Sat.Aug 27, 2022 - Fri.Sep 02, 2022

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Keeping Organizational Innovation Alive

IdeaScale

Pleased with your current team’s ability to innovate and work together? Perfect! Now, it’s time to take a proactive approach to maintaining their bond, creativity, and curiosity. Keeping innovation alive requires a mix of ongoing team building and group and individual skills building. Below are a few options to explore. Create or Revise Your Team [.].

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Trust the Customers, Not the Experts

Destination Innovation

Rob Law and Trunki. Rob Law studied Product Design at Northumbria University. One of his course assignments in 1997 was to come up with a new design for luggage. He did some research by going to a local department store. He wandered around the suitcase section and found no inspiration but when he went into the toy department, he had a brainwave. Why not make a piece of luggage which was also a ride-on toy for children?

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6 Simple Growth Hacks for Startups

Leapfrogging

Building a new business is tough. These strategies will help your startup succeed without a big investment. As many of my readers know, I usually write about strategy , innovation , and leadership. But recently I’ve been asked a lot about how I helped establish Praxie.com as a destination website for hundreds of best practice digital tools and templates using growth hacking strategies.

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Gaining energy and idea generation

Paul Hobcraft

Gaining energy and idea generation. I have been asking myself how a combined effect of innovation and ecosystem design thinking will support the energy transition we are undertaking to give it additional traction and generation. Let me share my thoughts and proposition here. The vital “infusion” of innovation in thinking, approaching and building this into the front end of any energy transition provides a greater discovery structure and process that can greatly facilitate the changes, with more

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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We Need To Get Back To Counting What Counts

Digital Tonto

The statistician George Box famously said, ““All models are wrong, but some are useful” and that’s especially true of economic models. When Ronald Coase argued that the “nature of a firm” was to reduce transaction costs, he didn’t mean that was the only purpose of an enterprise. To argue that there is a principal-agent problem between owners and managers should not imply that it only applies to profits.

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6 Ways to Leverage Virtual Tools to Create an Innovation Culture

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Soren Kaplan Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Shape it to get more innovation, even from your remote workforce. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. We’re seeing a sea change […].

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9 Continuous Improvement Methodologies & Tools

Viima

Not all change leads to improvement, but to improve anything, you need to bring about change. Usually, that’s easier said than done. Greatly enduring organizations have survived over the years through continuous improvement and incremental innovations. What does it take to bring about improvements in a systematic and structured way? Besides the right mindset, culture, and capabilities, you need methodologies and tools to fuel and maintain these improvements.

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The CHIPS Act was a good start—now we can take these three steps to further supercharge innovation

Wellspring

The U.S. will need to build the deepest possible talent base, and then clear the way for that talent to do its best possible work. This article was originally published on Fast Company.

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The surprising link between curiosity and Dopamine

Idea to Value

For years, I have been wondering about how curiosity evolved. It may be a silly question. After all, curiosity brings all sorts of benefits, especially when it comes to making us more creative. But if you look back millions and billions of years to when the first life was evolving, there was real danger to being curious. If you were an animal and you had everything you needed in your immediate surroundings (food, shelter and ability to reproduce), then why would you risk moving away from this sa

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How Every Team Member Can Contribute Their Part to Brainstorming Sessions

IdeaScale

Highlights Especially in hybrid work and the asynchronous workplace across time zones, getting everyone on the same page at a meeting can be difficult. Proper timing, interactive exercises, friendly debates, and both active and passive comments can help teams be more creative. Don’t forget to ask your team what else they can use to be [.].

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The Benefits of Innovation in Times of Crisis

Innovation is key to overcoming crises. This guide outlines how businesses can navigate uncertainty by adapting strategies, embracing open innovation, and strengthening resilience. Learn how to reassess business models, engage external expertise, and build a robust innovation ecosystem. Explore the three phases of crisis response—from immediate adaptation to long-term transformation—and discover how collaboration accelerates progress while reducing costs.

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3 Ways to Get Customer Insights without Talking to Customers

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Most of my advice to leaders who want to use innovation to grow their businesses boils down to two things*: Talk (and listen) to customers Do something But what if you don’t want to talk to customers? After all, talking to customers can be scary because you don’t know what […].

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How product managers can pull organizations out of the ‘feature factory’ trap with the right tools

Sopheon

When features become more important than innovative new products, make sure you let product managers lead. To do so, they’ll need the right product management solutions. The post How product managers can pull organizations out of the ‘feature factory’ trap with the right tools appeared first on Sopheon.

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How your mental filter may be making you less creative

Idea to Value

When it comes to getting creative work done, sometimes your brain needs to shut out external information in order to focus. This is especially true for information which your brain previously noticed but deemed unimportant, and so begins to ignore. Examples of this include you not seeing the outline of your nose in front of your eyes, not feeling the weight of your clothes on your skin or not noticing the sound of the airconditioning in the room.

