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Innovation Unpacked | Mike Boysen — 113 episodes

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Should You Run the Math Before You Bet on a Big Strategy?

2

Why Innovation Projects Die (And How To Spot It Early)

3

You paid $750,000 for a deck.

4

Harvey drafts. Your carrier prices the hallucination.

5

The $600 Million Insurance Lie: Why Paying Claims Faster is the Wrong Strategy

6

7 Uncomfortable Truths About Global Data Privacy Costing Enterprises $46 Billion a Year

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Your Revenue Forecast Is a Lie Built on a Paycheck

8

The $400 Million Measurement Illusion

9

The $87.9 Billion Operational Blind Spot: Why Your Digital Whiteboards Are Secretly Destroying Enterprise AI Velocity

10

The Trillion-Dollar Pivot: Why the Global Telecom Industry is Escaping Earth (and its Own “Dumb Pipe” Trap)

11

JTBD: Creating Scalable Liquidity Mechanisms for Trapped LP Capital

12

New Platform Intro: The $340B Healthcare IT Failure (68% Error)

13

Stop Building AI Note-Takers

14

Stop Paying for Bloated Journey Orchestration: The JTBD to Cure Your Omnichannel Illusion

15

The Idiocy of the AI Co-Pilot (And How to Actually Build Intelligence)

16

The Support Chatbot Trap: Why GenAI is the Most Expensive Apology You Will Ever Build

17

Re-Architecting the 17 Universal Customer Journeys: The Complete Masterclass

18

How to Identify the Real Job in Complex B2B Contexts

19

The Problem With “Co-Pilot” Thinking Every Consultant Knows, or Should Know

20

Zero-Marginal-Cost Value-Based Care Model

21

TRADFI ON STABLECOIN RAILS: THE MULLET STRATEGY

22

Destroying the SaaS Multiple: How Icon's Broken AI Video JTBD Forced a $3,000 Agency Pivot

23

Enterprise JTBD Framework: The B2B Cultural Hedging Architecture

24

The Token-Ledger Inversion Protocol: A Definitive JTBD Architecture Guide

25

The $150M Phase II JTBD Gap

26

Stop Guessing: The $0.07 Framework to Predict Customer Needs Before They Happen

27

Your Codebase Has a 99% "Syntax Tax" Rate

28

Why "Clean Data" Kills Agentic Speed

29

Fire the Patient: The End of Adherence

30

The Computational Imaging Revolution: Deconstructing the MRI Monopoly

31

First Principles of Logistics: The Deconstruction of Parcel Induction

32

Post-Payday Architecture: The Shift from Batch to Stream

33

The Hierarchy of Truth: Physics > Logic > Job Maps

34

Stop Subsidizing the Bank’s 90% "Trust Premium"

35

The Post-Dashboard Era: Why Visualization is the Enemy of Execution

36

The Death of the Gig Economy & The Rise of Service as a Software

37

You're Welcome, Marc Benioff

38

Delete the Billable Hour: The End of Digital Manual Labor is Here

39

The Death of the Digital Canvas

40

The Socratic Scalpel: A Practitioners Guide to Deconstructing “Pain Points”

41

Meta Doesn't Understand the REAL Job-to-be-Done

42

Your Beauty Brand Shouldn't Sell Makeup

43

The 5 Principles of the Post-App Operating System

44

The Future of the Equestrian Pro: 3 Models Beyond Time-for-Money

45

Beyond The Funnel: 3 Ways to Replace DoorDash (For Good)

46

Why Everyone is Secretly Quitting Design Thinking (And What They're Doing Instead)

47

Rebuilding Nozomio: From YC Darling to Defensible Platform

48

7 Steps to Building a 'Home-as-a-Service' Empire

49

Why Gumloop's $17M Bet is on the Wrong Problem

50

How We'll Solve AI's $1 TRILLION Energy Bill

51

Pega is Automating Yesterday's Work. This is What Comes Next

52

TectoAI is Building a Feature, Not a Future

53

Why I Never Use Switch Interviews: A First-Principles Rejection

54

The AI Innovation Trap: A Deep Dive into Jobs-to-be-Done & a New Way to Win

55

The Restaurant Turnaround: A Deep Dive into the "Parasite Strategy" and the Future of Food Service Profitability

56

Beyond Big Data: The "Right Data" Revolution

57

Y Combinator Is Funding the Wrong Food Supply Chain Solution.

