Explore every episode of the podcast The Committed Innovator
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helping India’s e-commerce leapfrog into the future | 21 Aug 2024 | 00:38:26 | |
McKinsey innovation leader Erik Roth speaks with Shiprocket cofounder and CEO Saahil Goel about how he built his e-commerce logistics company into a highly successful platform that is helping launch new entrepreneurs all over India. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| March Capital’s Wes Nichols talks about innovating on the frontlines of technological change | 24 Jun 2024 | 00:34:56 | |
Rapid technological innovation heightens opportunity for investors. Serial entrepreneur and investor Wes Nichols shares the factors he looks for in but choosing the right start-ups and entrepreneurs to back. Nichols is best known for starting MarketShare, the marketing resource allocation software solution. Today he is a partner at March Capital, the growth-stage venture capital firm that focuses on enterprise technology companies. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| Israel’s start-up ecosystem | 22 Nov 2022 | 00:33:52 | |
Two leaders of the world’s third-largest start-up ecosystem discuss how the tiny Middle Eastern country grows and supports a culture of innovation Despite its small domestic market, Israel has managed to build a vibrant start-up scene that competes with those of much larger countries. In this episode of The Committed Innovator podcast, two leaders of Israel’s innovation culture, Avi Hasson and Chemi Peres, talk with McKinsey’s innovation leader Erik Roth in this first in a series of episodes on innovation in Israel. Hasson leads a not-for-profit, Startup Nation Central, that promotes Israel’s start-up sector, while Peres leads a venture capital firm, Pitango, and a not-for-profit, The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, that promotes peace and innovation which was started by Chemi’s father, Shimon Peres, the former prime minister of Israel. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with DBS’s Han Kwee Juan | 19 Jul 2022 | 00:26:48 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a3130303030316335396b696f6e6f636e336278&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 26:47) > Singapore-based DBS Bank is known for having transformed itself from a local bank to a global leader and winner of multiple “best bank” titles. The bank has continued its evolution by focusing on digital transformation and building new digital products. DBS’s group head of strategy and planning is Han Kwee Juan. In this episode of the Committed Innovator podcast, Kwee Juan talks with McKinsey’s innovation leader Erik Roth about building a company culture that enables and promotes innovation. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Temasek’s Pradyumna Agrawal | 10 May 2022 | 00:27:14 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a3130303030316335383665336a616b6d356366&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 27:13) > Pradyumna Agrawal is managing director for blockchain and venture building at Temasek, and as such is very active in searching out new use cases for blockchain and forming partnerships that can help bring products for this to market. In this episode of the Committed Innovator podcast, Prady talks with McKinsey’s innovation leader Erik Roth about how he approaches his work bringing blockchain-based companies to market. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Keho founder Tekla Back | 06 Feb 2022 | 00:30:33 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163353636657373347368746a36&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 30:33) > Disruptive food start-ups have increasingly grabbed headlines and the attention of large consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies. The plant-based keto snack company Keho is continuing this trend by offering its savory “real food” bites to a health-conscious market that includes athletes at one end of a spectrum, and people looking to resolve health problems with diet change on the other. Keho founder and McKinsey adviser Tekla Back has long been a food and keto enthusiast, and started the company after leaving her role at PepsiCo as senior vice president for corporate strategy, where she helped lead the company’s transition to healthier products. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Loonshots author Safi Bahcall | 05 Feb 2022 | 00:49:50 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a313030303031633536666c6971743534687377&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 49:49) > Companies looking to bring breakthrough innovations to life need the right organizational structures and incentives in place. In his book Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries (St. Martin’s Press, March 2019), Safi Bahcall, a former biotech CEO who now helps organizations innovate, explains what that requires. In this episode, he talks with Erik Roth, leader of McKinsey’s innovation work globally, about why some great ideas changed the world and others failed to take off. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Beth Comstock | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:28:41 | |
