2024

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Innovate and Dominate: Turbocharging Your Business Strategy

Leapfrogging

Rethink how you’re steering the ship to stay ahead of the game. Innovation isn’t just a shiny new product; it’s about jazzing up your services, tweaking those internal gears, and shaking up your business playbook. That’s how you keep moving forward and stay in the ring as things shift and change around you. To truly make the thrilling leap with innovation, go bold—foster an atmosphere where creativity and a bit of daring flourish.

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Four Hidden Secrets of Innovation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Every enterprise needs to innovate. It doesn’t matter whether you are a profit-seeking business, a nonprofit organization or a government entity, the simple truth is that every business model fails eventually, because things change over time. We have to manage not for stability, but for disruption or face irrelevance.

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Fear Steals Your Best Ideas

Phil McKinney

Let's talk about something that's probably holding you back right now: fear. You know that brilliant idea you had last week? The one you talked yourself out of because "it might not work"? That's fear in action, and it's costing you more than you think. Your Brain on Fear: Not as Smart as You Think Here's what happens when fear kicks in: your brain basically goes into caveman mode.

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Top 6 Trends for Innovation Management in 2025

HYPE Innovation

Looking back at the beginning of this decade now that we’re closing in on the halfway point, it’s clear been a wild ride!

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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 would YOU improve chess?

Idea to Value

Imagine this. You work for a board game manufacturer, and you have been asked to improve the sales of your chess games. They have been slowly falling over the past few years and your boss has asked you to come up with innovative solutions to make it more appealing and increase sales. How would you approach this innovation challenge? A lot of people might begin thinking that innovation means finding ways to “improve” the product.

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Top Six Trends for Innovation Management in 2025

Innovation Excellence

The expectations towards corporate innovators are clear: deliver more results, faster, and with fewer resources. What does that mean in practice? Here's our take on the top trends to watch in innovation management in 2025.

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Are you selling “Vitamins” or “Painkillers”?

Idea to Value

Many startups and innovators struggle to sell their products once they launch. Often, this is because while they love the idea for the product they have come up with, it is not actually solving a problem which the user perceives in their own lives. But how is it possible that intelligent, hardworking teams can make such glaring errors? Especially when they themselves can list all of the real, tangible benefits that their innovative solution brings?

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25 years of Innovation- how has it evolved? Has it been successful?

Paul Hobcraft

25 years looking back at Innovation’s evolution I decided to hold a conversation with Google’s Gemini about how innovation had changed and hopefully progressed since I first became involved 25 years ago, when I lived in Singapore and was heavily involved in my MBA, which had innovation as an elective. The MBA elective “hooked” me on innovation, and here I am 25 years later, still going on about innovation, championing, cajoling and encouraging innovation to be more centra

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Ignite Innovation with These 3 Key Ingredients

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky The team at FROM has worked with dozens and dozens of companies to create innovative new products, processes, and channels to connect with customers. It’s very rewarding work for many reasons, one of which is the incredible people we get to work with at our clients.

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Inspiring Innovation: How People Stories Can Spark Lateral Thinking

Destination Innovation

Muhammad Yunus Do you want to cultivate a more innovative and entrepreneurial culture in your team, one that embraces calculated risk taking and radical thinking? A powerful way to achieve this is by sharing stories about people who exemplified lateral thinking and whose ideas and actions transformed the world. People relate deeply to other peoples stories.

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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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Communicate A Vision To Shift Strategy, Shape Networks To Change Behavior

Digital Tonto

The 18th century French enlightenment writer Voltaire once said, “If you wish to converse with me, define your terms,” and we need to approach transformation with a similar mindset. Some transformations require changes in investments, while others require changes in behaviors and these have very different challenges. Until fairly recently, our economy was based on atoms and transformations were usually focused on strategic decisions such as building a new factory, entering a new market or launch

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Why Curiosity is Your Agency’s Secret Weapon

IdeaScale

Innovation in government often feels like a rare, big breakthrough that changes everything. But in reality, innovation is driven by curiosityby asking the right questions and exploring new possibilities.

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Why Innovation Is Key to Staying Ahead in Strategic Planning

Leapfrogging

To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. It’s not just about rolling out fancy new gadgets or services; it’s about rethinking how everything ticks in your company. Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws.

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How to Evaluate Continuous Improvement Systems: Key Criteria for Success | KaiNexus

Kainexus

In an era where agility and responsiveness define business success, continuous improvement (CI) has become the backbone for organizations striving to cut costs, enhance customer satisfaction, increase efficiency, and drive revenue. That’s why choosing the right continuous improvement system is so important, but how do you tell them apart? Most people don’t make this type of investment very often, so it can be a challenge to select the best one for your organization.

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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 Role of Empathy in Leadership: A New Standard for Industry Disruption

Tullio Siragusa

The Role of Empathy in Leadership: A New Standard for Industry Disruption Many leaders are focused on technological innovation as the primary driver of success. However, as Andrew Antar — CEO and founder of Tune.fm — emphasized on a recent episode of The Bliss Business Podcast , empathy may be the key to true industry disruption. His company, which is transforming the music industry through blockchain technology and crypto, serves as a prime example of how empathy, coupled with innovation, can r

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Thriving in 2025: Your Blueprint for Turning Disruption Into Opportunity

Daniel Burrus

In today’s world, disruption isn’t the exception—it’s the rule. With the rise of AI, automation, and digital technologies , change is accelerating faster than ever. Companies like OpenAI, Tesla, and Amazon exemplify how leveraging disruptive innovations can redefine industries. In this era of rapid transformation, businesses must shift from reactive crisis management to proactive anticipation.

