19: Unleashing the Power of Employee Innovation at VTX Switzerland

Richard Branson once said, "A company's employees are its greatest asset, and your people are your product." This is exactly the kind of principle and energy that Yves Pitton and Kevin D’Silva cultivate within their respective companies. They believe that there are geniuses and innovators among everyday employees, and so by encouraging them to voice out their own opinions and giving them the space to pitch their best ideas, it helps the company move towards innovation as well. In this episode of Innovation Storytellers, Yves and Kevin talk about giving employees the platform to innovate and test their hypotheses and how this can play a pivotal role in moving a company towards its own growth goals. Guest BIO Yves Pitton is the CEO of VTX, the largest independent and private telecom operator and service provider in Switzerland. He is an experienced, hands-on, and impact-oriented senior executive with extensive international experience and passion for innovation, growth, turn-around, and change management in the industrial, high-tech, media, and Private Equity business. Kevin D’Silva is a Thought Leader in Enterprise Innovation, Founder & CEO of Ideateplus. He is also a serial intrapreneur and founded programs that provide enterprises with a rapid innovation process that helps them achieve customer-validated experiments while developing the competence of their employees.  

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Did you ever wonder how an innovation got to its finish line? How innovators saw the future, made a product, and created change – in our world and in their companies? I did. Innovation Storytellers invites changemakers to describe how they created their innovation and just as important – THE STORIES – that made us fall in love with them. Come learn how great innovations need great stories to make them move around the world and how to become a better storyteller in the process. I’m Susan Lindner, the Innovation Storyteller. But I wasn’t always. I’ve been a wannabe revolutionary, an epidemiologist at the CDC and an AIDS educator in the brothels of Thailand helping to turn former sex workers into entrepreneurs. Trained as an anthropologist and the Founder of Emerging Media, I’ve spent the last twenty years working with innovators from 60+ countries. Ranging from cutting edge startups to Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, Olayan, and nine foreign governments, helping their leaders to tell their stories and teaching them how to become incredible advocates for their innovations. Great innovation stories make change possible. They let us step into a future we can’t see yet. I started this podcast to shine a light on our generation of great innovators, to learn how they brought their innovation to life and the stories they told to bring them to the world.