What is Innovation?

Innovation is an idea transformed into practical reality :: Tyrone Lingley

Episode Summary

Episode 38 of “What is Innovation?” is here! Jared talks with Tyrone Lingley, Head of Partnerships at Ally.io, responsible for building and delivering long-term go-to-market technology, strategic, and channel partnerships, talks on tackling OKRs, and shared responsibility and accountability.

Episode Notes

Tyrone Lingley, Head of Partnerships at Ally.io, is responsible for building and delivering long-term go-to-market technology, strategic, and channel partnerships, talks on tackling OKRs, and shared responsibility and accountability.
 

More about our guest:

Tyrone Lingley, senior SaaS partnership leader with 10+ years of experience building and leading high-performance partnership and marketing teams in the technology, e-commerce, and sports/entertainment industries. Responsible for creating business value through channel, technology, and strategic partnerships. Ty is also currently the Head of Partnerships at Ally.io, responsible for building and delivering our long-term go-to-market technology, strategic, and channel partnerships. Prior to joining Ally.io, I led high-performance partnership and marketing teams at Unbounce, SHOES.com, Bell Canada, the Rick Hansen Foundation, and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic & Paralympic Games (VANOC). A board member with the Cloud Software Association (CSA), where we strive to build the market for the distribution of cloud software. Our 2000+ members span the industry as SaaS vendors, platforms, API services, resellers, distributors, and investors. An advisor to various SaaS companies within the software-as-a-service space looking to build and grow their partnership programs.

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Episode Guide:

1:50 - What Is Innovation

3:54  - Experience  in Ally.io

5:38 - OKR

6:38 - Importance of AMBITIOUS objectives

8:27 - Role of Humility

11:42 - Unpacking OKR

13:07 - Cascading results and shared goals

16:05 - OKRs: Creating Accountability

19:37 - Risk Assessment

20:34 - Risk equation: People-side or Leadership-side?

25:19 - OKR or KPI?

27:46 - Ty's life outside work

29:26 - Advice to innovators

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