The Provocateurs, a collaboration between Thinkers50 and Deloitte, is a new podcast series profiling the world’s boldest leaders and the moves they make. These are people who have accomplished incredible things by ‘provoking’ the future they desire – in business and for society overall. Often overcoming human biases and acting with imperfect data along the way, each episode will profile a single provocateur and their story.  In this inaugural episode, we will introduce our five hosts and what you can expect from the series. Our second episode will feature the provocateur Valerie Rainford, the founder of Elloree Talent Strategies and former senior executive of JPMC and the Federal Reserve.  Join us for the beginning of this journey to inspire leaders everywhere to build conviction to act and #DoSomething!

The Provocateurs, a collaboration between Thinkers50 and Deloitte, is a new podcast series profiling the world’s boldest leaders and the moves they make. These are people who have accomplished incredible things by ‘provoking’ the future they desire – in business and for society overall. Often overcoming human biases and acting with imperfect data along the way, each episode will profile a single provocateur and their story.  <br><br>In this inaugural episode, we will introduce our five hosts and what you can expect from the series. Our second episode will feature the provocateur Valerie Rainford, the founder of Elloree Talent Strategies and former senior executive of JPMC and the Federal Reserve.  Join us for the beginning of this journey to inspire leaders everywhere to build conviction to act and #DoSomething!

The Provocateurs: intro episode

Dan Toma

Dan Toma and Stuart Crainer discuss the impetus of his book, The Corporate Startup.  Is it possible for large corporations to understand the innovations lifestyle movement?  How can innovation be accounted for so that its KPIs are meaningful?

Dan Toma: Innovation

Businesses are interested in sustainable development, but they don't know where to start.  Hoek, author of The Trillion Dollar Shift, argues that "Business for Good is Good Business".

Marga Hoek: Sustainability

Michael Jacobides

Stuart Crainer and Michael Jacobides discuss ecosystems. Success is as much about helping other firms to innovate as it is about being innovative yourself.   Companies need to change the questions they are asking. We are now shifting from a product that is defined in terms of its individual goodsand services to something that can cross the boundaries and create new firms and new types of competition.

Michael Jacobides: Ecosystems

Geoff Tuff

How should businesses allocate their spend between trying to disrupt markets, versus their core business.  How has it changed over the last seven years?

Geoff Tuff: Detonate Your Business With Innovation

The future of customer experience is happening now, in China.  What is causing Europe and North America to lag behind?  What is the future of voice assistants, and how are smart companies using them to enhance and advance the customer experience?

Steven Van Belleghem: Automation, AI and the Customer Experience

Karolin Frankenberger

What is digital transformation?  In this Brightline Initiative Podcast recorded in London, Stuart Crainer interviews Karolin Frankenberger, co-author of the book The Business Model Navigator. The two discuss digital transformation - not cutting edge technology,  or digitizing products or processes, but rather holistic transformation of businesses with significantly changed value creation processes.  What mistakes do companies commonly make in pursuit of digital transformation?  Frankenberger discusses what delays in adoptation executives should watch out for.

Karolin Frankenberger - Digital Transformation

Steve Goldbach

In this Brightline Initiative Podcast recorded in London, Stuart Crainer interviews Steve Goldbach, co-author of the book Detonate.  In the book, Goldbach observes that executives are very clear about their fears of disruption, and have done very little in the way of actually challenging orthodoxies within their organizations.

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