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The Complex Relationship Between Innovation and Risk

IdeaScale

Risk vs. reward can be a hard thing to balance. All of business, it has been argued, boils down to weighing the likely rewards of a decision against the likely risk. The problem with any innovation strategy is that, at some point, innovation runs into this equation. Any innovation, to some degree, is a risk. It’s just a question of weighing that risk against the reward.

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Not All Innovation Looks The Same

Innovation Excellence

I used to believe that in order to be innovative, we all have to innovate the same way, my way. Usually, that involves stepping outside my comfort zone and daring to be fearless. My way of innovating includes getting super uncomfortable and taking big risks. Obviously, since that’s how I tend to innovate, you should.

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5 Things Managers Should Know About Innovation (But Most Don’t)

Digital Tonto

There is no one "true" path to innovation, but there are basic principles that we can apply Related posts: An Innovation Roadmap. Why Best Practices Can Lead To Better Innovation. A New Breed Of. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Situational Awareness (Winter is Coming)

Mike Shipulski

Business and life are all about choosing how you want to allocate your time and money. In life, it’s your personal time and money and in business it’s the company’s. If you’ve ever done any winter hiking, you know that it’s important to know the terrain. If there’s a mountain in the way, you either go over it or around it. But there one thing you can’t do is pretend it’s not there.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Why is this company giving $1,000 to anyone with an idea?

Idea to Value

With it’s Kickbox programme , Adobe is giving every employee with an idea the opportunity to go out and experiment on it. The smartest part: they’re completely happy for that idea to fail. Adobe as a company has an innate link with creativity. After all, it produces some of the most widely-used software products used in the design industries, such as Photoshop and Illustrator.

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The State of Innovation in Healthcare

IdeaScale

In a recent survey, researchers found that seventy-five percent of hospital executives at a location with 400 or more beds are planning to build an innovation center. According to Gartner , innovation centers can serve many purposes, including building cultural innovation norms in the workplace, providing workspaces for strategic goals, and beyond. But when I read this study, what I took away was the fact that hospital executives are beginning to respond to dramatic shifts in trends and technolo

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Summer Reading List: 12 Great Stories About History’s Most Legendary Innovators

Digital Tonto

Great innovators are real people with real flaws that managed to overcome their failures Related posts: Summer Reading List: 17 Great Books Every Innovator Should Read. Summer Reading List: Books. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Study shows a desire for startups and corporates to work more together by 2025

Idea to Value

According to a recent study by the Unilever Foundation , there is a strong desire for corporations to improve their innovation capability by working more closely with startups. Based on the results of a recent survey of 204 corporate brand managers and 114 startups about how their companies planned to collaborate together, the following results were identified: 80% of corporates believe that startups can have a positive impact on a large company’s approach to innovation. 89% startups believe the

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Four Innovation Lessons We Can Learn from Standard Bank

IdeaScale

Innovation starts in the clouds and comes to Earth. Innovation is particularly important for industries that seemingly move slowly, and that’s particularly true of banking. South Africa’s Standard Bank, which has branches across Africa and is expanding to other markets across the world, is an excellent demonstration of why. Innovation drives everything Standard does, and their particular achievement drew on their internal expertise to reduce the downtimes of their ATMs.

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The Value of Having A Curators Platform for Innovators

Guide 4 Innovating

I would like to lay out some thoughts on why we should be considering a curation platform for innovation and the value it can bring to a broader innovation community. These are some opening thoughts that I felt needed to just “hang out there” and see where they take me and clearly, you as a reader. The issue I am reflecting upon is our growing concern that we all are living in a world heading towards digital overload, with the risk of it simply overwhelming us, perhaps we are becomin

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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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I quit my job at Google — you can quit yours too

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post I quit my job at Google — you can quit yours too appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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An Educator's Guide To Implementing Design Thinking | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Design thinking is a mindset that empowers children with the ability to think creatively.

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Here’s Why Even Highly Successful Companies Find It Hard To Innovate In New Markets

Innovation Excellence

In 1892, George Eastman formed the Eastman Kodak Company to “make the camera as convenient as a pencil.” It was an idea whose time had come and by the early 20th century, Kodak emerged as one of America’s largest companies and Eastman one of its most successful entrepreneurs. It wasn’t just that one idea that.

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Seeking out new Knowledge that Flows

Guide 4 Innovating

I have been heavily influenced by the great work of John Hagel and Deloitte’s “ Big Shift Index ” as a frame to measure the forces of long-term change. What really holds my attention is “knowledge flows” and they are suggesting we are moving from a world of push to a world of pull. The world is increasingly uncertain and to steer through this we need new ways to access, attract and accumulate understanding.

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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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The Power of Questions And How To Use It!

Beyond the Obvious

I’ve been fascinated by the power of questions, either good or bad, for my entire professional life. The more I thought about them, the more I began to notice how people used them. I started to see how some people had the innate ability to formulate and pose questions that propelled others to make investigations […].

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In Review: The Charter Hall PropTech Accelerator 2018 | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

The real estate industry has long been considered a laggard insofar as technology adoption has been concerned with more than 40% of real estate companies still relying on spreadsheets and paper-based processes to manage properties today.

