Episode 12: A new sound, Rob Poel, cricket flour, and Chipotle

IDEO Futures

• Episode: Episode 12: A new sound, Rob Poel, cricket flour, and Chipotle
• Website: IDEO Futures
• Feed URL: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:104583542/sounds.rss
• Duration: 00:39:17
• Published: 2015-02-24 20:17

Pull your ears out and get 'em ready for 35 minutes of mind-blowing discussion of design, innovation, and making it happen. In all seriousness, we think is our best pod yet—definitely in our Top 20. At the center of Episode 12, Joe has a fantastic interview with Rob Poel, who works as the Director of New Business Innovation at Steelcase. He and Joe discuss a variety of topics, ranging from our Futures design theme of "Humanizing Smart Things" to what it's like to leading new business initiatives in an established, highly successful organization. What's it like to be an internal entrepreneur endeavoring to build things out beyond the horizon? Rob lives that, and has a lot of wisdom for anyone trying to make a dent in the universe. Rob, we can't wait to have you back on the King Ship pod! In our weekly installation of Venture Design that Blows Our Minds (VDTBOM), we discuss two excellent venture design articles: - How Twitter Found its Money Mojo - Chipotle: The Definitive Oral History Our Chipotle discussion harkens back to our Taco Truck DDP pod, one of our favorites. Plus, the merits of cricket-flour cookies, a truly excellent listener question about "linked prosperity" and the future of organizations, and a bunch of reasons why you shouldn't drink tasting vinegars while you pod. Many thanks to our producer Piper Loyd and our engineer Aaron Soloway for setting us with our new, professional-grade recording setup. While recording inside of our new Brundlefly chamber gets us all hot and sweaty, we think you'll agree this new setup is miles better acoustically than what we had in our earlier pods. Like moving from an 8 Track to satellite radio! Or from a Schwinn 10-speed to a Porsche GT3. Thanks, Piper and Aaron! King Ship!