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Change Isn’t About Persuasion. It’s About Power

Digital Tonto

In 2013, the political scientist Moisés Naím published The End of Power, in which he argued that because of the increase in mobility and technology and decrease in poverty, the power of institutions was diminishing. Power hadn’t ended exactly but, as he put it, power was becoming “easier to gain but harder to use or keep.”. However, in his more recent book, The Revenge of Power, Naim points out that autocrats, governments, corporations and other institutions have been able to combine hard power,

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How Can I Support You: Leading Through Purposeful Communication

CMOE

Words hold implications and meanings that exist outside of their dictionary definitions. Although the words “team member” and “employee” can technically be synonymous, they have different meanings and feelings attached to them. The way that you discuss people and situations inherently affects how you and others approach and understand what you were talking about.

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Is Your Business Defensible?

Collectivecamp

So you chanced upon a serious customer pain point and built a solution that costs less to deliver than customers are willing to pay for it.

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Importance of Measuring Your Organization’s Innovation Maturity

Innovation Excellence

by Braden Kelley Is our organization a productive place for creating innovation? How does our organization’s innovation capability compare to that of other organizations? Almost every organization wants to know the answers to these two questions. The only way to get better at innovation, is to first define what innovation means. Your organization must have […].

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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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Todd Henry: Developing a Daily Creative practice – Idea to Value Podcast S7E163

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast , we speak again with author Todd Henry about his new book Daily Creative. By the time this podcast launches, the book has already been #1 on Amazon, so congratulations Todd. You may remember Todd from the previous podcast interview where we talked about the Motivation Code. Today we talk about what it takes to make creativity a daily exercise and how to make it more actionable and productive.

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The Right Way To Set Team Goals

Cascade Strategy

There are organizations that set team goals, and there are organizations that achieve their goals. What sets them apart?

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Proof Innovation Takes More Than Genius

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell It’s easy to look at someone like Steve Jobs or Elon Musk and imagine that their success was inevitable. Their accomplishments are so out of the ordinary that it just seems impossible that they could have ever been anything other than successful. You get the sense that whatever obstacles they […].

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Innovation Reporting: 5 Charts You Really Need to Convince Management

ITONICS

Communicating information to the management through reports and graphs can be a daunting task, as many vital insights can get lost in the process. But there are powerful charts that can be used to simplify complex information about organizational needs, ultimately helping to achieve your innovation objectives. This article will help you to understand how you can enhance the communication of insights to gain your management’s buy-in for innovation efforts.

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Steve Jobs, We Miss You! Without You, Apple is Not Innovating!

Linda Bernardi

When true attempts at innovation fail, desperate attempts of pseudo-innovation take off, often demonstrated in pointless new product introductions and fake-hype. This is exactly what Apple did in the announcement of the release of the iPhone 14 last week, which is lacking any interesting innovation elements. This was perhaps even worse, as Apple attempted to feed on people’s fear element.

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Building Workshop Awareness

Guide 4 Innovating

Building the workshop ready for innovation is deliberately designed to help you think through many productive innovating and creative opportunities. For example: 1. Understanding the trends and drivers in your industry and exploring alternative perspectives allows you to look at not just ‘best practices’ but leading and emerging practices. 2. Look constantly outside your organization to ‘see’ and collaborate from the values of applying open innovation principles and techniques. 3.

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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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People Cannot Work Forever

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When cars run out of gas, they can no longer get the job done until their tanks are filled up. And it’s the same with people, except people are asked to keep on truckin’ even though their tanks are empty. When machines are used for a certain number of hours, […].

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Want to Build a Faster Horse? Follow these 3 Innovation Strategies

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Your innovation strategy is crucial to your enterprise's success and productivity.

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How to track OKRs, so you make consistent progress toward your goals

Cascade Strategy

You can’t adapt your strategy if you don’t track its progress.

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ICYMI: Planview Recognized as a Leader in Adaptive Project Management and Reporting

Planview

Across industries, strategic PMO and business leaders are using adaptive project management to drive strategic delivery and value while adapting to quickly changing customer needs and preferences. Many of them rely on Planview to help their organizations realize their adaptive project management potential to deliver on strategy. That’s why we’re thrilled to have been recognized as a leader in the first 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Adaptive Project Management and Reporting.

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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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6 Ways to Create Trust with Your Employees

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Last week I wrote an article, 4 Ways to Create Trust with Your Customers. I don’t think anyone would argue (and the stats prove it) that a customer who trusts you is more likely to do more business with you. After all, why would they want to risk doing business […].

