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Defy Success and Choose Innovation

Innovation Excellence

Innovation is difficult because it requires novelty. And novelty is difficult because it’s different than last time. And different than last time is difficult because you’ve got to put yourself out there. And putting yourself out there is difficult because no one wants to be judged negatively. Success, no matter how small, reinforces what was.

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Leadership Techniques for Overcoming Resistance to Change

Kainexus

People like to joke that the only things that never change are death and taxes, but that's just not true. If it were, you would never hear things like, "That's just the way we've always done it," and, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Not changing, even if the current situation is rife with workarounds and rework, is more comfortable and less risky than trying something new, so it's no wonder that people push back when leaders try to shake things up.

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Achieving a more dynamic innovating environment

Paul Hobcraft

There is a growing need for having some dynamic tensions within the organization’s innovation system; this helps generate better conditions for innovators to thrive. We are continually learning more about all the different tools, techniques, and approaches available for innovation that will certainly help in putting the learning tensions into our work, making them more dynamic, linked, and increasingly relevant to the work-to-be-done.

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Strategies for Innovating Your Workspaces

InnovationTraining.org

What is the relationship between the places we work and our ability to innovate? From the layout of your office to the business tools you use each day, our work environments play a key role in our ability to think critically and creatively about unexplored avenues for future success. In an age where technology is so wholly integrated with our work processes, many businesses have turned to emerging tech solutions to help them convert their manual, physical workspaces into digital alternatives.

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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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Top 10 Innovation Leader Articles, Podcasts, and Reports: 2019

Innovation Leader

What were the most popular reports, case studies, and resources that the Innovation Leader team produced in 2019? We pulled the data!

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Innovation Hacks: Lessons Learned from Successful Startups

IdeaScale

Why do startups have a head start in innovation? One of the great virtues of startups is that they have to innovate quickly, or they cease to exist. However, you don’t need to be a startup to apply their approaches. Here are some lessons to learn from how startups innovate quickly and turn into established companies. Identify the Problem. Effective startups solve somebody’s problem.

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Strategic Planning For Santa Claus

Cascade Strategy

What Would Strategic Planning For Santa Claus Look Like? As we come to the close of the year, I've been reflecting on all the different clients we’ve worked with on strategy. There's been such a variety of industries, markets and organizations - and it got me thinking about how strategic planning is at the core of most things we do. Even Christmas. So in the holiday spirit I've had a little fun and did some strategic planning for Santa Claus.

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3 Reasons Why Your Brainstorms Suck

Innovation Excellence

Brainstorms are important and an easy way to get everybody together to collaborate, discuss, debate, and ultimately, innovate. But sometimes, you come out of them feeling as if you didn’t get the ideas that you needed, or that the same ideas were being rehashed, or that it was a complete waste of time. So, why.

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Five Reasons You Need Idea Management Software

IdeaScale

Idea management is about working together.?. It’s a challenge every leader must overcome: the suggestion box. It seems so simple; set out a box, some pencils and paper, and let people anonymously contribute ideas. Then comes a flood you can barely manage, or a drought as you struggle to get people to weigh in. Even if you do get viable ideas, how does anybody know they’re being read, let alone being developed?

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How to Use Big Data For Improving Driver Safety

Acuvate

Road traffic accidents claim more than 1.25 million lives a year, which costs most countries about 3% of their GDP and remains the leading cause of death of people between the ages of 15 and 29, a report by World Health Organization (WHO) claims. The WHO has undertaken a mighty initiative to halve the number of deaths and injuries from road traffic crashes by 2020.

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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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How asset-light business models in the energy industry empower consumers

Board of Innovation

The decentralization of the energy industry has led to the birth of new companies with asset-light business models, such as Power2U. The post How asset-light business models in the energy industry empower consumers appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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These 4 Major Shifts Will Drive The 21st Century

Innovation Excellence

In 1900, most people lived much like their ancestors had for millennia. They lived and worked on farms, using animal power and hand tools to augment their own abilities. They inhabited small communities and rarely, if ever, travelled far from home. They engaged in small scale violence and lived short, hard lives. That would all.

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Jessica Day on Intrapreneurs, Ideation, and Innovation

IdeaScale

CEOs and their innovation teams have such power, but focus and direction are necessary to unleash it.?. Innovate or be left behind — that’s the reality of the business world. To that end, many businesses are forming innovation teams and looking to intrapreneurs to jump-start the process and keep it rolling. Jessica Day, vice president of IdeaScale, the largest cloud-based innovation software platform in the world, has some advice about how to find and cultivate intrapreneurs.

