S5E15 - Passing the Baton: How to Bring Innovation to Market Faster & More Reliably

with 🎙️ Sivan Zamir - VP Xylem Innovation Labs  💧 Xylem is one of the largest water and wastewater technology company globally and follows the simple motto: "Let's solve water" What we covered: 🔬 How Xylem invests in its R&D to stay on top of the Water Technological Game  💡 How approaches to innovation are evolving, and how that led to the inception of the Xylem Innovation Labs  🤝 What the various tracks of XIL actually are, and how do they bridge the best of Xylem's internal world and of the water entrepreneurship ecosystem  🛣️ How the name of the game is to improve the market access for new Water Technologies  🍫 How it doesn't depend on one specific stakeholder group to make innovation happen: it is all about "passing the baton" that happens to be the entrepreneur  🪦 How to avoid "death by pilot" and which frameworks to deploy for that  🇺🇸 How making technology work in California is a good proxy for the United States and, ultimately, the World  🧑‍🤝‍🧑 How innovation always comes down to people  🚀 How Sivan intends to feed the Xylem Innovation Labs with her startup spirit and acumen  6️⃣ The six areas of interest Xylem intends to focus on - and Sivan’s favorite child  🧠 How mindsets evolve and how people become more interested in new technology adoption  🏭 How many of the water innovations to come might already be deployed in other industries  🚀 Investments and partnerships with Burnt Island Ventures, the Westly Group, and Isle Utilities, moving the needle in a conservative industry, building a sit for everyone at the table...   🔁 Evolving innovation timelines, business model innovation, silver bullets not existing, Xylem as a bridge between diverse worlds, learning from others’ trials, finding a cultural fit between small and large companies, innovation as a service... and so much more! 🔥 … and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥           ➡️ Come say hi to Sivan on LinkedIn            ➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on How to Bring Innovation to Market Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.