58

The Billion-Dollar Pivot for NOSO LABS Hiding in Plain Sight

59

Stop Trying to Prevent AI IP Theft. Do This Instead to Fix It

60

I Spent 100 Hours Designing a Slack Killer

61

Your Walls in 2030 (It's Not Paint)

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The ONE Metric That Reveals Your Company's True Innovation Potential

63

The #1 Mistake Founders Make (It's Not What You Think)

64

The JTBD Playbook for AI: Building Defensible LLM Businesses

65

Beyond Personas: Using JTBD to Unlock True CRM Personalization

66

The Browser is Dead; Long Live the Browser

67

How Sales Force Automation Swallowed the Sales Stack, and What’s Coming to Swallow CRM

68

Is Your Agile Backlog a Roadmap to Nowhere?

69

JTBD is Dead (As You Know It): The New AI-Powered Playbook

70

The New Competitive Moat: Decoupling Your Industry with AI

71

The End of Cloud Storage as You Know It: Why SaaS is Vulnerable & What's Next

72

The 3 "Pre-Concept" Tests: A JTBD Framework for De-Risking Your Next Big Idea

73

Jobs-to-be-Done: The Ultimate Guide to Tech Strategy

74

The $126 Billion Heist: A Practical Plan to Abolish Credit Card Fees for Good

75

The Twin Tsunamis: Why AI is Forcing the Great Unbundling of Education

76

Is Your Next Computer Invisible? The Rise of Outcome-Driven AI Computing

77

The Post-Supermarket Economy: The Next Trillion-Dollar Opportunity in Food

78

Why "Make Something People Want" is Bad Advice

79

The Artisan Economy: How to Build a Future-Proof Income When AI Takes Your Job

80

Orchestrating Customer Conversations: A JTBD Governance Model for Enterprises

81

The Future of Insurance: Proactive, Parametric, & Invisible

82

The "Apple" Mistake: Are You Designing for Vanity or Value?

83

Systemic Obfuscation: The End of Cybersecurity as We Know It

84

Master Innovation Funding: A Step-by-Step Guide with JTBD & Real Options

85

The REAL Reason Your Innovations Fail (Hint: It's Your Strategy)

86

10 Questions About My Approach to Simulations for JTBD

87

Eliminating Jobs-to-be-Done Surveys With Artificial Intelligence

88

How Predictive Personalization Got a Little Too Predictive

89

Tesla's Jobs-to-be-Done Masterclass

90

The Spectacular Failure of the Segway

91

Are humans more deterministic than a Large Language Model?

92

The Martial Art of JTBD Bullshido

93

Why AI-Driven Outcomes Will Define the Future of Marketing Technology ...

94

A New Twist on Customer Experience

95

Summarized: Understanding the Core Objectives of 'Martech Stack' Customers from a Jobs-to-be-Done Perspective

96

The New Science of Customer Experience

97

The Martech Subjective Magic Quadrant Revisited

98

How to Envision Solutions the Zero Pivot Way with Jobs-to-be-Done

99

PODCAST: Expanding Your Martech Thinking

100

Market Approach: The PMF Counter Argument #1

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The PMF Paradox: Why You Need Potential Market Fit Before Building Anything

102

Some random thoughts on Likert scales

103

Reducing JTBD Success Statement Quantities - v2.0

104

If People Cobble Solutions Together to Get Jobs Done, then...

105

Do You Have a Complete Understanding of CX?

106

Is it Time for Disruption?

107

What makes a "good" need statement for JTBD?

108

A JTBD Rating Scale We Can All Understand

109

Filtering Down an Abundance of JTBD Success Metrics

110

Finally, Find Out What Customers Want...

111

Is It Time to Disrupt the Consulting Industry?

112

What is Innovation and Can Consulting Firms Innovate

113

How does the Martech Stack, Stack Up?