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Mike Briercliffe

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Innovation and design thinking are such relevant topics in today's hi tech world and Mike Briercliffe and I provide our perspective on how to handle disruption and we also discuss the way to innovate safely in business.Mike shares some of his wisdom from 50 years in business management and I always learn a lot from talking with him.If you want to learn more about Mike then here is his LinkedIn profileYou can also get him on Twitter :-Learn more about :- Digital Transformation + Digitization with Red Hat Director of Strategy Brian Gracely – Episode 52WARNING — AI Transcriptions Below May Cause Grammatically Correct People Serious Stress and Lack of Sleep!Nathaniel Schooler 0:13I'd like to introduce you to Mike Briercliffe. Mike is a digital leader, a social business practitioner, who specializes in the information technology and snowsports sectors, occasionally, both together with over 50 years in management and marketing, specifically, Mike has helped grow over 50 businesses, some from the ground up, and he has helped many people to progress in their careers. So let's get into this interesting talk. Well, hey, Mike, it's really great to speak to you again.Mike Briercliffe 1:00Yeah, good. Thanks for calling me Nat.Nathaniel Schooler 1:03No worries, I'm pleased that I'm going to learn a bit more about innovation. I mean, I think it's a it's a massive subject, isn't it really, and as you said, to me, when we were discussing this, this expert talk, how, I mean, I said to you, it can be anywhere in business and in life, and process, product and departmental innovation, right. But you pointed out a few other really interesting elements to it.Mike Briercliffe 1:32I was talking about innovation, being all around us and able to able to be interpreted as product innovation, or service innovation, or process innovation, or business development, or, I mean, it's such a wide subject. So we need to focus in on the areas that we want to really talk about, I mean, to me, I regarded myself as being innovative throughout my career, which is quite a long time, as you know, and, to me, the innovation matter in business is often best treated as experimentation.And, an activity carried out by a small number of people, not the whole business. So for instance, if I wanted to innovate a new customer approach, for dealing with, with my clients, what I'd do is, I will find the two or three best people that I had, who I knew had the capability of delivering that innovation, get them to do it in a in a silo to start with and have them come up with some results and some measurable milestones and some understandable concept for taking the business forward, and then taking the business forward in that silo before then re delivering it to the rest of the business.My experience was, if you tried to get 20 people to deliver innovation, it would never work, focusing on focusing in with the best two or three people and figuring out what the right pattern is, what the right speed is, what the right features are. And then working on that with a small number has two effects. One is you actually prove it without it becoming too dispersed. And you actually show the people who aren't in it, where you're going, and they certainly, normally anyway, they rally to the cause. Rather than saying, well:- "We're all going to do this, and hope that we can all start off on this path."And in my experience, that tends to disperse, the focus and you never get the innovation that you looking for. So focusing with a team and then delivering that experience to the wider team seems to me the best way to do things, particularly when you're focusing in on better ways to do your business.Nathaniel Schooler 4:16Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, actually. And, you know, I think it's a difficult one, isn't it? I mean, I pride myself on being innovative as well, you know, and try and come up with better ways to sort of do things ...

Innovation and design thinking are such relevant topics in today's hi tech world and Mike Briercliffe and I provide our perspective on how to handle disruption and we also discuss the way to innovate safely in business. Mike shares some of his wisdom from 50 years in business management and I always learn a lot from talking with him. If you want to learn more about Mike then here is his LinkedIn profile You can also get him on Twitter :- Learn more about :- Digital Transformation + Digitization with Red Hat Director of Strategy Brian Gracely – Episode 52 WARNING — AI Transcriptions Below May Cause Grammatically Correct People Serious Stress and Lack of Sleep! Nathaniel Schooler 0:13 I'd like to introduce you to Mike Briercliffe. Mike is a digital leader, a social business practitioner, who specializes in the information technology and snowsports sectors, occasionally, both together with over 50 years in management and marketing, specifically, Mike has helped grow over 50 businesses, some from the ground up, and he has helped many people to progress in their careers. So let's get into this interesting talk. Well, hey, Mike, it's really great to speak to you again. Mike Briercliffe 1:00 Yeah, good. Thanks for calling me Nat. Nathaniel Schooler 1:03 No worries, I'm pleased that I'm going to learn a bit more about innovation. I mean, I think it's a it's a massive subject, isn't it really, and as you said, to me, when we were discussing this, this expert talk, how, I mean, I said to you, it can be anywhere in business and in life, and process, product and departmental innovation, right. But you pointed out a few other really interesting elements to it. Mike Briercliffe 1:32 I was talking about innovation, being all around us and able to able to be interpreted as product innovation, or service innovation, or process innovation, or business development, or, I mean, it's such a wide subject. So we need to focus in on the areas that we want to really talk about, I mean, to me, I regarded myself as being innovative throughout my career, which is quite a long time, as you know, and, to me, the innovation matter in business is often best treated as experimentation. And, an activity carried out by a small number of people, not the whole business. So for instance, if I wanted to innovate a new customer approach, for dealing with, with my clients, what I'd do is, I will find the two or three best people that I had, who I knew had the capability of delivering that innovation, get them to do it in a in a silo to start with and have them come up with some results and some measurable milestones and some understandable concept for taking the business forward, and then taking the business forward in that silo before then re delivering it to the rest of the business. My experience was, if you tried to get 20 people to deliver innovation, it would never work, focusing on focusing in with the best two or three people and figuring out what the right pattern is, what the right speed is, what the right features are. And then working on that with a small number has two effects. One is you actually prove it without it becoming too dispersed. And you actually show the people who aren't in it, where you're going, and they certainly, normally anyway, they rally to the cause. Rather than saying, well:- "We're all going to do this, and hope that we can all start off on this path." And in my experience, that tends to disperse, the focus and you never get the innovation that you looking for. So focusing with a team and then delivering that experience to the wider team seems to me the best way to do things, particularly when you're focusing in on better ways to do your business. Nathaniel Schooler 4:16 Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, actually. And, you know, I think it's a difficult one, isn't it? I mean, I pride myself on being innovative as well, you know, and try and come up with better ways to sort of do things ...

41: Innovation and Design Thinking with Digital Leader Mike Briercliffe

Don’t go calling Mike Briercliffe an expert, because he doesn’t believe there is one in the world of social media. Briercliffe does have advanced knowledge on how to build a cohesive social media strategy, going from the fast lanes of the Twitter down to the medium slow lanes of Facebook &amp; LinkedIn. Briercliffe shares his social media philosophies on what works, what doesn’t in terms of building a social media fanbase, as well as his love for the Liverpool Premier League club.  Twitter: @mikejulietbravo

Don’t go calling Mike Briercliffe an expert, because he doesn’t believe there is one in the world of social media. Briercliffe does have advanced knowledge on how to build a cohesive social media strategy, going from the fast lanes of the Twitter down to the medium slow lanes of Facebook &amp; LinkedIn. Briercliffe shares his social media philosophies on what works, what doesn’t in terms of building a social media fanbase, as well as his love for the Liverpool Premier League club.  Twitter: @mikejulietbravo

Tao of Sports Ep. 145 - Mike Briercliffe (Digital Chief/Social Biz Architect, Next Dimension Media)