Sparkr Podcast

Sparkr Podcast

In his interviews for the Sparkr Podcast, Christian Lundsgaard-Hansen unveils the mindsets, principles and world views of remarkable and inspiring people or organizations. Learn what great leadership means, how to build high-performance creative teams, how to navigate the world of business in todays rapidly changing environment or how to spot the trends that matter. Sparkr is an agency for strategy, innovation and leadership. The Sparkr Podcast series features those who see, those who understand and those who create the future. Thank you for subscribing and sharing those episodes that bring value to someone you know. Learn more about Sparkr on www.sparkr.ch Do you want the host Christian Lundsgaard-Hansen to moderate or facilitate one of your business events (strategy workshops, conferences etc.)? Learn more on https://sparkr.ch/moderation-en/ Do you want to benefit from Sparkr as a strategic sparring partner or get access to Sparkr's free "Strategy Handbook" (only available in German)? Check out https://sparkr.ch/strategie-und-projektleitung/ Thanks to all the guests of the Sparkr Podcast who make this series so engaging and fascinating.

Episodes

May 25, 2025 86 mins
Branding ist ein strategisches Führungsinstrument gegenüber verschiedenen Zielgruppen: von den Kunden bis zu den eigenen Mitarbeitenden. Eine starke Marke dient als Kompass, gibt Halt, Klarheit und Sicherheit. Die Marke weist die Richtung und hilft bei der Prioritätensetzung. Nicht nur Produkte profitieren von einer starken Marke, sondern auch die Organisation an sich. Mit dem Employer Branding können Firmen dem Fachkräftemangel b...
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Mit Design den Firmenwert um 40% steigern? Das geht und Jan Erik Baars weiss wie. Jan-Erik war über 20 Jahre bei Philipps praktizierender Designer und wurde auch Mitglied der Geschäftsführung. Heute untersucht er als Professor für Designmanagement an der Universität Luzern die Erfolgsfaktoren von Design und vermittelt Firmen als Verwaltungsrat oder Berater Designkompetenz. Auf der Basis seiner Forschung hat Jan-Erik diverse Tools f...
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Wenn Cyber Kriminelle zusammen eine Volkswirtschaft bilden würden, entstünde dabei die drittgrösste Volkswirtschaft der Welt direkt hinter den USA und China. Cyber-Kriminalität und Cyber-Risiken gehören zu den drängendsten Problemen der Welt, denn der digitale und der Cyber-Raum durchdringen unsere Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft komplett: von kritischer Infrastruktur über die eigene Firma bis zur Freizeitgestaltung. Wir können nicht...
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This episode is an insightful deep dive into the fascinating world of quantum computing - a technology platform with the potential to revolutionize how we tackle climate change, the discovery of new medicine or new materials and many more applications throughout the business world and society. My guest is Damir Bogdan, the CEO of QuantumBasel. QuantumBasel’s mission is collaboration and seamless access to the world’s best quantum ...
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In this episode I had the privilege to talk to the leader who enabled hyper complex projects and teams with thousands of people to succeed and literally reach for the stars. I‘m talking of none other than astrophysicist Prof. Thomas Zurbuchen. Till the end of 2022 he was the Chief Scientist at NASA and with that arguably the most powerful scientist on the planet with responsibility over thousands of people and a 8 billion dollar +...
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Adam is a professor for Marketing at the Stern School of Business at New York University and author of multiple insightful books such as „Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked“ or his latest work „Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most“. On September 7th he’ll be one of the keynote speakers at the International Retail Summit by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Inst...
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Sometimes small decisions are life changing. Urs Hölzle, a Swiss computer scientist, made such a decision without knowing when he became the 8th employee of Google back in the late 1990s. For the past two decades, he was responsible for building what might be the most impressive infrastructure ever created. You all know the services that run on the infrastructure Urs developed: Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google ...
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Für die einen ist Bitcoin und Blockchain ein Heilsversprechen; für die anderen eine spekulative Klimakatastrophe. Eine konstruktive Einordnung der bedeutenden Innovation wird mit Sicherheit irgendwo dazwischen liegen. Viel wird über Bitcoin & Co. geschrieben. Doch oft nicht mit der ausreichenden Differenzierung oder Offenheit, um sich der Technologie gut anzunähern und deren gesellschaftlichen Relevanz zu erfassen. Für ein solch ...
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In dieser Episode des Sparkr Podcasts hatte ich das Vergnügen, mich mit dem berühmt berüchtigten Künstler Wolfgang Beltracchi zu unterhalten. Wolfgang Beltracchi ist ein deutscher Künstler und ehemaliger Kunstfälscher. Über 40 Jahre malte er Gemälde in der künstlerischen Handschrift bekannter Maler aus vier Jahrhunderten. Anerkannte Kunstexperten, internationale Auktionshäuser und Kunstmuseen beurteilten seine Werke als authentisc...
