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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from The Beatles: Lessons in Creativity, Playfulness, Collaboration and Innovation

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Discover how The Beatles' lessons in creativity, playfulness, collaboration and innovation can inspire entrepreneurs to build successful businesses and unlock new levels of innovation.

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How Continuous Improvement Influences Sustainability Efforts

Kainexus

Environmental sustainability is a critical issue facing the world today. While there are many ways to address this issue, continuous improvement offers an effective approach to help individuals and organizations achieve long-term sustainability goals. Continuous improvement involves constantly assessing and improving processes and systems to achieve better outcomes.

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3 Examples of Why Innovation is a Leadership Problem

Innovation Excellence

Through the Looking Glass GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Do you sometimes feel like you’re living in an alternate reality? If so, you’re not alone. Most innovators feel that way at some point. After all, you see things that others don’t. Question things that seem inevitable and true. Make connections where others only see differences.

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Leveraging the “Pamplemousse Principle” in Creativity Training

InnovationManagement

Leveraging the “Pamplemousse Principle” In Creativity Training For more than a dozen years my innovation agency has taught customized creative problem-solving workshops (what we now call “Un-Think” programs), to senior managers in medium and large organizations. Evaluations from the literally thousands of executives who have taken the workshop average 4.8 out of 5.

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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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The Pitfalls of Crowdsourcing: How to Overcome Them to Spur Innovation

Viima

There is a lot of buzz around open collaboration as a driver for innovation. Studies, academia, research, and the myriad of examples from companies are boasting about the amazing results brought by ideas from external parties. A study shows that 85% of the top global brands have used crowdsourcing during the last decade. But is crowdsourcing truly effective to spur innovation?

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Top Continuous Improvement Tools for Your Business

HYPE Innovation

While innovation is typically perceived as one disruptive change that sets you apart from the competition, more often than not, innovation is an accumulation of many small improvements that eventually lead to a competitive advantage and all the other great things associated with innovation.

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The Rise of ChatGPT and Its Impacts on Innovation

Wellspring

Most of us have heard about ChatGPT, while many have actually used it in some way, even if only to see what the hype is all about. It's one of the fastest adopted technologies ever and will have impacts on how we work, what we produce, and how quickly we're able to innovate.

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Building an Inspiring Energy Narrative

Ecosystems4Innovating

I struggle increasingly with individual energy organizations’ pledges of moving their solutions towards a carbon-neutral future. The mixture of reports, initiatives, and viewpoints all move towards the transformation of the energy system but they all admit or fail to address TWO crucial aspects. Firstly the limited time we have to make such a transition in their offerings of new and different imaginative ways to change the current dynamics within our energy systems.

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Have You Become Too Reliant on Star Performers?

Michael Roberto

Source: NBA.com Tom Taiyi Yan and Elad Sherf wrote a brief article this week in the Wall Street Journal describing their fascinating new research regarding team over-reliance on superstars. They cite a terrific study of National Basketball Association players. Here's an excerpt: To investigate how team dynamics worked, we started by looking outside the world of business—at basketball.

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What impact does sleep have on creativity?

Idea to Value

If you have ever felt challenged solving a problem, or struggled to come up with an idea, there is one piece of advice that many people would give: Sleep on it For hundreds of years, artists, scientists and entrepreneurs have told tales about how some of their best ideas came to them in their sleep, during their dreams. After all, dreams happen when we sleep.

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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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We Expect Humans To Be Accountable. We Should Expect No Less Of AI

Digital Tonto

In 2020, Ofqual, the authority that administers A-Level college entrance exams in the UK, found itself mired in scandal. Unable to hold live exams because of Covid-19, it designed and employed an algorithm that based scores partly on the historical performance of the schools students attended with the unintended consequence that already disadvantaged students found themselves further penalized by artificially deflated scores.

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What is the #1 Factor in Whether a Startup Succeeds or Fails?

Destination Innovation

Mesoamerican Wheeled Toy In Mexico archaeologists have found toy models made by the ancient Olmec peoples some two thousand years ago. What is remarkable about these models of animals is that they have little wheels on them so that children could push them along the ground. It appears that the Olmec people – one of the oldest known civilizations of the Americas – had invented the wheel.

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Meet KIS: A Longstanding IT Firm That Truly, Strictly Prioritizes Its Clients

Business and Tech

For 35 years, Keep IT Simple (KIS) has flipped the script on the IT-consulting modus operandi, jettisoning greed and subterfuge to opt for transparency, fairness, and a no-bull, client-first attitude. Launched by Sean Canevaro in 1988, KIS may seem like an anomaly in the B2B IT game, but the seasoned founder and CEO feels he’s just doing what’s right for the type of business he’s running.

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Revolutionizing the Industry: How These Driving Innovations Are Changing the Game

IdeaScale

Innovation has been the driving force behind some of the most significant advancements in modern history. From the invention of the wheel to the creation of the internet, innovation has enabled us to achieve new levels of progress and success. Today, driving innovation is more critical than ever before, as industries all over the world [.

