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Hard Lessons: War Stories From The Corporate Innovation Frontlines

Hard Lessons: War Stories From The Corporate Innovation Frontlines

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Corporate innovation sounds exciting until it gets real. Hard Lessons: War Stories from the Corporate Innovation Frontlines is a deep dive into the moments when enterprise innovation pushed limits, broke norms, and forced hard decisions. We talk with innovation leaders inside the world’s largest companies about the deals, bets, pilots, partnerships, and restructurings that shaped outcomes they couldn’t reach any other way. Each episode unpacks one defining moment. What triggered it. What was at risk. Who had to say yes. Who advocated against it. How it played out. And the hard-earned lessons that only come from doing the work, not talking about it. Economie Management Management et direction
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  • Suman Giri: The AI Playbook No One Talks About – Power, Politics, and Building AI Inside Fortune 50 Companies

    Suman Giri: The AI Playbook No One Talks About – Power, Politics, and Building AI Inside Fortune 50 Companies
    May 22 2026
    Suman’s work sits at the collision point of AI ambition and enterprise reality. From Aetna and Highmark to Merck and Pfizer, he has repeatedly been asked to build new data science and AI capabilities inside complex healthcare organizations, where fragmented data, regulatory pressure, and internal politics shape what can actually scale. In this conversation, he traces how the field evolved from early machine learning and open-source analytics into today’s generative AI wave, and why the hardest part has remained surprisingly consistent: getting people, incentives, leadership, and adoption aligned. His lessons move beyond the usual AI hype, offering a grounded playbook for building durable teams, earning executive cover, designing products people want to use, and turning AI from a spotlight initiative into real organizational muscle.
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    30 min
  • Pilots and Partnerships in Global Brands: Amex, Nike with Elaine Barsoom

    Pilots and Partnerships in Global Brands: Amex, Nike with Elaine Barsoom
    May 7 2026
    Across Nike and American Express, Elaine Barsoom had a front-row seat to one of the hardest problems in corporate innovation: how to turn promising technology into something a large organization can actually absorb. She reflects on the moments that defined that work, from helping Nike pursue a direct-to-consumer shift through external partnerships and startup pilots, to standing up an AI center of excellence as generative AI began reshaping the enterprise agenda, to building and scaling a joint venture at Amex that reached real commercial traction. Along the way, she offers a clear-eyed view of why so many innovation efforts stall, why pilot success rarely tells the whole story, and why executive sponsorship only matters if it holds when adoption gets difficult. The result is a practical lesson in organizational readiness, AI governance, and the human work required to make transformation stick.
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    35 min
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