Join us this week for a conversation with Shanil Ebrahim, Partner and National Life Sciences & Healthcare Consulting Leader at Deloitte Canada! We challenge the common misconception that innovation requires constant efficiency. Shanil shares why some "wasted work" is inevitable, and even essential, for groundbreaking ideas.
Join us this week for a conversation with Shanil Ebrahim, Partner and National Life Sciences & Healthcare Consulting Leader at Deloitte Canada! We challenge the common misconception that innovation requires constant efficiency. Shanil shares why some "wasted work" is inevitable, and even essential, for groundbreaking ideas.
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - What is Innovation?
2:20 - Technology in Innovation
3:55 - Innovation: Solving Problems
4:51 - Not (inherently) efficient
7:12 - Innovation, Efficiency, and Problem-Solving
10:40 - Internal usage of innovation processes
13:47 - What isn't Innovation?
17:09 - Dangers of Gen AI
20:26 - New Technology, New Hype, Wrong Implementation
22:38 - Advice to Innovators
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Shanil Ebrahim is a Partner and the National Life Sciences and Healthcare Consulting Leader at Deloitte Canada. He is a senior advisor for clients in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and retail and special pharmacy sectors, and has supported a diverse set of public and private stakeholders in innovation-based business transformations and technology implementations. Shanil held roles as a Clinical Epidemiologist, Faculty Member and Researcher, and also serves as a Board Director in multiple non-profit organizations focused on vulnerable patient populations.
More about our guest:
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management