Beth and Erik discuss how a tolerance for risk, patience, and thinking small (where funding is concerned) can lead to innovation breakthroughs. Beth is an innovation leader who spent almost three decades at General Electric, where for a time she headed GE Business Innovations that developed new businesses, markets and service models. She recently published Imagine It Forward: Courage, creativity, and the power of change. Erik leads Mckinsey's innovation work globally See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with investor Kevin O’Leary | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:29:02 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a3130303030316335363737706f32346e623130&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 29:02) > In this episode Erik Roth, who leads McKinsey’s global innovation practice, interviews Kevin O’Leary as part of our ongoing series on innovation. The Canadian entrepreneur, best known as one of the investors featured on the American reality TV series Shark Tank, shares his bets on innovation’s next frontier. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Kellogg Company’s Nigel Hughes | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:28:25 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a3130303030316335363737743561346e6e3964&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 28:24) > Nigel Hughes, head of R&D and Innovation at Kellogg Company, speaks with Stacey Haas, who heads up McKinsey’s Consumer Innovation practice, and Erik Roth, who leads McKinsey’s innovation work globally. Hear Nigel’s perspective on the evolution of the CPG industry’s approach to innovation and how Kellogg itself is being solution-based and partnering with other organizations in its pursuit of growth See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| An interview with Salesforce’s Simon Mulcahy | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:23:53 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a3130303030316335363738376432346f6c7037&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 23:53) > In this episode Simon Mulcahy, Salesforce’s executive vice president and chief innovation officer, discusses the ways the COVID-19 crisis has reshaped the sales function, and how Salesforce orchestrates innovation inside the company and with customers. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:32:11 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163353637386c356134706e6d6f&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 32:11) > In this episode, Erik Roth, who leads McKinsey’s innovation work globally, talks with Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo, about her experience reinventing the online video platform’s business model. It is the fifth episode in our ongoing series, which features interviews with leading innovators across a range of sectors. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| Innovation in video gaming with Electronic Arts’ Chief Strategy Officer Mihir Vaidya | 13 May 2024 | 00:30:34 | |
Innovation in online gaming requires keeping up with a broad mix of changes, including digital advances, audience desires, and artistic trends. In this episode of The Committed Innovator podcast, McKinsey innovation expert Erik Roth talks with Mihir Vaidya, the chief strategy officer of Electronic Arts, about these unique aspects of innovating in the gaming industry. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Neal Gutterson of Corteva | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:32:38 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163353637393333323472306576&he=253246253246706f6463617374732e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d253246706f64636173742533467063253344636f6d6d6974746564696e6e6f7661746f725f727373253236707525334468747470732532353341253235324625323532467777772e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d25323532466173736574732532353246646f74636f6d2532353246636f6d6d69747465642d696e6e6f7661746f7225323532467468652d636f6d6d69747465642d696e6e6f7661746f722d612d636f6e766572736174696f6e2d776974682d6e65616c2d677574746572736f6e2d6f662d636f72746576612e6d7033253236706e25334441253242636f6e766572736174696f6e253242776974682532424e65616c253242477574746572736f6e2532426f66253242436f7274657661 Listen to the podcast (duration: 32:37) > This episode explores innovation in the agriculture sector. Erik Roth, leader of McKinsey’s innovation work globally, talks with Neal Gutterson, who recently retired as CTO of agricultural chemical and seed company Corteva. Gutterson explains the transformation he led following a spinoff from DowDuPont to bring together disparate R&D organizations into one cohesive engine of innovation. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with board director Ireena Vittal | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:45:01 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163353637393662613472616931&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 45:01) > In today’s episode, Erik Roth, who leads our innovation work globally, discusses innovation in the context of developing markets with Ireena Vittal. Ireena has spent 30 years helping both multinationals and start-ups grow their businesses, especially in emerging economies. Today, she is one of India’s top advisers on innovation and growth, serving on the boards of some of the country’s largest institutions and assisting governments on issues related to urbanization and agriculture. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Dometic’s Peter Kjellberg | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:26:16 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163353637613836693475306473&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 26:15) > An innovation strategy has to be backed with resources and patient follow-through, says Peter Kjellberg, the guest on this episode of The Committed Innovator podcast. In a conversation with Erik Roth, who leads McKinsey’s innovation work globally, the chief marketing officer for the Swedish maker of products for mobile and outdoor living and the home, describes how Dometic Group seized the recent rapid growth in food and beverage delivery to create new products for the industry and consumers. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Tanya Baker of Goldman Sachs Accelerate | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:33:21 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a31303030303163353637616162613475366837&he=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 Listen to the podcast (duration: 33:21) > As the global leader of GS Accelerate, Goldman Sachs’ internal incubator that identifies, invests in, and develops new businesses, Tanya Baker has been instrumental in helping the financial services giant establish sustainable innovation capabilities. In this episode of the Committed Innovator series, Baker shares her experience evolving the program and fostering entrepreneurial ventures within the firm. Tanya spoke with Erik Roth, who leads McKinsey’s innovation work globally. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| A conversation with Amy Brooks of the NBA | 04 Feb 2022 | 00:30:02 | |
