Fail Faster
Episodes
#109 - Product is a fine balance of Science and Discipline
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ryan Frederick leads an elite team of product designers and data problem solvers at AWH which is a digital product company. He shares his interestin...
#108 - The Data Science Behind Gaming
02 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our Guest Selcuk Baran is the senior data science manager at 2K Games, a talented team of developers and publishers of interactive games covering a ...
#107 - Great UX Is everyone's job
26 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pankaj Dubey is now a Director of Engineering at Salesforce and prior to that, he's had a lot of experience in the tumultuous startup world. He shares...
#106 - Be the change you want to see in the world
25 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nikolay Plaunov is a Director, Technologist overseeing Service Design at Refinitiv, one of the world's largest providers of financial markets data an...
#105 - A love affair with Technology
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Fulton is the Head of Innovation and Product Strategy at Expedient. He shares his super interesting journey from a date to a love affair with ...
#104 - Our material is problems
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eduardo Almeida is the Director of Innovation and R&D at BrandSafway. He shares his unusual path into tech, his views on innovation as a constant proc...
#103 - Work is forever changed (and that's a good thing!)
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Andre Reid is the Sr. Director - Product Management at Poly which makes, among other things, the Polycom systems we used to use back in the days when ...
#102 - Reducing Pollution with Innovation
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Isaac Korn, Director of Innovation at Perry Ellis International, a leading international fashion brand joins us to talk about his approach to reduce w...
#101 - We don't need to live in pain
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Goodhand (@jgoodhand) is the Head of Product at Fern Health a digital care company helping people break free of pain. Jason has an illustrious ...
#100 - How might we reduce tech support to drive innovation
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Allen is the Senior Director - Global Grooming Engineering at Proctor & Gamble where he leads a global team for mechanical, plastic molding, che...
#99 - The three pillars of Cybersecurity
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Viswanath Subramaniam is the Sr Director Of Engineering, Unified Communications at Motorola Solutions. Viswa explores his 23+ year journey at Motorola...
#98 - Product design starts with the user needs
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Vishal Kapoor, Head of Innovation at Prospection, a pioneer in providing data analytics to understand Healthcare utilization and improve the patient j...
#97 - Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls
19 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Simon Kanapka is the Deputy Chief Product Officer at eDreams Odigeo. He shares hard lessons from waterfall method mishaps and how the travel industry ...
#96 - We in technology give you the tools and the opportunity to be successful
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nathan Kimpel is the SVP of Technology at Engel & Völkers, overseeing all IT operations, global infrastructure, and project management for the Wester...
#95 - Parity Is Pointless
18 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Stephanie Allen is the Head of Product at Promethean World which is working to reinvent educational technology. Her training and background in underwa...
#94 - Visualizing Weather
17 Nov 2020
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Matthew Vitebsky is the Director of Flagship Products at AccuWeather. Matt shares his journey from being an engineer to a product manager and now lead...
#93 - Unleashing successes with true passion to serve
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ramakrishnan Natarajan, VP of IT at Emirates Hospitals Group shares how being raised in a small town with mom's tough love serves him even today in hi...
#92 - Elevating Your Team To Be Stars
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mohit Goenka is the Director of Engineering Verizon Media leading a team of engineers working on Yahoo! Mail. He shares the importance of collaboratio...
#91 - The Responsibilities of Artificial Intelligence
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nitin Bhat is the Senior Director of Product Management at Smartsheet leading the evolution of dynamic work. In this episode, he shares the fallacy of...
#90 - Keeping The Nightmares At Bay
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Moore is the Chief Product Security Officer at Draeger Medical responsible for the security of the company's medical equipment software. He share...
#89 - Thinking Like A Startup
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sanjay Gupta is the Senior Director of Engineering at Realtor.com but before joining the company he spent years in the startup world and that experien...
#88 - Keeping Trains Running on Time
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Carlos Calegari is the Senior Director of Product and Data Engineering at Wabtec, a global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and valu...
#87 - Squashing Seeds of Bad Behavior
13 Nov 2020
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Erika Cheung, was one of the key Theranos whistleblowers. She knows all too well how startups can be great at innovating due to the nimble, creative e...
#86 - The Charisma Trap
13 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rui Pedro Silva is the Chief Product Officer at Maersk eCommerce but long before running multi-million dollar projects, he learned about service in th...
#85 - Gaming the System
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Keshav Pitani is a Vice President at Scientific Games, where he works with governments to create games that generate funding for schools and services....
