New innovation report extends past cable’s echo chamber

The Cable Heart and its new operational model, the Syndeo Institute, not too long ago launched its second annual Intrapreneurship & Innovation Report.

This version options contributions and insights from nearly two dozen execs and innovators spanning a number of trade segments, together with community operators, leisure/media and know-how. Examples of particular person contributors embody: Teresa Elder, CEO, WideOpenWest; Frannie Matthews, president and CEO, Colorado Expertise Affiliation; Mark Greatrex, president, Cox Communications; Yvette Kanouff, associate, JC2 Ventures; Christopher Winfrey, CEO, Constitution Communications; Patricia Jo Boyers, president and CEO of Boycom; and Mike Fries, CEO and vice chairman, Liberty World.

The report covers lots of floor on how corporations and organizations can undertake an “agile mindset” and innovate from inside to remain forward of change and adapt to potential disruptions.

However at a excessive stage, the broader intention is to offer perception from leaders each inside and outdoors the normal “cable” trade. That strategy delivers “variety of thought, in order that we aren’t simply listening in that kind of echo chamber idea,” Camilla Formica, the chief program officer at The Cable Heart and the Syndeo Institute, explains on the Gentle Studying Podcast. “We’re bringing in various voices to assist us assume outdoors of what we’re form of used to in our trade.”

Formica is an trade vet who joined The Cable Heart final summer season. Along with discussing some large takeaways from the brand new report, she talks in regards to the historical past and longer-term plans for The Cable Heart and the Syndeo Institute, this yr’s Cable Corridor of Fame gala and what else is atop her record of priorities for 2023.

For a frivolously edited transcript, click on the closed caption button within the video toolbar. If you would like to skip round and pay attention, listed below are some subjects lined:

• Background on The Cable Heart’s historical past and the not too long ago launched Syndeo Institute (1:06)
• How the Intrapreneurship & Innovation Report matches into the group’s “Imaginative and prescient 2025” plan (3:20)
• How the brand new report goals to offer insights from leaders inside and outdoors the normal cable trade (8:00)
• A overview of the massive takeaways from the 2023 report and the way it differs from final yr’s inaugural report (11:50)
• What the report says about how the trade is coping with aggressive threats, adversity and volatility (15:50)
• The realities and challenges of the brand new hybrid workforce and the revised function that belief is taking part in throughout a number of corporations and industries (19:46)
• What else is on Formica’s precedence record for the steadiness of 2023 (25:50)

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— Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Gentle Studying