A Sherpa's Guide to Innovation

Are you looking to better understand and apply innovation theories, methods, and tools? Do you need to think about your business or industry in a different way? Join the Sherpas as they conduct spirited conversations and tell compelling stories to guide you along your innovation expedition. Get your gear ready! Business Model Innovation, Human-centered Design and Strategic Partnerships @SherpaPod @HealthPodNet Music Credit: Aurus Audio

A Sherpa's Guide to Innovation is a business podcast hosted by Ben Tingey & Jay Gerhart, with 119 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ben Tingey & Jay Gerhart hosts A Sherpa's Guide to Innovation, a business show with 119 episodes published.

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  E115: Heartspeak and Human Connection with Nick Adkins of Pinksocks Life

  Dec 10, 202538 minS0

  <p>Ben & Jay return after three years for a special edition! Just in time for the holiday season, Nick Adkins joins your Sherpa hosts to discuss his new book Pinksocks - How a Pair of Socks Became a Symbol of Love and Connection. As co-founder of Pinksocks Life, Nick has led a 10-year old international movement promoting empathy, love and human connection.</p><p><b>How to find Pinksocks in the wild with happy smiley people:</b></p><p>Pinksocks on Instagram</p><p>Pinksocks on Facebook</p><p>Support the show</p>

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  E114: Bob Moesta - Learning to Build Through 847 Notebooks

  Nov 23, 202254 minS0

  <p>Ben and Jay welcome back the one and only Bob Moesta for a record 4th episode.  Bob is a founding father of Jobs to Be Done theory, CEO of The ReWired Group (which has a great new website) and author of the recently published Learning to Build: 5 Bedrock Skills of Innovators and Entrepreneurs.  Hear Bob talk about why he wrote the book, a couple of non-JTBD topics from the book, and what he's focusing on in his remaining 1,890 days.  Yes, it's morbid, but it will be explained.  And hopefully it's much longer than that.<br/><br/>Learn about another of B...

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  E113: Perry Klebahn - The Practice of Ideaflow

  Oct 19, 202249 minS0

  <p>For our penultimate episode of 2022, we interview Perry Klebahn about his soon-to-be-published book Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric that Matters, co-authored with Jeremy Utley. Perry is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Executive Education at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design--the d.school--at Stanford University. Prior to his role at the d.school, Perry was CEO of Timbuk2 and COO of Patagonia. He's also an avid surfer. <br/><br/>Perry posits that innovation is not an event, a workshop, a sprint, or a hackathon, but rather the result of mastering ideaflow. Put simply, ideas / time = ideaflow. When applied, ideaflow...

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  E112: Mona Baset - Translating Marketing, Technology, and Innovation

  Sep 7, 202243 minS0

  <p>Ben & Jay reconnect with a former colleague and friend of innovation, Mona Baset, Vice President, Digital Services at Intermountain Healthcare.   During her career prior to Intermountain, Mona has held a variety of leadership positions in marketing and technology at Atrium Health and Bank of America.  While at Atrium Health, she participated in the very first cohort of the Innovation Engine's Catalyst Program, a hands-on design thinking course featured in Episode 35: Catalyzing an Environment of Innovation.  Today, Mona leads digital engagement strategy and transformation, including the development and implementation of the digital technology road map at one of the country's lea...

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  E111: Ruth Hartt - An Opera Singer Walks Into a Think Tank and Meets a Theory

  Aug 10, 202247 minS0

  <p>Ben & Jay dig again into Jobs to Be Done, this time from a fascinating perspective with Ruth Hartt, Chief of Staff to the President at the Christensen Institute and creator of Culture for Hire.  Ruth, a former opera singer and vocal teacher, is passionate about bringing customer-centric innovation to arts marketing.  Classical music audiences have declined nearly 50% since 1997.  Hear how Ruth applies Jobs to Be Done theory to help arts organizations reverse this trend and expand their notion of their audience and how reach them.  <br/><br/>The Art of Relevance by Nina Simon<br/><br/><b>All Things Twit...

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