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Agile vs Waterfall: what are the differences?

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This is a choice that defines how the production of a software application will be managed, the resources that will be needed, among other things. Scoring the differences between the two approaches is a good start. And that is precisely what we propose in this article. Keep reading to know them in detail and make the best choice! The Waterfall model and its peculiarities.

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Transforming Corporate Culture with Innovation Practices

Viima

The most innovative companies are usually lauded for their great culture, and for a reason.

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How to assess your company’s level of innovation

Board of Innovation

An innovation audit of your organization is the first place to start when renewing your innovation strategy. Here's how we carry out our innovation assessment to measure your success. The post How to assess your company’s level of innovation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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The Power and Threat of Disconnecting Can Impact Innovation - Do Our Voices Matter?

HYPE Innovation

We are caught up in a polarizing world. Technology is either thrilling or frightening. Robots, automation, and intelligent systems can take over thousands of jobs (and are already taking over in some sectors). The need for large parts of our working population to begin the long, hard, and painful journey of re-skilling to become more digitally savvy is daunting for many.

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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 Require A Shift of Innovation Management Solution Providers

Paul Hobcraft

There is still a real reluctance that the supplier of innovation software solutions has to change. They have had a model of a constant growth success for years but it is getting harder as the market is fragmenting and looking for greater flexibility within the range of solutions. I think with the recognition that innovation occurs across the whole organization the innovation management (IM) providers have to radically alter their business model or recognize they need to broaden out their target

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Unique Ways Successful Startups are Changing the Corporate Innovation Landscape

Idea to Value

The word ‘corporate innovation’ is becoming an increasingly popular buzzword, but for the most forward-thinking companies, it represents the future of the business and a significant spend on research and development. There is a misconception that corporate innovation is simply innovation in a corporate environment when in truth it is a much more involved process.

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Reap a Competitive Advantage with Effective Business Model Innovation

IdeaScale

Business model innovation is a fundamental restructuring of the beliefs that underlie existing ways that businesses create value. To a greater extent than product innovation, business model innovation forces rethinking of core beliefs about how businesses operate. In other words, business model innovation can be disruptive, toppling long-held beliefs about how customers get what they want.

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The Retail Business Is Dead. Long Live The Retail Business!

Innovation Excellence

It’s long been conventional wisdom that the retail industry is dying. We’ve seen unprecedented store closings and bankruptcies at major chains such as Toys R US, Sears and Radio Shack and even successful chains are trimming locations. It seems that in a digital world, physical stores have become a thing of the past. Yet if.

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How this innovative yet simple drone delivers blood in rural Africa

Idea to Value

Amazon may be testing drone delivery for everything from phone cases to toilet paper, but it isn’t delivering the lifesaving material that Zipline is in Africa: Blood. Blood transfusions are vital for savings lives. In fact, blood transfusions are the most common procedure performed in hospitals, required for everything from surgery, emergency trauma and childbirth.

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4 Myths About Driving Large-Scale Change

Digital Tonto

Every successful journey begins not with answers, but with questions Related posts: If You Want To Change The World, You Need To Start With A Keystone Change. 4 Ways To Empower Change In Your. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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What Does Healthcare Innovation Entail?

IdeaScale

We live in an age of technological innovation, and one of the biggest beneficiaries of new technologies has been the healthcare industry. New technologies make both patient services and back-office practices faster and more accurate. Advances in diagnostic and treatment technologies are revolutionizing how healthcare is delivered. Innovations for 2019 alone (as listed by the Cleveland Clinic ) range from exciting to mind-boggling and include: Alternative pain therapies.

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Agile Leadership

Innovation Excellence

When I started working at KLM in my first ever job as a team leader I made every mistake I see beginning leaders make. I did the work, instead of helping others to do it. I told people what to do and how to do it, instead of focussing on purpose and main goals. I.

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Why machines that bend (compliant mechanisms) may be the future

Idea to Value

In the video above, Dr Derek Mueller from Veritasium takes us into the world of compliant mechanisms. What are compliant mechanisms? In mechanical engineering, compliant mechanisms are flexible mechanisms that transfer an input force and displacement at one port to an output force and displacement at another port through elastic body deformation. These may be monolithic (single-piece) or jointless structures.

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5 Tips to Drive Innovation in Your Small Business

InnovationManagement

It’s a fast-paced business world out there where innovation is the name of the game and a powerful tactic that ensures long-term success. After all, if your company is not innovating and reinventing its processes across the board, then you’re falling behind.

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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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Transform Your Organization with Process Innovation

IdeaScale

Process innovation is perhaps the “classic” form of innovation. Finding a better way of accomplishing necessary business tasks is low-risk, can lead to other types of innovations, and helps companies maintain and sharpen their competitive edge. Processes must evolve with changes in markets and technologies. Process innovation ensures that it does so effectively.

