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Preparing for the Human & AI Innovator Team

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | With customer needs evolving rapidly and technologies like generative AI reshaping business processes, banks are under pressure to stay ahead. At ABN AMRO Bank, Anna-Lena Lorenz and her team are navigating this transformation by exploring how humans and AI can collaborate to drive innovation. At Innov8rs Milan, she shares how they are unlocking new possibilities that would be impossible with human effort alone.

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Five Must Reads for 2025

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Tis the season for year in review and top 10 lists. As fun (and sometimes frightening) as it is to look back, it is just as fun (and sometimes frightening) to look ahead. After all, as innovators, that is what we naturally do.

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Stuck With Creating Growth Outside of the Core?

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | To create revenue beyond the existing business, corporate innovators need to design a supportive NOW/NEW interface. There is an 80 percent chance that growth outside the box is a top-5 priority in your company. The box refers to your company's current business model, operating model, and mental model. But chances are, your company is not delivering that growth.

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Make Better Strategic Decisions Around Slow-Developing Technology

Harvard Business Review

Many breakthrough products include multiple technologies that evolved very slowly sometimes over decades. To avoid being surprised or overtaken by competitors, companies must systematically track the evolution of these slow-cooking technologies as they improve in performance and decrease in price. The window of opportunity that arrives when all the right technologies reach the point of maturity may be smaller than you think.

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A Roadmap For Modernization: How To Break Free From Your Monolith Before July 31, 2026

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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Innovation in Manufacturing: Industry Trends and Challenges

Qmarkets

In a competitive and technology-driven global economy, innovation has become a non-negotiable strategy for manufacturers aiming to stay ahead of market demands. According to a study by PwC, a staggering 92% of industrial manufacturing executives consider innovation essential for driving future revenue growth, underscoring its pivotal role in the sector’s success (Source: PwC ).

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Research: Gen AI Changes the Value Proposition of Foreign Remote Workers

Harvard Business Review

But replacing U.S. workers with foreign talent isn’t as easy as supplying them with ChatGPT.

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How to Get Better at Saying No

Harvard Business Review

A conversation with Cornell’s Dr. Sunita Sah on pushing back effectively.

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What is Sustainable Innovation? Definition, Examples and Best Practices

eZassi

What is Sustainable Innovation? Sustainable innovation is the application of new ideas to create value while prioritizing benefits for both people and the planet. Professor Rajesh Chandy, a Professor at the London Business School, breaks down Sustainable Innovation into its component parts. What is Innovation? The application of a new idea to create value.

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Building the Right Innovation Portfolio

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | If youve been around the innovation world for a while you probably came across the 70-20-10 golden rule for portfolio management. This 'rule' suggests that 70% of a company's resources need to go toward core-business innovation, 20% towards adjacent innovation and 10% towards disruptive or radical innovation. Historically speaking, the concept was first introduced by Eric Schmidt, ex-Google CEO in the early 2000s.

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How to Keep Up with the News Without Getting Overwhelmed

Harvard Business Review

Studies suggest that increased exposure to news, whether through traditional media or social media platforms, can negatively impact mental health. In other words, more news correlates with higher anxiety. But the answer is not to check out altogether. In this article, the author shares advice from three experts on how to be more intentional about where, when, and how you catch up on the news so that you dont become a victim of round-the-clock triggering headlines.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Key Takeaways From the 2024 Intrapreneurship Barometer

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Intrapreneurship: From "Nice to Have" to "Must Have" When Yumana launched the first Intrapreneurship Barometer in 2021, many programs focused on developing an entrepreneurial mindset and new ways of working rather than driving direct business value. Fast forward to 2024 and the second edition of their European study, the landscape has radically changed.

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