The Company Road Podcast E21 Charlie Carpinteri - Technology tales: Confronting fears, artificial intelligence & staying agnostic
“Being technology agnostic is crucial. Don't assume that your playbook from one business will magically work at a different one. There's no one-size-fits-all approach.”
Charlie Carpinteri
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- Technology agnosticism: How to remain agnostic and flexible in making tech decisions based on specific circumstances and contexts
- Challenges in tech adoption: Highlighting common challenges faced in adopting new organisational technology and how to manage them for smooth transition
- Digging change tunnels: Why it’s can be necessary to invest time in digging ‘tunnels’ to allow for big change initiatives to be successfully implemented
- Adopting a tech-friendly mindset: Strategies for building organisational culture that is open, excited and on-the-front of technological change and innovation
- Human-AI collaboration: Confronting key fears about AI and how humans can pave a safe, beneficial collaborative path forward
Key links
Rolling Labs https://rollinglabs.com/
RedFlex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redflex_Holdings
Swinburne https://www.swinburne.edu.au/
Industry Based Learning https://www.swinburne.edu.au/study/courses/units/Industry-Based-Learning-HEA30005/local
Tesla https://www.tesla.com/en_au
About our guest
Charlie Carpinteri (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccarpinteri/) has over 20 years of experience as a leader, an entrepreneur and a passionate technologist, which require creativity, collaboration, and lateral thinking. A strong and transparent communicator, data and insight decision making and driven by delivering an exceptional customer experience, Charlie enjoys working closely with customers to understand their perspectives and leverage a combination of existing and emerging technologies to meet their digital requirements.
Throughout Charlie’s career, he has worked with a combination of start-up, medium and large corporates and organisations, and has been known to challenge traditional processes and ways of thinking; actively driving cultural and technological advancements using innovative methods and tools. As a highly effective business leader, Charlie is adept at engaging and influencing across all levels of an organisation; working with customers, technology partners and cross-departmental teams to recommend and advise on best-practice solution delivery.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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