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The Runaway Innovation Train

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Pete Foley In this blog, I return and expand on a paradox that has concerned me for some time. Are we getting too good at innovation, and is it in danger of getting out of control? That may seem like a strange question for an innovator to ask.

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Redefining Business Models in the Age of AI: People, Purpose, and Profit

Tullio Siragusa

Redefining Business Models in the Age of AI: People, Purpose, and Profit As we stand on the precipice of unprecedented technological advancement, the future of business isn’t just being shaped by automation and AI — it’s being redefined by how we choose to integrate people, purpose, and profit into these evolving models. After listening to Xiaochen Zhang, founder of FinTech for Good, on The Bliss Business Podcast , it’s clear that we are entering a phase where AI will fundamentally reshape not o

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Moving from Open Innovation to Innovation Ecosystems

Paul Hobcraft

Building Innovation Ecosystems can tackle unique challenges How do we differentiate (traditional) approaches of Innovation to (evolving) Innovation Ecosystems? Is your innovation process closed only to you? Or have you gone to being more open in innovation with outside selected partners? Well we do need to move beyond both of these and start thinking and designing with Innovation Ecosystems.

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How 3D Printing is Revolutionizing Key Industries in the Next 5 Years

eZassi

The Future of Additive Manufacturing in Consumer Goods, Energy, and New Materials In the ever-evolving world of technology, 3D printing is emerging as a game-changer across multiple sectors. From consumer packaged goods (CPG) and life sciences to oil/gas/energy, defense/aerospace, and chemical/materials, the ability to produce complex, customized products quickly and efficiently is transforming industries.

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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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False Choice – Founder versus Manager

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Paul Graham, cofounder of Y Combinator, was so inspired by a speech by Airbnb cofounder and CEO that he wrote an essay about well-intentioned advice that, to scale a business, founders must shift modes and become managers. It went viral.

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How critical Dynamic Ecosystems are to any Ecosystem Design

Ecosystems4Innovating

The importance of Recognizing Dynamic Ecosystems We recognize the need for business to embrace change and thrive through adaptation in a rapidly evolving business landscape does require a very dynamic environment. Dynamic Ecosystems are central to providing the engine to collaborations, adaptation and future leadership. Its central role is to build constant adaptation and resilience, pushing to create increasing value through discovery and extraction throughout the entire ecosystem, and providin

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New Trends in Functionalizing Food-Adjacencies: Unlocking Human Health Potential

Yet2

Words by yet2 CEO Tim Bernstein Functionalizing food is not a new idea. However, this year, yet2 is seeing a new cycle of innovation in latest ingredients and new food formats. The key to this new cycle of functionalizing food adjacencies, lies in developing food formats that not only enhance consumer health care delivery but also maintain sensory standards and compliance with regulatory standards.

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The Future of Education is Now: Preparing Schools for Tomorrow with Innovation Management Software

IdeaScale

Education is rapidly evolving, driven by technological advancements, changing student needs, and the demand for more personalized, flexible learning experiences. As the landscape shifts, schools must be proactive in preparing for the future.

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Innovation is Combination

Innovation Excellence

Silicon Valley’s Innovator’s Dilemma – The Atom, The Bit And The Gene GUEST POST from Greg Satell Over the past several decades, innovation has become largely synonymous with digital technology.

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The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Innovation Process in Business for Growth

innosabi Innovation Insights

The innovation process is basically the journey a company takes to turn those lightbulb moments into something real; something tangible – an exciting new product, a helpful service, or even a better way of doing things. It covers all the steps involved, from that first spark of an idea to its launch. Now, […] Der Beitrag The Ultimate Guide to Understanding the Innovation Process in Business for Growth erschien zuerst auf innosabi.

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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 Dashboards: Steering Template for Your Innovation Pipeline

ITONICS

Many companies struggle with justifying innovation investments. They struggle with reporting the progress of their innovation pipeline. Too many and too vague innovation KPIs, siloed data across fragmented tools, and innovation theatre make it difficult to assess the innovation pipeline's quality. Companies are left guessing which projects are on track.

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Research: Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Have to Stress Workers Out

Harvard Business Review

Pay-for-performance (PFP) is considered one of the strongest tools to motivate employees, yet despite its popularity, it can sometimes create stress for workers that results in decreased performance, creativity, and engagement. New research suggests that how employees view their supervisor has a role in determining whether workers view PFP as a motivating challenge, leading them to achieve new heights, or a stressful threat that impacts their work.

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Sometimes to Innovate You Must Do the Following

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski What it takes to do new work: Confidence to get it wrong and confidence to do it early and often. Purposeful misuse of worst practices in a way that makes them the right practices. Tolerance for not knowing what to do next and tolerance for those uncomfortable with that.

