Innovation is evolution :: Joris Hensen

What is Innovation?

🎙️ We are so grateful to have Joris Hensen, Co-Lead of the Deutsche Bank API Program, on the “What is Innovation?” podcast this week! Joris shares his perspective on innovation as evolution. His insights into how banking is evolving to meet customer needs are sure to spark ideas for how you can use innovation principles to delight stakeholders in your world as well.

Listen in and let us know what you think! 🎧✨

More about our guest:

Joris Hensen is responsible for the Deutsche Bank API Program, which he co-founded in 2015. The Developer Portal of Deutsche Bank gives partners quick and easy access to more than 40 API products, enabling them to connect personalized apps and services and thus open up new areas of value creation. Joris Hensen sees himself as an intrapreneur and is dedicated to exploring how Open Banking and Embedded Finance can change and improve people's lives. In his more than ten years at Deutsche Bank, Joris Hensen has worked as a project manager on various international projects. Early on, he became enthusiastic about innovations and trends and set up a corporate foresight program, in which he developed future scenarios and innovation strategies for Deutsche Bank. He has also been a guest lecturer at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen on the topics of foresight, innovation and design.
Know more about him here:

• Joris Hensen
• Company: Deutsche Bank

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Episode Guide:

0:00 - Intro

0:45 - What Is Innovation?

2:28 - A state of being vs muscle-training

6:50 - Bank innovation:Explanations, transparency, and story-telling

8:37 - Hackathons and Professionalism vs (Stuffy) Corporate

12:32 - Internal Stakeholders and great tools

13:50 - Defining "developers"

17:53 - Unpacking "evolution"

22:00 - Changing Mindsets

29:28 - Advice to innovators
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