Challenging the Assumptions of Innovation with William Kilmer

The Evolving Leader

In this episode of the Evolving Leader podcast, co-hosts Scott Allender and Jean Gomes are joined by entrepreneur, venture capital investor and author William Kilmer. A product and innovation strategist at heart, William has spent his career working with hundreds of companies as a start-up leader, coach, investor and board member. He has been founder and CEO of several cybersecurity and data analytics companies, formed a wireless operator in the UK, and has served on the board of over twenty five technology companies and other organizations. He was previously the managing director of Intel Capital, a corporate venture capital fund where he managed worldwide investments and formed a targeted venture fund to invest in the Middle East and North Africa.

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0.00 Introduction

3.10 Can you tell us a little about how you got to where you are today?

4.28 What attracted you into working in technology and leadership?

5.18 Can we talk about innovation and the challenge that it poses for many organisations?

7.37 Some organisations may sometimes lose perspective on why they are innovating. Why might that be?

9.53 In many organisations, innovation sits on the periphery rather than being central to the core business. Is that what you’re seeing?

12.09 What’s the difference between innovation and transformation?

16.50 If you were sitting with a CEO who wasn’t successfully transforming their organisation, what high level advice would you give to that individual?

22.59 Can you tell us about the ‘confidence bubble’?

27.57 Why do you think primary business model innovation isn’t happening at the same level as the technological innovation?

31.03 When was the last time you witnessed a pitch where you thought, ‘yeah that idea could really be transformative’?

33.33 Are there any currently under represented emerging technologies that you think might come to the fore in the future?

37.42 How have you evolved as a leader?

42.17 What mindset shift is required for an individual who is prone to defending ideas as opposed to challenging them?

43.34 If we fast forward three years, what are the things that we should be looking at in terms of combining new technologies and business models in order to solve some of the big challenges facing organisations?

47.08 Is there anything else that we should ask you?

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