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5 Easy Improvement Ideas to Get Ready for 2020

Kainexus

I’m not sure about you, but at this time of the year, I don’t feel like tackling any major new projects. There seem to be a ton of interruptions, people are in and out of the office, and it is just harder to focus with holiday thoughts on the brain. On the other hand, these next couple of weeks present an opportunity to do a few self-contained improvement projects that can tee up 2020 and help you enjoy the holidays knowing you’re ready to rock the new year.

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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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My First Big Failure: 4 Pieces of Advice for Intrapreneurs

Innovation Leader

Dan Seewald, Founder + CEO of Deliberate Innovation and Former Head of Worldwide Innovation at Pfizer, discusses what he learned from the failure of his first startup.

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Which Pace of Change to Align To?

Innovation Excellence

You’ve heard it before – the pace of change is accelerating. I can present all of the technology adoption charts, the fascinating nuggets of data that tell you how quickly different products or technologies were acquired by millions of customers. And so on and so on. You already know this. Change is real, and change.

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Breakthrough Internet of Things Technology Wins 2019 Nokia Open Innovation Challenge

IdeaConnection

A novel technology for drastically reducing energy consumption for Internet of Things devices.

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Employee Engagement in 2020 – Meeting the Needs of Millennials

Kainexus

By the end of next year, Millennials (those born between about 1980 and 2000) are expected to comprise half of the American workforce. By 2025, 75 percent of the global workforce will belong to this group. Many large companies, including Ernst & Young and Accenture, have already reported that Millennials make up over two-thirds of their entire employee base.

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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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Top 10 Innovation Leader Articles and Reports: 2019

Innovation Leader

What were the most popular reports, case studies, and resources that the Innovation Leader team produced in 2019? We pulled the data!

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That Department

Innovation Excellence

Which department acts like a lightening rod within your organization? You know that if they are called to participate in a meeting that it will be both productive and enjoyable. You smile anticipating the meeting, even leaving your smartphone and laptop on your desk because you know it will be completely engrossing. (Side note: If.

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Discover how Agile revolutionized MJV Marketing

mjvinnovation

The above quote is just one of the numerous motivational phrases scattered in frames here at MJV Marketing. It was written by Michael Hyatt and transmits the spirit of our team very well. Around here, we are champions in promoting changes and taking ideas off the drawing board … but it wasn’t always like that. Our marketing team has grown a lot over the years.

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Happy Holidays

Idea Sandbox

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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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 One Thing: Bring Joy and the Money will Follow

helloFUTURE

As a libertarian, I love capitalism. It is the only system that humans have designed which works to improve the situation of those in the system, as well as the fact that it hews very closely to human nature (and nature itself, for that matter – for proof just read Bionomics). I think if you… The post The One Thing: Bring Joy and the Money will Follow appeared first on hellofuture.

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Scaling School

Innovation Excellence

Several years ago, I decided to give sailing a try. I started by going on a few local trips with some folks who owned a small boat and then, gradually, decided to improve my skills and confidence.

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Do You Grow with Market Shifts – or Slowly Lose Relevancy? The Advertising Story

Adam Hartung

Internet advertising growth tripled in each of the last two decades. It's the very definition of a market disruption. Yet, many companies didn't see the trend. Why?

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Essay on the Taxonomy of Chatbots

mjvinnovation

And the Taxonomy of Chatbots are consolidating because they do not necessarily need the IT professionals involved to become a reality. So MJV has brought a series of blog posts with what you need to know to develop a bot in your company. But are you really prepared to enter the world of bots? Do you already know all the concepts used when it comes to conversational robots?

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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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IDEATION 2020: Online Brainstorm Facilitation Coaching

Idea Champions

In honor of the year 2020 and the classic meme it represents (i.e. clear vision), Idea Champions is thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting new offering -- an elegant way for its time-crunched, Conducting Genius graduates to upgrade the quality and impact of their brainstorming sessions. We call it Ideation 2020 -- the simplest, most time-efficient way we can think of to help our clients get the kind of results they want from their in-house, ideation sessions.

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Jeff Bezos $100 Billion Bet For Amazon’s Future

Innovation Excellence

Bezos has announced an out of this world initiative that may well eclipse everything else Amazon has done so far and may turn out to be one of humanity’s most ambitious technological achievements. One of the things that’s always struck me as the largest untapped opportunity for Internet enabled business, commerce, and humanity is the.

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How One Person Can Change the Conscience of an Organization

Harvard Business Review

These four mindsets can help you transform the culture.

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The Zero Challenge – Becoming Climate Neutral

Innovation Excellence

The topic of this post is a bit different from what I write about, but just as important. For as long as humanity’s been around, innovators have always been creating the future. As a result, we’ve made tremendous progress and changed our world for the better in so many ways. However, these innovations have also.

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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.