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New Episode Live Every 2nd Wednesday Each Month
ALPHA’s NEW Innovation Campfire Series was developed after noticing a pattern that occurs during networking at our workshops. Bringing a diverse mix of individuals together around a common theme often creates magic and sparks fly.
This series provides employees and entrepreneurs an opportunity to take a moment out of their busy days to see the world through a different lens.
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Episode 1 | 3M: An Innovator Dedicated to Solving Real-World Problems
What Will You Learn?
Hear about how Masking Tape was invented
How it shaped the future of 3M as an innovator dedicated to solving real-world problems
Find out more on 3Ms 15% Culture and how it drives innovations
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Episode 2 | Domino’s: How a Pizza Company Innovates?
What Will You Learn?
Learn on about the innovations Domino’s is responsible for beyond making Pizza
How the company’s mindset and culture fosters innovation
What Domino’s Secret Sauce to Success is
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Episode 3 | The Cheetos Story: Showing Some LOVE To Your Employees
What Will You Learn?
How PepsiCo’s CEOs encouraged employees to become intrapreneurs
How a problem can be turned into an opportunity
How employees can be empowered from within
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Episode 4 | Stripe: An Irish Innovation Story
What Will You Learn?
How Stripe turned a common problem into a huge opportunity
How Stripe was opened to chasing larger opportunities
How employees can be empowered from within
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Episode 5 | Ford & McDonalds: One company’s Waste Is Another’s Treasure
What Will You Learn?
How 2 companies working in completely seperate sectors can collaborate to innovate
How a prevelant problem can be turned into an opportunity
The Importance of being committed to be sustainability as a business
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Episode 6 | Spotify: Building a Workplace Culture That Has Disrupted The Music Industry
What Will You Learn?
How Spotify built a workplace culture that disrupted the music industry
Spotify’s view of failure and how it is encouraged
The importance of experimentation to develop new products, features and be first to market.
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Episode 7 | Amazon & Zappos: Building a Successful Business Through Experimentation
What Will You Learn?
Why Established Companies Value Experimentation
How Startups are well positioned to benefit from experimentation
Examples of low cost experiments you can run to validate the market
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Episode 8 | Google, Netflix & YouTube: Examples of Successful Business Pivots
What Will You Learn?
Eris Reis explaining what a business pivot is
Examples of how Google, Netflix & YouTube pivoted into bigger market opportunities
The benefits of pivoting at the right time
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Episode 9 | Blockbuster: A company that failed to Pivot
What Will You Learn?
A recap on the importance of a business being able to pivot
How Blockbuster went from 9,000 stores and $6bn in revenue to 1 store today
Why Blockbuster decided to compete, rather than diversify their product offerings
Episode 10 | Carrier: A 'cool' company you probably haven't heard of..
What Will You Learn?
How Willis Carrier solved an innovation challenge back in the 1900s
How the Carrier company diversified into new markets and grew the business
The company's commitment to innovation, research and development
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Episode 11 | Nokia & Kodak: Don't Hesitate ..Innovate
What Will You Learn?
Why companies need to embrace change or risk being left behind
Innovation should not be ‘one-off’ initiatives
Why innovation needs to be driven by management and leaders
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Episode 12 | Examples of Open Innovation
What Will You Learn?
How businesses can utilize open innovation to their advantage
The challenges NASA and the US Department of Defence solve through Open Innovation
How Lego comes up with new ideas for products
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Episode 13 | City of London Innovation Challenge & Upcoming NW City Region Innovation Challenge with Special Guest Deirdre Harte
What Will You Learn?
Highlights of the City of London’s recent AI Innovation Challenge
Why the challenge was beneficial for large corporations and startups alike
More details on the upcoming NW City Region innovation challenge with the RegTech Supercluster and City of London
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