IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Innovation isn’t a miracle. It’s not the product of a lone genius sitting in a garage or a serendipitous moment where someone trips over a breakthrough idea. It’s a process—a structure. And like a three-legged stool, it needs balance to stand. Without all three legs, innovation collapses.
CMOE
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Recently, generative AI (gen AI) has become more than just a fascinating tool or pastime but has established itself as a viable technology used to increase productivity, deliver improved customer experiences, broaden innovation, and ultimately contribute to organizational success and competitiveness. Some might argue AI is the latest industrial revolution.
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Daniel Burrus
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
As we approach 2025, the convergence of emerging technologies is reshaping business, industry, and everyday life. Drawing insights from my Tech Trends Report for 2025 , here’s a preview of the critical technology shifts that promise to drive exponential growth and innovation. This article highlights key trends, how they intersect, and how businesses and professionals can stay ahead.
Cris Beswick
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
While many companies proudly display values like “Innovation” and “Excellence” on their walls, few successfully translate these aspirational concepts into meaningful cultural change. The key to building an influential innovation-led culture lies not in proclamations but in embedding behaviours that support creative problem-solving and breakthrough thinking throughout the organisation.
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Planview
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
In October 2024, Planview sponsored the first Project to Product Summit (and it won’t be the last). But in case you can’t wait until next year’s event, we’re sharing some of the key content to catch up on. In these sessions, speakers from FedEx, Nationwide, Spotify, Vanguard, Verizon, and Planview described their journeys, shared the roadblocks they encountered, and laid out the strategies they developed for the project-to-product shift.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If you use fewer natural resources, your product costs less. If you use recycled materials, your product costs less. If you use less electricity, your product costs less. If you use less water to make your product, your product costs less.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Tullio Siragusa
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
The Future of Work: Building Ethical, Sustainable Organizations Through Self-Management In today’s business environment, where innovation often outpaces ethics, the need for sustainable, human-centered models of leadership is more critical than ever. On The Bliss Business Podcast , Doug Kirkpatrick, a renowned advocate for self-management and ethical leadership, presented a compelling vision of the future of work — one that is rooted in autonomy, accountability, and a deep respect for the human
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Every groundbreaking innovation begins as an idea, but not every idea is destined for success. In fact, studies suggest that up to 42% of failed innovations stem from a lack of market need. This stark reality underscores the importance of idea validation—a critical step that ensures organizations prioritize the right ideas before committing valuable time, resources, and budget.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell On July 16th, 1945, when the world’s first nuclear explosion shook the plains of New Mexico, the leader of the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted from the Bhagavad Gita, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Michael Roberto
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Have you ever become incredibly stressed and anxious after receiving negative feedback? Have you spent more time worrying than actually addressing the corrective actions you might take in light of the criticism? David Rock and Chris Weller have written a useful article for Fast Company about coping with negative feedback. They offer some helpful tips.
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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.
innosabi Innovation Insights
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Let’s face it, today’s business world moves fast. To stay ahead of the curve, you need a smart strategy for managing your innovation projects. And that’s where innovation portfolio management comes in. By strategically managing a diverse range of innovation initiatives, businesses can maximize their impact and ensure sustainable growth.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Extensive research has indicated the benefits of showing gratitude to those around you, including your colleagues or employees. However, a new study suggests that the timing of these expressions can make a big difference. Through two experiments and an analysis of a top hospital’s intensive care units, researchers found that when you express gratitude to others before they engage in a distressing task it helps counteract some of the negative emotions associated with the task.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Wisdom from the Waters GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Once upon a time, in a lush forest, there lived a colony of industrious beavers known far and wide for their magnificent dams, which provided shelter and sustenance for many.
Michael Roberto
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
In this interview, Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky argues against the use of recurring one-on-one meetings between leader and team member. Here is an excerpt: I don't believe in one-on ones and almost no great CEO in history has ever done them. the one-on-one model is flawed it's a recurring one hour one-on-one meeting where the employee owns the agenda and what happens is they often don't talk about the things you want to talk about.
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
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Balancing a variety of innovation projects, all competing for resources, is a key challenge for organizations today. While every project has potential, not all of them align equally with strategic goals or promise the same return on investment (ROI). This is where a structured innovation portfolio management process becomes invaluable. Through a systematic approach, innovation portfolio management helps businesses prioritize high-impact ideas, effectively allocate resources, and strategically ma
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Leaders and companies everywhere recognize the transformative potential that AI holds for their business — but very few of them have a systematic plan for how to experiment with and adopt AI at scale. In this article, John Winsor offers one, based on the successful work that he and Jin Paik have done in recent years helping companies experiment with and adopt digital-talent platforms at scale.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell The practice of change management is a relatively young discipline. It got its start in 1983, when a McKinsey consultant Julien Phillips published a paper in the journal, Human Resource Management.
