The ROI Podcast

As businesses look ahead to solve current pain points in the various industries, design thinking strategies should take center stage in order to discover solutions that actually work. Through the process of imagination, ideation, and innovation, any organization can solve issues their customers, their shareholders, or even their staff face on a day to day basis. On this episode, we're exploring Kelley School of Business Senior Lecturer Brenda Bailey-Hughes's new Design Thinking E-book so you can have practical steps that bring solutions to your specific industry. ---- Get a free copy of Brenda's Design Thinking E-Book ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

One of the best ways to see leadership traits develop in our team is by finding opportunities for them to simply try. However, for many of us, that process of taking a risk or even letting go of certain responsibilities seems daunting. Yet, as leaders, if we do not hand off responsibilities, our leadership will hit a ceiling. On this episode, we're sitting down with the CEO of Katz, Sapper & Miller Tim Cook to discuss ways we can allow our team to try new ideas in a sensible way. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Each year, the Kelley School of Business economists work to project the economic outlook for the following fiscal year - regionally, statewide, and nationally. With a pandemic, election cycle, and recession all rolled into a single year, 2020 turned out to be a difficult one for many. So what could 2021 look like? On this episode, we're sitting down with the Associate Dean of the Kelley School of Business and Economist Phil Powell and Professor of Business Economics Kyle Anderson to explore what 2021 may bring and how they are able to make these predictions. ---- Get a copy of the 2021 Economic Outlook HERE. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

No matter which way you examine a culture, trust must be the foundation. Without trust holding your organization's culture together, building the relationships necessary for a healthy work environment is like building a house on sand. When a storm comes, the whole structure falls. On this episode, we're sitting down with the Founder and Managing Partner of Straticos Business Builders Scott Abbott who shares the 3 pillars of trust and how we implement those inside our organizations. ---- Check out Scott's podcast - Moments to Momentum ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Grace is a term that's typically encountered in many religious circles, directing us on how to treat others who wrong us. But how does grace relate to leadership? On this episode, we're sitting down with Executive Coach and Author of "Grace: A Leaders Guide to a Better Us" John Baldoni, who shares why grace is fundamental to building both a great work culture and an even better relationship with your teams. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

According to the CEO of JC2 Ventures John Chambers, MBA'75, the vast majority of job creation will take place in the start-up world. Gone are the days of landing that sweet job in a fortune 500 company you can ride until retirement. So how can entrepreneurs harness this demand to build the future? On this episode we're sitting back down with John Chambers to discuss what it will take from small business leaders to rise up and build our economic future. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

For those still working from home, many of us are finding great joys and great frustrations by being remote. Sure we can pop a load of laundry in the washer in between meetings, but we may lose an opportunity for small talk while walking to and from the breakroom. And if you are trying to lead, how do you make sure everyone is doing what they're supposed to all while maintaining and reemphasizing your organizational culture? On this episode, we're sitting down with the CEO of Formstack Chris Byers who shares how his organization overcame the difficulties of remote working prior to COVID and how they overcame those obstacles to create a successful organization. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Whether it's Enron or Tyco, some organizations simply have a hard time playing by the rules. But how do companies get so far off the rails? Do organizational leaders wake up one day and decide to be corrupt? Or might their ethical erosion start small and grow over time? Could there also be a few bad apples that make the whole bunch look bad? On this episode, we're sitting down with Kelley's Associate Professor of Accounting Evelyn Patterson, who specializes in auditing and fraud detection, to uncover where and why some organizations make the turn toward corruption and what we can do as leaders to prevent this from happening within our companies. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Culture and talent go hand-in-hand. An organization needs a strong culture to attract great talent but also needs great talent to reinforce a strong culture. So where do we start? On this episode, we sit down with the former Vice President of Talent and Human Resources for Chick-fil-A, Inc. Dee Ann Turner to explore her book "Bet on Talent: How to Create a Remarkable Culture and Win the Hearts of Customers" so that we can create a winning team while enforcing a strong organizational culture. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy

Starting a new job has many challenges at first like making new friendships, learning the expectations of leadership, and the culture of the organization. With organizations either moving to remote work permanently or due to COVID-19, there are many more challenges to making sure our new hires find their place inside our organization from the comfort of their living room. On this episode, we're sitting down with the Founder of Red Envelope Consulting Chelsea DuKate, BS'06, who shares practical and effective ways to help all of your team members (new and old) thrive while working remotely. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/35cLVqy