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?Legacy Thinking Is Transforming Us Into Can't Do Guys

Bill Fischer

After so many years of creating electric light, heavier than air flying machines, communications systems that span the world, enormous computer power that fits in our pockets, vaccines that have conquered age-old diseases, gone to the moon, etc., we have become the “can’t do guys”!

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Innovation Leaders as White Blood Cells

Innovation Excellence

One of the most important roles of the leader of a creative team is to keep the team separated from the rest of the organization. Just like your immune system separates you from disease. What is the most important trait of the creative team leader? In my research of why people are more creative in startup companies than in.

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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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Holacracy: Bringing Innovation to Every Corner of Your Organization

CREATORS

Everyone wants innovate, create new products, cut down costs. But what about an innovation in the way we structure organizations? A survey done by Deloitte in 2015 revealed that only 38% of over 7000 companies surveyed retained a traditional structure. Out of the 38% minority, 92% said organizational redesign was “the top priority.” One proposed alternate business model, adopted by companies such as Zappos, W.

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A Success Story in Teaching Children Entrepreneurship | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

Our recent Lemonade Stand program Lemonade Stand brought kids together to develop their entrepreneurial mindset and capabilities.

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The Myth of Left and Right-Minded People

Innocentive

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Innovation Labs: rapid innovation (3/4)

Innovation Excellence

Did you miss Part One or Part Two? Innovation labs or rapid innovation centers are developing at fast pace. Hereafter, we prolongate the previous review of Innovation Labs, with an industry point of view. Each archetype can inspire the managers in charge of creating an innovation lab, and arm them to compose their own recipe for.

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Relevance, Reach, Revenue: How to Turn Marketing Trends From Hype to High-Impact

Speaker: Alexa Acosta, Director of Growth Marketing & B2B Marketing Leader

Marketing is evolving at breakneck speed—new tools, AI-driven automation, and changing buyer behaviors are rewriting the playbook. With so many trends competing for attention, how do you cut through the noise and focus on what truly moves the needle? In this webinar, industry expert Alexa Acosta will break down the most impactful marketing trends shaping the industry today and how to turn them into real, revenue-generating strategies.

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Formula 1 is Crowdsourcing Novel Viewing Experiences

IdeaConnection

Calling all petrol heads. Formula 1 needs your help. The “Tata Communications F1 Innovation Prize” is offering $50,000 to the person who comes up with the best way to improve broadcasts of races and how they are enjoyed by viewers. “We’re giving you, the fans the chance to design your F1 the ultimate user interface using F1’s diverse data points to create your own viewing experience,” commented Ross Brawn, the managing director of Formula 1.

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Six ways to improve innovation through culture change

Wazoku

Based on the Innov8rs webinar on the same topic where Nicola Darke, Customer Success Director at Wazoku, Tim Westall, Co-Founder of April Strategy, and Hans Gillior, Founder of the Goodwind Company, each shared two ways to improve innovation through culture change. You’ve been assigned the grand task of transforming a business and don’t know where to start?

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L’Oreal VP on the Effective Use of Design Thinking in Business

Innovation Leader

Jackson Wang shares his advice on the most effective ways to use design thinking, highlighting lessons from his work as VP of Retail Design at L’Oreal and Procter & Gamble.

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This May Be the Biggest Mistake an Entrepreneur Can Make

Innovation Excellence

Probability is a wonderful tool but it may also be the surest path to an ordinary life devoid of innovation. History is littered with people who reached for the impossible against odds that where less than zero. Our greatest fear is uncertainty. We will do anything to avoid it, including lying to ourselves and trying.

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Navigating Payroll Compliance: Future-Proofing Payroll in an Evolving Regulatory Landscape

Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Which Fintech Businesses Will Prevail in the Digital Future

InnovationManagement

One of the most popular resources that IdeaScale has ever created was our white paper about how crowdsourcing was going to impact the financial sector. I think the reason why that white paper was so popular was because crowdsourcing was just one of many emerging trends that were beginning to shake up the financial sector. Other financial trends included the emergence of blockchain, sophisticated hacker schemes, and much (MUCH) more.

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5 (More) Ways to Redefine Innovation Strategy in Enterprise | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

In an age where a firm’s innovation strategy can make or break the company, it’s more important than ever for companies to define what it means to innovate. In this article, we cover the strategies and models for business innovation strategy, along with examples.

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Innovation by numbers: Lessons to learn from the CIA and Netflix

Innovation 360 Group

Back in 2011, we were wondering how to develop the first hypothesis in the large and very complex assignments we were undertaking. We decided to look at other trades and industries to see how they approached complex tasks. After some investigation, we heard that the CIA was using something called “grounded theory”; later this turned out to be a vital element in capturing Osama bin Laden.

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Leaping to a New Growth Curve – Part 2 of 3

Innovation Excellence

Recently I had the opportunity to interview Howard Yu, LEGO professor of management and innovation at the prestigious IMD Business School in Switzerland, director of IMD’s signature Advanced Management Program (AMP), and author of the book Leap: How to Thrive in a World Where Everything Can Be Copied to investigate a series of important questions.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals. This is where signal-based selling comes into play. ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club.