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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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Why Leaders Must Encourage Their Employees to Explore Their Creativity — and How to Do It

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Leaders can get frustrated when it seems their employees aren't being innovative. But creativity isn't something that just happens — leaders have to foster it with a culture of freedom and understanding.

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Instant Revenue

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If you want to grow the top line right now, create a hard constraint – the product cannot change – and force the team to look for growth outside the product.

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A Force for Good: Meet Value Engineering & RFXIS Director Paula Lina

Planview

It only takes a few minutes talking to Paula Lina to see her passion. Paula is Planview’s Director of Value Engineering & RFXIS and leads the Force for Good initiative. With nearly two decades at Planview, Paula is passionate about the company, its people, and its impact for good. Let’s get to know Paula Lina. Explain your role at Planview and a few of your responsibilities.

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How to understand and define user needs

Sopheon

In 2012, Google announced Google Glass, its futuristic voice- and motion-controlled smart glasses that display information directly in its user’s field of vision when they need it. With this product, they’d hoped to create the next revolutionary hardware platform. But when the product was released in 2014, it failed miserably. Why? Because nobody had asked for or needed it.

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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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Learning From Ahmad Jamal About Moving Ideas

Bill Fischer

Be they instructions, directions, opinions, suggestions, lessons, rules, pitches, or any of the endless other ways of trying to get our ideas across, delivering a message, or sharing an idea, is a big part of everybody’s job. Ahmad Jamal has lessons on doing this right for all of us.

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Customers Care About the Destination Not the Journey

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken On a recent flight, the captain of the airplane announced over the PA system what time we would arrive at our destination. That would have been enough to make most people happy. However, he continued his announcement with a three-minute-plus speech.

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Process Improvement Techniques for Operational Success

Kainexus

Leaders who want to develop a culture of rapid continuous improvement have many tools at their disposal. So many that it can be challenging to keep them all in mind when deciding how to execute an opportunity for improvement or address a difficult challenge. Most organizations don't use all of these techniques simultaneously, but each can be remarkably effective when applied to the right situation.

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The evolution of product management trends

Sopheon

With over 30 years of experience, Mike Bauer is a product and strategy executive who has managed and overseen more than 100 products across data communication, enterprise software, connected products, the Internet of Things (IoT), marketing automation, embedded systems, and big data. He’s served in many senior product management roles at notable enterprise technology companies, including 3Com, Innovu, Avnet (NASDAQ: AVT), and Timesys before joining Sopheon in 2021.

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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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Don't Let Your Sustainability Efforts Stop After Earth Day. Use These 5 Tips to Build Long-Lasting Green Initiatives.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Here are some tips to create long-lasting green initiatives within your brands that you can be proud to promote on Earth Day and beyond.

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Design Thinking Facilitator Guide

Innovation Excellence

A Crash Course in the Basics GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Are you interested in facilitating a design thinking session at your workplace or for another organization? Have you learned about design thinking and want to get started or deepen your skills?

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What can TikTok teach us about health communication?

Christensen Institute

A 2021 Microsoft study found the average human attention span is a measly eight seconds. Over the past several years, how we consume media has changed, especially as the prevalence of social media has grown. The global population is also being presented with far more information than ever before, giving us multiple things to focus on at once. While many may see the shrinking global attention span as a negative, health communicators can use this trend to their advantage.

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72 New Innovation Questions for Strategy, Culture, AI, UX, and More

BrainZooming

I love reading about innovative organizations of all sizes and imagining what questions they might have asked to generate their breakthrough ideas. It’s one way to keep our work for Brainzooming clients (and readers) incredibly fresh, fun, and full of promising possibilities.

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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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Patient Pursuit: Khaled Al Huraimel, Group CEO, BEEAH Group

Entrepreneur - Innovation

"In the last 10 years, we grew by about 10x. And now, we expect to grow by another 10x in the next 10 years.

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The End of the Digital Revolution

Innovation Excellence

Here’s What You Need to Know GUEST POST from Greg Satell The history of digital technology has largely been one of denial followed by disruption. First came the concept of the productivity paradox, which noted the limited economic impact of digital technology. When e-commerce appeared, many doubted that it could ever compete with physical retail.

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How to Make Virtual Training More Engaging: Your 7-Step Guide

CMOE

Staff training is integral to fueling growth and purpose among members of the workforce, and eighty-one percent of training and development departments embrace a people-centric culture. However, as more companies and industries move to flexible work environments and hybrid schedules, business professionals have shifted how they approach workforce training.

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The Corporate Innovation Playbook – V.2

Qmarkets

The Corporate Innovation Playbook demystifies innovation and its various challenges. You'll find innovation methods, handy definitions, tools, and canvases that will equip any corporate innovator with the right framework to ignite their innovation program.

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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.