Carla Johnson
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
November 19, 2024 I was standing in line to board my flight from Denver to Nashville when I overheard two women executives debating their company’s latest challenge. “We need creative thinkers to solve this supply chain mess!” one insisted. “No,” the other countered, “we need critical thinkers to analyze the data.
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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.
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Innovation is the backbone of growth for large enterprises, but turning fresh ideas into actionable solutions is often a complex and resource-intensive process. For organizations seeking to develop these ideas with lower risk and higher efficiency, innovation incubators have become an essential strategy. Far beyond traditional R&D, innovation incubators provide a structured environment that nurtures early-stage concepts, offering the resources, guidance, and framework necessary to bring grou
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Organizations are still learning how to think about games as media for marketing. Games aren’t typically covered in marketing classes in business schools, and they are often still seen as fundamentally different from other media. Modern-day games offer companies varied opportunities to connect with new and hard-to-reach customers, drive brand awareness and loyalty, and acquire and retain new customers.
Innovators Alliance
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
As Founder and Chief Experience Officer at Roll Out Innovation (ROI), Deborah leverages data analysis, talent development, team effectiveness and innovation to break down barriers, bridge gaps, increase emotional intelligence and drive sales. ROI is a sales and leadership training consultancy serving small and medium-sized businesses. IA: Tell us about yourself and your entrepreneurial journey in a few sentences.
eZassi
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Idea Management: The Strategic Competitive Edge for Transformative Innovation It is undeniable that innovation is likely the single-most impactful means of staying ahead of the competition. However, generating innovative ideas and turning them into actionable solutions requires more than just creative thinking—it demands effective management of ideas, collaboration, and alignment with strategic goals.
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.
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Discover how to future-proof your innovation process with cutting-edge AI solutions in our upcoming webinar, when we'll be joined by Matthijs Rosman of growth specialists RevelX. Drawing on extensive experience with enterprise clients, we’ll explore how to build an AI-driven innovation process designed for the challenges and opportunities of 2025.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Currently, inefficiencies in healthcare practices can frustrate patients and lead to unnecessary pre-surgical tests or boilerplate after-visit instructions, among other issues. Personalized health care is a promising fix, but needs smart processes using automation and AI tools to reach its potential. Steps toward this goal include ensuring that the right building blocks are in place, and then focusing on high-volume, high-impact processes and the gathering of quality data through consistent proc
Acuvate
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Over the last decade, the business intelligence world has transformed in several ways. Data exploded and was recognized as the new oil. Organizations understood the value of data and shifted from simple spreadsheets to interactive BI dashboards and visualizations. We also witnessed several challenges including transforming data into actionable insights, ensuring data quality, being compliant with emerging regulations like GDPR and shortage of talent.
Digital Tonto
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
We often see events as decisive. A road forks and it feels like our fate has been set. Yet that’s rarely ever true. There will be more forks ahead that represent new possibilities. When times seem bleak, it’s crucial to remember this and focus on preparing for those future moments, so you’re ready to seize the opportunities they bring. I remember moving to Poland in 1997, shortly after the Berlin Wall had fallen.
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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.
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
In this webinar we showcase the power of our new and improved Q-scout technology scouting software. With the launch of our AI-enhanced startup research, you can now easily manage a process to commercialize solutions and technologies from a network of over 500K startups from across the globe.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Organizations today face the challenge of using generative AI without falling prey to its drawbacks. Many companies have employed two basic layers of risk management strategies: policies on how to use the technology, and critical thinking about gen AI’s outputs. Companies should also adopt a novel third layer of risk management: team-based judgment.
Acuvate
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Over the last decade, the business intelligence world has transformed in several ways. Data exploded and was recognized as the new oil. Organizations understood the value of data and shifted from simple spreadsheets to interactive BI dashboards and visualizations. We also witnessed several challenges including transforming data into actionable insights, ensuring data quality, being compliant with emerging regulations like GDPR and shortage of talent.
Destination Innovation
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
The resistance to new ideas is one of humanity’s most fascinating paradoxes – we’re a species that thrives on innovation, yet we’re remarkably good at resisting change, This resistance isn’t just an interesting quirk; it has profound implications for our progress and well-being. Think about life-saving medical treatments that faced years of skepticism, or environmental solutions currently being resisted despite clear evidence of their need.
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