From Chaos to Creativity: An Insider's Look with the Dean of Innovation and University of Michigan Professor Jeff DeGraff
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With the Covid vaccine, the entire planet has just had front row seats to innovation of massive importance, urgency, and scale. What looked like chaos has resulted in crunching the vaccine cycle time from 10 years to 10 months. So how did it happen? And what are the factors that lead to creative and innovative leaps? How can innovation occur in daily life? Jeff DeGraff is the person who knows.
Jeff is an advisor to Fortune 500 companies, a top innovation speaker, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and a bestselling author.
He founded the Innovatrium, an innovation consulting firm focusing on creating innovation culture, capability, and community. He has worked with companies including Apple, Coca Cola, General Electric, Google, and many others. He earned his nickname, the “Dean of Innovation,” while working as an executive for Domino’s Pizza in his youth, where he accelerated Domino’s growth from a regional success story to an international franchise phenomenon. He is also the author of several books on how teams innovate, his most recent being The Creative Mindset: Mastering the Six Skills that Empower Innovation.
In this episode of What I Wish I Knew with Mike Irwin & Simon Daw, Jeff talks about innovation accelerators and obstacles, the importance of the failure cycle, the geography of genius, and the Covid vaccine effort.
What I Wish I Knew with Mike Irwin & Simon Daw...
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