Read more > https://podcasts.mckinsey.com:443/l?r=unknown&s=_unknown&i=6c633a3130303030316335363761636a713475626532&he=253246253246706f6463617374732e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d253246706f64636173742533467063253344636f6d6d6974746564696e6e6f7661746f725f727373253236707525334468747470732532353341253235324625323532467777772e6d636b696e7365792e636f6d25323532466173736574732532353246646f74636f6d2532353246636f6d6d69747465642d696e6e6f7661746f7225323532467468652d636f6d6d69747465642d696e6e6f7661746f722d612d636f6e766572736174696f6e2d776974682d616d792d62726f6f6b732d6f662d7468652d6e62612e6d7033253236706e25334441253242636f6e766572736174696f6e25324277697468253242416d7925324242726f6f6b732532426f662532427468652532424e4241 Listen to the podcast (duration: 30:02) > The COVID-19 pandemic forced the National Basketball Association (NBA) to develop new ways to engage with fans. Amy Brooks is the NBA’s first chief innovation officer. She oversees innovation initiatives across four leagues—the NBA, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA), the NBA G League (minor league), and the esports NBA 2K League—and has used the difficulties of the pandemic as an opportunity to experiment. In this episode of our Committed Innovator series, she shares with McKinsey’s innovation leader Erik Roth her organization’s numerous new projects that have spurred growth despite unprecedented constraints around live games. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| American Red Cross chief innovation officer Sajit Joseph | 06 Mar 2024 | 00:29:48 | |
Innovation in a not-for-profit context involves measuring success in terms of returns on mission, rather than returns to shareholders. In this episode of The Committed Innovator podcast, McKinsey innovation expert Erik Roth talks with Sajit Joseph, the chief innovation officer of the American Red Cross, about how the 142-year-old institution began and carries out its innovation journey. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| How Major League Baseball built an innovation machine | 04 Oct 2023 | 00:33:52 | |
In this episode of The Committed Innovator, Major League Baseball’s Chief Operating and Strategy Officer Chris Marinak speaks with McKinsey innovation leader Erik Roth about how the league is using fan feedback, experimentation, and data to change a game steeped in tradition and culture to reach the next generation of fans. This season, MLB implemented rules changes that fundamentally altered the pace and action of the game and continues to embrace innovation and technology to improve the game and the overall fan experience. https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/inside-the-strategy-room-podcast/innovation See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| How Shopify approaches innovation | 20 Jul 2023 | 00:31:39 | |
The e-commerce platform’s president, Harley Finkelstein, talks about the changing online retailing landscape.
See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| How design thinking drives innovation | 23 Jun 2023 | 00:48:50 | |
PepsiCo design chief Mauro Porcini talks about the role of humanity and authenticity in driving innovation. Innovation requires commitment. In this episode of The Committed Innovator podcast, McKinsey innovation expert Erik Roth talks with PepsiCo senior vice president and chief design officer Mauro Porcini about how design thinking can help create that commitment and free people to innovate. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| The core attributes of the innovative mindset | 28 Apr 2023 | 00:22:53 | |
Successful innovators tend to follow certain practices. In this episode of The Committed Innovator podcast, McKinsey innovation expert Erik Roth talks with our global Strategy & Corporate Finance Practice communications director, Sean Brown, about the building blocks of innovation and how they help drive sustainable and inclusive growth. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| Working with start-ups | 16 Mar 2023 | 00:46:30 | |
Corporate innovators often turn to Israel and its vibrant start-up ecosystem to meet their goals. In this episode of The Committed Innovator podcast, we continue our series on Israel, talking with innovators from three large organizations about how they approach their relations with start-ups. Roi Bar-Kat is head of Intel Capital in Israel, Neta-Li Meiri is chief of global tech innovation for the Israeli food company Strauss Group, and David Schwartz is vice president of tech innovation for PepsiCo Labs. They spoke with innovation leader and McKinsey senior partner Erik Roth about the intersection of corporate innovation and start-up lead innovation, and how the two functions can support each other. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| The future of Israel’s start-up ecosystem | 13 Dec 2022 | 00:25:01 | |
Israel’s start-up ecosystem is already a powerhouse—how can the country continue to scale it up? This episode of The Committed Innovator podcast is the second in a series on Israel’s vibrant start-up scene, and a continuation of McKinsey innovation leader Erik Roth’s conversation with Avi Hasson and Chemi Peres. Hasson leads a not-for-profit, Startup Nation Central, that promotes Israel’s start-up sector, while Peres leads a venture capital firm, Pitango, and a not-for-profit, The Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, that promotes peace and innovation which was started by Chemi’s father, Shimon Peres, the former prime minister of Israel. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| Child and adolescent mental health as proving ground for innovation | 22 Oct 2024 | 00:35:28 | |
