Innovation Excellence
JUNE 3, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell When Steve Jobs and Apple launched the Macintosh with great fanfare in 1984, it was to be only one step in a long journey that began with Douglas Engelbart’s Mother of All Demos and the development of the Alto at Xerox PARC more than a decade before.
Digital Tonto
JUNE 2, 2024
Management fads tend to come from people who did well in school. Many of these are business school professors and consultants, who've never operated a business. They are often people who’ve never failed, been told that they’re smart all their lives and expect others to be impressed by their ideas, not to examine them thoroughly. They tend come up with their ideas by talking to other smart, successful people about their experiences.
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IdeaScale
JUNE 6, 2024
Purpose. Goal. Mission. You hear these words a lot this time of year. Not because it’s the start of the annual business planning cycle but because it’s graduation season.
ImagineNation
JUNE 3, 2024
After founding ImagineNation in Israel, I invested a year of my time and considerable money in taking smart risks to invent an experiential business game. This involved collaborating with one of the top game design companies to co-create a live business simulation incorporating innovative gamification elements intending to teach corporations how to be innovat ive.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 4, 2024
Your boss points out what’s going wrong more often than what’s going right. They nitpick your work, highlighting every possibility for improvement. Meetings sometimes feel like inquisitions. While a generally difficult boss might be challenging due to their mood swings, lack of clarity, or unpredictability, a highly critical boss consistently focuses on “the gap,” not the gain.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 4, 2024
Jamie Dimon’s Comments on AI Just Proved It GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton “Time is a flat circle. Everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over and over again – forever.
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Kainexus
JUNE 7, 2024
Organizations that embrace the continuous improvement approach to business have many great tools and techniques from which to choose. Some organizations use them as part of a structured methodology like Lean, Six Sigma, or Toyota Kata. Others leverage them on their own. Every organization has unique needs and will need to adjust each method for their own environment, but the most popular techniques are flexible enough to be used by organizations of every size and in every industry.
Planview
JUNE 6, 2024
More than a year after the unveiling of ChatGPT, enterprises are cautiously introducing large language model-driven applications for a multitude of once-miraculous tasks. The first question that many businesses face is whether to build their own generative AI (GenAI) solutions or purchase off-the-shelf applications. In this blog post, we’ll differentiate between individual uses of GenAI and GenAI-driven applications and list the pros and cons of both sides of the build vs. buy argument.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 5, 2024
Four Common Mistakes Managers Make GUEST POST from David Burkus Senior leaders set strategy. But middle managers and front-line managers make the difference in whether that strategy gets executed…and in whether or not people are engaged and motivated in an organization.
IdeaScale
JUNE 4, 2024
State governments, in the contemporary digital landscape, aim to furnish citizens with services that are efficient and user-friendly. But how satisfied are people with the services they receive? A recent survey conducted by Qualtrics in collaboration with Code for America sheds light on this question. Spanning over 14,000 participants from every state in the U.S.
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.
Sopheon
JUNE 4, 2024
Project managers are the unsung, behind-the-scenes heroes of an InnovationOps-based approach. In such an approach, organizations seek to operationalize innovation by bringing together the company’s culture, ways of working, people and products. Project managers orchestrate the intricate dance between creative ideas, tight deadlines and limited resources.
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 6, 2024
In my first post (which you can read here), in a series of posts about “First Principles Based Leadership”, I shared the importance of developing five types of awareness (self, social, cultural, contextual and systems) in order to build that foundation for becoming a First Principles based leader. Today, in this third post, we will talk about how we can improve our social awareness.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 7, 2024
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If you want new behavior, you must embrace conflict. If you can’t tolerate the conflict, you’ll do what you did last time. If your point of view angers half and empowers everyone else, you made a difference. If your point of view meets with 100% agreement, you wasted everyone’s time.
Ecosystems4Innovating
JUNE 6, 2024
The Interconnected Business Ecosystem Framework Are you considering building a greater understanding of where Ecosystem thinking and design can fit within your organization? The Interconnected Business Ecosystem Framework is a pioneering and holistic approach that redefines how organizations create value, drive innovation, and achieve long-term success in an increasingly complex and dynamic business environment.
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.
CMOE
JUNE 5, 2024
Employee engagement is the connection that a worker feels to the job. It’s about how enthusiastic a person feels toward the work and the objectives the team and organization are trying to meet. An employee’s level of engagement influences their dedication to the team and organization. Do the employees care about the work? Are they interested in the performance of the team or organization as a whole?
