• Jehan Luth: The New Data Infrastructure Powering Fintech Innovation
    May 17 2022

    The cornerstones of Fintech solutions contributing to the financial sector’s rapid evolution include artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, and digital banking. These cornerstones, along with the impact of new, diversified technologies, will continue to power innovative disruptions for years to come. The next frontier of Fintech innovation, however, has met its newest driver: SKU-level receipt data.

    Host John Sviokla welcomed Jehan Luth – Founder and CEO at Banyan, a retail data interchange network – to discuss the insights that SKU-level receipt data can provide to the financial sector, and how that insight can power the future of Fintech innovation.

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    55 mins
  • Steve Salzinger: Innovation Lessons in CPG: Launching Digital Brands Faster, Cheaper, Better
    Apr 5 2022

    The consumer goods industry is experiencing a massive retail-to-virtual shift that is redefining how new brands and products go to market. Soaring digital distribution techniques and the rising ease of manufacturing are largely to thank, as both capitalize on the digital arena at large and embrace this virtual-first shift.

    As businesses shift their go-to-market strategies to embrace the potential of digital, the question still remains: how do you create a consumer goods brand faster, better, and cheaper?

    In this episode, Steve Salzinger, Managing Director, Salzinger LLC, discusses some of the countless opportunities brought about by changes in digital distribution, the rising ease of manufacturing, and the foundational requirements for launching digital brands faster, better, and cheaper.

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    56 mins
  • Larry Smarr: The Quantified Self and its Impact on the Future of Healthcare
    Mar 29 2022
    The Quantified Self is defined as a movement that allows individuals to measure, track, and quantify biometrics in a holistic fashion — with the capability to one day move from sick care to proactive care. And with the rise in digital health tools available to self-track and analyze your body’s data, the quantified self enables individuals to make informed decisions around taking control of their health. In this episode, Larry Smarr, a physicist and leader in scientific computing, chats with Manifold Partner John Sviokla to discuss how charting bodily inputs and outputs in minute detail will alter the future of healthcare from the outside-in. As the founding director of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, Smarr pulls from his acclaimed work and personal tracking research to reveal the true ecology of the quantified self and its implications for healthcare’s future.----SUBSCRIBE TO THE GROWTH INNOVATORS PODCAST:Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2Y8skbISpotify: https://spoti.fi/3Ezm10bRSS: https://bit.ly/3bv4c61Full episodes playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd...SOCIAL:- John Sviokla on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jjsviokla- John Sviokla on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jsviokla/- Manifold on Twitter: https://twitter.com/manifold_group- Manifold on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/m/company/ma...- Manifold on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/themanifoldg...- Manifold on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/manifold_gr...- Manifold on Medium: https://medium.com/build-better-products
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    52 mins
  • Paul Fahey: How Data Is Transforming the Investment Decision Process
    Feb 15 2022

    The modern financial industry has brought about data-driven investment strategies that have implications on business acceleration and driving quantifiable results. In this episode, Manifold Advisory Partner John Sviokla chats with Paul Fahey, Senior Vice President at Northern Trust, to discuss the impact of data on investment decisioning and how today’s financial firms can leverage new technologies and strategies to accelerate valuable results.

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    54 mins
  • Stephen Kahane, MD - The Future of Healthcare in a Post-COVID World
    Jan 26 2022

    While the COVID pandemic has strained hospital systems, doctors, and essential workers in unimaginable ways, it has also planted the seeds for an accelerated industry shift.

    In this conversation, Advisory Partner John Sviokla and Dr. Stephen Kahane, MD, former president at athenahealth, discuss the healthcare sector’s valuable lessons learned from the pandemic, and explore how technology has played a vital role in reshaping the industry on the other side. With extensive work in private equity and venture capital, Dr. Kahane brings a wealth of experience across both the healthcare and technology spaces — providing a unique perspective on how both industries will continue to drive change post-COVID.

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    53 mins
  • Terry Jones: The Disruptor's Playbook
    Jan 4 2022

    Terry Jones is one of the most accomplished executives on the planet when it comes to repeatedly upending the status quo. He began within American Airlines and rose to the rank of CIO, from where he became the CEO of Travelocity and later founding chairman of Kayak. Now he serves on many boards, invests, and advises firms and governments around the world on how to compete in a digital age.

    In this episode, Manifold Advisory Partner John Sviokla and Terry explore how leaders can think about competing in a hybrid world of digital and physical. COVID has accelerated the digital transformation of all firms, and if you want to know what the “new normal” will be in travel and other industries, join us.

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    52 mins
  • Toby Redshaw: Tips From a Corporate Renegade
    Dec 7 2021

    5G, a new “intelligent fabric,” will trigger a wholesale reconfiguration of services, products, and decision-making in our economy. While Verizon and others in its space are at the forefront of ushering in this new intelligent fabric, 5G will introduce radically new economics and models for a wide range of companies–from higher education to healthcare, and everything in between.

    In this episode, we explore what 5G means for any firm, and hear practical advice on innovation from one of the foremost experts in this space. Toby Redshaw, SVP Enterprise Innovation and 5G Solutions of Verizon, has managed to usher in new technologies and innovations for some of the world’s most successful and established firms — from Motorola to American Express, to Verizon. Join us to hear Toby’s insights as a corporate renegade and trailblazer.

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    56 mins
  • Robert Spivey: Stop Punishing the Innovators
    Sep 27 2021

    Most breakthrough innovations take at least 5 years or more to come to scale. Most corporate business cases are three years or less. This punishes innovators massively. Combine this with the fact that the tenure in most corporations is less than 5 years — and you have a no-win situation for innovation.

    There are two ways to fix this: fancy and simple. The fancy way is to capitalize your R&D efforts according to an empirically derived amortization schedule specific to sector. The easy way is to use a 5 year NPV on innovations, like Amazon does.

    In this episode Manifold Advisory Partner John Sviokla and Director of Research at Valens Research Robert Spivey explain why, using insights from a 25,000 company global database on financial performance.

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    58 mins