Rapid Response: Why design matters more than ever, w/PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Design is more than aesthetics. It is an essential competitive tool for an age of perpetual disruption. PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini shares his 5-point system for sparking creativity at scale. Author of the new book The Human Side of Innovation, Porcini explains how anyone can deploy a designer’s mindset to improve their business and organization. Sharing stories from 3M to Mountain Dew, Porcini emphasizes the imperative of excellence and why innovation is "an act of love."
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| 0:00.0 | You need to build in-house the culture of innovation. |
| 0:04.1 | You need people in love with people obsessed with extreme quality, with excellence. |
| 0:10.5 | Designer Cannell ignites the culture, but the culture needs to be spread across every |
| 0:15.5 | single function of the company. |
| 0:19.2 | It may be daunting for you as a leader, but it's about mindset. |
| 0:23.3 | We should spend our life growing and bettering ourselves and seeing every single opportunity |
| 0:29.7 | to every encounter as an opportunity to learn. |
| 0:34.3 | You realize that what you know is very little, is almost nothing, is dust in the universe, |
| 0:41.2 | and this is the beauty of the real innovators and is the excellence you want to deliver |
| 0:45.7 | to people that can create a better world and a better society. |
| 0:51.3 | That's Morrow Puccini, the chief design officer at PepsiCo and author of the new book, |
| 0:59.2 | The Human Side of Innovation. |
| 1:02.2 | Design has been a key component of business success for iconic companies from Apple to Airbnb |
| 1:07.0 | to Nike. |
| 1:08.2 | Umbab Safian, former editor of Fast Company, founder of the Flux Group and host of Masters |
| 1:13.4 | of Scale Rapid Response. |
| 1:15.3 | I wanted to talk to Morrow because he's uncommonly clear and engagingly passionate about how |
| 1:21.4 | any business and business person can benefit from a designer's mindset. |
| 1:26.3 | As an executive inside large enterprises like Pepsi and 3M, Morrow has deployed creativity |
| 1:32.0 | as a force for positive disruption and he has specific systematic tips on what it takes |
| 1:38.2 | to spark and maintain innovation inside organizations as they scale. |
| 1:44.0 | Design's not just about style or looking good, Morrow says though he's an advocate for both. |
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