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7 Signs of Team Disconnect

CMOE

Did you know that 5 in 6 employees feel disconnected at work? The reality is that any employee can struggle with connecting with their work teams, no matter what their schedules, occupations, and backgrounds are and regardless of whether they are working remotely, in house, or on a hybrid model. So, how can companies ensure that there is more engagement in work teams?

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Leveraging Opposition to Drive Change Forward

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Clearly, we live in a time of great flux. First, #MeToo, then Covid-19 and now a new racial consciousness in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. The most important task for leaders over the coming years will be to guide their organizations through change. Make no mistake, it […].

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Building out our innovation ecosystem in design and thinking

Paul Hobcraft

Finding the new building blocks of innovation ecosystem design and thinking. Why change our thinking and designing around innovation ecosystems?“. For me, ecosystem thinking and design offer fresh ways for accelerating mutual learning, and through this innovation, outcome potential for sharing and knowledge building. As we build an understanding of the power of digital platforms and ecosystem thinking, we can see gains and new values and realize different opportunities denied to us in the past b

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Potemkin villages and faking innovation

Idea to Value

Sometimes, innovation teams will attempt to show fake success in order to hide their real struggles. Have you ever heard of a Potemkin village? According to historical stories, in 1787 Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski of Russia was tasked with settling more Russians into the land of Crimea, which at that time had just been annexed from the Ottoman Empire in 1783.

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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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Schwerpunkt: The Killer Strategic Concept You’ve Never Heard Of (But Really Need To Know!)

Digital Tonto

The biggest strategic mistake you can make is to try and win everywhere at once. To win, you need to prevail in the decisive battles, not the irrelevant skirmishes. That, in essence, is the principle of Schwerpunkt—to identify a focal point where you can direct your resources and efforts. When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, computer companies were duking it out in the PC market, yet he identified digital music players as his Schwerpunkt and the iPod made Apple a serious player.

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Is backwards the way forwards for business?

IdeaSpies

The pandemic has got Aussies feeling sentimental about the past.

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What’s Next – The Only Way Forward is Through

Innovation Excellence

by Braden Kelley The world needs you. The United States needs you. Your family needs you. Both your heart and your mind are needed to work on potentially the greatest innovation challenge ever put forward. What is it? We must find a solution to the division and lack of meaning that has become the American […].

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How Important Are Face-to-Face Interactions for Innovation?

Michael Roberto

Source: www.lifesize.com Much has been written about the impact of remote work on collaboration and innovation in the workplace. Yet, few rigorous studies have attempted to document the actual impact on innovation. Now comes a fascinating new paper from David Atkin , M. Keith Chen & Anton Popov. They used an enormous amount of smartphone geolocation data to track face-to-face interactions.

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Sustainable Practices Start From the Ground Up

Business and Tech

We talked to Blue Diamond Grower’s director of sustainability about how (and why) more businesses should pursue green initiatives. Dan Sonke Director of Sustainability, Blue Diamond Growers. Why is it important for businesses to adopt more sustainable practices? It has become cliched to say that we pursue sustainability because “it’s the right thing to do.

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88% of managers do not believe their teams are productive working remotely

Idea to Value

A new survey of 20,000 by Microsoft shows how little trust most managers have in their teams. When asked “ Do you feel productive when you work remotely? ”, 87% of workers said they felt as productive or more productive working remotely than in the office. Yet when managers were asked “ Do you have confidence that your employees are being productive?

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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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Private: The Key Drivers of Organizational Innovation

IdeaScale

Innovation has become a buzzword that’s associated with a variety of misconceptions. One of which is that innovation is a personality type. Without a doubt, some innovators are high-energy extroverts. However, most disrupters and innovators are everyday team members. Most importantly, not every out-of-the-box thinker can successfully innovate in all settings.

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What is Lean Project Management? Principles & Benefits

Kainexus

Lean project management is the application of Lean manufacturing principles to the discipline of project management. While most of the ideas germinated at Toyota in the 1940s, they have widespread utility across every industry and for organizations of any size. Modern organizations have adapted Lean project management for today's business challenges and technology landscape.

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Saving Money While Saving the Planet

Business and Tech

Capstone Green Energy helps organizations save money and reduce their carbon footprints by strategizing and executing more sustainable energy solutions. Capstone president and CEO Darren Jamison offered his insights into why going green is good for business. Darren Jamison President and CEO, Capstone Green Energy. Does adopting sustainable practices and technologies make good business sense?

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The Reasons Physicians are Losing the Branding Wars

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Maybe the last time you walked into a retail-based clinic, you did not see an MD. Maybe the same thing happened at your hospital outpatient clinic or an urgent care center. Physician “extenders” and advanced practice professionals, like primary care pharmacists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are winning the […].

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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 an understanding of Jobs to Be Done can strengthen democracy 

Christensen Institute

From the United States to Brazil , news headlines about the state of democracy across the world have been bleak recently. If democracy in many of these nations fails that could lead to political and social instability, and even widespread violence. . Responsibility to strengthen democracy in the countries that practice it falls on everyone, including elected officials, corporate executives, and average citizens.

