TEI 028: Creating an Innovation Group in a Large Organization

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you episode 028 of... The Everyday Innovator with host Chad McAllister, PhD. The podcast is all about helping people involved in developing and managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and STANDOUT from their peers. Our Guest: Jeff Honious is the VP of Innovation at RELX Group, which you may know as Reed Elsevier, a multi-billion dollar international publishing and information company. To provide some context for this, the company bio shares that it helps scientists make new discoveries, lawyers win cases, doctors save lives and executives forge relationships with their clients. Jeff’s background is in technology and web-based product development. Previous to his innovation role he also contributed to his company adopting agile development practices. Jeff's innovation team has two primary responsibilities: (1) build innovation capability across the business by helping groups set up their innovation process, provide training, and use tools.(2) provide resources for strategic projects with specific expertise and added capacity for developing products.