Innovation is positive disruption :: Parker Meeks

What is Innovation?

Parker Meeks, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Hyzon Motors, shares his view of innovation as both an operator and advisor in the industry makes for unique insights.

More about our guest:
Parker Meeks is a proven senior operating executive with more than 15 years of experience driving transformational change via strategic growth, operating performance, acquisition strategy & integration, and culture formation in field services-oriented businesses across design & construction end markets, including infrastructure, industrials, electric power, energy transition and oil, gas & chemicals, with demonstrable success at the global and national organizational scale in a variety of ownership environments (PE-backed, public, privately held). He has most recently held full P&L responsibility for a nationwide 900 person design and construction management business in transportation and water resources within TRC, a leading provider of technology-led integrated design, construction management, and environmental services to the electric power, infrastructure, industrial and commercial markets.

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Episode Guide:

2:17 - What is Innovation

3:15 - What is "Progress"

6:20 - Design Construction

7:49 - Small group vs big group disruptors

8:52 - Early forms of Design and Construction Technology

13:59 - Bringing in value

15:26 - How the innovation can help despite frictions

19:07 - Innovation and difficult choices

20:58 - Deploying mindsets in a decentralized organization

23:54 - Conversations in Digital Technology

27:22 - Is innovations about eliminating constraints?

28:17 - Advice to future innovators

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