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:

• Shanil Ebrahim
• Company: Deloitte Canada

OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management