Frank Elter on How Big Firms can stay Innovative

Frank Elter may be a part-time Professor, but he’s a very real-world professor.

As 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, he’s responsible for innovation and planning for one of Norway’s telecoms giants.

He has thought deeply about how corporations can stay innovative. He’s thought about it concerning his work, and he’s researched at his university. He’s even written a book.

On this edition of The Freewheeling Podcast we talk about how modularity can help organisations be “ambidextrous” (i.e. able to focus on operations and innovation), and the fact that every approach creates new problems to solve.

He also tells a pretty remarkable story about how Telenor started its most innovative project to date!