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The Future of Healthcare: Embracing Anticipatory Strategies to Drive Innovation and Patient Care

Daniel Burrus

As healthcare rapidly evolves, leaders must not only react to current challenges but also anticipate future disruptions and opportunities. This shift from reactive to anticipatory healthcare , is more than just a buzzword—it’s a vital strategy for improving patient outcomes, optimizing operations, and advancing innovation in a sector critical to global well-being.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Best Practices for a Performance Improvement Discussion

CMOE

Even the most exceptional team members encounter challenges or plateaus in their performance from time to time. Recognizing this, it’s essential to approach such instances as opportunities for growth rather than setbacks or obstacles. Performance improvement discussions, when conducted thoughtfully, can foster trust, growth and development. Effective leadership necessitates the ability to conduct meaningful performance discussions.

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6 Essential Leadership Skills — and How to Develop Them

Harvard Business Review

Expert advice on what every leader needs to know.

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Customer Service Makes You Money

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Necessity is the mother of invention. In 2003, Marton Anka, the founder of LogMeIn, now GoTo, spent three hours a day in Budapest crossing a bridge between Buda and Pest, the two halves of Hungary’s capital.

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First Principles Based Leadership Requires First Order Learning

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise I read this post by John Hunter, which was originally published in 2014 but is still very relevant. In this blog, he shares one key insight from the work of Deming – managing (or leading) can’t be taught (prescriptive) and needs to be learnt (experiential). First Order Learning Vs Second Order Learning One needs to learn to lead by leading and to manage by managing.

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The Benefits of Innovation in Times of Crisis

Innovation is key to overcoming crises. This guide outlines how businesses can navigate uncertainty by adapting strategies, embracing open innovation, and strengthening resilience. Learn how to reassess business models, engage external expertise, and build a robust innovation ecosystem. Explore the three phases of crisis response—from immediate adaptation to long-term transformation—and discover how collaboration accelerates progress while reducing costs.

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Swimming In New Soup

Mike Shipulski

You know the space is new when you don’t have the right words to describe the phenomenon. When there are two opposite sequences of events and you think both are right, you know the space is new. You know you’re thinking about new things when the harder you try to figure it out the less you know. You know the space is outside your experience but within your knowledge when you know what to do but you don’t know why.

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What Employers Get Wrong About How People Connect at Work

Harvard Business Review

Four important kinds of connection happen in organizations — but leaders usually only focus on one.

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How Leaders Make Employees Feel Respected

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from David Burkus Leadership is about relationships. And the cornerstone of just about every relationship is respect. When employees feel respected, they are more engaged, motivated, and productive. But many managers struggle to convey their respect to team members. Consequently, colleagues often experience a sense of being undervalued, disconnected, or even inferior.

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Lessons we Can Learn From Catching A Rocket in Mid-Air

Rmukesh Gupta

On 13th October 2024, SpaceX team did something remarkable. They launched their starship rocket and then allowed its booster to drop into the Earth’s atmosphere and caught it with their giant mechanical arms at the launch pad. This is something that has never been done (or even attempted before). There are a few lessons to be learnt for all of us as leaders from this exercise.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

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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Five Priorities Is Probably Too Many

Michael Roberto

Willie Pietersen, retired CEO of businesses Lever Foods, Seagram USA, and Tropicana has written a column for Fortune in which he argues that many leaders proclaim too many priorities. The article is titled, " You can’t have 5 priorities—even Steve Jobs and Bob Iger couldn’t." He writes: During my 20 years as the CEO of various enterprises, I developed an ingrained habit.

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How Great Product Managers Facilitate Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Five steps to help you enhance the discovery process and deliver products that meet both customer needs and business goals.

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What Is So Fascinating About Marijuana News?

MSSBTI

What Is So Fascinating About Marijuana News? The Meaning of Marijuana News If you’re against using Cannabis test.com as you do not need to smoke you’re misinformed. As there is barely any cannabis left in a roach, some people today argue that the song is all about running out of cannabis and not having the ability to acquire high, exactly like the roach isn’t able to walk because it’s missing a leg.

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The Identity Trap

Digital Tonto

On September 17th, 2011, protesters began to stream into Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan and the #Occupy movement had begun. “We are the 99%,” they declared and as far as they were concerned, it was time for the reign of the “1%” to end. The protests soon spread like wildfire to 951 cities across 82 countries. Despite all the hoopla, within a few months, the streets and parks were cleared.

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Zero Trust Mandate: The Realities, Requirements and Roadmap

The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.

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Physicians Can Help Cut Costs. They Just Need the Right Incentives.

Harvard Business Review

Five principles for helping bend the cost curve without compromising on the quality of care.

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Technical Considerations for Business Leaders Operationalizing Gen AI - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM AWS

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from AWS.

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Video Quick Take: Intercom’s Brian Donahue on How AI Agents Can Be Your First Tier of Customer Service Support - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM INTERCOM

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from Intercom.

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How to Deploy and Scale Generative AI Efficiently and Cost-Effectively - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM AWS & NVIDIA

Harvard Business Review

Sponsor content from AWS & NVIDIA.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.