Chris Gagné is an Enterprise Agile Coach, Meditation Teacher, and Edmund Hillary Fellowship Fellow (LinkedIn). Chris operates through Approach Perfect, as the vehicle for coaching using the agile methods. Previously he has worked for or coached with many Silicon Valley start ups and Fortune 500 companies.

Our conversation covers:
-The similarities and differences of innovation in start ups and large corporates.
-The use of Agile and Scrum techniques to deliver innovation.
-The importance of learning quickly, iteratively and across functional expertise. In innovation the fastest learner is more likely to succeed.
-Not only do you need the ability to come up with the initial idea novel idea but you also need to have the infrastructure to commercialise it and to continue to develop it once launched.

You can get a deeper view on Chris' thinking here.

Chris provides introductory videos to both Agile and Scrum on his website here.

(Apologies for the clunky start and end -- amongst my first recordings!)

This is part of a series of interviews about innovation for sustainability conducted for the UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, as a contribution to a module in this Masters. You can find out more about these interviews, and the module, here.