In this episode of The Committed Innovator, McKinsey innovation leader Erik Roth speaks with the founder, president, and medical director of the Child Mind Institute in New York City, Dr. Harold Koplewicz. At a time of increasing concerns globally about child and adolescent mental health, the institute is working to use advanced imaging technologies and AI to help revolutionize diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness, and psychological and learning disorders. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| Restaurateur John McDonald offers a grounded approach to hospitality | 09 Apr 2025 | 00:33:41 | |
In this episode of The Committed Innovator, we talk with John McDonald, the founder and CEO of Mercer Street Hospitality, which owns Lure Fishbar in New York City and Chicago, among other restaurants and bars. McDonald spoke with McKinsey Senior Partner and innovation leader Erik Roth about maintaining success and equilibrium in the notoriously difficult hospitality industry. Related insights: What’s on the menu? Revenue growth techniques for restaurants Cooking up extraordinary growth for restaurants during a downturn How to take the measure of innovation Fielding high-performing innovation teams Explore our collection of Committed Innovator episode transcripts on McKinsey.com: Strategic Growth & Innovation See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| Closing the gap between innovation and go-to-market, with AWS’s Jelena Joffe Weil | 12 Feb 2025 | 00:31:48 | |
McKinsey innovation leader Erik Roth speaks with Jelena Joffe Weil, the founder and worldwide leader of the Venture Innovation program at AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing arm, about how AWS works to close the gap between innovation and go to market for start-ups and large enterprises. The global hyperscaler is known for helping businesses grow and scale rapidly, but it also helps start-ups and established enterprises find each other to engage in open, or collaborative, innovation. Related insights: Driving innovation with generative AI How to take the measure of innovation Fielding high-performing innovation teams Explore our collection of Committed Innovator episode transcripts on McKinsey.com: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/inside-the-strategy-room-podcast/strategic-growth-and-innovation Discover our latest insights and join more than 92,000 influential professionals who are part of our LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/mckinsey-strategy-&-corporate-finance See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| The Committed Innovator: Enabling and harnessing the innovation process | 17 Dec 2025 | 00:38:18 | |
Miro founder and CEO Andrey Khusid discusses the inspiration behind what started as a digital whiteboard and has evolved to become an AI innovation workspace. Of the many challenges of innovation, enabling members of a team to share and capture their new ideas so they can build on them collaboratively, quickly, and easily is a perennial source of drag. The need to do so remotely inspired Miro founder and CEO Andrey Khusid to start the online whiteboard platform used for brainstorming, planning, and team collaboration. Today the company has evolved into an AI-driven innovation workspace. In this episode, McKinsey innovation leader Erik Roth speaks with Khusid about the problem Miro seeks to solve, the process of scaling the business, and what is next for the company in the age of generative and agentic AI.
Related reading: The eight essentials of innovation Fear factor: Overcoming human barriers to innovation See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| The Committed Innovator: Taking on the challenge ocean pollution from plastic with Boyan Slat | 17 Nov 2025 | 00:32:06 | |
The Ocean Cleanup's Boyan Slat discusses the promise and challenge of technological innovation at planetary scale. The problem of ocean pollution from plastic waste is growing and intractable, and can feel insurmountable to many consumers. For Dutch innovator Boyan Slat, however, not only is the problem solvable, it’s an imperative. In addition to harming habitats and wildlife, improperly discarded plastics can cause health problems for humans. The founder and CEO of Rotterdam-based The Ocean Cleanup, Slat seeks to both clean up the worst of plastic pollution in oceans, and to stop the flow of plastics from rivers into oceans. McKinsey innovation leader Erik Roth speaks with Slat about the challenges of starting and evolving The Ocean Cleanup, how the organization has found success, and what it takes to continue the effort. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| The Committed Innovator: Why innovation competitions work | 27 Feb 2026 | 00:26:06 | |
McKinsey holds an innovation competition every year; compelling evidence shows that most organizations can benefit from doing same. McKinsey & Company regularly holds an internal competition, the Innovation Olympics, in which our own teams bring their best business ideas to an internal competition. In the most recent cycle over 2,000 McKinsey colleagues competed, with the goal of creating a bottom-up innovation mechanism that surfaces great ideas and put them to work for our clients. In this episode, McKinsey innovation leader and senior partner Erik Roth speaks with our current winners about the process. Part of the team joins us—Iris Roelens, John Law-Lund, and Suryansh Soni—to describe how and why they decided to use machine learning to draw on McKinsey knowledge and create digital agents that could serve as virtual consultants. This is an edited transcript of their conversation. You can follow the series on your preferred podcast platform. See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||
| The Committed Innovator: Keeping up with AI and deploying it as it evolves | 05 Feb 2026 | 00:34:05 | |
Adopting AI remains a challenge for most, and the fact that the world of AI is advancing so Related content Taking fear out of innovation See www.mckinsey.com/privacy-policy for privacy information | |||