Paul Hobcraft

MARCH 13, 2023

Converging ideas and thinking brings out creativity and different innovative solutions Innovation ecosystems are gaining good traction to build out a more robust innovation management system that can offer the interconnected network of organizations the opportunity to create and commercialize new ideas, concepts, products and services. Participating in innovation ecosystems does have a number of advantages Greater access to a wider range of resources and expertise through the bringing together o

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

MARCH 11, 2023

Like every year, 2023 will bring us a new set of unforeseen challenges. Despite a changing environment, embracing the right framework means leaders can set up their teams to make more gains and drive innovation.

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Wazoku

MARCH 14, 2023

Healthcare is unrecognizable today compared to even 10 years ago. In order to keep up with the latest developments, trends, and patterns in the industry, we’ve detailed the top innovations and expert predictions for Health, Pharma, and Life Sciences in 2023.

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IdeaScale

MARCH 11, 2023

There are a variety of environmental factors in your office that may have organically evolved into distractions—and the causes may surprise you. While distractions will arise, putting out unexpected fires isn’t what typically zaps day-to-day productivity. Below we discuss the environmental factors that may be negatively impacting productivity and innovation.

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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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Digital Tonto

MARCH 12, 2023

The biggest misconception about change is that once people understand it, they will embrace it and so the best way to drive change forward is to explain the need for change in a convincing and persuasive way. Change, in this view, is essentially a communication exercise and the right combination of words and images is all that is required. Even assuming that it is practical to convince people that way, by the same logic they can just as easily have their mind changed right back by counter-argume

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 13, 2023

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Chris Dixon, who invested early in companies ranging from Warby Parker to Kickstarter, once wrote that the next big thing always starts out looking like a toy. That’s certainly true of artificial intelligence, which started out playing games like chess, go and playing humans on the game show Jeopardy!

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Viima

MARCH 14, 2023

We’re continuing our series of interviews with innovation experts. This time we’re interviewing Matt Mueller about the importance of problem definition. Why do we fail to define them and why should we slow down in the innovation process? Matt is an innovation consultant, columnist, speaker, and author with over a decade of experience in executing strategy and facilitating change for some of the world’s largest consumer packaged goods brands and retail stores.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

MARCH 13, 2023

Sometimes putting pen to paper is key to cracking the code.

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Business and Tech

MARCH 16, 2023

The United States is taking bold steps to reinvigorate its economy through game-changing investments in high-tech research and manufacturing. For more than 50 years, U.S. businesses outsourced manufacturing overseas rather than investing at home. For example, engineers invented the semiconductor in the United States, but the nation produces about 10% of the world’s supply today.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 15, 2023

In the recently published report , Scenarios for Future Global Growth, Charles Kenny and Zack Gehan forecast how the global economy will evolve by 2050. There’s good and bad news. The good news is that, by their estimates, no country will be classified as low-income (currently defined as having a Gross National Income per capita of $1,085 or less) by 2050.

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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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IdeaScale

MARCH 11, 2023

Crowdsourcing is becoming an increasingly popular way for organizations to obtain data and opinions from a large pool of diverse contributors. What motivates participation in crowdsourcing may surprise you. It’s easy to assume that extrinsic motivators such as prizes, incentives, and recognition are a primary motivator. However, intrinsic motivators such as feeling part of something [.

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Tullio Siragusa

MARCH 13, 2023

Why Sales and Marketing Need to Embrace an Elevated Consciousness: Going Beyond Targets and Revenue In today’s fast-paced, results-oriented business world, it’s easy for leaders and their teams to focus solely on achieving targets and driving revenue. However, this narrow focus can often come at the expense of the bigger picture — the impact that a company’s actions have on its employees, customers, and the wider community.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 17, 2023

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When there’s nothing left in your tank, what do you do? When it’s difficult for you to keep your head above water, what do you do? When you see people who need help, do you spend your energy to help them or do you preserve your energy for yourself?

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 14, 2023

Beyond connecting people across any distance, social media provides a platform for people to share thoughts, opinions, and commentary on a number of topics. One such topic continually gaining a lot of traction is mental health and wellness. Over the past couple of years, a number of Millennial and Gen Z employees, particularly on TikTok, began discussing how to reclaim their personal health and wellness, particularly in the face of increased stress and pressure from employer expectations.

