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Innovation and the Silicon Valley Bank Collapse

Innovation Excellence

Why It’s Bad News and Good News for Corporate Innovation GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Last week, as news of Silicon Valley Bank’s losses and eventual collapse, took over the news cycle, attention understandably turned to the devastating impact on the startup ecosystem.

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THINKING ABOUT WELL-BEING, RESILIENCE AND CREATIVITY DIFFERENTLY

ImagineNation

In our previous two blogs, we outlined the need, in our chaotic world of unknowns, to reclaim our focus and attention and take charge of our own minds. By reclaiming our focus, attention, intention, and awareness we develop a deeper understanding of the sources of our anxiety and distractions and how to self-manage them. Doing this effectively creates a safe space, to transform the power of our minds and hearts to connect with others, cultivate well-being, harness people’s collective genius, and

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3 Ways to Find Innovative Thinkers among Analytical People

BrainZooming

Brainzooming works with many industrial companies to strengthen and expand their new product development and process innovation initiatives.

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To Build The Technology Of Tomorrow We Need To Create The Ecosystems Today 

Digital Tonto

These days, it seems that every time you turn around you see some breakthrough technology that will change our lives. We see media reports about computing breakthroughs, miracle cures, new sources of energy and more. Unfortunately, very few will ever see the outside of a lab and even fewer will prove commercially viable enough to impact our lives. Don’t get me wrong.

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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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Exploring the Different Partner Programs in a Partner Ecosystem

HYPE Innovation

As markets expand and customers’ requirements grow rapidly, businesses need to be ready to meet their clients’ changing needs. While coming up with solutions themselves is one approach, partnering with other companies in their partner ecosystem may prove more effective than developing a new offering from scratch on your own, which can be time-consuming and expensive.

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A Founder Who Bootstrapped Her Jewelry Business with Just $1,000 Now Sees 7-Figure Revenue Because She Knew Something About Her Customers Nobody Else Did

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Meg Strachan, founder and CEO of lab-grown jewelry company Dorsey, personally packed and shipped every order until she hit $1 million in sales.

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Cultivating Emotional Intelligence for Success in a Digital World

Tullio Siragusa

Cultivating Emotional Intelligence for Success in a Digital World The digital revolution has radically transformed the way we work, communicate, and interact with each other. As technology continues to advance, our reliance on digital tools and platforms has become an integral part of our lives. While technical skills are essential for thriving in this digital landscape, it’s crucial not to overlook the importance of emotional intelligence (EQ).

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Our Innovation is All on Tape

Innovation Excellence

Why Old Technologies Are Sometimes Still the Best Ones GUEST POST from John Bessant Close your eyes and imagine for a moment a computer room in the early days of the industry. Chances are you’ll picture large wardrobe-sized metal cabinets whirring away with white-coated attendants tending to the machines.

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32 Innovation Questions to Maximize Intriguing Conversations and Ideas

BrainZooming

We experience it all the time: executives generate ideas to fill the size of the innovation questions we ask.

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Vehicle Electrification: Key to a More Secure America – and a Sustainable Future

Business and Tech

There’s a 100-year transformation taking place right now in the automotive industry. Around the world, drivers, governments, and businesses are discovering — and embracing — electric vehicle (EV) technology and setting a path toward a cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation future. In the United States, the transformation has been gathering steam.

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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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Tiered Huddles: Structured Communication in Healthcare

Kainexus

Effective leadership in healthcare organizations requires open lines of communication between caregivers working directly with patients and hospital administrators who seek to protect the interests of all stakeholders. In addition, operationally excellent healthcare organizations engage in nimble, data-driven decision-making and foster a culture of respect and value.

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A U.S. Company With Thousands of Employees Just Adopted a 4-Day Workweek — Here's the Innovative Blueprint Up for Grabs

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Its staff is saying goodbye to on-camera requirements for virtual meetings too.

Company 101
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The Loyalty Gap

Innovation Excellence

The Difference Between Repeat Customers and Loyal Customers GUEST POST from Shep Hyken In a recent Shepard Letter, I discussed the Trust Gap, which is the difference between an organization’s belief that their customers trust them and the percentage of customers who actually do.

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Influencer Jez Rose on the Challenges and Triumphs of Building a Sustainable Business

Business and Tech

One of the things that bugs Jez Rose most is that humans don’t ask enough questions. “We just accept at face value what we’re told or what we expect something to be,” said Rose, a content creator, speaker, TV presenter, and creator of the world’s first carbon-neutral honeybee farm. “If nothing else,” Rose said, “going carbon neutral taught me that the right questions do all the heavy lifting.

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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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Developing an Effective Innovation Process: Benefits, Steps & Secrets for Success 

Qmarkets

Establishing the right innovation process to deliver on your enterprise company-wide strategy can be a real challenge, but it is crucial to the success of any innovation program. You need to make sure you’re leveraging the right resources and audiences as impactfully and efficiently as possible in order to move the right solutions forward. If this sounds scary, don’t worry!

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What do product people do?

