Faisal Hoque

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Commitment, timeframe matters when remaking your organization.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore In a recent blog, I argued that management needs to be accountable not only for delivering current performance but also for investing in power initiatives that will fuel future performance. Compensation systems that focus solely on the former too often result in a hollowing out of the enterprise, as […].

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IdeaScale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

One thing consistently successful innovation programs do, is test their concept during the development process. Whether physical or intangible, it’s rare that a final product is precisely what you initially envisioned. During the development process, your product is likely to evolve. While the end objectives remain the same, they may be expanded or revised.

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Paul Hobcraft

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The linkages of innovation purpose. Whenever I get into conversations about innovating, we always hit difficulties on the question, “how can I build this well and be sustainble?” Hence, I often try to build an extended narrative for what makes up the innovation capability building and understanding for the future. I frame this as the linkages of innovation purpose.

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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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helloFUTURE

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

I have spent the better part of the past few years advocating for goods and services that cater to the inherent slothfulness in all human beings. I’ve concluded that the automation of many of the daily tasks would make my life significantly easier. If the automation is carried out correctly and is audited, it will… The post Are We Ready To Give Up Agency To Save Time?

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Idea Champions

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

I want you to imagine, for a moment, that I am your manager and, while passing you in the hallway on the way to yet another meeting. I catch your eye, take a step towards you and, in a halting voice, say "Umm. uh. hi. I'm wondering if you have some time later today for me. er. to share a bit of feedback with you.". How are you feeling right now? I'm guessing not so good -- especially since the word, "feedback", in most organizations, has become synonymous with, "I'm just about to chop your head

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IM Insights

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

By Elijah Eilert. I recently wrote an article called What is Innovation Accounting? Explained by Artificial Intelligence , and was surprised by how well the tool, called OpenAI, managed to describe what innovation accounting is. The challenge then arose to ask OpenAl to produce an article about innovation accounting by providing only subheaders as inputs for the tool that would then generate the paragraphs.

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Idea to Value

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While the massive layoffs at meta are terrible, it sadly shows one of the major issues that companies struggle with when they try to grow and innovate too quickly … facebook tried a huge number of innovation projects which failed. But this was not the problem. As I read in a wonderful WIRED article : Remember Libra, Meta’s ambitious plan to enter the cryptocurrency market?

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Moves the Needle

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

What’s so interesting about KPIs and OKRs is every few years there’s a new framework for metrics, but essentially, they’re always about outcomes. So, what are the desired outcomes? We want more customers. We want happier customers. We want more revenue, more growth, and more market share. That’s going to keep the bosses happy and their bosses happy.

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Business and Tech

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Sara Wainer, who manages business priorities and communications for the USA market at Specialized Bicycle Components, discusses the importance of zero-emissions vehicles and the future of e-bike transportation. Sara Wainer Executive Assistant (USA), Specialized Bicycle Components. What does the future of transportation look like in the coming years?

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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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Kainexus

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In sports, a huddle happens when the team gathers to strategize before a play. Huddles help everyone know their role in executing the plan or defending against the opposing team. The overall game plan is well known to the players in advance, so the huddle is quick and focused on what needs to happen right now.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Former VP Of Amazon Preaches a Frictionless Experience GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Customers hate friction. They want easy, no hassle, low/no effort experiences. In short, they want convenience. Our 2022 customer experience research findings confirm: 70% of customers would pay more if they knew they would receive a convenient experience. 75% would switch to […].

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Innovation comes from experimentation. Experimentation leads to failure. Embracing failure is the path to building great products and enterprise value.

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Christensen Institute

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As I’ve recently highlighted in my latest blogs , there is great entrepreneurial opportunity in Africa’s electricity market: Africa’s mass nonconsumption of electricity is ripe for market creation. Daystar Power is one such market innovator that jumped on this opportunity in 2017, and in a signal of its success, was acquired earlier this year by the multinational oil and gas company, Shell. .

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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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ITONICS

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Preparing your business for the year ahead requires a look back at this year's results, clear and quantifiable short- and long-term goals, and an understanding of the internal and external drivers of change influencing your business environment. In this article, you lear n how to kickstart your environmental scanning for 2023 in just a few clicks.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Clean-sheet designs are fun, right up until they don’t launch. When you feel the urge to do a clean-sheet design, go home early. When you don’t know how to make it better, make it worse and do the opposite. Without trying, there is no way to know if it will […].

