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How to Succeed with Corporate Innovation: Strategies and Best Practices

Qmarkets

Innovation is critical for businesses of all shapes and sizes, from launching a first product to making a new global acquisition. However corporate innovation is often the most complex and challenging due to its scale and scope. Many organizations face difficulties in establishing effective innovation programs, often due to misaligned strategies, unclear processes, and inadequate tools.

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Nothing creative is guaranteed to be a success

Idea to Value

Every time you produce something creative, there is a high chance that it might fail. It doesn’t matter if it is an innovative new product idea, a new song, or a new recipe. Whatever you produce, and no matter how successful you have previously been, it does not mean that customers will want what you have produced. For example, in recent years Hollywood films have more frequently begun to “bomb” at the box office, taking in less ticket sales than was expected.

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Is Humanity's Dependence on Technology Good Or Bad?

Phil McKinney

In today’s rapidly evolving world, technology is both an enabler and a challenge. Its pervasive presence in our lives raises pertinent questions about its impact on our critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities. As we navigate this digital age, we must ask: Has our increasing reliance on technology improved or diminished these vital skills?

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From Concept to Execution: Streamlining the Innovation Process with IdeaScale

IdeaScale

Innovation is the lifeblood of any successful organization. However, the journey from a brilliant idea to a fully realized project can be fraught with challenges. Many organizations struggle with moving ideas from concept to execution, leading to missed opportunities and wasted potential.

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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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How to Reboot Your Innovation System

Cris Beswick

Having written several books over the past decade and contributed small snippets of thought leadership or entire chapters to over a dozen other books, I still return to the book I wrote with Derek Bishop and Jo Geraghty of Culture Consultancy fame. Despite the world of corporate innovation seemingly moving on from when we wrote it, the reality is that the basics still need to be implemented for many organisations.

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There Is No Secret Formula. Effective Leaders Need To Master Mode Shifting.

Digital Tonto

About a decade ago I made the trip out to see Brian Robertson, the creator of Holacracy, the leaderless management governance method. It was all the rage at the time, with high-flying firms such as Zappos and Medium adopting it enthusiastically. Brian was kind enough to spend a few hours with me, explaining the ins and outs of how it all worked. But even then I was skeptical and I told him so.

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Leadership Confidence: Why Executives’ Trust in Their Teams is Plummeting and How to Rebuild It

IdeaScale

“Trust no one. Suspect everyone.” Great advice if you’re an MI6 agent trying to uncover a spy at the height of the Cold War. Not great advice if you’re a senior executive responsible for leading a team to deliver record results.

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Do You Bring Your Whole Self to Work?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Do you bring your whole self to work? If not, how do you feel about that? When you demonstrate your unique goodness and it’s met with “You don’t fit in.” they may say they want you to fit in, but, really, that’s objective evidence that they need your unique goodness.

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Top Strategies to Achieve Operational Excellence | KaiNexus

Kainexus

Operational excellence as a strategic objective focuses on continuously improving internal processes and systems to achieve superior efficiency, quality, and customer satisfaction. Adopting a structured approach involves identifying inefficiencies, implementing best practices, and leveraging technology to streamline operations. This approach enhances productivity and strengthens competitive advantage by enabling organizations to respond effectively to market changes and customer needs, fostering

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Emergent Challenges in Biopharma Portfolio Management

Planview

In 2023, Planview was pleased to sponsor several WHY Summit Events: Basil, Switzerland, and Philadelphia. A year later, we returned to Philadelphia and then headed cross-country to San Francisco for the WHY Summit’s 21st and 22nd American Pharma and Biotech Project, Program, and Portfolio Management Conference. In this blog, we will illuminate a few common themes based on presentations and discussions around the conference.

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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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On the Folly of Rewarding for Business-As-Usual when you are Hoping for Innovation

IdeaScale

Even with the best intentions, reward systems in corporate life all too often mean that most of the people you need supporting innovation work flee from it. Here are some ideas for getting a better balance.

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These Forgotten Customers Are Key to Your Success

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton “There is only one boss. The customer.” – Sam Walton With all the buzz around human-centered design, customer-centric businesses, and external-facing organizations, corporate America is (finally) waking up to the importance and value of creating things that people actually want and that solve people’s problems.

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When Generosity Breeds Animosity: Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Resentments

Tullio Siragusa

When Generosity Breeds Animosity: Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Resentments Have you ever felt a twinge of animosity toward someone who seems to be constantly giving, whether through acts of kindness, wisdom, or leadership? Perhaps youve encountered a colleague who uplifts others selflessly, or a leader who embodies vulnerability, and collected decision-making while you wrestle with internal frustrations.

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The importance of Business Ecosystems? Are you future-aware?

Ecosystems4Innovating

Building out the arguments to make a compelling business change case for Business Ecosystems needs to cover significant areas to address and recognise. Any view needs to offer some compelling reasons to recognize that there is a powerful need to shift to a more modern, network-centric view for business operations and strategy. Compiling this set of opinions takes time to shape into a concise document.

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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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Talent Vs Opportunity

Rmukesh Gupta

This is a rant. Please ignore if you are not in a mood for somebody’s rant! I strongly believe that talent is equally distributed across any segment that we can think of {men vs women, rich vs poor, straight vs gay, Asian vs European vs African, black vs brown vs white folks, early talent vs experienced talent, developed nation vs developing nation, students of Ivy League universities vs public universities, etc).