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Intrapreneurship at Pernod-Ricard: test and learn in action

Innovation Excellence

Astrid Froment created Kangaroo Fund, an open innovation Fund for the 18,000 Pernod Ricard Employees, and an intrapreneurship program adopting experimentation & lean Start Up. In 2 seasons, it generated more than 250 ideas, 20 finalists, and 10 ideas incubated… She shares with us this exciting story. Following my article on “Dare to be difference makers”, I.

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Technology and sustainability optimism

Norbert Bol

Innovative sustainable technology is considered to be positively contributing to sustainability. For example where new technologies are able to solve climate change problems providing clean energy solutions. Gonella et al. (2019) show in their article that we often have a too optimistic view on technology and sustainability. The question can be raised if it is true that new sustainable technology always have the purpose to serve the cause of sustainability?

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Innovation Management and Unlocking Your Inner Child

InnovationManagement

As someone that has worked in innovation for much of their career, witnessing over the past few years how innovation and idea management has moved more centre-stage in the business world has been really gratifying.

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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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Identifying and Engaging Key Stakeholders to Get an Innovation Initiative Prioritized

Moves the Needle

In any organization, most of the projects you work on will involve multiple stakeholders, each one possessing the ability to impact the progression of a project, whether for better or for worse. And with regard to innovation coaching, while stakeholders may not be the ones leading the initiative, their feedback can be an extremely important driving force throughout a project.

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We need MD/MBEs not MD/MBAs

Innovation Excellence

In my view, we are training too many MD/MBAs that don’t add value to the system and that many programs should be terminated or restructured. Also, more medical students are jumping ship to pursue non-clinical careers. While the numbers may a small portion of the roughly 20,000 first year US medical students, the trend is evident.

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Dance of the Corporate Innovators

The Inovo Group

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. – Friedrich Nietzsche. Thirty years ago, James March [ 1 ] wrote about the tension between the Exploration vs. Exploitation imperatives of large companies. In 2017, Innovation Leader published the results of a survey on Innovation Teams and Business Units: Allies or Adversaries [ 2 ].

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Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace – the Leadership Challenge

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Technological disruptions are defining this era of rapid business transformation and driving a set of deep rooted questions about the future of work, the implications for organizations, management and employees and how we can navigate to the ‘next horizon’.

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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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The Scrum Team of Money Heist

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We’ll also see how a Scrum Team works, its characteristics and how it resembles the team from Money Heist. Just like in a Scrum project, it all starts with a plan that aims to deliver a product. In the series, this product consists of entering the Spanish Mint and staying there just long enough to print a huge amount of money. This product was created by the PO (Product Owner), who in the program is the character known as “The Professor” We’ll talk about him in more detail late

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Attacking the Problem of Doctor Burnout

Innovation Excellence

The IHI Triple Aim is to lower per capita costs, improve the quality of outcomes and improve the patient experience.Add the doctor experience and you have the quadruple ain. Some patient engagement and experience experts say there are 5 steps to making it happen: 1. Establish vision 2.Create a culture of engagement 3. Employ the right.

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How to pick the best pitch: a tool for executives

Board of Innovation

We've created a new tool so that the executive panel evaluates ideas based on the best criteria, and pitching teams have a cheat sheet to prepare. The post How to pick the best pitch: a tool for executives appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Shifting Innovation Perspectives for 2019

Cris Beswick

Three years ago Derek Bishop, Jo Geraghty and I published our book, Building a Culture of Innovation. [1] The book was inspired by, and written for, all of those leaders who understood that in order to thrive in today’s global marketplace they needed to set innovation as a capability at the heart of their culture but … Continued. The post Shifting Innovation Perspectives for 2019 appeared first on Cris Beswick.

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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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Chaos Precedes Creativity | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Which type of brainstorming is more effective; fair idea exchange in a structured environment or a random, unplanned debate?

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Ideation Pitfalls Part 2: The Not Normal Issue

Innovation Excellence

It may surprise you to learn that you and your team are not the best people to be judging potential innovations generated at the ideation stage. Why? So, I hate to be the one to tell you…but you, and many people in your business, are not normal! The Not Normal Issue Just in the.

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Decide to Keep or Push Out Customers

Beyond the Obvious

We tend to assume that any customer is a good customer. However, if you find that you’re working like crazy and have a solid and reliable customer base, but you’re still not making the profits you expected, then ask the Killer Question, Who do I not want to use my product? Do you remember back […].

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The State of Crowdsourced Innovation in 2019

InnovationManagement

Looking to the crowd for knowledge isn’t a new concept. The Sydney Opera House was the result of an open call for designs to a global community (to which 233 people submitted ideas) and the now-iconic building was selected from amongst them.

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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.