Jeffrey Phillips

MARCH 31, 2015

For quite a while now, the words and phrases we use when we talk about innovation have bothered me. To some extent that's because the language is too inexact, and in other cases the words have been appropriated or misused. In many companies any new product is labeled "innovation", regardless if it is actually innovative or not. Further, innovation is a word that encompasses so many activities and purposes that it becomes almost meaningless.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2015

Researchers find people who have lived abroad have the most successful negotiations and solutions. . University researchers, Adam Galinsky and William Maddux, conducted a series of experiments that revealed some of the benefits of pushing past the boundaries of our existing mindsets. They looked at the differences between people who have lived in two or more countries versus those who have never lived outside their country of origin.

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Culture Innovation Study Examples 125

Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 3, 2015

'The Jewish Torah teaches that the Creator created our world through ten utterances–for example, “let there be light.” The Jewish mystical tradition explains that these utterances correspond with ten stages in the process of creation. Every creative process in the world ultimately follows this progression, because it is really a part of the continual unfolding of the world itself, in which we are co-creators.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 13, 2015

'Consider Attending the Creativity World Forum 2015. As many of you know I’ve participated in the annual State of Creativity Forum in Oklahoma for several years. I’ve written here previously about how effective their model is in getting broad-based involvement, participation, and attendance. This is arguably the most successful creativity conference in the world right now.

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Conference Creativity Culture Meeting 87

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.

System

Norbert Bol

MARCH 14, 2015

The scientific journal Organizational Dynamics is preparing a special issue about “The leadership imperative for sustainability and corporate social responsibility” In other words what is the responsibility for sustainability of business leaders? Most business leaders describe their responsibility in terms of economic-, social- and ecological performance.

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Leadership Competition Resources Meeting 79

Improvides

MARCH 6, 2015

With it's new 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 […]. Originally published at Why is this company giving $1,000 to anyone with an idea?

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Company Software Creativity Innovation 78

Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2015

It’s true! Drawing aliens may be the secret to creativity and innovation. University researchers, Galinsky and Maddux, discovered that people who have lived abroad have the most successful negotiations – reaching deals where shared interests were included in the solutions.This is an interesting finding in itself, but their incredible research didn’t stop there.

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Conference Study Creativity Marketing 109

Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 17, 2015

'Collecting data about design is easy in the digital world. We no longer have to conduct in-person experiments to track pedestrians’ behavior in an airport terminal or the movement of eyeballs across a page. New digital technologies allow us to easily measure almost anything, and apps, social media platforms, websites, and email programs come with built-in tools to track data.

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 27, 2015

'Open for Business . It’s a real joy when a business opens its doors for the first time. “Open for Business” sounds and feels like hope and possibility to me. Starting a new business is where creativity blossoms and where innovation is made real. You’ve created something and you want to deliver that value for a fair payment in return.

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Entrepreneurship Creativity Meeting Innovation 84

Bill Fischer

MARCH 19, 2015

By Abhijit Bhaduri and Bill Fischer Changing mindsets begins with you! The only mind you can be sure of changing is your own, and the only way that you can demonstrate this mindset change is through your behaviors. If you aspire for your organization to be faster, more innovative, less afraid [.

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Change Innovation 75

Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar

Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.

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Mills-Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

'In Jon Mertz’s new book, Activate Leadership: Aspen Truths to Empower Millennial Leaders , Jon talks about Soul Sparks: “Soul sparks are those small ignitions of inspiration that fan into big changes, new directions, or fresh works. They come from deep down inside. Make your body and mind shake with excitement. These are soul sparks.” I am blessed to have had bosses who saw soul sparks in me and gave me opportunities to develop and spread them.

Leadership 74

Leadership Tools Software Culture 74

Improvides

MARCH 20, 2015

In the past month, I was interviewed by CMSWire, a leading online magazine, around my views on helping companies improve their innovation capabilities. Their particular question: How can companies innovate faster than their competitors? Click here to read the article on CMSWire. My primary insight in the article is that if you empower your people to […].

Company 63

Company Innovation 63

Leapfrogging

MARCH 16, 2015

Researchers find people who have lived abroad have the most successful negotiations and solutions. . University researchers, Adam Galinsky and William Maddux, conducted a series of experiments that revealed some of the benefits of pushing past the boundaries of our existing mindsets. They looked at the differences between people who have lived in two or more countries versus those who have never lived outside their country of origin.

Culture 100

Culture Innovation Study Examples 100

Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 10, 2015

'Web site optimization has become an essential capability in today’s conversion-driven web teams. In Part 1 of this series, we introduced the topic as well as discussed key goals and philosophies. In Part 2 , I presented a detailed and customizable process. In this final article, we’ll cover communication planning and how to select the appropriate team and tools to do the job.

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Software Review Tools Analysis Data 88

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Gregg Fraley

MARCH 5, 2015

'Creativity, Innovation, and Economic Development — Embracing the Challenge. Better Questions Means Better Answers for Regional Economic Development. It’s about Attitudes, Projects, and Baby Steps. Economic Development is important and challenging work. Having just interviewed players in this field and surveyed some regional initiatives — it’s clear that innovative work is being done in regional economic development — by some.

