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2022: Surviving Change

Digital Tonto

Marshal McLuhan, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, described media as “extensions of man” and predicted that electronic media would eventually lead to a global village. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Problems In Need Of Solving: Where To Start?

Phil McKinney

Why do innovators focus time and energy on developing solutions before they've identified the problem? Innovation starts by spending time to understand the problem before solving the problem. What Are Problems? The dictionary defines the word problem as a state of discord or disharmony involving doubt, uncertainty, or difficulty. A problem is a question that […].

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These companies failed because leaders did not want to hear bad news: The Ostrich Effect

Idea to Value

Have you ever worked for a manager or boss who did not want to hear bad news? They might say things like “Don’t come to me with problems, come to me with solutions!” Or they might get aggressive if they find out performance is not what they want it to be. I once had a manager who I was working with on a money-raising program. We had a target to hit, and I was responsible for producing the reporting for the rest of the leadership team (of which he was one), but as time went on i

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Building the use of the innovation work mat as a compelling business case

Paul Hobcraft

The Executive Innovation Work Mat as a compelling business case. After a series of conversations around the Executive Innovation work mat, Jeffrey Phillips and I decided there was a need to add one more to the series, one that makes the business case for the work mat, one that is more from the leaders perspective. In this video conversation of around 13 minutes , we explore why the leadership of organizations needs to get deeply involved in the innovation activity.

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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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Designing experiments to alleviate behavioral biases in innovation

Board of Innovation

Experimentation is a key component of any innovation validation track, regardless of industry, goal, and even budgets. The goal of experimentation is to validate or (in)validate assumptions that we have about the task at hand - be it a new concept, a consumer segment, or a business model. Innovation validation helps lower the risk of our innovation processes, and allows for informed decision making as we move forward.

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How Has Innovation Created a Private Space Race?

IdeaScale

Overview : Sending people and objects into space was once so expensive, only a handful of governments could do it. The global push to develop a private space industry was both driven by innovation and drives innovation in both the private and public sectors in turn. The Promise of Space. Between 1960 and 1973, when NASA achieved its mission to put an American on the Moon, the agency spent $280 billion in 2020 dollars , over $9 billion for every launch in that time period.

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TRANSFERRING IDEAS FROM ONE DOMAIN TO ANOTHER

Michael Michalko

Like a spark that jumps across a gap, an idea from one world is used to create a new idea or creative solution to a problem in another world. Bell’s engineers modeled their telephone network after the human being’s self-healing circulation system. If there is a problem with the human being’s circulatory system, the circulation will go around it.

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Society 2045’s Wealth Creation

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Wealth Creation. Today we are living in a world with a major wealth gap among people. What if we collectively worked towards eliminating and reducing the wealth gap? Financially secure people can do a lot to enable this and contribute to humankind’s needs. A well-organized initiative in this respect can make a big difference. We can try our best to reach out and make the world a better place for all, by helping everyone achieve wealth.

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IdeaScale Launches a Successful Self-Paced Course on: Excelling at Innovation

IdeaScale

Overview: IdeaScale’s Laszlo Gyorffy M.S., V.P. of Global Services, has developed a self-paced course on excelling at innovation, drawing on his decades of consulting and training expertise. The course focuses on his value-driven approach to innovation, drawing on lessons learned from the CO-STAR methodology he helped develop. What Is A Self-Paced Course?

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Neuroplasticity, and how your brain is able to continue developing as you grow older

Idea to Value

A lot of people are scared by the information that creativity appears to decrease as we get older. This often combines with their own experience as to how much harder it appears to be to learn new things compared to when you were a child, whether it be a language, academic skills or even new physical skills. Recent research has even shown us that the adolescent brain does not finish developing until we are about 25 years old.

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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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5 Trends That Will Help Your EdTech Startup Thrive in 2022

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Shorten, customize and gamify if you want to survive in the future of education and self-development.

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Sickcare Digital Transformation Playbook

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers First there was the Great Recession. Then came the Great Resignation. Now we are facing the Great Digital Transformation, i.e. how do businesses win the 4th industrial revolution?

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Interdisciplinary Innovation: Being Innovative is a Way of Imagining, Perceiving, Expressing, Inventing & Inspiring

InnovationManagement

Innovators present creatively disruptive traits, disrupt old ways, and inspire better ways to do things. They are passionate to connect, to learn, and to explore by understanding commonalities and appreciating uniqueness. Being innovative is a growth mindset and a proactive attitude. You cannot wait for something to happen keep curious, always think profoundly, learn fresh knowledge, and acquire new capabilities.

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Teachers don’t realise they don’t like creative students

Idea to Value

Every school will tell its students and teachers that they aim to promote creativity in their classrooms. What their teachers might however not be aware of is that, in practice, they don’t actually want their students to be creative. Might it be possible that even though teachers think that they are encouraging their students to be creative, that their actions and behaviour actually discourage creativity in their classrooms?

