Digital Tonto

MARCH 30, 2025

When I arrived in Palo Alto for a publishing course at Stanford in 2006, I'd never heard of Srdja Popovi or Duncan Wattsbut their stories were about to become tangled up with mine. Facebook was just taking off and "social networks" were the hot new thing. I was running a sizable digital business, and it seemed that networks were something I should learn about.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 30, 2025

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack When I exited my corporate career more than thirty-five years ago, I was privileged to be regarded and respected as the Fashion Direction Manager for the Grace Bros Department Store group, one of Australias most senior women in retail management.

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Phil McKinney

MARCH 30, 2025

From the harmless to the revolutionary, innovations throughout history have often been met with suspicion, fear, and sometimes outright hostility. This pattern is so persistent across cultures and time periods that it reveals something fundamental about human nature: we have a complicated relationship with the unknown. Today's breakthroughs—from artificial intelligence to genetic engineering—face similar resistance.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 30, 2025

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Probably the greatest misconception about change is that it fails because people dont understand it. The truth is that change usually fails because it is actively sabotaged. The status quo has inertia on its side and never yields its power gracefully.

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Change 81

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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ITONICS

MARCH 30, 2025

If you ask any executive, theyll probably agree that innovation is important. Yet, research shows that many feel that their organizations fall short of achieving reliable outcomes in terms of innovation. What stops them from improving performance? Part of the problem is that companies lack a systematic approach to innovation. They treat it like a wild garden, expecting groundbreaking innovations to sprout after occasional watering.

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Tim Kastelle

MARCH 30, 2025

Nancy and I were eating at Jolly Good in Melbourne, talking about everything, like we tend to. In the background, the music they were playing was incredible. The first song I noticed was Streets of our town by The Go-betweens, followed by Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane, Tin Soldiers by Stiff Little Fingers, with a couple of great songs I’d never heard before mixed in — Italy by Rain Dogs and Magic of Meghan by Dry Cleaning.

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