Podcast: How Do You Build Strategic Advantage Through Bold Technology Leadership?

Our guests are Global Executive Engineer Kalevi Tervo (ABB, Marine & Ports) and Softability CEO Janne Repo. Kalevi and Janne share their experiences in strategic technology leadership, risk-taking, customer understanding, and building high-performing expert teams in demanding, hardware-intensive R&D environments. The episode offers insights and inspiration, especially for R&D decision-makers who are balancing short-term business pressures with long-term vision.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

• How strategic technological leadership is built in practice — and why bold risk-taking is often essential
• How to balance short-term and long-term goals in product development
• Where to find direction for innovation in uncertain and rapidly changing environments
• Why customer understanding is a critical part of technology leadership — and how to embed it into developers’ everyday work
• When it makes sense to build capabilities in-house and when partnerships are the smarter choice
• How to build and lead high-performing expert teams in a global R&D environment

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Podcast from R&D Leaders to R&D Leaders

Softability’s R&D Tech Talk Suomi podcast opens the door to demanding product development environments. In each episode, we discuss emerging technologies, the role of software development, and the solutions shaping the products of tomorrow with experienced R&D leaders and experts from industry-leading companies. The podcast is in Finnish.

In previous episodes, we’ve covered topics such as global product development trends, leadership, and cybersecurity in device-oriented R&D. We’ve had guests from GE Healthcare and IQM Quantum Computers, alongside our own Softability’s CEO, Janne Repo. You can follow and listen to all episodes on Spotify.