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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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How to Build Sustainable Communications as a Startup

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Want to build a sustainable communications program that drives long-term growth? Look no further than this article!

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Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021

Innovation Excellence

After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021: Janet Sernack Janet Sernack is … Continue reading →

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B2B Idea Management Starts With Customer Challenges, Not Light Bulb Moments

Sopheon

Keeping customer needs at the center of product development is the key to consistent, repeatable innovation. The post B2B Idea Management Starts With Customer Challenges, Not Light Bulb Moments appeared first on Sopheon.

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Podcast S6E145: Michael Lee – Innovation is all around us

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Michael Lee, SVP of Strategy at Innovation Minds and the only internationally certified Creativity and Innovation Coach in the world. We speak about his views on what innovation is, how it is all around us, and how to unlock it in your teams. Topics covered in this episode: 00:04:30 – Michael’s history teaching Creativity from The Artist’s Way , through Flow and finding his own system. 00:08:00 – How

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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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What is Lean Process Management and How is it Applied?

Kainexus

Lean process management is a method for building a company culture that supports continuous improvement. It involves a long-term approach to daily work that encourages small, incremental changes in process operations to improve quality and efficiency. The primary objective of Lean process improvement is to create value for the customer by optimizing resources and creating an uninterrupted workflow based on near real-time customer demands.

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Developing 21st-Century Leader and Team Superpowers

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack According to McKinsey & Co, in a recent article The new roles of leaders in 21st-century organizations they say that the focus of leaders, in traditional organisations, is to maximize value for shareholders.

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Seven Lessons From Squid Game For Your Innovation Program

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on Forbes. Chances are you’ve been swept up by the Squid Game craze that’s taken the streaming world by storm. As someone who’s plugged into innovation, I just couldn’t help but wonder: What if you could “squid game” your innovation program? An innovation program is an organizational discipline that drives more predictable and sustainable results from your innovation investments.

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4 Ways to Drive Internal Innovation and Unleash Employees' Entrepreneurial Side

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Organizations that adopt a culture of restless innovation among staff members inspire passion, and inevitably operate at an advantage.

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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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What is a Business Process Improvement Methodology?

Kainexus

Business process improvement is a management practice that helps leaders leverage several tools and techniques to analyze their processes and uncover areas where improvement in accuracy, quality, and efficiency can be achieved. The leaders then work with process operators to redesign those processes to improve productivity and gain the expected improvements.

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Entrepreneurs Must Think Like a Change Leader

Innovation Excellence

Some entrepreneurs start a business because they want to be their own boss doing something they understand.

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A Truly Extraordinary Leader Takes a Profit and Leaves a Mark

Daniel Burrus

What defines an extraordinary individual? To you, is that someone who saves lives, like a doctor or first responder? How about an entrepreneur who completely transforms our lives for the better, like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk? Maybe it is something much simpler than that, such as a friend or neighbor coming through for you and clearing off your driveway when your snowblower won’t start.

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Is Innovation the Secret to Adapting to the Regenerative Future?

InnovationManagement

The inevitable changes ahead for our industries and for our way of life are just as profound as they were in previous shifts in eras. The Climate Action Sweepstakes is committed to supporting efforts that help companies step into the early days of the Regenerative Era with clarity, courage and maximum positive impact by leveraging the power of their employee network.

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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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Fighting Decision Fatigue

Michael Roberto

Source: Discover Magazine Rachel Feintzeig has written a Wall Street Journal article this week titled " Decision Fatigue is Real: Here's How to Beat it This Year." The article notes that many people are feeling overwhelmed during the pandemic by the sheer number of seemingly consequential decisions they must make, both personally and professionally.

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We Were Wrong About What Drove the 21st Century

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Every era contains a prism of multitudes. World War I gave way to the “Roaring 20s” and a 50-year boom in productivity.

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Innovation Accounting in Practice

IM Insights

By Tristan Kromer & Elijah Eilert. It is not enough to say, “We’re early stage and we shouldn’t focus on a business plan or metrics.” It is not enough to say, “We’re focusing on qualitative data.” And it is certainly not enough to say, “We’ll figure out how to monetize later.”. As an early-stage venture, you don’t need a business plan, but you do need a business model from Day Zero.

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#5: How to Implement Ideas from an Ideation Workshop: Validate and Test the Idea

Flying Fish Lab

If you’ve ever held an ideation workshop, you know how fun it can be when people come up with fantastic ideas and everyone gets excited. And then what comes next? … Crickets. It’s almost like it’s one of the great mysteries in life (or work) – how to implement ideas from an ideation workshop? We mean, how to actually see an idea through from concept all the way through to it being launched as a great product or service.

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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.