Fri.Apr 04, 2025

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Creating Effective Cost-Saving Campaigns with IdeaScale Enterprises

IdeaScale

In todays dynamic business environment, enterprises must balance cost reduction with maintaining high operational efficiency. Economic shifts, market competition, and evolving business demands require organizations to rethink how they optimize resources. One of the most underutilized yet highly effective strategies is leveraging employees' collective intelligence through crowdsourced innovation campaigns.

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Building the Design of the Integrated Interconnected Business Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

Driving Integrated Interconnected Business Ecosystems The integrated interconnected business ecosystem is a framework that offers a pioneering approach, one that builds the mechanisms to unlock sustainable and connected growth. This approach to business ecosystems fosters continuous innovation and works towards lasting competitive advantage through its interconnected parts.

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Strategic Partner Management: A Practical Guide

Qmarkets

Strategic partnerships are no longer a side strategytheyre becoming central to how companies grow. According to McKinsey, partnership activity has grown at a compound annual rate of 14% since 2016, resulting in more than 10,000 deals per year over the past five years (Source: McKinsey ) This rise reflects a growing recognition that collaboration with the right external partners can open up new markets, extend capabilities, and reduce time to value.

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Does Competing Outside of Work Harm Collaboration at Work?

Michael Roberto

Source: ESPN What can we learn about collaboration at work from professional soccer players? A new study offers some fascinating insights. First, why did scholars Thorsten Grohsjean, Henning Piezunka, and Maren Mickeler become interested in studying soccer players? They noted that people sometimes find themselves competing with their colleagues in settings outside of the workplace.

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Going Beyond Chatbots: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems, & Data

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.

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Leaders Must Be Truthful and Forthcoming

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Have you ever felt like you werent getting the truth from your leader? You know when they say something and you know thats not what they really think.

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When You’re Overloaded—and Delegating Isn’t an Option

Harvard Business Review

Three strategies managers can use to free up bandwidth.