Abstract Forward Podcast #6: Innovation Tips For Product Design and Cyber Security with Grant Wood.

In this episode, we are joined by Grant Wood of KNotion Labs. Wood is a stand-out advanced innovation visionary, hands-on innovator, with direct experience delivering class-beating and world-first products for Fortune 500 and startup clients alike. His work has opened multi-billion dollar markets to companies, created entirely new product categories, hit performance benchmarks measured in nanoseconds and been protected in dozens of patent claims applicable to advertising, retail, payments, reconfigurable computing, finance, and consumer and industrial products.

This episode covers what’s wrong with how most organizations think about innovation, how to measure innovation, best practices in new product design, and the importance of having 4-5 moonshot projects to incubate innovation. We also discuss the Fortnite hack, applying the NIST Cyber Security Framework, how organizational bureaucracy hampers creativity and what to do about it, why cybersecurity is not like basketball because the rules always change, and lastly, machine learning use cases in both data breach detection and metallic glass engineering research.

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