Ross Republic · 2024-09-08 · 29 min
Thank you for joining the Ross Republic podcast. In our forty-fourth episode, your host Adrian Klee is joined by Nicolas Grilly, CTO at IP firm Zacco and Ex-Head of Group Innovation at Husqvarna, to explore how industrial companies can achieve successful innovation returns. RR Podcast #44 In a world where higher interest rates and economic turbulence are the new normal, top companies are rethinking their growth strategies . In this episode, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Nicolas Grilly to explore how industrial companies can set up their innovation efforts for success and avoid common pitfalls to ensure those efforts pay off. Nicolas is currently the CTO at the global IP firm Zacco. Until recently, he was VP of Group Innovation at Husqvarna Group, a Stockholm-based global leader in outdoor power products - think chainsaws, robotic lawn mowers, and garden watering gear, generating roughly USD 4.8 billion annually. Before that, Nicolas was the Head of Digitalisation at Northvolt Systems, Europe’s fastest-growing battery producer, where he led the digital transformation of their battery systems and factories.