Destination Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2025

It is clear that Europe lags the USA in producing high growth innovative large companies. Europe does not have rivals to Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Meta, Microsoft and Tesla. However, there are many small companies that are doing surprisingly well and some large ones which are more innovative than you might think. Identifying the “most innovative” large companies in Europe involves evaluating several factors, including new products and services, entrepreneurial culture

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 15, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have revolutionized how we interact with technology, making tasks faster and more efficient. But as the convenience of these tools grows, so does a pressing question: are they impacting our ability to think critically? A new study titled AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking delves into this, examining how AI tools influence critical thinking through a phenomenon called cognitive offloading.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 4, 2025

Like many others, I invested time in isolation during the pandemic to engage in various online learning programs. As a highly credentialed coach who coaches many global Agile and SCRUM leaders in major international and local organisations, I enrolled in an Agile Coach Certification Program and enthusiastically attended all daily sessions.

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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

What is Gap Analysis? Gap Analysis: A Practical Guide for Strategy Projects Gap Analysis is a structured framework used to evaluate the difference between an organizations current performance and its desired future state. By identifying gaps in processes, capabilities, or outcomes , businesses can develop targeted strategies to improve efficiency, enhance competitiveness, and achieve strategic goals.

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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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Digital Tonto

APRIL 13, 2025

The dumbest thing anybody ever said about change is that you want to start by creating a sense of urgency. If the change is truly urgent then everyone already know it. The reason why so many change leaders cling to this "burning platform" mentality is because it ennobles the change leader, not the change itself. Its been roughly 25 years since Clayton Christensen inaugurated the disruptive era and what he initially intended to describe as a special case has been implemented as if it were a gener

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Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 24, 2025

Evolutionary thinking makes Innovation different When we are conceptualizing organization structures and relationships in Ecosystem thinking and design we often begin by attempting to relate this to Natural Ecosystems. We often miss the connections, perhaps this might help Traditional business frameworks often get caught in mechanistic metaphors but natural ecosystem perspectives need a fundamentally different mindset.

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HYPE Innovation

JANUARY 20, 2025

My innovation journey started decades ago. Two pivotal events influenced my view of the world and how important innovation could be for a better one: (1) a course on designing systemic change about the Why, the What and the How of making change happen, and (2) participating in a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)-led academic research project. Notably, this research started in 1995, spanned two decades and resulted in important findings about how to build a capability for adjacent and breakt

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Every industry today faces a critical question: will you stick to old legacy systems and ways of doing things, likely leading to you being disrupted by progress? Or will you be the one leading the charge, becoming the positive disruptor in your industry? In recent years, the pace of change has accelerated beyond anything we have seen previously. Disruption no longer follows predictable timelinesits faster, deeper, and more transformative than ever.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Gemba walks have become a widely adopted management technique. Leaders gain valuable insights into organizational value flow and often discover improvement opportunities by directly visiting the work environment. This collaborative approach involves employees sharing details about their tasks and the reasons behind them. Why are Gemba Walks Important for Organizational Success?

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Planview

JANUARY 9, 2025

When Dr. Mik Kersten published Project to Product a groundbreaking book that introduced the Flow Framework just over six years ago the term product operating model was relatively new. At the time, many leading software companies already knew how to organize people through a product-oriented mindset. Among other practices, they supported persistently funded, cross-functional teams led by product managers to iteratively deliver value.

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Destination Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Image by Alexas_fotos on Pixabay 1. Ask questions: Keep asking questions, even if they seem silly or obvious. Children are always curious about the world and are always asking questions. Be more childlike. 2. Read widely: Reading is the best way to expose yourself to new ideas and perspectives. Make an effort to read books, articles, and blog posts on a variety of topics, even if you don't think you'll be interested in them.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 17, 2025

The allure of certainty is powerful. In fact, uncertainty is one of the strongest fundamental fears most people suffer from. Businesses often seek to prove that a new idea, product, or service will succeed before they commit resources to launching it. They invest heavily in surveys, focus groups, and predictive models, hoping to eliminate risk and ensure success.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 4, 2025

Greta Faccio1, Valentina Lorenzon21 Scientific consultant for innovation, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

What is the Experiment Canvas? The Experiment Canvas is a structured template used to design, test, and evaluate assumptions behind new ideas. It helps innovation teams reduce uncertainty by laying out the elements of a business or product hypothesis in a clear and visual way. Rather than pursuing full-scale execution based on intuition or untested assumptions, teams use the canvas to validate their ideas through focused, low-cost experiments.

