Mar 29 2023
Bringing Power to the People of Ukraine: Energy Innovation Under The Most Challenging Circumstances
🔊 Working with external partners to solve challenges and drive innovation - AKA the Open Innovation Approach - is gaining popularity (nay necessity) in historically 'closed' corporate environments. By exchanging knowledge and ideas, companies can accelerate innovation and bring new solutions to market faster, while rapidly achieving sustainability and environmental goals - leading to new business models and in many cases, increased profitability.Join Adam Olsen and Emanuele Volpe as they delve into the world of open innovation in a corporate environment, and how the war in Ukraine has accelerated innovation via advancing technologies, such as decentralized power generation.Open innovation is a collaborative approach to innovation that involves sharing knowledge, ideas, and resources between individuals or organizations.The corporate world can learn how to balance internal procedures, processes, and governance that must be followed while still allowing for the possibility to launch new projects and receive outside inputs to solve challenges. It must. Or go the way of the dinosaur.Host: Adam Olsen, Podcast Host - HeroXGuest: Emanuele Volpe, Chief Innovation Officer - DTEKAbout EmanueleEmanuele Volpe is the Chief Innovation Officer at DTEK. Having graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan with a degree in aerospace engineering, Emanuele had been leading projects in international machine manufacturing and engineering companies HIRSCH Group and Amec Foster Wheeler. Following 10 years at Enel, he is now responsible for Innovation at DTEK, the largest private investor in the energy sector in Ukraine.About DTEKDTEK is an energy company with a mission to bring power to the people of Ukraine. A dynamically developing company striving for leadership in the European energy markets while adapting to the conditions of modern realities dictated by the rapid development of new technologies in the alternative energy market. Their success is based on people, efficiency, and advanced technology.Your Crowd. Your Solution.www.HeroX.com ~🔉 About the Innovation Heroes podcastThe Innovation Heroes series covers all things open innovation, crowdsourcing, and remote work. It’s time to open up the airways, share strategies, engage partners, and leverage the power of crowd intelligence to expedite solutions to the pressing problems facing every level of organization, individuals, and the world. The key word here is OPEN. We're bringing our partners in innovation, organizations who have run their own crowdsourcing projects, innovator powerhouses, and remote work legends into the spotlight. There is a global network ready to contribute time, energy and intelligence to just about any challenge that comes their way. All we need to do is provide the opportunity. Thank you for being a part of the solution. Discover the Power of the Crowd.Adam is your Podcast Host at HeroX, connecting with innovation leaders from around the world to gain insights on how they approach innovation, the technologies they're most excited about, and how these innovations impact their industries. HeroX is a platform and open marketplace for crowdsourcing innovation that allows anyone, anywhere, to solve everyday business and world challenges using the power of the crowd. Connect with Adam: LinkedIn, adam.olsen@herox.com...