Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Applying ecosystem thinking to innovate complex and challenging problems “Opening up our thinking towards ecosystems will have a powerful effect, it alters the way we will approach problems today and in the future, ecosystems offer a greater potential for collaborative growth, impact and sustaining innovating value” Our understanding of innovation is changing; we are evaluating and changing our existing focus from closed (internal orientation) into open and far more collaborative innovation (ext

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Strategyzer Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A few weeks ago, Dana—the Chief Innovation Officer at a large multinational company contacted us. She was concerned her company was cutting costs across the board and her budget for 2023 had been reduced. We started working together in late 2022, designing the company’s innovation ecosystem and taking 10–12 innovation teams through our discovery and validation programs.

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IdeaScale

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Creating a vision board is an effective way to promote innovation in any organization. They are also a secret to success for entrepreneurs across a variety of industries. Vision boards provide an excellent opportunity to brainstorm, set objectives, and visualize goals. They can also be utilized to maintain inspiration and track progress. Let’s dive into [.

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Idea to Value

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When you are about to negotiate, is it better to go first, or is it better to wait for the other person to show their hand and you then are able to adjust with more information? Well, according to the research, whoever provides the first piece of information has a major advantage, as the final agreed number tends to be closer to their initial suggestion.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Our identity and sense of self drives a lot of what we see and do, yet we rarely examine these things because we spend most of our time with people who are a lot like us, who live in similar places and experience similar things. That’s why our innate perceptions and beliefs seem normal and those of others strange, because our social networks shape us that way.

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Tullio Siragusa

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Empowering Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence: Tips for Success As leaders, it’s not just about what we know, but also about how we interact with others and manage our own emotions. Emotional intelligence, or EQ, is the ability to recognize and understand our own emotions, as well as those of others, and use this information to guide our thoughts and actions.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

At least temporarily, because it’s proven bad for innovation by Braden Kelley I came across an article in The Hill, titled ‘Apple flexes lobbying power as Apple Watch ban comes before Biden next week‘ that highlighted how Apple has been found guilty by the U.S.

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Collectivecamp

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Adopting artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important for companies to remain competitive in today's fast-paced business environment. AI offers a range of benefits, from improving efficiency and accuracy to driving innovation and identifying new revenue opportunities. Are you looking to improve your understanding of AI and key considerations for your organization?

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Paul Hobcraft

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

photo credit: Walkabout (1971) film by Nicolas Roeg How often do you pause for thought, testing yourself, questioning even simply for ‘just those few minutes,’ to allow yourself to openly challenge where you are and what you are attempting to do? We keep relentlessly moving on, like a wandering herd of buffalo, always looking for fresh pasture, those new feeding grounds.

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HYPE Innovation

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Interestingly, financing is not the top reason for start-ups to pursue partnerships, or even among the top three.

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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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Leapfrogging

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Unicorns are privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. Here’s the secret to Unicorn innovation. I had the chance to connect with a longtime friend and colleague, Matt May. He’s the author of numerous books and an expert on how lean principles can be used to drive innovation. His latest book, What a Unicorn Knows , is available on Amazon and reveals the secrets to building high growth startups.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

A country is never static. It is either growing or shrinking, rising or falling, and, perhaps most importantly, its people are either prospering or languishing. Unfortunately, Nigeria, over the past decade, has been shrinking, falling, and has seen its people languishing. In 2014, for instance, the country’s GDP per capita was $3,200. Today, it hovers around $2,000.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski By definition, the approach that made you successful will become less successful over time and, eventually, will run out of gas. This fundamental is not about you or your approach, rather it’s about the nature of competition and evolution.

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Wazoku

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In this blog, we look at a Challenge that aims to find more effective ways for local governments to use public data to inform decision-making. To register for this Challenge, click here !

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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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Brunner

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Over the last few months, digital marketing experts have been buzzing about the potential of open-source AI bots taking over their jobs. As paid search experts, we see how consumers are trying to explore this new way of getting useful information, so we have been investigating how these new AI services can add to our capabilities rather than eliminate the need for digital marketers altogether.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By now, many educators have probably heard about the sweeping Nature study that revealed that whom you interacted with as you grew up is a major determinant of future economic success. Specifically, children who had connections with peers from higher-income families ended up with higher incomes themselves. Relationships between young people from different socio-economic groups are “very strongly related to children’s chances of rising out of poverty and their economic mobility,” said the study’s

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Do your customers trust you? Are you sure? According to PwC’s 2022 Consumer Intelligence Series Survey on Trust, 87% of executives think customers highly trust their companies, but only about 30% of customers do. That’s a 57% gap!

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Kainexus

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

How to promote risk awareness and prevention The influence of culture significantly impacts employee behaviors and attitudes about workplace safety and health. Like all other aspects of culture , success depends on leadership from the top. For ideas and actions that support safety to be widespread, they need to be embraced and practiced from the C-suite to the front line.

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InnovationTraining.org

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I’ve been interested in the growing space of self-assessments for design thinking and innovation. I was curious to see if our AI tool could create a self-assessment people could take to assess themselves on their design thinking behaviors, mindset and practices. This assessment obviously wouldn’t be as validated, scientific, reliable, or offer as high-quality a report as the Innovation Impact Assessment for instance.

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Christensen Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In recent conversations, educators and state policymakers have expressed shock to me that district schools aren’t innovating more. With microschools growing and test scores floundering, why aren’t districts seeking permission to reinvent themselves? As evidence of the opportunities to innovate, many bureaucrats and think tanks point to the vast number of waivers that states offer.

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack In 2019 we experienced the shock and the pain that resulted from the globally disruptive global Covid 19 pandemic.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Doctors Renée and Nii Darko talk about the struggles they faced and how they're teaching other physicians about money through their podcast Docs Outside the Box.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Innovation often requires a multi-disciplinary approach, as many challenges are too complex to be tackled by a single individual or team. By collaborating with others, team members leverage each other's strengths and collectively develop more effective solutions. Collaboration also enables team members to build off each other's ideas, leading to more creative and impactful solutions.

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BrainZooming

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

How do you create space and safety for employees to share challenging feedback with your organization’s leadership?

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Everyone is an innovator on January 1. That’s the day when each of us resolves to do something new that creates value. Start working out so I lose weight, look better, and feel healthier. Stop smoking, so I live longer.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The iconic phone sold for more than a Tesla Model Y.

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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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Ecosystems4Innovating

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Ecosystems – the need to be re-stated for Business What are the significant differences between Natural and Business Ecosystems? I wanted to look at this and make some observations and comparisons. Firstly what we seem to get wrong in many labelling of business ecosystems, where sustainability fits, and then attempting to show apparent differences between Natural and Business Ecosystems needs a greater appreciation of differences.

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Wazoku

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In November 2020, Wazoku launched a series of Challenges with Habitat for Humanity, facilitated by SeaFreight Labs. In Kenya, Mexico, India, and the Philippines, the Wazoku Crowd provided solutions to overcome different humanitarian and housing problems. Read more about their success in our Habitat for Humanity report !

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Innovation Excellence

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In November 1989, there were two watershed events that would change the course of world history. The fall of the Berlin Wall would end the Cold War and open up markets across the world.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The report covers everything from patent and copyright laws to the ability to monetize IP assets and the ratification of international agreements

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