239: Does Corporate Innovation Actually Create Real Innovation?

239: Does Corporate Innovation Actually Create Real Innovation?

My conversation with Elliott Parker, CEO of Alloy Partners and author of The Illusion of Innovation, was one of the most downloaded of 2025. Drawing on decades of experience launching startups with High Alpha and advising Fortune 100 companies at Innosight, Elliott explains why most corporate innovation efforts fall short.

He outlines how organizational structures, incentives, and short-term metrics often prevent innovation teams from achieving the transformation they are tasked with delivering.

Elliott also breaks down the critical difference between execution problems and learning problems, and why most corporations confuse the two.

Elliot shares how Alloy builds startups outside the core business, giving them the freedom to take risks, run fast experiments, and uncover opportunities that internal teams cannot reach. These external ventures enable corporations to explore innovative ideas, validate assumptions, and acquire the type of knowledge that drives long-term strategic advantage.

Whether you are running an innovation team, funding one, or simply wondering why they rarely deliver game-changing results, this episode offers sharp insights, real examples, and a practical framework for thinking differently about how innovation works.

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255: Are You Crushing Open Innovation?

255: Are You Crushing Open Innovation?

What does it really take for large organizations to keep innovating when speed, disruption, and AI are changing the rules faster than ever before? In this episode of the Innovation Storytellers Show, ...

28 Huhti 41min

Innovation or Elimination — the new book by Itai Green

Innovation or Elimination — the new book by Itai Green

What happens when innovation shifts from a strategic advantage to a matter of survival? In this episode of the Innovation Storytellers Show, I sat down with Itai Green, Co-Founder and CEO of Global In...

21 Huhti 42min

253: How Buffalo Construction and O3XO Are Building Better with AI

253: How Buffalo Construction and O3XO Are Building Better with AI

What does real AI implementation actually look like when the hype fades, and the hard work begins? In this episode of Innovation Storytellers, I sit down with Brett Norton, President of Buffalo Constr...

14 Huhti 49min

252: How Authenticity Elevates Leadership Storytelling

252: How Authenticity Elevates Leadership Storytelling

How do you tell a story that people actually believe, trust, and remember long after the meeting ends? In this episode of the Innovation Storytellers Show, I sit down with Neal Foard, Founder of Story...

7 Huhti 38min

How to Scale Innovation Using a Repeatable Growth Playbook CFOs Love

How to Scale Innovation Using a Repeatable Growth Playbook CFOs Love

What does it take to turn innovation from a string of promising pilots into a repeatable growth engine that finance leaders can actually believe in? In this episode of the Innovation Storytellers Show...

31 Maalis 43min

250: How AI Is Transforming Enterprise Infrastructure from the Inside Out

250: How AI Is Transforming Enterprise Infrastructure from the Inside Out

In this episode of the Innovation Storytellers Show, I sit down with Rob Bearden, CEO of Sema4.ai, to explore how AI is transforming enterprise infrastructure from the inside out. Rob brings decades o...

24 Maalis 35min

249: How Storytelling Became the Superpower of the AI Age

249: How Storytelling Became the Superpower of the AI Age

What happens to storytelling when AI can write, summarize, and generate content in seconds, yet the world still depends on humans to make ideas matter? In this episode of the Innovation Storytellers S...

17 Maalis 59min

248: How Moody's is Rethinking AI in Finance

248: How Moody's is Rethinking AI in Finance

How do you bring innovation to life inside an organization whose job is to help other people see risk before it shows up on a balance sheet? In this episode of the Innovation Storytellers Show, I sit ...

3 Maalis 48min

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