IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innovation! Without Pain There Is No Gain: Why is innovation so challenging? Thomas Edison underwent over 1,000 attempts before successfully inventing the light bulb. Visionaries like Karl Benz and Henry Ford dedicated over 20 years to inventing and reinventing, facing numerous unsuccessful attempts to achieve widespread adoption of the automobile. Even the internet encountered a [.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The journey of the AI assistant is already well underway. We’re seeing the evolution to agent take shape in three phases: assistant, concierge, and agent. This evolution is exciting and promises to make our lives much easier — eliminating mundane tasks and helping us become more productive. But anyone who has ever had an assistant knows that the relationship only works if there is trust.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 1980, a young Harvard Business School professor named Michael Porter published Competitive Strategy, which drove thinking on the subject for the next 30 years. In essence, he argued that you build sustainable competitive advantage by maximizing bargaining power throughout a value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

There are four distinct phases to the aftermath of a toxic work incident, and each requires its own set of strategies and coping mechanisms. Many mistakenly believe that, once they report a situation or incident, they’ll experience relief, but find they continue to feel and process the aftershocks of what happened even years later. Others find it hard to fully move on, wondering why they remain exhausted and still carry the weight of the event with them.

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Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Innovation activity is at an all-time high. From idea competitions and startup incubators to virtual whiteboards and design thinking workshops, there is no shortage of mechanisms for brainstorming what’s possible in an organization. It’s exciting to have so many ideas to work with. But what happens next? Eventually, you need to identify which solutions best fit your business needs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

ESG initiatives can be worthwhile investments not only in bettering the lives of others, but in creating long-term economic value. Yet, social initiatives tend to be difficult to set, and their progress and impact challenging to measure. In a survey of more than 600 companies, a small number of organizations emerged as more advanced in their social strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Consider how Napster, the networked file sharing system, upended the music industry. The emergence of generative AI language models like ChatGPT, has much in common with this Napster-initiated inflection point: a breakthrough technology with breathtakingly fast adoption, appropriation of other people’s data (OPD), and predictions of doom and obsolescence.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The announcement of the winner was made during the closing ceremony held at the Museum of the Future in Dubai on November 20, 2023.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A leader must learn how to respond to negative feedback from her team.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innov8rs | Innovation is undergoing a tectonic shift. As AI advances, we find ourselves heading towards a new era — one where innovation is not just constant but autonomous, as Board of Innovation's founder Philip de Ridder explains below. From Design Thinking to Autonomous Innovation In the 1990s, design thinking emerged, prioritizing empathy and iterative prototyping for user-centric solutions.

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Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

How several women got a seat, learned the ropes, and hit their stride.

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CMOE

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Executive Presence is the ability and skill to speak with confidence and inspire confidence in others. Having executive presence is not only important when you are actively leading your team, but also in any situation where you need to convey your leadership capabilities. Through your executive presence, you will seek to show team members and stakeholders that you are capable, reliable, trustworthy, and someone that others will want to follow.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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Planview

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

We’re excited to share the backstory behind Planview Roadmaps, one of the newest enhancements we’ve built into the Planview Platform. This new era of roadmapping transfers the usefulness of having a visual representation of a plan from product managers to anyone in your organization. In this post, you’ll learn: Why we’ve added roadmapping capabilities to the Planview Platform Why roadmapping capabilities are particularly valuable for Agile organizations How roadmapping can be useful to PMO leade

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Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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Wellspring

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

ChatGPT was released about a year ago, and conversations around how this new AI model would shake the world began. Whether the topic was replacing employee functions, improving efficiency and effectiveness, or providing ease for everyday activities, the world predicted ChatGPT had a lot of potential, which is now proving to be the case. ChatGPT can benefit nearly every industry in one way or another, granted the tool cannot, or has not, entirely replaced the continued need for human labor in mos

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Brunner

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Tony Ezell strode to the ANA conference stage and posed a provocative question for marketers: “Are B2C and B2B marketing and brand evolution really any different?” Ezell , executive vice president of North America and chief marketing officer of Becton, Dickinson and Company , delivered a resounding “no” in his presentation at the ANA’s Masters of Marketing event last month in Orlando.

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Power of Bottom-Up Systems in Organizational Success In the dynamic landscape of modern business, the success of an organization is heavily influenced by its management style and approach to goal setting. The traditional top-down management paradigm, characterized by directives flowing from the top echelons to the grassroots, is undergoing a significant transformation.

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Innov8rs

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Innov8rs | During an economic crisis, funding dries up, and innovation tanks. At the same time, a crisis presents organizations with unique conditions for innovation. As long as innovation teams have a strategic approach to solving old problems with new solutions, organizations can expect to not only survive but also thrive. Tendayi Viki, Associate Partner at Strategyzer, took the stage at Innov8rs Lisbon earlier this year, to share how we and our innovation teams can help our organizations navi

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Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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