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 5, 2024
In my last post, I shared the importance for leaders to work on five different kinds of awareness (self, social, cultural, contextual and systemic). Today and in the next four posts, I will delve into how can we go about cultivating and improving each one of these awareness. Today, let’s explore how we can go about cultivating and improving our self awareness.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 2, 2024
GUEST POST from John Bessant Why change is not always a good thing…. Forget about the ice truckers who haul their precious cargoes across frozen lakes and tundra in the Arctic Circle. Or those heroes who service remote islands in the Pacific or who fly into inaccessible airstrips in the rainforests.
Brunner
JUNE 4, 2024
Like many brands that need to reach consumer and business audiences, YellaWood wanted a way to win the hearts, minds — and business — of B2B and B2C lumber customers by engaging with them equally, across all its marketing channels. “Six years ago, we came to Brunner with a very simple request — to cut through the clutter,” recalls Rob Pongonis, CMO of Great Southern Wood Preserving, maker of YellaWood.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
Ecosystems4Innovating
JUNE 3, 2024
The selling of Business Ecosystems needs facilitation and realization So often, you get the question, “What are the arguments for selling B2B business ecosystems?” Then why would enterprises invest in such a significant change to their systems and structures? Where is the value and payback? It should be recognized that selling B2B business ecosystems to enterprises can be a compelling proposition as it offers several potential benefits and value propositions.
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 4, 2024
Premise: One of the foundations for First Principles Based Leadership is for leaders to be aware. Leaders need to work on their awareness on five different levels. 1. Self Awareness: First and foremost is for us, as leaders, we need to work on improving our self awareness. When I talk about self awareness, I am referring to knowing what we want to achieve and why we want to achieve it.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 6, 2024
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Often, the best companies to do business with are the best companies to work for. When you look at the Google ratings for Round Room Holdings’ TCC and Wireless Zone, two Verizon Wireless retailers with approximately 1,200 retail stores throughout the U.S.
Exoplatform
JUNE 2, 2024
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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.
ITONICS
JUNE 7, 2024
An innovation strategy outlines the key areas a firm invests in because it believes these areas will help it fulfill its ambition. Finding the right level and areas of investment can be challenging due to the various options and uncertainties surrounding everything new. This article explains how a firm’s ambition, biography, and industry clock speed define the formulation of an optimal innovation strategy.
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 3, 2024
Earlier today, I read a blog post by Greg Satell titled “This Is One Big Reason Why So Much Business Thinking Is Crap“ In the post he shares his insight on how business fads are created, propagated and result in much waste before fading away. I agree with him whole-heartedly. Building best practices through case studies and interviews, in my opinion is somewhat similar to how blind men would define an elephant, just by feeling a part of the elephant.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 3, 2024
Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?
Exoplatform
JUNE 2, 2024
The Administrative Court is the highest jurisdiction in Tunisias administrative justice system. It ensures a balance between the powers of the administration and the rights of citizens, by reviewing the legality of administrative acts. It performs both a jurisdictional function (through its chambers of first instance, appeal and cassation) and an advisory function.
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
The Human Factor
JUNE 5, 2024
image source The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has massively transformed into a thriving hub for business and commerce. With its strategic location, world-class infrastructure, and favorable business environment, the UAE offers immense opportunities for entrepreneurs and established businesses alike. This article delves into the various aspects of growing a business in the UAE, highlighting the opportunities, challenges, and the role of franchises in this dynamic market.
Rmukesh Gupta
JUNE 1, 2024
Failure is often considered to be the opposite of success. However, truly successful people know that failure is an integral part of any success! It’s very rare indeed that someone finds success without meeting failure along the way. If they do, the success doesn’t last as long as they would like it to! So, we would do well to learn how to look at failure and how we deal with it when we come face to face with it.
ITONICS
JUNE 3, 2024
According to a recent study by McKinsey and Henley Business School, nowadays innovation management and digital transformation go hand in hand. Enterprise Architects play an integral role in this. The study emphasizes the need for enterprise architects to facilitate digitization by managing technological complexity and setting the course for the evolution of the IT landscape around their companies.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 6, 2024
Humans are good at inventing tools, but not as good at adapting to the change these tools can cause. While there has been much focus on the technical impacts and potential dark side of AI, the authors’ research has shown that AI can enhance and empower leadership, actually helping make leaders more human. To do this, we need to invest just as much in the development of our human potential as we do in harnessing the power of AI.
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