Innovation Lab Roadmap

Considering starting an innovation lab? Rich Turrin, author of Innovation Lab Excellence, gives it to you straight: Innovation labs are the key to promoting digital adoption. That said, he is not a proponent of over-hyped claims. Rich works with your stakeholders to define a reasonable set of goals and objectives for your lab to set it on a path to success. He knows where labs can go wrong and can help design your team’s composition and benchmarks to ensure you reach your objectives and achieve true digital transformation from within.

Innovation Lab Audit and Check-up

How is your lab is performing? It’s no secret that many have difficulty evaluating their own performance. In some cases, labs may substitute showmanship for implementable innovation. In other cases, genuine technical breakthroughs are overlooked by management due to the lack of ability to see the utility. Rich Turrin can help bridge these gaps with an audit of your lab’s technical and personal achievements, helping to keep your lab on track for success

Innovation Lab Reboot

There are times when nothing short of a reboot will do. When innovation labs are underperforming in the eyes of management, or lab staff aren’t meeting performance expectations, a reboot may be in order. As an author and leading expert on innovation labs, Rich Turrin has extensive experience running innovation teams and transforming labs. He will perform an impartial assessment of what needs to be fixed, and thus deliver the impactful change that all parties require.
This is an on-site engagement where Rich works in the lab offices and engages with all stakeholders to determine a concrete set of actions and operational best practices. In-person meetings with lab staff and managers will help smooth the changes in focus and responsibility required to help reboot your lab for optimum performance. Follow up meetings after the engagement help to ensure your lab is operating to best capacity.

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China Fintech

China Fintech firms are now heading West. The flow of technology has shifted from China being a consumer to China being the provider of systems that are at work throughout the Western financial services community.

There is a good chance that a Chinese firm already has a solution to that new Fintech idea you’ve been considering. It’s likely already tested, proven at scale, and at work with real clients.

Development in China, where Rich Turrin is based, is booming, Large-scale teams can customize solutions to your needs at a moment’s notice. This is why there is a constant stream of investors heading to China to check out tomorrow’s fintech solutions, and increasing numbers of Chinese-based Fintech companies trying to connect with foreign buyers. If you’re interested in China’s technology scene or are a Chinese company looking to put your tech to work outside of China, Rich Turrin can bring his experience and expertise to help you achieve big results

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Workshops

Customized workshops help small groups of executive staff to better understand critical concepts in the AI, Analytic or Blockchain technologies used within the fintech or innovation laboratory setting. This custom-designed program is created to meet your company’s unique needs through real, hands-on examples of technology trends and solutions.

Workshop attendees can bring your questions and concerns and be assured you will leave with the clarification and answers you need. This program is ideal for management teams who need to better understand today’s technologies and ensure your skills and knowledge are keeping up with current trends.

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Digital Transformation Training

When it comes to training staff, it’s important to clarify their role during a digital transformation. The key is to give each staff member the opportunity to be part of the digital transformation, rather than feeling themselves to be victims of it. While this won’t make them programmers overnight, it empowers staff to seek out new solutions and contribute their unique intellectual property to your digital offerings.

Your employees will learn what technology can do for them and how AI, blockchain, fintech and insurtech are going to change their work. From broad macro overviews to focused discussions on individual technologies, author and Fintech expert Rich Turrin makes learning fun and relevant.

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