#84 - Meeting People Where They Are
06 Nov 2020
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Elizabeth Greene is the Global Director of Diversity & Inclusion, Business Development ON Semiconductor where she's leading the charge on a digital tr...
#83 - Marrying Tech, Aesthetics, Typography, and Design
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Smith, Product Design Manager at Facebook shares his adventures in art, agency life, and how his crossover as an aesthete and technologist allow...
#82 - From Asimov To Data Science
04 Nov 2020
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Vitor Louzada, Data Science Manager at Banco Itaú discusses how his love of Asimov and Star Trek has led him to work at one of the most innovative ...
#81 - Delicious Bread, Operational Efficiency And the Tech That Powers It
03 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Qadir Nawaz is the Director, Data and Technology Services at King's Hawaiian. Beyond helping power the efficiency that makes delectable bread, Qadir's...
#80 - Building A Future Forward Product Org
03 Nov 2020
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Marisa Sires, VP of Product at BuildingLink shares her journey which has now found her helming the genesis of building a product and design practice w...
#79 - Who will build what's next?
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brandon Searle is the Innovation Director of the Off-site Construction Research Centre at the University New Brunswick. He shares how research, develo...
#78 - Learning to Dance via Zoom
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Hampton is the Director of Computing at York University where he enables digital solutions for Arts, Media, Performace, and Design (AMPD). E-learn...
#77 - Trust But Verify
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kirk Hay is the Chief Information Officer for JackCooper, North America's largest over-the-road finished vehicle logistics company. In this episode, K...
#76 - Banking Doesn't Have To Be Boring
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Lybarger is the SVP, Head of Innovation at Huntington National Bank. She joined Huntington right before the pandemic started and has had the uniq...
#75 - Rethinking The Movie Going Experience
30 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Buzz Archer, the VP of Product at Atom Tickets shares his journey that has taken him around the world and the innovative work he is doing with his tea...
#74 - What's floating in your air?
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marcel Schoch is the CTO at qlair, a Mann + Hummel company that is the leading platform for proactive clean air management in commercial buildings. Ma...
#73 - Is customization the need today across countries and cultures?
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gerardo Laino, is the Customer Experience Director at Liberty Mutual Insurance, a global auto insurance giant. He shares how he works in empathy in t...
#72 - Strategic Risk
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ashwin Pingali, Senior Data Scientist at Dish and Managing Principal of Apps Consultants Inc. tells us about his journey as an engineer with an entrep...
#71 - 5G - What does it really mean for the user?
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Yee, VP, Innovation and Partnerships at ZTE, shares his journey from the early days of wireless, to his current journey to truly understand how ...
#70 - Storytelling with Data
28 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Mion is a Data Visualization Strategist and Storyteller at Novant Health. 10-plus years of industry knowledge taught Robert the value of protot...
#69 -Snowballing Machine Learning
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jean-François Deldon is a Digital and Data Transformation leader at Michelin in France. Jean-François shares how many of his successes are snowballs...
#68 - The Holy Grail: Strategic and Tangible
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Justin Tauber is a Senior Director of Ignite, a human-centered innovation consultancy through which Salesforce invests in the success of its most str...
#67 - From Entrepreneur To Intrapreneur
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Amer Chowdhry shares how his early days as a bold entrepreneur serves him event today in his role as Director of Product Management for Digital Comme...
#66 - Diplomacy of Change Management
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ali Kekhia, is the Chief Information Officer at Deepa, one of the world's largest interior contracting companies. He and his team work to simplify, ha...
#65 - Scandinavia Sustainability Meets Innovation
23 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jenny Elfsberg is the Head of Innovation Management på Vinnova, Sweden's Innovation Agency. Jenny shares some fascinating tales of leadership and man...
#64 - Using Design to Bring Crypto to the Masses
22 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Labovich is the Chief Experience Officer at Cred, a financial services platform that provides highly competitive rates on digital assets, fro...
#63 - From Dot Matrix Printers to Solving for COVID 19
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Manuel Cassio shares how key events in his life thrust him into the study of genetics, which subsequently led him to study AI and engineering. He is n...
#62 - Why Logistics is the key to Customer Experience
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Erald Gjoni is the Chief Technology Officer at Furniture Mart USA. Erald shares why the furniture industry is poised for a revolution that is going...
#61 - The Power of Partnership
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A double header episode brings together Ian Boulton and Matthew Zimmermann. Ian is the Sr Director, FA&D Digital Transformation Sales at PTC. Matt is ...