Sopheon

As innovation becomes a source of competitive advantage for companies, new roles and titles keep emerging. There was a time when project managers were the ninjas who got things done, on time and within budget. Next came the era of product managers who balanced customer needs with larger business objectives to create the market success of products. Now, we are entering an age where it’s not just product managers – but a larger group of product people – who are responsible for innovation and corpo

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Humans, Not Technology, Drive Business Success

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Silicon Valley is often known as a cut-throat, technocratic place where the efficiency of algorithms often define success. Competition is ferocious and the pace of disruption and change can be dizzying. It’s not the type of environment where soft skills are valued particularly highly or even at all.

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How Individuals Can Make a Difference in the Fight Against Climate Change

Business and Tech

Lauren Singer is an environmental activist, author, investor, and influencer, whose Instagram page ( @trashisfortossers ) has about 350k followers. We asked her about the most exciting developments in sustainability, and what individuals can do to make a difference. Lauren Singer Environmental activist, author, investor, influencer — @trashisfortossers “Doing little things in our everyday lives can significantly reduce the amount of methane we’re generating.” What does sustaina

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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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21 Healthcare KPIs You Should Track (+ Template)

Cascade Strategy

Overview of Healthcare KPIs Healthcare key performance indicators (KPIs) are critical for any organization in the healthcare sector to keep track of its business performance.

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Pulse of Innovation: Driving H2 and H3 Innovations

Wellspring

Every so often we ask our community to sound off on popular topics in innovation and share their best tips, tricks, and advice in hopes that their answers may inspire others in the field. We’ve gathered these insights by email, over phone calls, at events and roundtables, and by catching up with clients and colleagues.

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Just Because We Can, Doesn’t Mean That We Should!

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Pete Foley An article on innovation from the BBC caught my eye this week. [link] After extensive research and experimentation, a group in Spain has worked out how to farm octopus. It’s clever innovation, but also comes with some ethical questions.

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How Household Product Businesses Are Embracing Sustainability to Support Our Planet

Business and Tech

Trying to live a sustainable lifestyle? Molly R. Blessing, director of sustainability for the Household & Commercial Products Association, talks about finding the right products to clean, protect, maintain, and disinfect your home and workplace without harming the planet. What’s the role of household products in fighting climate change? A challenge as big as climate change needs collective action from all sectors, organizations, and people to tackle it.

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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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18 Retail KPIs & Metrics You Should Be Tracking (+ Template)

Cascade Strategy

Do you know how well your retail business is performing? Are you able to identify which areas of your retail operations are driving growth and which areas need improvement?

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Product innovation is hiding in your customers’ problems — here’s how to find it

Sopheon

I hear this a lot in product meetings: “You know what we need to do?” Before the conversation goes a sentence further, I’ll ask, “What problem are you trying to solve?” If their response is silence or a puzzled look, the discussion’s over. Here’s why: A product without a problem isn’t product innovation. A cool idea, perhaps, but not a product.

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The Trust Network

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Trust is the most important element in business. It’s not organizational authority, it’s not alignment, it’s not execution, it’s not best practices, it’s not competitive advantage and it’s not intellectual property. It’s trust. Trust is more powerful than the organizational chart. Don’t believe me?

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On the Pressing Need to Implement Telehealth Solutions Into Your Patient-Care Model

Business and Tech

Over the past 10 years, the U.S. telehealth market has grown significantly — increasing by over $22 billion from 2019 through 2023 alone, according to a report by IBISWorld , a leading industry-research firm. A lot of factors have contributed to this increase, including the COVID-19 pandemic, an aging U.S. population, and convenience (especially for mental health consultations).

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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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Three Steps To Professionalize Innovation With ISO 56001 Certification Standard

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on Forbes. Most executives continue to say innovation is extremely important, but a majority of them remain dissatisfied with their innovation performance. ISO 56001, the upcoming requirements standard for innovation management, is just around the corner, and it has the potential to revolutionize how innovation has been managed for the past 20 years.

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Setting Sail for Success: The Importance of Corporate-Venture Alignment

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Establishing product-market fit is critical for any new corporate venture, but that's just one component of successful corporate venture building. As many of us know from first-hand experience, a venture's success is not guaranteed even with a product-market fit, as it may still face failure or termination by the corporation. To be successful, a venture must also match its mother company’s strategy at a given time.

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ChatGPT Workshop Course

InnovationTraining.org

We’ve been coaching professionals on using ChatGPT for their projects in their work. We’ve created a number of demonstration videos and even a short online ChatGPT AI innovation course. Here’s an example of a video demonstration ChatGPT course module. Now, we’d like to offer a live virtual workshop that will help our participants learn ChatGPT and how to use this tool (and other similar generative AI tools) in their work for their own unique projects and programs.

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8 Features to Stay Updated on Trend & Tech Developments | ITONICS

ITONICS

If you're not keeping up with the latest developments, it’s likely your competitors are. Being up to date on developments helps you stay ahead of the competition and ensure that your products or services are relevant and cutting-edge.

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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.