S2E15 - How to do Competitive Intelligence in Plain Sight and Share it with Everyone? | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

Description

with 🎙️ Abdelhakim El Fadil - Ph.D. Researcher and Podcast Host

💧 The "Smart Water Solutions" podcast addresses technical hints and industrial expertise to better exploit water treatment technologies.

What we covered:

🍏 How Sales and Marketing people active in our very technical industry need competitive benchmarks and technical understanding

🍏 How podcasting is a powerful channel to save them hours of exhausting searches and cross-platform investigation

🍏 The three layers of information that shape the Water Sector

🍏 How Giving is the true Having, as the better way to understand a topic actually is to explain it.

🍏 The influence of product lifecycles in the Water Industry

🍏 The work behind every single technical deep dive

🍏 The similarities and differences between scientific papers and podcasts

🍏 The best ways to bridge industry and academia to build a successful path

🍏 How the Water Industry's product life cycles make it a totally different beast compared with IT or Software

🍏 What's the path of a successful Ph.D. researcher during and after the deep dive it involves

🍏 How the best way to learn is to take critics, especially if they are bad, and to DO rather than think

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥

➡️ Send your warm regards to Abdelhakim El Fadil on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abdelhakim-el-fadil-3240415b/

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-do-competitive-intelligence-in-plain-sight-and-share-it-with-everyone/

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About (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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Currently in its 10th Season, the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast has already welcomed around 250 guests from Water Majors (SUEZ, Veolia, Jacobs, Xylem, Kemira, Evoqua, Aquatech, SKion Water...), Scale-Ups (Cambrian Innovation, Epic Cleantec, Gradiant, Liqtech, 374Water, Gingko Bioworks...), Start-Ups (Puraffinity, KETOS, 120Water, ZwitterCo, Membrion, Source...), Universities (Berkeley, the Columbia Water Center), Investment Funds (Sciens Water, Mazarine, Burnt Island Ventures...), Business Accelerators (Imagine H2O, Elemental...), Book Authors (Seth Siegel, David Sedlak, David Lloyd Owen...) or Market Intelligence Companies (BlueTech Research, Global Water Intelligence, World Bank, OECD, Isle Utilities...). Or simply water legends like Gary White, Mina Guli or Andrew Benedek!

On the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast, I strive to make the Water Industry easy to understand for everyone, starting with water professionals, executives, and investors. Hence, he opens the microphone to seasoned, inspirational water experts to discuss their field of excellence.

No one can claim an all-around in-depth understanding of a matter as complex as Water. But piece by piece, you can rebuild the puzzle. With curiosity, patience, and passion, Antoine Walter explores topics such as Advanced Treatment Technologies, Water-Energy Nexus (Hydrogen, Lithium...), PFAS removal, Nature-Based Solutions, Wastewater Reuse, Distributed Water Treatments, Water Finance, and Water Entrepreneurship.

I actually firmly believe that regular listeners of the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast may, in the end, claim a "Water MBA!"

A particular field of interest is how innovation forms, grows and gets widely adopted in a complex and conservative field like the Water Industry. This may be one of the keys to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal n°6 - #SDG6.

Oh, and in short, about me: I'm a water engineer turned avid student of the water business, market, finance, and tech. I'm married, a happy father of three, and I'm French (nobody's perfect 😅).