#60 - Trouble shooting TV series
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our Guest Andrew Rolf, Founder of Cursive Consulting and Customer Experience Consultant at Ascential, talks about his passion for troubleshooting for ...
#59 - Healthy Habits Of High Cybersecurity
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
George Finney is an artist when it comes to cybersecurity. He's also the Chief Information Security Officer at Southern Methodist University and the a...
#58 - Making sense of disruptions
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest Riaz Hassan, Vice President Service Offering Strategy & Product Management at Volvo Group talks about how he had a breakthrough as a young ...
#57 - Pirate Flag Teams vs Half-Hearted Agile
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If you're going to create something new, it should be 10x better and 10x cheaper." Chris Bernard is Head of User Experience & Design at CDK Global, a...
#56 - Digital Transformation Starts with People
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest Stuart Brown is bringing about Digital Transformation from within people, listen to an interesting journey of how Stuart is infusing cu...
#55 - High touch healthcare of the future
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ana Claudia Pinto is the head of Health and Digital Solutions, and Chief Medical Information Officer for Sharecare Brazils. In this episode, Dr. P...
#54 - Sunsetting Disposable Culture
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Gabriel Coulet, the Director of Innovation & Marketing at Supermax Healthcare Canada and Jonathan Borduas, CEO at Shapeshift3D are at the forefront o...
#53 - What the private sector can learn from the public sector
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Schuyler Moore is the Director of Science & Technology, Defense Innovation Board at United States Department of Defense. You'll hear her incredible st...
#52 - Product Management Flying at 30,000 Feet
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rahul Abhyankar is the Head of Product Management at Viasat, a NASDAQ listed a global communications company that provides internet access to places t...
#51 - The Rise of Self-Service Insurance
14 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Clinton D'Souza is CIP, Senior Director of Insurance Innovation Strategy at ISB Global Services and in this episode, he shares lessons on the importan...
#50 - No hard hats necessary
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Tschetter is the Director, Field, Data, and Emerging Technology at Mortenson, a 75 year old leader in Construction. Jason shares some of the rea...
#49 - Fintech Frontiers for Latin America
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
German Gimenez is the Chief Product Officer at Ohana, an Argentinian-based fintech company that's created a platform to help people understand and imp...
#48 - Innovating into Headwinds
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Stecher is VP of Airline Operations for IBS Software, a SaaS provider to the travel industry globally. In this episode, we discuss what it take...
#47 - How can we minimize the time people stay unemployed?
12 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Melton is a Director of Digital Transformation and Innovation, Education and State/Local Government at Microsoft. He starts his story in busines...
#46 -The War on Talent
11 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Niklas Sundberg is the Chief Information Officer ASSA ABLOY, a company that evolved from the original form of anonymous authentication: keys and doors...
#45 - Tackling The Digital Divide in E-learning
11 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jesse Bridges has been working in the diversity and equity space for more than a decade. Now as the SVP of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at EVERFI ...
#43 - Culture is Everything
09 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Abram Sirignano is a Partner at Prophet, a global management consultancy focused on brand, marketing, organization & culture and experience & innovati...
#42 - The Design Renaissance in Manufacturing
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Milan Kocic is a triple-threat — engineering background, design thinker, and MBA. For the last 25 years, he's brought these perspectives to the worl...
#41 - Building Security Products That People Don't Hate
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Baker chats with Fail Faster about the importance of always placing the user at the center of any security product, the benefits of in-house tea...
#40 - Our Surroundings are Our Resources
08 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cory Warfield a Waiter turned Entrepreneur talks about how he made this huge breakthrough. He is making his great ideas turn into meaningful software ...
#39 - From Ordinary to Extraordinary
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Chris Curtin, Chief Brand & Innovation Marketing Officer at Visa as he shares how he is investing in bringing the standard of work from ordinary ...
#38 - Think outside the Scope!
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Adriana Tavares is a Product Innovation Director at Altran. She shares the importance of building internal and external trust, her love of agile metho...
#37 - People First! The 'why' behind Data Security
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Mitch Parker is the Chief Information Security Officer at Indiana University Health where he leads a people-focused approach to data security. In this...
#36 - Personalize at Scale
06 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how Ali Shabaz, the Chief Creative Officer at Publicis Groupe, Singapore approaches advertising as a skilled and responsible craft that create...
#35 - Through an Advertiser's Lens
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Esrati, Owner "The Next Wave" ad Agency talks to Philosophie about how he solves branding for organizations that are at their last resort to di...