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5 Ideation Objectives

eZassi

Top 5 Ideation Objectives for Innovation [Infographic]. Both a Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Linus Pauling believed, “The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas… get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”. Build your Innovation Portfolio on the best ideas captured through Ideation. For innovative and creative organizations, the challenge is not a lack of good ideas, but no effective system in place to review, score, catalog and process

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Driving the Next Era of Growth: Leveraging Data to Innovate

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Teresa Spangler “50% of US executives and 39% of European executives said budget constraints were the primary hurdle in turning Big Data into a profitable business asset. Rounding out the top 5 challenges were data security concerns, integration challenges, lack of technical expertise, and proliferation of data silos.” (Capgemini) “The biggest challenges […].

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How Continuous Improvement Software Keeps CI Projects Organized

Kainexus

Organizations striving to reach operational excellence through continuous improvement engage in many individual projects to achieve this goal. However, the most successful organizations implement a structured approach for managing their improvement work so that every person in the organization can contribute to positive change. Specialized continuous improvement project management software helps organizations dedicated to CI get the most out of each project.

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Disruption Is Alive And Well, From Dairy To Hearing Aids To EVs

Bill Fischer

Disruption is alive and well and posing a considerable threat to formerly successful, incumbent market-leaders in electric vehicles, dairy products and hearing aids. Time to disrupt has sped-up, and disruption is no longer exclusively for lower-price entrants.

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Still skeptical about mastery-based learning? Here’s a better way of looking at what it is and does.

Christensen Institute

It’s easy to get excited about the virtues of mastery, or competency-based, learning. What’s not to like about a system that guarantees that students learn, as opposed to one that is focused on the amount of time students sit in seats? My new book, From Reopen to Reinvent , makes a full-throated plea for more K-12 schools to adopt mastery-based learning, in which students only move on from a concept once they demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills at hand.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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How to Solve Transparent Problems

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski One of the best problems to solve for your customers is the problem they don’t know they have. If you can pull it off, you will create an entirely new value proposition for them and enable them to do things they cannot do today. But the problem is they can’t […].

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Follow The Leader: Arif Alawi, CEO, Dubai Cultiv8

Entrepreneur - Innovation

As the CEO of Dubai Cultiv8, Alawi is responsible for developing the entity's overarching business plan, while also ensuring it encourages and attracts international entrepreneurs to set up and expand their businesses in the Emirate by offering relevant funding and services.

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Will Augmented and Virtual Reality increase our Empathy or erase it?

IdeaSpies

Glenn Cantave is an African American activist.

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How to Set Up Agile Innovation Portfolios Using ITONICS

ITONICS

Radical or incremental? New products or improved processes? CIOs leading innovation are mandated to strike a balance between quick wins and moonshots.

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Campaigns that Click: Practical Personalization Strategies to Boost ROI

Speaker: Jennifer Hodroge, Omni-Channel Strategic Leader, Forrester CX Certified

Marketers know that personalization is the key to engagement—but with limited budgets and time, how do you prioritize what, where, and how to personalize? Aligning your content, campaigns, and buyer experiences requires a deep understanding of customer needs. In this new webinar with expert Jennifer Hodroge, we’ll explore how to leverage insights and customer journey mapping to build personalization strategies that deliver real impact.

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Unlocking the Power of Cause and Effect

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2011, IBM’s Watson system beat the best human players in the game show, Jeopardy! Since then, machines have shown that they can outperform skilled professionals in everything from basic legal work to diagnosing breast cancer. It seems that machines just get smarter and smarter all the time. Yet that […].

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16 Startups Selected For Abu Dhabi-Based Incubator Hub71's Second Cohort Of 2022

Entrepreneur - Innovation

This group of 16 pre-seed, seed, and Series-A startups has already raised over US$67 million, collectively.

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Best Practices are Stupid

Stephen Shapiro

I previously started posting the 40 strategies from my Best Practices are Stupid book. But I completely forgot to include the introduction. So I am going back to that for this post. As you read this and the other chapters, please remember that this book was published back in 2011. Although the principles remain the same, some aspects have evolved since then.

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A different approach to Digital Security for Board Directors and CEOs

IdeaSpies

Board directors and CEOs cannot afford to ignore issues of Privacy, Data breaches and Cyber-attacks in their organisations.

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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Laddering Up Your Career Portfolio

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. A career used to describe your roles in one company throughout your working life, like a career at Monsanto, Deloitte, a university or IBM. But, the workplace and generational attitudes have changed, along with a prolonged life expectancy, so careers now mean something different. Now, a career includes all […].

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Verifiable Credentials and the Blockchain

Acuvate

With a greater emphasis on online interactions and digital business, identity management has become a critical global challenge worldwide. Physical credential documents can be easily tampered with; there is no way to separate the real from the fake. Moreover, verifying the authenticity of digital identity has also become difficult. People have become adept at making fake certificates or altering PDFs to create fake IDs.

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New epidemic, same problem

Christensen Institute

A mere two years after COVID-19 shut down the country, we were slammed with another public health concern: monkeypox. As of mid-August, there were 14,115 confirmed cases of monkeypox in the US. While the disease burden is not nearly to the same scale as that of COVID-19, the global spread of monkeypox is enough for the WHO to have it declared a global health emergency —the second in two years. .

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How to prioritize projects: the 2 principles businesses ignore

Cascade Strategy

Project prioritization is more than just resource allocation.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.