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AI Value Gap | Why AI Investments Fail to Pay Off | David Rogers

October 22, 2026 · 43 min

Your company is spending real money on AI and the CFO wants to know what it is getting back. David Rogers calls the awkward silence that follows the AI value gap. David Rogers wrote the first book on digital transformation. He returns to…
EP 670 Alexander Osterwalder on the Value Stack: 6 Patterns of Value Creation

October 14, 2026 · 13 min

"Nintendo unlocked a completely underserved market by simplifying the game console." Alexander Osterwalder Alexander Osterwalder returns to The Innovation Show with a world first. The co-founder of Strategyzer and creator of the Business…
EP 669 Alex Osterwalder: How to Use AI to Augment Value Proposition Design (Without Creating AI Slop)

October 6, 2026 · 20 min

"If there's something that's terrible, it's this fuzzy value proposition with AI slop." Alex Osterwalder, co-founder of Strategyzer and inventor of the Business Model Canvas, returns to The Innovation Show with a field report on AI value…
How to Get Leadership to Back Your Idea Robert Burgelman on Intel

October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min

"You know how I know what the real culture of a company is? [Two] things. Who gets the money and who gets promoted." Robert Burgelman, the Edmund W. Littlefield Professor of Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business and author of…
EP 667: David Bland on DuPont, Qnity and the Power of Assumptions Mapping

September 26, 2026 · 54 min

"A good idea and a bad idea look very similar early on." David J Bland David Bland, founder of Precoil and lead author of Testing Business Ideas with Alex Osterwalder, helped DuPont and its semiconductor spin-off Qnity build an…

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Ep 666: Shuo Chen — Fractional Founders, Frontier Firms and Why Enterprise Data Is AI's Gold

September 17, 2026 · 48 min

"They don't quit their job cold turkey. That's not what I've observed firsthand." Only twelve companies have ever been worth more than a trillion dollars. Ten of them are American. Eight of those ten were started fractionally, by people…
Paul Nunes — Motorola, Combinatorial Innovation and the Treasure in the Trash

September 11, 2026 · 55 min

"When's the last time you thought about your suppliers as your partner in innovation?" Paul Nunes, co-author of Jumping the S-Curve, Big Bang Disruption and Pivot to the Future, returns to talk to Aidan McCullen about the companies that…
Dov Baron — The Art of Belonging and Identity Addiction

September 7, 2026 · 1 hr 19 min

"You don't want innovation. What you want is a tweak that won't be too uncomfortable." Dov Baron, five-time Top 30 Global Leadership Guru and author of The Art of Belonging, sits down with Aidan McCullen in Vancouver to explain why…
Ep 663: Alex Osterwalder — Why the Core Business Kills Innovation (Explore vs Exploit, Part 3)

August 25, 2026 · 27 min

"Exploitation pays your salary. Exploration pays your pension." — Steve Blank In Part 3 of The Innovation Show's Strategyzer series, Alex Osterwalder returns to tackle the problem every leadership team quietly struggles with: the core…
Alex Osterwalder — Value Proposition Design in the Age of AI (Part 2)

August 19, 2026 · 33 min

"You're gonna run up a hundred wrong hills, and you're still not gonna get a good understanding of the map." Alexander Osterwalder, co-author of Value Proposition Design and founder of Strategyzer, returns for Part 2 of our series. Last…
Alex Osterwalder — Which Projects to Fund and Which to Kill

August 13, 2026 · 41 min

"Spreadsheets are a fantasy made explicit. They're not a metric. What you can measure is the evidence that the business case could work." Alexander Osterwalder, creator of the Business Model Canvas, CEO of Strategyzer and author of The…
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez — Powered by Projects and the Project-Driven Organization

August 7, 2026 · 60 min

"If you launch more projects than you finish, you're a bad leader. Your role is not about launching projects — it's about finishing them." Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, creator of the project economy concept and author of Powered by Projects…

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About the show

The Innovation Show is a business innovation podcast hosted by Aidan McCullen, recipient of the 2025 Thinkers50 Innovation Award and author of Undisruptable. Each week Aidan interviews the authors, researchers and practitioners reshaping how organisations think about innovation, leadership, change and reinvention. The guest list reads like a who's who of innovation. Gary Hamel joined Aidan for an 18-part series. Seth Godin was the show's first guest, and Rita McGrath, Dee Hock, Robert Burgelman, Alex Osterwalder, Joe Bower, Clark Gilbert, Scott D. Anthony, Michael Tushman, Charles O'Reilly, Sven Smit, Paul Daugherty and Paul Nunes have all followed, alongside hundreds of thinkers you may not have heard of yet and will be glad you did. With 667 episodes, the show is a library for leaders who want to see disruption coming and for managers looking for practical ways to bring better ideas to work. This is the podcast where square pegs find their place in a world of round holes.