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Underperforming Technical Team Creativity Culture Project 81

Bill Fischer

MARCH 19, 2015

By Abhijit Bhaduri and Bill Fischer Changing mindsets begins with you! The only mind you can be sure of changing is your own, and the only way that you can demonstrate this mindset change is through your behaviors. If you aspire for your organization to be faster, more innovative, less afraid [.

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Change Innovation 75

Mills-Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

'Joseph Pistrui'' s post from his blog really resonated with me and I thought it would with you! Jospeh is a friend, colleague and wise man. He diverse background and expertise gives him the credibilty to speak on our very dynamic world. So read on and please ponder. And thank you, Joseph, for letting me repost your words here! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~.

Leadership 63

Leadership Tools Disruption Culture 63

Norbert Bol

MARCH 29, 2015

The april (2015) special edition of the scientific journal of Long Range Planning is called “ Doing more with less? Sustainability strategy in constrained economic times “ The different articles in this special edition all focus on the sustainability behavour of companies in tough times. One might expect that in tough times there is less focus on sustainability.

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Strategy Strategy Company Innovation 62

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It's Saul Connected

MARCH 10, 2015

Raising the minimum wage across the U.S. may be our best innovation policy. You wouldn’t know it from either our current innovation policy or the partisan catfight, cable news talking heads, and tired political arguments about minimum wage. A higher minimum wage is a good thing. It puts more pressure on companies to innovate to increase the value of their products, services, and business models.

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Policies Innovation Entrepreneurship Competition 53

Leanstack

MARCH 23, 2015

A manager at Toyota is delivering a quarterly update to an executive. He’s enthusiastic because all the metrics are trending up and to the right. They shipped on time — sales and customer satisfaction numbers are up too. The executive patiently listens until the manager is done and then asks: “So, where are the problems?

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Matthew Griffin

MARCH 23, 2015

This article was updated on Apr 29th 2015. “What does it take to create a Unicorn – a company that achieves a valuation of $1 Billion or more within five years of first opening their doors and why are there more of them than ever? Is it luck or do they all have something in common, something that under the right conditions can be replicated? In this article I look under the covers of 34 of the worlds’ fastest growth companies to reveal all the techniques they have in common.”.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. Bob summarized Acme’s impediments to innovation. “At our company we have a culture that fears failure. A failed project is considered a negative to a corporate career. As a result, few people want to start a project that might not succeed.

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Mills-Scofield

MARCH 30, 2015

'Dan Rockwell , also known as Leadershipfreak , writes a daily blog that is simply astounding with wisdom and insight - you must sign up ! With his permission, I''m reposting a rather critical one that all leaders must read and address. When we don''t deal with conflict, we inflict great damage on our organization. Here''s how to address it. Thank you Dan, for letting me repost!

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BPI Thought Leadership Commentary

MARCH 31, 2015

I know that many of my Christian friends and clients have spent time with their heads bowed praying for good people. Rarely are those prayers answered in the way they want. We’ve all seen the reports, and in all likelihood experienced it in our own businesses: disengagement is at an all time high. But I wonder if you’ve actually taken the time to look at what that really means to y.

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Engagement Report 40

Innovation Leader

MARCH 30, 2015

Few jobs are tougher than that of the innovation leader.

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Innovation Fixer

MARCH 30, 2015

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Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.

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Innovation 360 Group

MARCH 29, 2015

On weekdays we stick to digital editions of the morning papers but come weekends we splurge in paper, subscribing to the two largest newspapers in Sweden. Every now and then we try to decide on one of them but my husband wants his Fredrik Strage chronicles in Dagens Nyheter , and I, believe it or not, start every Saturday breakfast with Glossy Weekly SvD Perfect Guide from Svenska Dagbladet.

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Innovation 360

MARCH 22, 2015

What´s happening now will have a greater impact on us than the innovation of the railway! When I talk about the ongoing globalization I talk about it as a series of waves, and right now, I´d say, we are in the midst of the third globalization wave. This third globalization wave is powered by three distinct factors on the market; the low interest rate ever, the ever increasing pace of digitalization and the likewise increasing pace of automation in general.

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Report Industry Innovation Technical Review 40

Mills-Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

'When we are looking for patterns, trying to understand or discover customer needs, trying to learn something in general, we tend to look for what’s there. We look for what we see, hear, touch, smell, taste – for what we observe. This can take time and focus. Sometimes we have to look at the negative space as well, the empty space around the ‘thing’ we are observing.

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Learning Leadership Culture Strategy 62

100%Open

MARCH 19, 2015

We were recently asked to comment whether TV shows like Dragons’ Den and The Apprentice are good for British business. When these programmes were first aired they were highly entertaining and a real boost to the idea that entrepreneurship is for everybody. However I have always felt that they portray a very warped sense of what it means to be in business, and in particular what is involved in getting a new venture off the ground for the following reasons: Chasing cash not customers –

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Entrepreneurship Creativity Collaboration Innovation 40

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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