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AI Can Help Attract, Retain and Grow Customer Relationships

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken How do you know what your customers want if they don’t tell you? It’s more than sending surveys and interpreting data. Joe Tyrrell is the CEO of Medallia, a company that helps its customers tailor experiences through “intelligent personalization” and automation.

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How Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management Can Revolutionize Your Business

Qmarkets

Entrepreneurship has long been a driving force behind groundbreaking innovations and industry disruptions. In the context of large businesses, harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit can significantly enhance innovation management, leading to sustained competitive advantage. This article explores how entrepreneurship and innovation management work together and examines the role of innovation management software in leveraging entrepreneurial talent.

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Essential Management Tips for Emotional Intelligence

Innovators Alliance

Power Up Your Empathy Effective managers are good at using empathy and being sensitive to how people feel and why they feel the way they do. ‘Tune into’ and ’read’ the feelings and emotions being shared during a conversation. Make Relevant Decisions Effective managers may have the ability to make objective and relevant decisions. Ask yourself how the decision is relevant to corporate values and stated goals.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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First Principles Based Leadership – Building our Systemic Awareness

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise In this series of posts about First Principles Based Leadership, we have already covered the importance of and how to improve our self awareness, social awareness, cultural awareness and contextual awareness. In this post, we will explore the importance of systemic awareness and how can we continue to improve our ability to understand and be more aware of the systems within which we operate in.

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Creating Effective Digital Teams

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky Creating digital products is a multi-disciplinary process, blending creativity, engineering, strategy, customer support, legal regulations and more. How to structure their teams is a major challenge faced by large enterprises and global brands undergoing a digital transformation.

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How to Manage Innovation: Strategies for Overcoming Common Challenges Copy

Qmarkets

Managing something as amorphous as innovation can be a daunting task, especially for large organizations. The very nature of innovation—unpredictable, dynamic, and often disruptive—makes it challenging to control and direct. Organizations must navigate complex structures, foster collaboration across siloed departments, and overcome ingrained resistance to change.

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Brunner Promotes Team Members to Recognize and Reward ‘Great Work’ for Clients

Brunner

Brunner has announced job promotions for 20 employees in recognition of the outstanding work they’ve done in their roles, both for the agency’s wide range of clients and in service of the company’s continued growth. The promotions took effect July 1. “We’re very focused on having ‘good people creating great work’ for our clients. These 20 individuals have certainly demonstrated that ethos in their work and have shown they are ready to take on a new level of responsibility,” said Erin Stoner, Bru

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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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PDSA Quality Improvement: A Scientific Method of Change

Kainexus

Dr. W. Edwards Deming is considered by many to be the father of modern quality improvement. Among other important insights into how businesses could become more efficient, reduce costs, and increase customer value, he popularized the PDSA quality improvement method. It is a four-step cycle used to achieve continuous improvement, consistent results, and resource maximization in processes and products.

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Smarter Risk Taking

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack After founding ImagineNation™ in Israel, I invested a year of my time and considerable money in taking what I thought were smart risks to invent an experiential business game.

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How to Manage Innovation: Strategies for Overcoming Common Challenges

Qmarkets

Managing something as amorphous as innovation can be a daunting task, especially for large organizations. The very nature of innovation—unpredictable, dynamic, and often disruptive—makes it challenging to control and direct. Organizations must navigate complex structures, foster collaboration across siloed departments, and overcome ingrained resistance to change.

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ChangeThis Manifesto – Innovate Where You Differentiate

Stephen Shapiro

In 2010, Personality Poker was selected as one of the top five innovation books of the year by Porchlight Book Company (then 800-CEO-READ). In 2011, they selected Best Practices Are Stupid as the best innovation and creativity book of the year. And today, they published my ChangeThis manifesto titled “Innovate Where You Differentiate.” They asked me to create a 2,000-word article that is not an excerpt from or a summary of my book, PIVOTAL.

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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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What is Discontinuous Innovation? (And Why It’s the Key to Staying Ahead)

innosabi Innovation Insights

Ever felt like the world is evolving at a speed that’s hard to keep up? This is the essence of innovation– and its importance in the modern business landscape is explored in our article, ‘What is innovation in business – and why is it so important in 2024!“ But perhaps you’re wondering ‘what is […] Der Beitrag What is Discontinuous Innovation?

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How to Maximize Efficiency in Digital Product Development

Planview

The development of digital products in today’s landscape is reshaping our daily lives and industries at an almost frenzied pace. Digital products are at the core of the transformations in every facet of our lives, from managing our finances and health to navigating transportation. This integration of digital solutions represents a significant shift in how we interact with technology and each other, creating new possibilities for efficiency in every aspect of life.

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Ideation Workshops: Best Practices for Success

Qmarkets

Ideation workshops play a critical role in driving innovation. These structured sessions are designed to generate and develop new ideas, fostering creativity and problem-solving within teams. However, running an effective ideation workshop requires careful planning and execution, especially when considering different formats such as online and in-person sessions.

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Expanding Your Network: How Broadcast Channels Drive yet2’s Success

Yet2

Words by Carlos Pichardo Welcome to the second installment of our networking blog series. In this post, we explore a powerful network source beyond direct relationships: broadcast channels. These channels provide an opportunity to send your message to the masses. Discover how setting up a global network of syndication partners, broker partners, and other key broadcast channels can drive success.

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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.