisations Are Finally Making It Work

    Recognised as a Trusted Advisor, Tom works across the Public, Private and Defence Sectors, enabling organisations to establish the foundations to innovate, while leverage the capabilities of a diverse partner ecosystem; from startups to hyperscalers, in order to experiment, scale and commercialise new solutions. Tom is a member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) committee for Innovation Management, and is actively contributing to the ISO 56000 series of Innovation Management standards.

    41 min
  4. 40. Susanna Laurson: The Edge Advantage: Building Innovation from the Faroe Islands

    MAR 12

    40. Susanna Laurson: The Edge Advantage: Building Innovation from the Faroe Islands

    Súsanna Laursen is one of the driving forces behind the Faroe Islands' emerging innovation ecosystem. Based in Tórshavn, she works at Hugskotið — the Islands' startup incubator, founded in 2014 by the municipality of Tórshavn — where she supports early-stage founders and helps shape an environment where bold ideas can take root in one of the world's most remote and distinctive places. In eight years working in the ecosystem, she has seen Hugskotið support over 200 companies, the launch of FarBAN (the Faroe Business Angels Network), and growing interest from international investors who are increasingly paying attention to what's being built here. Súsanna is also co-founder of TONIK itself — the event you're at right now. TONIK was born out of a conviction that a small island nation doesn't have to think small. By blending technology, art, and meaningful human connection against the backdrop of the Faroese landscape, TONIK has become a gathering that draws founders, investors, and creative thinkers from across the Nordics and beyond — and sends them home with new collaborations, new friendships, and a new understanding of what's possible at the edge of the world. Her work is rooted in a simple but powerful idea: that the same qualities that make the Faroe Islands distinctive — resourcefulness, creativity, the habit of wearing many hats, and the necessity of solving your own problems — are precisely the qualities that make great innovators.

    33 min
  5. 39. Alexander Osterwalder - The Era Business Model Innovation

    MAR 5

    39. Alexander Osterwalder - The Era Business Model Innovation

    Dr. Alexander Osterwalder is one of the world's most influential thinkers in strategy and innovation. A Swiss entrepreneur, author, and speaker, he is best known as the co-creator of the Business Model Canvas — a deceptively simple one-page tool that has been adopted by millions of practitioners across the globe, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies including Mastercard, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft. Ranked consistently in the top 10 of the Thinkers50 list of management thinkers worldwide, Alex holds the Thinkers50 Strategy Award and the European Union's inaugural Innovation Luminary Award. He is the founder and CEO of Strategyzer, a platform that provides organisations with the tools, courses, and frameworks to systematically build new growth engines and more powerful business models. His books — including Business Model Generation, Value Proposition Design, Testing Business Ideas, and The Invincible Company — have collectively sold millions of copies in nearly 40 languages. Alex's mission is to make innovation more scientific and less random, helping leaders move beyond collecting ideas to actually measuring and delivering innovation value at scale.

    56 min
  6. 38. Expected Value - Chapter 15 & Epilogue

    12/18/2025

    38. Expected Value - Chapter 15 & Epilogue

    This is final episode of this season and the closing chapter in the Expected Value Story. In this episode, we look at the future of innovation. Innovation without adaptation is just novelty. The future belongs to those who can continuously evolve their innovation system.  Over this season, we've followed Freya and her team as they've moved from good intentions and busy innovation to clearer decisions, better evidence, and real value. But no system ever stands still. The world keeps changing, and the real question becomes how do we change with it without losing what we've built?  As we prepare to say goodbye to Freya, she is asked a simple but powerful question, what's next? And her answer isn't about more ideas or bigger bets. It's about building an organization that can keep learning, adapting, and creating value, even when the future refuses to behave.

    1h 4m
  7. 37. Expected Value - Chapter 14

    12/17/2025

    37. Expected Value - Chapter 14

    In this episode we explore chapter fourteen from metrics to mindsets. Thus far in the story we have seen that the numbers look great. XV across the portfolio was strong. Strategic fit profiles were improving, kill decisions were happening faster, reallocations were smooth. On paper, Freya's innovation system was working exactly as designed. And yet something felt off.  In this episode we explore what happens when an innovation system starts to become a performance, when confidence scores are given without doing the work, when learning is claimed without reflection, and when people walk through the beautiful structure you've built like it's a museum, admiring it but not living it.  We'll follow Freya and Axel as they shift the focus from metrics to mindsets, recentering everything on real challenges that matter, using AI as a cultural sense-making tool, identifying cultural lead users who already embody the behaviors you want, and rewiring rituals so the organization celebrates realized value, not just innovation activity.  If you've ever felt your dashboards look great, but your innovation culture is quietly drifting, this chapter is for you. It is about turning your system back into a tool, restoring truth over theatre, and closing the gap between expected and realized value.

    1h 1m
  8. 36. Expected Value - Act 4 Chapters 12 & 13

    12/16/2025

    36. Expected Value - Act 4 Chapters 12 & 13

    In this episode, we move to Act 4, where the spotlight moves from frameworks to people. Freya's team can score ideas, prioritize bets, and balance the portfolio. But now they face the harder challenge, embedding innovation into the culture itself.  We'll see how they bridge the gap between potential and performance, turning XV into realised value, and we'll explore the table of justice, a transformative way to judge decisions by evidence, not emotion.  This is where innovation becomes lived, not just measured.

    1h 37m
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Welcome to "Total Innovation," the podcast where I explore all the different aspects of innovation, transformation and change. From the disruptive minds of startup founders to the strategic meeting rooms of global giants, I bring you the stories of change-makers. The podcast will engage with different voices, and peer into the multi-faceted world of innovation across and within large organisations. I speak to those on the ground floor, the strategists, the analysts, and the unsung heroes who make innovation tick. From technology breakthroughs to cultural shifts within companies, I'm on a quest to understand how innovation breathes new life into business. I embrace the diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences that inform and drive the corporate renewal and evolution from both sides of the microphone. The Total Innovation journey will take you through the challenges, the victories, and the lessons learned in the ever-evolving landscape of innovation. Join me as we explore the narratives of those shaping the market, those writing about it, and those doing the hard work. This is "Total Innovation," where every voice counts and every story matters.  Brought to you by The Infinite Loop – Where Ideas Evolve, Knowledge Flows, and Innovation Never Stops. Powered by Wazoku, helping to Change the World, One Idea at a Time. 

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  • Creator
    The Infinite Loop
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    44
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Total Innovation Podcast
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