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How Agentic AI is Revolutionizing Customer Service in 2025

Acuvate

Introduction: The Evolution of Customer Experience Customer experience (CX) has undergone a profound transformation over the past decade, driven largely by advancements in artificial intelligence (AI). From early-stage chatbots to more sophisticated, AI-powered systems, businesses have increasingly relied on technology to meet customer expectations.

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Innovation cannot succeed without dedicated time for team members

Idea to Value

As the leader of a cross-functional innovation team within a large pharmaceutical company accelerator, I’ve noticed a recurring challenge: team members struggle to balance their innovation tasks with the demands of their regular roles. Our team brings together individuals from multiple departments, each contributing a portion of their time—typically 20% to 50%—to the innovation project.

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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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Moving from Open Innovation to Innovation Ecosystems

Paul Hobcraft

Building Innovation Ecosystems can tackle unique challenges How do we differentiate (traditional) approaches of Innovation to (evolving) Innovation Ecosystems? Is your innovation process closed only to you? Or have you gone to being more open in innovation with outside selected partners? Well we do need to move beyond both of these and start thinking and designing with Innovation Ecosystems.

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Top Ten Uses for a Customer Journey Map

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia In the evolving landscape of customer-centric business, the customer journey map has emerged as a pivotal tool. It serves not only as a means to visualize the customer experience but also as a strategic asset to drive innovation and transformation.

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Was this the Worst Decision in History?

Destination Innovation

Bayezid II was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1491 to 1512. He worked hard to govern fairly and gained the epithet of “Bayezid the Just” When in 1492, Spain expelled its Jewish and Muslim populations, Bayezid sent the his navy to evacuate them safely to Ottoman lands. He proclaimed that the refugees were to be welcomed. But he did make one far reaching and ultimately catastrophic decision.

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The Best Way To Help Innovation Take Hold Is To Design A Co-optable Resource

Digital Tonto

The global activist Srdja Popović once told me that the goal of a revolution should be to become mainstream, to be mundane and ordinary. If you are successful it should be difficult to explain what was won because the previous order seems so unbelievable. Yet many leaders approach change initiatives as if they were swashbuckling heroes in their own action movie.

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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.

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The War On Innovation: How You Can Win, Dominate Your Market and Knock out the Competition

IdeaScale

What Is The War On Innovation The "War on Innovation" is the ongoing battle against a range of obstacles that slow or block technological and business advancements.

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Charting the Course: Linking Business Strategy to Innovation

Leapfrogging

Cooking up a winning business plan needs a dash of clear sight and a spoonful of fresh ideas. Melding these two can pack quite a punch against your rivals. Defining Your Business Strategy Think of your business strategy as your GPS, directing you to your future success. It hammers out who you are, your dreams, and what’s at the core of your company.

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5 Whys: A Simple Tool for Root Cause Analysis and Goal Setting | KaiNexus

Kainexus

The 5 Whys technique is a cornerstone of Lean management and continuous improvement practices. Originally developed as part of the Toyota Production System, this problem-solving method is known for its simplicity and effectiveness. By repeatedly asking Why, organizations can uncover root causes, address underlying issues, and even clarify goals. Its versatility makes it an essential tool for tackling complex problems and setting meaningful objectives.

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How critical Dynamic Ecosystems are to any Ecosystem Design

Ecosystems4Innovating

The importance of Recognizing Dynamic Ecosystems We recognize the need for business to embrace change and thrive through adaptation in a rapidly evolving business landscape does require a very dynamic environment. Dynamic Ecosystems are central to providing the engine to collaborations, adaptation and future leadership. Its central role is to build constant adaptation and resilience, pushing to create increasing value through discovery and extraction throughout the entire ecosystem, and providin

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Artificial Intelligence Innovation: How It Reshaped Business in 2024

Daniel Burrus

AI-powered innovation transformed industries, drove unprecedented levels of efficiency, creativity, and profitability in 2024. As AI tools become increasingly more sophisticated, they will continue to redefine traditional business models and create opportunities for seamless integration between technology and human expertise. Amid this transformative wave, many leaders wonder: Will AI-driven innovation replace traditional business processes entirely?

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The Art Behind Becoming a Strategic PMO Leader

Planview

Unlock the strategies to overcome key PMO hurdles—mastering resource management, driving change, and streamlining processes—with expert insight from Athena Smith, Senior Director, Portfolio Management. In this post, you’ll learn: Why Putting People at the Heart of Change Matters The Exciting Future Ahead for the PMO How AI Can Help Prioritize Impactful Work Meet Athena Smith Athena Smith hails from Georgia and is based in Atlanta.

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Focus on what you can control

Idea to Value

If you cannot be the best in the world at something, is it even worth trying? Yes. Often, people can be afraid to begin a new creative endeavor, especially when they compare themselves to people who are the best in the world. After all, how can you compete with someone who is so much better than you are? What they fail to recognise is that these “best in the world” people have often been working on their skills, craft and experience for decades to get to where they are now.

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Recognizing the distinguishing points of Innovation Ecosystems

Paul Hobcraft

What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation? Within a short series about Innovation Ecosystems this post asks what really are the distinct differences within innovation ecosystem thinking and design, to provide a set of common distinguishing points to move from “just” open innovation. What distinguishes an innovation ecosystem and makes it a must-have, is its ability to create a highly interconnected, dynamic, and supportive environment where innovation can flouri

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.