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Tullio Siragusa

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Why Hiring a Fractional CRO Is Smart for Startups. A Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) is a high-level executive who is responsible for overseeing the revenue-generating activities of a company. The specific duties and responsibilities of a CRO can vary depending on the size and nature of the organization, but some common responsibilities may include: · Setting revenue targets and developing strategies to meet them. · Overseeing the sales and marketing departments. · Identifying new business opportuni

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Michael Roberto

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Wall Street Journal reports shocking news from Disney this morning. CEO Bob Chapek, recently signed to a contract extension by the board, has stepped down effective immediately. Former CEO Bob Iger will return to take the reins. Iger, of course, presided over a long period of strong performance at the company. However, Disney has struggled along multiple dimensions since his departure.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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Sopheon

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Last week, Sopheon took part in the Inspire Innovation Conference in Orlando, hosted by PDMA — Product Development & Management Association — a global association of innovation management professionals. It was an insightful four days packed with exploring all the best strategies for improving new product innovations.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

How Leadership Fundamentals Benefit Everyone GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Effective facilitation isn’t limited to the inner workings of staff meetings. True facilitation goes beyond simply setting an agenda: it’s a mindset, framework, and way of being. Excellent facilitators know how to get the best out of their teams and design conversations that are innovative, […].

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Cascade Strategy

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Every business strives to prevent its competitors from stealing its profits. With today's fierce competition in almost every industry, it's not a question of if, but it’s a matter of how. Before you make any strategic decisions, you need to take a step back, analyze and answer these questions: What forces beyond direct competitors shape your industry?

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Crowdsourcing is an excellent way to get inspiration to solve your challenge or sometimes even generate potential solutions. It’s often used to inspire New Product innovation. THE CHALLENGE: Develop a new tissue-based product that will stand out amidst a highly commoditized environment. WHAT THE CROWD INSPIRED US WITH: Applications as diverse as gym products, products that offered high water retention properties, or simply an idea that offers essential hygiene in times of germ-phobia.

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The BMI Lab Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The experience of recent years shows that companies often overestimate the value of their own data and their own ability to generate revenue from it. In practice, very few companies can establish a sustainable business model based on data. In our recently published book chapter Besonderheiten datenbasierter Geschäftsmodellentwicklung in the book Datenwirtschaft und Datentechnologie - wie aus Daten Wert entsteht (Springer, 2022) , we go into more detail on this topic.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Planning for the Future! GUEST POST from Teresa Spangler “Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.” – Charles Kettering The line between humans and machines is blurring by the day. The future, as we know it today may be tomorrow’s history book; with our exponential technological advancement […].

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Cascade Strategy

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gaurav Goal , VP of Global Strategy at PepsiCo, joined us for World Strategy Day 2022 to talk about: “Organizational Biases: How To Avoid Working In Silos?”.

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Faisal Hoque

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Innovation involves two core features. First is the actors—those people participating in the process. The second is the rules that hold that group together and the ways in which they collaborate and work as a team.

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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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Collectivecamp

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

If you’ve always wanted to start a business but you aren’t sure which sector to enter, going into the green field could be a perfect option. People are more eco-conscious than ever, and governments around the world are getting serious about curbing carbon emissions. They are doing so through a combination of regulation and incentives, and these incentives could benefit you depending on the type of business you want to start.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Wow! Exciting news! From now until November 30, 2022 you can get a 55% discount on my latest best-selling book Charting Change – plus FREE shipping! You must go to SpringerLink for this Cyber Sale: The offer is valid until November 30, 2022 Please use CYB22 at check-out to get your discount on books & […].

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Cascade Strategy

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

David Doe , VP of Talent Strategy and Excellence at Shell, joined us for World Strategy Day 2022.

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Flying Fish Lab

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

At Flying Fish Lab, we follow a few Crowdsourcing Design Principles to raise the chances of success. Share with us your challenge, and we will transform that into a focused and engaging crowdsourcing brief. We will convert business jargon to everyday language to entice and excite the crowd to help you solve your challenge. We work with many crowdsourcing platforms and will choose the right ones to ensure you have a diverse crowd to truly deliver a rich collection of intelligent naïve solutions.

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