Christian Contemori on the Meaning of Innovation
20 Dec 2019
Christian Contemori, UX Lead at Brilliant Basics discusses the meaning of innovation and how innovation can be built inside culture. The discussion covers the story of the first companywide hackathon, creativity, randomness and how to build sustainability inside innovation.
Hosted by Anand Verma, European Head of Digital Services for Infosys and Founder & CEO of Brilliant Basics, Infosys’ Design Studios.
“Sometimes innovation just comes into being, it just emerges without too much previous or prior planning, but that is more like a serendipitous innovation that's harder to plan. If you discover things then you should be quick at bringing that knowledge in.” Christian Contemori
Show Notes
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00:48
Christian shares his background
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06:05
What is the meaning of innovation in Christian’s mind?
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08:58
Christian shares his thoughts on innovation as a service.
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13:17
Christian is talking about a recent large-scale hackathon that he organized in the company.
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20:33
Anand and Christian talk about “randomness” in innovation.
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23:12
Christian shares his key takeaways from the hackathon experience
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25:56
What are some of the misconceptions about the innovation and the reasons why it can fail?
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26:51
What is the metrics to measure success?
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29:35
Anand and Christian talk about the concept called “T-shaped people.” Which skills are important?
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32:40
Anand and Christian talk about sustainability and how to build it inside innovation.
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35:41
What’s Christian’s favorite book and why?
Music by Ruhan Verma, 13-year-old upcoming Drummer and Producer