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What’s the Right Balance Between Open Innovation and Internal Innovation?

HYPE Innovation

Innovation, as defined in the OECD's Oslo Manual (2018), is the introduction of a new or significantly improved product, process, marketing method, or organizational practice within business operations, reflecting the evolving landscape of modern workplaces.

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Embracing the power of dynamic ecosystems.

Paul Hobcraft

Innovation’s power lies in the ability to adapt, evolve, and collaborate, and our need is to make this as much of a dynamic ecosystem as possible to tackle the growing complexity and challenges we are facing today and in the future. In recent weeks, I have been deepening my thinking on innovation ecosystems and the dynamics within these that can make them different by giving them this “dynamic focus.” So, it is time to embrace the power of dynamic ecosystems – where innovation

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Eight Innovation Executive Types

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard Don’t put your leaders in boxes, but don’t ignore the signs neither. Look for traits, behaviors and action – or lack there or. Use the insight to make your leaders and executive teams – and thus your organization – even better at shaping the future. 1.

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10 Proven Ways to Foster a Culture of Innovation and Drive Your Business to the Top

IdeaScale

In today's fast-paced business world, foster a culture of innovation is crucial for staying ahead of the competition. By encouraging new ideas, creative thinking, and experimentation, companies can continuously improve their products and services, streamline processes, and stay relevant in an ever-changing market. Ten proven ways: Foster a culture of innovation 1.

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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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Navigating the Uncharted: A Reflection on 2023 and Strategic Planning for 2024

CMOE

As 2023 comes to a close, it is the perfect time to reflect on lessons we’ve learned throughout the year and plan for 2024’s uncertainties. Maybe your strategy was successful, and perhaps it didn’t pan out, but you certainly faced unexpected challenges and victories that you didn’t plan for. From industry shifts to policy changes to personal triumphs, each experience provides valuable insights, and the agility of navigating these experiences and challenges shows both the need to adapt your

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This new recycled packing material could replace bubble wrap

Idea to Value

Sometimes, an innovation comes around that is so simple, it makes you think “ why didn’t I think of that?” I just came across another such example from renowned innovation powerhouse 3M. They have found a way to use a principle of origami to create sheets of cardboard which fold themselves into packing material when stretched. Check out this video to find out how it works.

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Elevate Innovation: Assessing Maturity with IdeaScale’s Quiz

IdeaScale

In the dynamic landscape of business, embracing innovation is more than a trend; it's a strategic imperative for organizations seeking growth and investment opportunities. IdeaScale, a trailblazer in idea and innovation management software introduces an insightful quiz – "How Mature is your Innovation Program?" This innovative survey, drawing from the extensive collaboration with 4.5 million [.

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Is AI Saving Corporate Innovation or Killing It?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton AI is killing Corporate Innovation. Last Friday, the brilliant minds of Scott Kirsner, Rita McGrath, and Alex Osterwalder (plus a few guest stars like me, no big deal) gathered to debate the truth of this statement.

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Retirement Reinvented: Why Learning, Experimenting, and Serving Others Hold the Key to a Prosperous Future!

Daniel Burrus

The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why you were born. Personally, I know I was put on this Earth to teach other business leaders and working professionals. Life is about purpose —finding your purpose and living your purpose both in your professional life and your personal life. Purpose is what gives us motivation and makes our working lives enjoyable.

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The 'Easy' Side Hustle He Started in College Hit More Than $1 Million in Revenue — and Taught Him 3 Business Lessons He Still Uses Today

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Michael Seaman started a hugely successful Etsy side hustle. Now he's the co-founder and CEO of payment processing firm Swipesum. Read more about his journey.

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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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Discovering Your Innovation Persona with IdeaScale’s Quiz: Unleash Your Creativity

IdeaScale

In the fast-paced world of innovation, understanding and embracing your unique innovation style can be a game-changer. IdeaScale, a leading SAAS company offers an engaging and insightful quiz titled "What is your Innovation Persona?" Through a series of thought-provoking questions, this quiz promises to unveil your innovation style by drawing parallels with famous innovators.

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Price is Relevant Only in the Absence of Value

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken The title of this article may sound like a lesson in sales, but it’s much bigger than that. It’s about the entire customer experience. If a promise to provide value in the CX is built into a company’s mission and values statements, it potentially becomes part of the culture.

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Creativity Amid The Chaos: The View From The Drucker Forum

Bill Fischer

Chaos and creativity, are often linked in the hope that out of chaos, new ideas can emerge. We believe this requires significant changes in leadership and organization.

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Global Prosperity’s 2023 Roundup

Christensen Institute

At the Christensen Institute the Global Prosperity team researches how businesses, governments, and nonprofits worldwide can leverage innovation theories and frameworks to create prosperity in their communities. We started this year with ambitious goals to spread this research as far as we could in different countries and sectors, and through different institutions.

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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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Recognizing the Value of Innovation Ecosystems

Ecosystems4Innovating

I keep being asked what Innovation Ecosystems are, why they seem slower in adoption than expected in the business environment, and how you can overcome reluctance and possible resistance to the need to change. So, I thought I would list what the role of innovation ecosystems can provide and why they are essential and offer suggestions on gaining greater identification and adoption.

