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Happiness is linked to higher creativity

Idea to Value

Many people have the stereotype of a creative person as someone who is broody, weird and possibly a little depressed. But according to research, the opposite might actually be true. Numerous studies have looked at what sort of mood results in people producing their most creative output. And the results are overwhelmingly clear: Being happy is good for your creativity.

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The needs of Innovation Coherence

Paul Hobcraft

The needs of Innovation Coherence. Innovation often fails to align with strategic needs. It is a known, well-discussed fact. This is often not the fault of the innovator but the very people designing but not sharing the strategy or failing to recognize all the implications this might mean in shifting resources, investing money or simply under-appreciating the complexities that often lie with innovation to conceive, validate, contribute and deliver the contributions into that strategy.

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Time Management Tips to Maximize Innovation

IdeaScale

Although the average American works 8.8 hours per day, most employees deliver peak productivity just 3 to 4 hours a day. Knowing this, you and your team can experiment with different time management strategies to maximize your peak hours. This will elevate ideation and the quality of work completed on your latest projects. There is [.].

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What Will Humans Do In An Artificially Intelligent World?

Digital Tonto

In his story The Library of Babel, Borges describes a library which contains books with all potential word combinations in all possible languages. Such a place would encompass all possible knowledge, but would also be completely useless, because the vast majority of books would be gibberish consisting of random strings of symbols. In essence, deriving meaning would be an exercise in curation, which machines could do if they perfectly understood our intentions.

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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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Why campfires are the perfect analogy for innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I grew up in Scouting and really enjoyed my time as a scout. What I think most of us enjoyed the most were the weekend campouts, where we could sleep in tents, roam in the local forest and, best of all, build fires. I've never fully understood why boys are so attracted to fire. Perhaps it is fire's potential destructive nature. Perhaps it's the concept of controlling such an awesome power.

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Your Guide to Fueling Enterprise Innovation in the Transport Industry

Qmarkets

For vehicle manufacturers and service providers in the global transport industry right now, innovation isn’t so much optional as existentially vital. We’re right at the beginning of an era of market disruption affecting sweeping, radical changes to personal and public transport, and the pressure on companies to innovate is coming from all directions.

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How to build an open innovation ecosystem

HYPE Innovation

True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted and waits to be transformed.

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Be In The Room

CorporateIntel

Over the past weeks, several major companies have announced various return-to-office policies. That means a requirement to be in an office some number of days each week. Thus far I have resisted sending a similar memo because I think for the most part this is best left to the judgment of department leaders who understand their goals, More than that, I am counting on the good judgment of individuals to make sense of advancing their career horizons.

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Innovation Management in 2023: Leadership & Strategy

Innov8rs

Innov8rs |. If we are to discover a prosperous future path, innovation is no longer optional. With a potential recession in sight and inflation, layoffs, and other geopolitical issues challenging the ability to protect traditional forms of competitive advantage, innovation is our only option. What are the biggest challenges heading into 2023? How to address innovation within the current market conditions?

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Taking on the knowledge barrier: Solar lessons for consumers and producers

Christensen Institute

Solar energy systems can transform a complicated and expensive product—power—into a simple and affordable one, but…how exactly does that happen? Solar energy has a solid foothold among electricity options, and because there remains mass nonconsumption of electricity in growth economies, solar energy solutions will only continue to become increasingly popular.

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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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The Top Five Innovation Skills for Generating New Ideas

HYPE Innovation

Nature or nurture ? The question is as old as the world. A re we born the way we are or are we raised t o become t he people we are today ? The same goes for the traits and skills we use at work. Do we come into this world with a special talent and ability to innovate better than others, or is it something we can all learn and acquire over time? According to a study of 72 innovative entrepreneurs and 310 executives, the innovators demonstrated five key innovation skills consistently more than th

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What Do You Like to Do?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski I like to help people turn complex situations into several important learning objectives. I like to help people turn important learning objectives into tight project plans. I like to help people distill project plans into a single-page spreadsheet of who does what and when.

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Why The Consumer Tech World Is Too Focused on Electronics

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Companies must strive to develop tech more mindful of the environment and long-term implications.

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It’s “health care”: 3 reasons why 2 words can help transform an industry

Christensen Institute

Health care has a long and storied history in the United States, and much has been said about its failings: it’s too expensive, our health outcomes are poor, our life expectancy is lower than that of other high-income countries, et cetera. Late Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen, even said in his 2009 Mayo Transform presentation , “a general hospital actually is not a viable business model.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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How to Steer and Monitor Innovation Projects with Portfolio Kanban Boards

ITONICS

From providing a clear overview of ongoing innovation projects to enabling informed decision-making – this article will show you the benefits of Kanban boards in innovation portfolio management and how you can use this powerful tool to streamline innovation initiatives and balance portfolios.

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10 Ways to Rock the Customer Experience In 2023

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken As of today, 2022 is behind us. It was quite a year. Some businesses are still recovering from the impact of the pandemic, and then came employment issues, supply-chain problems and a shaky economy.