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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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IdeaScale

MARCH 11, 2023

As organizations prioritize tapping into the collective knowledge of their employees, the value of human capital is increasingly clear. This goes beyond seeking the input of executives, leadership, and your innovation department—to seeking the perspective of everyone in the office. In-office crowdsourcing has become a popular way to maximize creativity, productivity, and collaboration.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

MARCH 16, 2023

I experienced the magic of OpenAI's latest weapon in the AI arms race, GPT-4. It's going to redefine human-AI interaction and transform the way all of us work.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 15, 2023

As Told in Three Sonnets GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Day 1 Oh innovation, a journey just begun A bold quest filled with challenges, risks, and dreams, A path of creativity, knowledge and fun, That will bring change, growth and a brighter scene.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 14, 2023

In the backwaters of what many in the US consider a backwater, a quiet revolution is brewing. Eighteen years after civil war ended in Liberia, in a school located in a rural village that helps make rubber for Bridgestone, the revolution isn’t around political power or guns. It’s about using technology to personalize learning and unlock progress for children who otherwise would struggle to learn to read and do math.

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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.

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InnovationTraining.org

MARCH 15, 2023

A sustainability workshop applying design thinking and an innovation process to create vision, strategy and action Recently we’ve had a number of requests for our design thinking sprints, innovation workshops, interactive training sessions, and strategy hackathons applied for the purpose of environmental sustainability. We’ve helped with small groups and special conferences for hundreds of people.

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ITONICS

MARCH 16, 2023

We all know that innovation is the driving force for business survival and competitive advantage. As we move further into 2023, we think it’s important to recognize the most significant challenges that businesses are facing in this field. In this article, we will explore the ten biggest challenges in innovation management that executives and teams will need to address to stay competitive in the years ahead.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 14, 2023

GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard As businesses continue to face unprecedented change and uncertainty, innovation is no longer optional – it’s a must-have for companies looking to survive and thrive. However, finding and developing the right people to drive corporate innovation can be challenging.

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Christensen Institute

MARCH 16, 2023

A couple of months ago I wrote about some of the barriers to solar adoption in Nigeria. And as I’ve read and researched further into the topic I began to see an aggravating pattern. Perhaps a potential vicious cycle–a cause and effect relationship where two or more elements exacerbate each other and make a situation worse. When looking at barriers to solar adoption in Nigeria, that seems to be the case.

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Innovating4Energy

MARCH 15, 2023

Energy Fitness Landscape primer There are so many risks in the near to mid-term to derail the Energy Transition. I feel it is really hard to stay focused and not become distracted by the anti-energy transition groups. I am a firm believer in having a navigable strategic and tactical pathway to keep you on a given track along the route you have chosen to get to a given goal.

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Wazoku

MARCH 17, 2023

Connecting Ecosystems to Help Customers Solve Problems and Challenges Faster Virginia, February 8, 2023 - Ratio Exchange, an emerging leader in the Federal Sourcing Market, is excited to announce that we will significantly expand our sourcing ecosystem through a strategic partnership with Wazoku, the global innovation leader helping their clients in the US Government and global private sector innovate at scale.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 16, 2023

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Ten years ago, I wrote an article about why delivering an amazing customer service experience is important. While many of those concepts are still valid today, it’s time to modify the list and give a few of the original reasons a facelift to bring them into current times.

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Acuvate

MARCH 16, 2023

The Customer Data Platform (CDP) market is growing exponentially and is expected to reach a whopping $10.3 billion by 2025. CDPs are all the rage right now among contemporary, far-sighted marketers, and with good reason. To understand that reason, let’s unpack an intelligent marketer’s data needs to navigate decisions and, more importantly, marketing excellence.

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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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BrainZooming

MARCH 16, 2023

Someone reached out after looking at my book, Idea Magnets - 7 Strategies for Attracting and Cultivating Creative Business Leaders. They wondered about my contention that experts can miss opportunities and issues that people who are completely new to a situation can readily see. They requested examples where this is the case.

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Wazoku

MARCH 17, 2023

Changing the world, one idea at a time has to start somewhere. Even the organizations that regularly bring about revolutionary change had a first step to take on their journey. In the Innovation Basics series, we focus exclusively on what that first step could look like for newcomers to the innovation world. Follow this guidance to achieve faster, better innovation.

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Innovation Excellence

MARCH 12, 2023

Providing Foresight to Turn Fear into Fuel for Future-Proofing Your Business GUEST POST from Teresa Spangler As a business leader, it’s crucial to have a futurist vision and navigate the world of extreme consequences with optimism. Maintaining good morale and motivation within the organization can be challenging as worldly events may create fear and anxiety.

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Yet2

MARCH 14, 2023

Incubators and accelerators are instrumental in driving startup companies toward success. Accelerators can aid startups that already have a minimum viable product (MVP) while incubators can provide the space and resources for startups to develop their ideas. Our team of expert Open Innovation (OI) consultants continually come across and build relationships with leading incubators and accelerators as part of our scouting work.

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