#34 - What the West can learn from the East
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Darren Thayre is the Head of Digital Transformation and Digital Ventures JAPAC for Google in Singapore. Darren shares his incredible journey working i...
#33 - How to approach innovation that saves lives
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Uzair Rashid is the Director of Innovation at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts. Uzair shares how the pandemic has accelerated a number of trend...
# 32 - Being Strategic
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Robert Elliott is the Senior Director of Product Strategy and Engagement at Globant and has previously worked in product at Turner and Home Depot. He...
#31 - Drinks Anywhere
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
#30 - The Grocery Store of the Future Meets Lean Startup
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Eric Braun is the Sr. Director of Innovation at Retail Business Solutions, which provides services to Ahold Delhaize one of the world's largest grocer...
#29 - The future of design thinking for the army
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
#28 - How a 50 year old security firm is transforming itself with technology
24 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Evan Nardone is the Chief Technology Officer at St. Moritz Security Services, a leading security firm in the US. Evan shares how this legacy company h...
#27 - A Moral Compass
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Calynn Lawrence is not just the CEO of her own creative communications agency that she built from scratch, but also a pageant queen with a deep sense ...
#26 - The Future of Digital Transformation is the Employee Experience
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ashu Bhatia is a global FinTech leader in Digital Transformation (Data & Analytics and Journey-to-Cloud) doing work in CX and EX. He is a published au...
#25 - Hidden Risks of Playing it Safe
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tech renaissance man, Neil Milliken shares his journey from history and art, through music, to become is the Head of Accessibility and Digital Inc...
#24 - Saving millions of dollars & the world
15 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Deepak Sharma joins us as the Global IT Director for Agility, one of the world's to supply chain and freight forwarding companies. He shares stories f...
#23 - Listening As A Superpower
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Potts shares fascinating wins and fails from his journey having worked with such organizations as Exxon, Ralston Purina, Foster Grant and Ironman...
#22 - What Advertising Can Teach Us About Digital Products
08 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Scott joins us from a 30 year career in advertising and storytelling for some of the world's biggest brands. His story shows the power of diversity & ...
#21 - The key that saved a major university's switch to fully remote
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today's guest, Tony Teri, joins us as a Senior IT Director at a major university in the tri state area. You'll hear how his background (and Masters de...
#20 - Credibly Diverse - A Recipe Leveling the Playing Field
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
So you've got a Diversity and Inclusion person in the C Suite but how do you KNOW you that every purchase in your supply chain is being examined for d...
#19 - From hours of wait time to minutes. How we did it!
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How we helped Royal Caribbean Cruises disappear their biggest customer complaint.
#18 - The Pursuit of Positivity to overcome the Pandemic
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Michelle is the Global Product Marketing Director for an award-winning cloud native SaaS platform in the Financial Services space. Michelle has over 8...
#17 - I'm Your Coach
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We talk to Artin Nazarian, Exec Director, Integration & Digital Distribution Strategy at The Walt Disney Studios about how his corporate experience ma...
#16 - Building technology teams with a championship college football team mindset
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Tanvir is the head of technology at Freshii - a fast casual restaurant in Canada with over 400 locations across North America. Tanvir shares his persp...
#15 - Using a Designers toolkit to inspire innovation from the inside
02 Sep 2020
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Chris is the Director of Innovation at Aires, a global mobility company. You'll hear his inspiring journey of how the 2008 Global Financial Crisis ref...
#14 - My Dad Knew I Was A Marketer Before I Did
02 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Abraham talked to Todd Unger, the Chief Experience Officer of the American Medical Association. They get into his past in advertising, how he was ...
#13 - Bringing Humility and Empathy into Digital Innovation
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Abraham talks to Ori Carmel, the founder of Sowen.co. He is also a Data & Technology consultant at Bloomberg Associates and the Chief Innovation ...
#12 - I'm A Product of Mentorship
27 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Emmy award-winning director Greg Yaitanes talks to us about the role of mentorship in his life, and how he has come to sit at the intersection of ente...
#11 - Imagine If The Way We Now Live Became Redundant
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Abraham talks to Karl Smith, a consultant, and innovator who has said in the past "My desire was not to build things that humans already do but to...
#10 - Spreading the Gospel of Data from China to Europe
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Olivier joins us from the Netherlands as the Corporate Director of Analytics and Digital Technology at Henkel, one of Europe's largest consumer goods ...
#9 - Moving Past Time and Space Behind to Innovate
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hakan left Turkey to create his own life away from his father's Turkish star power. Hear how his persistence and creative approach to compromise in t...