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Was haben Batterietechnologie, Piraten und Elektroautos miteinander zu tun? Wir erfahren es im Gespräch mit Christian Ochsenbein - einem Öko-Abenteurer, Elektoringenieur und Leiter des Swiss Battery Technology Centers. Das Technology Center ist Teil des Switzerland Innovation Parks in Biel und dient als Plattform, wo Forschung und Praxis zusammen kommen, um Batterie Innovationen zu realisieren sowohl im technologischen Bereich al...
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Frugal innovation is a mindset and innovation approach that has its origins in the developing world where amazing innovations and products are developed in the most difficult of environments. In this episode, you‘ll get to know numerous inspiring examples of frugal innovation from India, Africa and beyond. That said, the power of frugal innovation can also be harvested in the rich economies of the gobal North and be applied by sma...
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Diese Episode des Sparkr Podcasts möchte ein Zeitdokument sein und handelt von unsichtbaren Held:innen in der Schweizer Verwaltung, welche einen der grössten Wirtschaftseinbrüche der Schweiz seit dem zweiten Weltkrieg abfederten, als sie innert weniger Wochen das Corona Rettungsprogramm in Form von Notkrediten an die Schweizer Wirtschaft konzipierten. Ganze Systeme und Organisationen mussten innert Wochen aufgebaut werden und es ga...
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Bertrand Piccard is an exceptional person. As adventurer, explorer and psychiatrist he flew around the world with the Orbiter 3 balloon which was the longest flight in human history and outcompeted famous billionaire Richard Branson when doing so. After breaking records with Orbiter 3, Bertrand Piccard set out to push the boundaries of the impossible again and after many years of perseverance and innovation, Piccard flew around t...
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In this special episode of the Sparkr Podcast, I set out to find practical self-management methods, productivity tips and other approaches that help me to reduce stress and to cope better with high demands. As Bruce Lee once said: «Don't wish for an easy life, wish for the ability to handle a difficult one.» Usually I'm in conversation with an exciting and exceptional person to unveil their mindsets, tactics and ideas. But this ti...
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Welcome back dear listeners to this next episode of the Sparkr Podcast where it is my pleasure to talk to bright and inspiring people about their mindsets and insights on important topics from the world of entrepreneurship, technology, innovation or leadership. This time I talked to Ulrike Pfreundt who's a smart and passionate ocean biologist turning social entrepreneur with a lot of insights to share in the area of sustainability...
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Die Zirkus-Dynastie Knie gehört seit über 200 Jahren zu den ältesten und führenden Zirkusunternehmen Europas. Seit fast 30 Jahren liegt das Unternehmen in den Händen der Zirkus-Ikone und Gast dieser Sparkr Podcast Episode: Fredy Knie. Fredy Knie wurde u.a. durch seine Pferdedressur weltbekannt und ist heute der Verwaltungsratspräsident der Schweizer National Zirkus AG. Als Vierjähriger stand er zum ersten mal in der Manege des Zir...
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Der Begriff der Resilienz stammt ursprünglich aus der Materialforschung. Übertragen auf den Menschen oder auf Organisationen kann Resilienz übersetzt werden mit der Fähigkeit, einem Druck oder einem Stress standhalten zu können, allfällige Schäden reparieren zu können oder von vornherein der übertriebenen Belastung vorzubeugen. Eine Koryphäe in der Resilienz Forschung ist Prof. Gregor Hasler – ein Psychiater, Psychotherapeuten und...
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Globalization, automation, the rise of the gig economy... The way we work and what “work” itself means will change significantly in the years to come and remarkable transformations are up ahead. One person who’s been thinking about and studying the future of work for decades is Prof. Pamela Hinds, Co-Director of the Center on Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanfo...
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Welcome back to this new episode of the Sparkr Podcast where I uncover the mindsets and tactics of exceptional people in innovation, technology and leadership. I had the opportunity to talk to Shailesh Prakash, Chief Information Officer of the Washington Post and one of the most influential minds in tech. The Post is a big institution in journalism – an industry with a huge tradition and importance for society. In 2013 Jeff Bezo...
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In dieser Episode des Sparkr Podcast, wo spannende Ideen zu Technologie, Innovation, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft diskutiert werden, spreche ich mit Thomas Ramge; einem viel beachteten, einflussreichen und preisgekrönten Technologie Journalisten und Author von Büchern wie "Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data". Mit ihm habe ich ein philosophisches Gespräch geführt über die Folgen von künstlicher Intelligenz und Big Data fü...
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