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Win at Digital Transformation By Connecting Portfolio Management and Value Stream Management 

Planview

No organization in any industry is immune to the necessity of digital transformation to remain competitive. Four out of five CEOs are looking to digital technology investments to counter current economic pressures, including inflation, scarce talent, and supply constraints. However, many digital transformation initiatives struggle to deliver the expected financial value, with more than half lagging behind original estimates, according to a Gartner survey of CIOs.

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How Not to Slowdown Progress

Rmukesh Gupta

Leo Szilard, in his book – The voice of the dolphins, and other stories has a short story titled The Mark Gable Foundation. In this short story, there is a conversation between two characters, one of who thinks that the pace of scientific change is too fast and is seeking ideas on how to slow it down. Here is their exchange: “I’m thinking of setting up a trust fund.

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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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Innovation Management in 2023: Open Innovation & Partnerships

Innov8rs

Innov8rs |. Nobody can solve everything on their own. When we collaborate more openly with others, our odds of solving real problems and creating value for our customers and users increase. For corporates, open innovation is all about being transparent and public about the challenges and themes they're looking to go after and solve, and then finding the best-fit partners for that.

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Getting Through Grief Consciously

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Tullio Siragusa Life brings opportunities, happiness, and skyrocketing success when we decide to live it fully and without fear. Along with that, we will face challenging times that will cause us to grieve. Globally, we are all facing a form of grief right now. Be it the loss of a loved one […].

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IoT-based Predictive Maintenance in Industry 4.0: The Way Forward

Acuvate

With connected equipment and fleets, rising customer demands, and receding room for error, predictive maintenance in industry 4.0 is the future. Fixing before it breaks – that’s the mindset manufacturers, healthcare, and pharmaceuticals, among other sectors, will have to adopt in order to thrive. There is reason, there is opportunity, and there are platforms and solutions to make it happen.

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Streets, Roads, Stroads and Leadership Effectiveness

Rmukesh Gupta

I was listening to a podcast episode on 99% Invisible hosted by the inimitable Roman Mars and they were talking about Stroads, which piqued my curiousity. So, today, we will explore this topic but from a leadership lens. Before we go ahead, I think it makes sense for us to define each one of these terms and what it means. Roads: A road is defined as a medium to move vehicles (cars, trucks, etc) from one point to another as quickly as possible.

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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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Are You Prepared for “the Riskiest Year” in Business?

Innovators Alliance

While I like to start the year on a positive note, I feel compelled to share with you an article on a serious topic: What do you foresee for your company in 2023 in terms of your company’s biggest business risks? One business leader I follow is Jim DeLoach, managing director of Protiviti , member of Forbes’ CFO network and regular contributor to Forbes magazine.

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Startups Must Be Where Their Customers Are

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Steve Blank “A CEO running a B-to-B startup needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale.” I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student, just off a red-eye flight from New York. She’s built a 65-person startup selling enterprise software to the financial services […].

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Unlock the Power of the SaaS Business Model

Collectivecamp

SaaS has been a big buzzword in the business world for a few years, but some businesses have yet to grasp the idea. Imagine your business or startup is behind in the new age of fast and easy tech due to misinformation on the SaaS business model.

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Transport Innovation: Your Guide to Driving Industry Innovation

Qmarkets

For vehicle manufacturers and service providers in the global transport industry right now, innovation isn’t so much optional as existentially vital. We’re right at the beginning of an era of market disruption affecting sweeping, radical changes to personal and public transport, and the pressure on companies to innovate is coming from all directions.

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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.

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Stay Calm and Press On: 8 Strategies for Handling Pressure Effectively

CMOE

As the workforce continues to experience heightened levels of stress (whether it be at work, at home, or a combination of both), the ability to effectively handle pressure is key to successful leadership, time management, planning, interpersonal communication, change management, and goal achievement. If ignored or left unchecked, stress can lead to a decrease in job performance, efficiency, and an individual’s overall mental health, as well as increase the chance of employee burnout.

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99.7% of Innovation Processes Miss These 3 Essential Steps

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Congratulations! You developed and are using a best-in-class Innovation Process. You start by talking to consumers, studying mega-trends, and scanning the globe for emerging technologies and disruptive offerings. Once you find a problem and fall in love with it, you start dreaming and designing possible solutions. You imagine what could […].

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Re-think Your Next Re-org

Moves the Needle

When was the last time you went through a company re-org? Re-orgs seem to be happening more and more regularly, especially with large organizations, and the excuses for them are often tenuous. Within the startup world, there’s buzz that Elon Musk’s mass layoffs at Twitter are providing cover for many other tech companies to implement their own reorganizations.

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13 Goal Setting Templates for Teams: Don’t Fall Behind in 2023

Cascade Strategy

Every year, business leaders and their teams launch dazzling presentations with their goals in the hopes they will finally achieve them this year.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street

In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.