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We Change the World with Ecosystems Not Inventions

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Imagine yourself as the CEO of a Dow component company in 1919. You are fully aware of the technological forces that would shape much of the 20th century, electricity and internal combustion. You may have even be an early adopter of these technologies. Still, everything seems like business as usual.

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Can Business Schools Teach Transformation?

100%Open

In today’s competitive business environment, organisations aspire to cultivate high-performance cultures that champion team innovation, agility, and the realisation of strategic objectives. At the forefront of this transformative journey are leaders equipped with the right mindset and skills, and business schools play a pivotal role in shaping such dynamic leaders.

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Dealing with the raw emotions of the Cop28 event

Innovating4Energy

That CoP28 was an event that catches many of the basic emotions we are going through for managing the Energy transition to rapidly move towards a safer, sustainable climate and balance with nature. I was reflecting on the different parts and sought a way to describe these “emotions” as my reflection of the CoP28 event and all it means to me. The Energy Transition: Navigating a Turbulent Sea The energy transition is a complex and challenging journey, akin to navigating a turbulent sea.

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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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Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way

Tullio Siragusa

Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, a significant shift is occurring from traditional top-down management to a more inclusive and innovative strategy: bottom-up management. At the heart of this shift is Design Thinking, a method that empowers organizations to address complex problems with creative and human-centric solutions.

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Stuff Your Stoking with Innovation for $4.96

Innovation Excellence

Wow! Exciting news! While supplies last you can get the hardcover version of my best-selling book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire for only $4.96 (86% off), including free delivery in the USA from Amazon! Sorry, unfortunately Amazon doesn’t have a discount on the kindle version, which remains at $28.00, so this is quite the deal!

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The Future Of Value Stream Management: Harnessing The Power Of Generative AI

Planview

In today’s complex software delivery landscape, achieving end-to-end visibility across the value stream is not just important; it’s urgent. It’s the linchpin for identifying bottlenecks slowing development and draining your budget. Value Stream Management (VSM) solutions shine a light on these friction points, enabling leaders to identify areas needing improvement and take quick corrective action.

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2023 Innovation Resources Wrapped: Entrepreneurial Books, Podcasts and Tools

Innovators Alliance

As recommended by IA Members One of the most valuable elements of Innovators Alliance (IA), and something that sets our membership apart from other CEO Networking groups like TEC, YPO, and CEO Global is the fact that Innovators Alliance is the only peer-to-peer membership that is specifically for entrepreneurs. The knowledge and experience of the IA network of entrepreneurs is tremendously valuable, and something that will continue to inspire and sustain the membership.

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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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AI Generation of Audio and Video

Stephen Shapiro

I’m playing around with Pictory, an AI software that generates voices from text, and then selects videos that match the text. The first version of the video was generated with no edits. I used the defaults for everything. It literally took less than one minute to create it. I uploaded a text summary of my PIVOTAL book and this is what it generated without any intervention.

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Nominations Open – Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2023

Innovation Excellence

Human-Centered Change and Innovation loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be.

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Getting Comfortable with Discomfort

Michael Roberto

Physicist Peter Carruthers, once the leader of the theoretical division at Los Alamos Laboratory, had a wonderful viewpoint about the discomfort that comes with taking on an interesting challenge: “There’s a special tension to people who are constantly in the position of making new knowledge. You’re always out of equilibrium. When I was young, I was deeply troubled by this.

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Five Must-Have Features for Innovation Management in 2024

PlanBox Innovation

Creating an innovation approach that is as effective as it is exciting should be the focus of every innovator. As we embark on the “ corporate innovation odyssey ” that is 2024 (as Planbox CEO Ludwig Melik calls it), equipping ourselves with the right features in our innovation toolkit cannot be overstated. The innovation management landscape is evolving at an unprecedented pace, driven by technological advancements like AI-enhanced self-service and emerging frameworks like ISO 56000.

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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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Building community to expand social capital insights

Christensen Institute

As we wrap up 2023, we’re looking back on a great year’s worth of learning and connecting with many of you. This year, we deepened our work with three national intermediaries working across 20 career-connected learning sites to launch social capital pilots. Our partnerships with Education Strategy Group, Generation Schools Network, and Hawaii P-20 yielded 10 key lessons in piloting social capital initiatives within career pathways.

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What’s Next?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Anonymous: What do you think we should do next? Me: It depends. How did you get here? Anonymous: Well, we’ve had great success improving on what we did last time. Me: Well, then you’ll likely do that again. Anonymous: Do you think we’ll be successful this time? Me: It depends.

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Masters of Marketing 2023: How a Single Customer Insight Helped Crayola Expand its Brand Focus

Brunner

Using data and research can uncover customer insights that can drive growth and change how you see your business A true customer insight can transform your brand. Just ask Victoria Lozano. She’s executive vice president of marketing at Crayola, a brand whose products have long been considered to be for kids. Lozano shared the story at this fall’s ANA Masters of Marketing conference of how Crayola identified a key audience insight that has helped the company unlock sales to an entirely new

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How to Evaluate Innovation Management Solutions | Sopheon

Sopheon

Innovation is essential for any company that hopes to remain competitive. However, managing the process of innovation can be a complicated and time-consuming task. Between ideation, planning, governance, roadmapping and portfolio management, it can be challenging for companies to keep track of everything.

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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.