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Policy Deployment: Examples, Techniques, and Tools

Kainexus

Moving an organization toward its long-term strategic objectives while maintaining and improving day-to-day operations requires thoughtful planning and attention to organizational alignment. It is essential that the strategy be an integral part of daily work and thinking from the top of the organization to the bottom. Because strategy execution is central to operational excellence , fundamental principles and techniques have evolved that reflect the practices of the most successful organizations

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A Q&A With the American Sustainable Business Network

Business and Tech

The American Sustainable Business Network is committed to promoting sustainable and equitable business practices. Jeffrey Hollender CEO and Co-Founder, American Sustainable Business Network. What are the ASBN’s three policy areas and how do they affect business? The American Sustainable Business Network (ASBN) works with its members to develop a vision and policy framework for a sustainable market-based economy.

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What makes an idea artistic?

IdeaSpies

I am curious, so I am always interested in the new & different – ideas to float by in one way or other, places I go, people (Feed generated with FetchRSS )

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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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Want to Elevate Your Business Ecosystem? Embrace APIs and Open Systems.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

It's time for your tech to play nicely with others. Here's why business leaders need to harness the value of open systems.

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The necessary Plumbing, Pipework and Pumps for the Industrial Metaverse

Ecosystems4Innovating

The stages of building out the Industrial Metaverse taking a three-horizon approach. I had the pleasure of attending the Nvidia GTC22 event recently. Over four days, they did a good job of scrambling my brain. Take a look at some of the sessions that apply to you- amazing stuff. I focused on the Industrial Metaverse and where it is going. It is only at the beginning of its journey, but the feast of predictions, future forecasting and bold, clear visions on this was impressive.

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Why Paper Recycling Is a Success

Business and Tech

What makes paper recycling a success? American Forest & Paper Association’s Heidi Brock explains. Investing in and improving paper recycling has been among our industry goals for decades. We first set goals to improve paper recycling in the 1990s. The recycling rate has more than doubled since then. More than 50 million tons of paper was recovered for recycling in 2021.

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There ain’t no party like the Strategy Palooza’22

Cascade Strategy

We celebrated big, bold customer visions with 2,500+ registered and unveiled a huge surprise that was a year in the making. Boy, what a day it was!

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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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Innovation Plays Key Role In Making India Developed By 2047, Says Nirmala Sitharaman

Entrepreneur - Innovation

While pointing out the significance of digitalization that has been laid into medical services, education and software as a service (SaaS) sector, Sitharaman said there is immense potential to take it up further.

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How to find new opportunities within your business | Ep 05

Moves the Needle

In this episode, we’re discussing opportunity discovery and what it means to find new opportunities within your organization. The post How to find new opportunities within your business | Ep 05 appeared first on Moves the Needle.

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How Businesses Can Plan and Execute Climate Strategies

Business and Tech

The need to drive climate action is more important than ever. That’s the message as Climate Week NYC, the biggest global climate event of its kind, concludes. Now the company that’s helping businesses like Seventh Generation, Ben & Jerry’s, and Walmart become more sustainable wants to help others become more environmentally conscious and act. “You need to know where you’re starting, what that target is, and you need to involve the core parts of the business for alignment,” notes Greiner, co-

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Five ways to drive innovation from the centre

Cris Beswick

Innovation has the potential to thrive in every organisation, no matter how large or small. So why are 55% of businesses not seen as active in innovation? The answer may lie with your middle managers, says Cris Beswick, author and co-founder of OUTCOME. Here’s how you can create the right conditions to enable your people to lead and contribute to innovation-led transformation.

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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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India Enters Top 40 Economies In Global Innovation Index

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The country also ranked top in the list of 10 economies in central and South Asia.

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Thought Leader and Influencer Interview with Dr. Jane Thomason, Founder, Global Meta Blockchain

Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews

At a Glance Dr. Jane Thomason, Founder, Global Meta Blockchain Focus Areas: Metaverse, Blockchain, NFT, Sustainability Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: Dr. Jane Thomason Social Media: LinkedIn | Twitter Latest book: Applied Ethics in a Digital World Latest Content : Can tech empower poor women and improve social inclusion? , Blockchain and Emerging Health Systems , 5 Frontier Technologies to Improve Health in Emerging Economies Thinkers360 Leaderboards: Top 50 Global Thought Leader

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Women in the Trades: Making the Glass Ceiling a Myth

Business and Tech

We spoke to Roni Savage, CEO of Jomas Associates , about working successfully in a male-dominated industry and challenging the status quo. Roni Savage CEO , Jomas Associates. How have you, as a woman, navigated and succeeded in a male-dominated industry? It can be daunting not seeing anyone who looks like you in the workplace. However, I grew up with four older brothers and that experience certainly prepared me for navigating the male-dominated industry I now work in.

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Does The Past Still Exist?

helloFUTURE

In The Langoliers by Stephen King, a plane flies through a strange wave of light and ends up landing at a deserted airport. Suddenly, strange creatures start consuming everything, including the ground. They surmise that they have somehow flown just slightly into the past, and the creatures are destroying the present. Once the Langoliers are… The post Does The Past Still Exist?

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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.