Fri.Jan 10, 2025

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Uncertainty Isn’t Always Bad

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If you think you understand what your customers want, you dont. If youre developing a new product for new customers, you know less. If youre developing a new technology for a new product for new customers, you know even less.

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Soundview Executive Book Summary of PIVOTAL

Stephen Shapiro

Soundview Executive Book Summaries has condensed my over 200-page book into six power-packed pages. And I would like to give you this summary. Here’s the first page… We all long for stability. This is so when change arises, we know how to react and know we have what is needed to make the best choice. This doesnt just apply to our personal lives but also to our work lives.

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Connect Your Learning Programs to Your Company’s Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Technology, geopolitics, and consumer habits are driving an unprecedented rate of change at a time when the organizations are already in flux with the rise of generative AI, remote work, and an aging workforce. Against this backdrop, employee learning and development is more critical than ever yet a recent report from LinkedIn and a series of interviews with 25 CLOs suggest that learning professionals dont always feel aligned with their organizations strategic priorities.

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What is innovation in business – and why is it so important in 2025!

innosabi Innovation Insights

The main problem for a company, no matter the market, is to be more competitive. ROI can be related to efficiency and new product innovation. In the end, the more competitive a company can be, the better, and innovation is used for that purpose. But innovation isn’t black and white; when making innovation, you’re […] Der Beitrag What is innovation in business and why is it so important in 2025!

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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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What the 2024 CrowdStrike Glitch Can Teach Us About Cyber Risk

Harvard Business Review

Despite advances in cybersecurity solutions, the number and impact of cyber incidents continue to grow, with the average cost of a data breach in 2024 reaching $4.88 million and the number of confirmed data breaches hitting a record high. The July 2024 CrowdStrike incident demonstrates the need to develop capabilities to assess the downstream business impact of cyber events, establish appropriate cyber resiliency objectives, and ensure effective communication for better cyber risk management dec

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Perfect Project Prioritization In New Product Development: 14 Criteria

ITONICS

Imagine a ship setting sail without a clear destinationits crew would waste time, fuel, and effort drifting aimlessly. Thats what poor project prioritization feels like for many teams.

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Drive Innovation: 8-Steps to Launch and Run a Startup Accelerator

eZassi

Your Primer for Startup Acceleration Startup acceleration has been getting a lot of buzz lately in the realm of strategic innovation. Startup accelerators are emerging as almost commonplace with larger companies, and are used to foster innovation, support new, blossoming ideas, and build mutually beneficial relationships with those external entities that promise to bring new disruptive capabilities to market.