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Automobile Industry Needs Faster Green Innovation, Says Narendra Modi

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Prime minister also said that automobile sector has contributed to economic growth through new avenues for employment generation.

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Awash in federal dollars, schools have a chance to reinvent themselves

Christensen Institute

After an unprecedented infusion of federal money in local schools to deal with the devastation and learning loss stemming from COVID, the public is learning that districts and states have billions still waiting to be spent. As schools use the dollars to pay for tutoring, teachers, and technology to accelerate student learning, they also have an opportunity to use the money to create a new range of schooling models to leapfrog the performance of today’s schools.

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20 Ways to Show Revenue Potential Without Any

Collectivecamp

How leading indicators can help you validate market appetite and raise capital

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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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Why Diversity and Inclusion Are Entrepreneurial Competencies

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. A competency is the ability to do something successfully. There are many entrepreneurial competencies. One of them is interdisciplinary teamwork and collaboration i.e. the ability of individuals to form partnerships with a team of professionally diverse individuals in a participatory, collaborative, and coordinated approach to share decision making around issues as the […].

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5 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Should Be Using No Code

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Today, no-code is dominated by early-stage entrepreneurs to build their MVP or side hustle. But no-code can be used for so much more. It's time for enterprises to become more efficient, innovative and productive.

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The Powerful Intersection of Blockchain and Data Set to Transform and Drive Businesses Forward

Acuvate

With remote employees, IoT, connected networks and devices, and employees’ social platforms, in addition to customer and business data, modern enterprises generate massive volumes of data every single day. This data, although often unstructured, is precious. Since all the print space was dedicated to big data and data analytics at the turn of the millennium, these sciences have proven revolutionary, helping organizations plan their strategies, make fiscally sound decisions and win in a competiti

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How to understand your customers better | Ep 04

Moves the Needle

In this episode, we’ll be talking about how you can properly survey your customers so you can better understand them. We often lead customers on and are looking for confirmation bias when making decisions. Brant will go through how to properly pull data and make customer-centric decisions. The post How to understand your customers better | Ep 04 appeared first on Moves the Needle.

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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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You Can’t Innovate Without This One Thing

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton It just landed on your desk. Or maybe you campaigned to get it. Or perhaps you just started doing it. How the title of “Innovation Leader” got to your desk doesn’t matter nearly as much as the fact that it’s there, along with a budget and loads of expectations. Of […].

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Why we chose to pursue B Corp certification for Econic

Econic

After a year and a half of critical examination and purposeful evolution of our business, we are excited to announce our certification as a B Corp. While Econic is the seventh certified B Corp in Nebraska, we joined a community of more than 5,000 companies recognized worldwide for prioritizing social and environmental impact over profit. Even with the rigorous process B Corp certification requires to demonstrate a commitment to transparency, accountability, and equity, our decision to pursue thi

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3 Key Takeaways from the 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle | ITONICS

ITONICS

Emerging technologies are vital in transforming and modernizing industries and organizations in a world driven by digital solutions. Staying informed about rapidly changing business environments and the factors influencing change is of paramount strategic importance.

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AI Isn’t Ready to Make Unsupervised Decisions

Harvard Business Review

Today’s algorithms still largely lack empathy, ethics, and the ability to see the bigger picture.

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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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Please, we need a different Innovation narrative

Paul Hobcraft

Adapted from AFSC explaining a narrative, in this case, social justice. I have been struggling for quite some time with innovation’s increasing difficulties in influencing growth and achieving real impact. I see many comments on the failure of innovation, in its inability to be at the core of an organization’s ambitions for growing and changing.

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Governance within Ecosystems

Ecosystems4Innovating

Governance within Ecosystem Design. Managing Governance within Ecosystem Designs. Governance needs to constantly “account” for change. Here is a handy reference or reflection of its capacity to deliver: You need a living environment, one that evolves constantly. + Here, you must establish a relational, institutional and coordination set of strategic and operational approaches.

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3 Key Takeaways from the 2022 Gartner Hype Cycle | ITONICS

ITONICS

Emerging technologies are vital in transforming and modernizing industries and organizations in a world driven by digital solutions. Staying informed about rapidly changing business environments and the factors influencing change is of paramount strategic importance.

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High-Performing Teams Don’t Leave Relationships to Chance

Harvard Business Review

How managers can create the conditions for work friendships to flourish.

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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.