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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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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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Paul Hobcraft

JANUARY 27, 2025

The Story of Dynamic Ecosystems- the adaptive core I am offering a different perspective here, one that explores dynamic ecosystems as a transformative organizational model. Sit back and listen. I asked Google Notebook LM to look at one of my articles: “A fresh perspective of Dynamic Ecosystems” Expanding on the idea of Dynamic Ecosystems as the decision-making and adaptability core of business ecosystems involves positioning them as both the “intelligence layer” and the

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Innovation Excellence

APRIL 17, 2025

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping customer service and customer experience faster than we could ever imagine. But some are getting it wrong. While everyones racing to implement AI, many are missing the most important part keeping the human element alive.

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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Gen AI will be the innovation game-changer Everywhere you turn it seems to be all about Gen AI and how it will change the world. The fears, excitement, opportunity and the huge amounts of money being invested is mind-boggling. Any fundamental change is exactly that- full of fear and opportunity. So where does innovation fit within this? I have read different views but most seem to be simply dressing their existing tools and methods in the those brighter new clothes of Gen AI appeal.

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Daniel Burrus

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

What is the biggest problem you’re facing right now? Is it limited resources? A competitive threat? Internal inefficiency? If your first instinct is to dive in and fix it, you’re not alone. Leaders are often measured by their ability to solve problems quickly. But here’s the thing: not all problems are worth solving. Many challenges are rooted in outdated assumptions and processes that no longer serve your future goals, taking up time and resources better spent elsewhere.

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Kainexus

JANUARY 16, 2025

The modern business landscape is full of buzzwords and passing management fads, so it isn't surprising if you hear of a new "methodology" and just let it go in one ear and out the other. However, it's a good idea to make an exception for Lean business management. The Lean approach is one of the most widely used structures for continuous improvement worldwide for good reasons.

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Planview

JANUARY 21, 2025

The automotive industry is at a pivotal moment. As we enter 2025, automakers are navigating a rapidly shifting landscape shaped by technological innovation, electrification, and evolving consumer expectations. This year promises to bring transformative changes , driven by the software-defined vehicles (SDVs) challenge, the push to be profitable, and the convergence of automotive and technology ecosystems.

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Destination Innovation

JANUARY 9, 2025

Retail is a highly competitive sector of the economy. It has been characterised by major innovations and continuous evolution, driven by technological advancements and changing consumer preferences. Innovations from Years Gone By: Self-Service Stores (Early 20th Century) : Innovation : The concept of self-service stores, where customers could pick their own items rather than having a store clerk retrieve them, revolutionized retail.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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.

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Idea to Value

JANUARY 28, 2025

The world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) just got dealt an unexpected blow, and everyone from tech enthusiasts to investors is freaking out. Up until now, the major players in AI, like ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Gemini (Google) and Copilot (Microsoft) have developed their systems by investing hundreds of millions or billions of dollars, relying on huge datasets and the most advanced hardware on the planet.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 4, 2025

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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Leapfrogging

MARCH 26, 2025

What is Discovery Driven Planning? Discovery Driven Planning (DDP) is a structured framework for planning innovative initiatives in uncertain or ambiguous environments. Unlike traditional planning methods that rely on fixed forecasts and clearly defined outcomes, DDP embraces uncertainty by emphasizing learning, testing, and adjusting. It is particularly useful in situations where assumptions outweigh factssuch as launching a new venture, developing disruptive products, or entering unfamiliar ma

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 20, 2025

In his book, "Who Says Elephants Cant Dance," Lou Gerstner wrote, Culture isnt just one aspect of the game, it is the game. In the end, an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value What does the culture reward and punish individual achievement or team play, risk taking or consensus building? Every organization, whether consciously or not, develops norms and rituals that shape behaviors.

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 10, 2025

We need to reshape and transform our future We are in a world of re-calibrating our business, where to invest and who to partner with. Firstly we have to cut-away much of our existing approaches and thinking of how we organize and operate. Opening our minds to the alternative of being in a collaborative network, sharing in value and worth. Having a reliable network to plug into and exchange views in confidence and speedily is vitally important.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 24, 2025

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 1980 Harvard professor Michael Porter published Competitive Strategy, which recommended that firms create advantage by driving efficiencies throughout the value chain and mastering competitive forces by maximizing bargaining power. These concepts drove corporate thinking for decades.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Building Inclusive Workplaces: The Heart of Belonging inBusiness Creating an inclusive workplace isnt just a checkbox on a corporate initiativeits the foundation of a thriving, high-performing organization. When employees feel seen, valued, and heard, they bring their full potential to work. But how do we move from intention to impact? In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast , we sat down with Ardie Harrison, a trailblazer in building inclusive workplace cultures.

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Qmarkets

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

“Vision without execution is hallucination.” Thomas Edison. Every business generates ideassome simple, others revolutionary. But in most cases, the difference between a fleeting concept and a breakthrough innovation lies in the ability to execute. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to transform their best ideas into tangible outcomes that drive growth and competitive advantage.

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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.

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