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Getting more curious: Research shows that curiosity can be enhanced

Idea to Value

Curiosity has long been linked to being more creative. Along with being open to new experiences , being curious makes it more likely that you discover new and interesting knowledge which can then be combined in a creative way. A 2019 meta-analysis of 2,692 individuals showed that there was a strong positive link between being more curious and being more creative.

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How to Make Your Training Stick: 7 Methods to Transfer & Sustain Learning

CMOE

In the latest 2021 Training Industry Report , conducted by Training Magazine, results indicated that U.S. training expenditures rose nearly 12 percent to $92.3 billion in 2020-2021. While this increase can be attributed to various factors, it seems safe to conclude that corporations find value in offering their employees learning and development opportunities and are willing to pay a pretty penny for it.

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Creating the conditions for disruptive innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

In what is probably one of the most revered books among innovators, Edward De Bono wrote about six "thinking" hats. The point of his book is to recognize and acknowledge that many people, either intentionally or often unintentionally, play roles or "wear hats" that represent a specific point of view. De Bono identified six perspectives or "hats" that people wear.

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New innovation approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion

Paul Hobcraft

Choosing new innovative approaches to counter the fear of Business Contagion. What has been changing in how we approach innovation, and have we taken the opportunity to radically revise the innovation system and process accordingly? Many of our innovative approaches or systems are based on very often just an internal perspective, restricted in available resources and limited knowledge and insights, often constraining the evolving new solutions and then limiting the impact and outcome.

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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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Happy 13th Birthday Digital Tonto!

Digital Tonto

When I started this blog back in 2009, the world was a very different place. First, and perhaps most obvious, we used to come up with brand names for our blogs instead of just using our real names. Social media was just becoming a thing and there was still debate about whether digital media was […]. The post Happy 13th Birthday Digital Tonto! first appeared on Digital Tonto.

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Automaticity: A Thinking Trap?

Phil McKinney

Just as a car can be driven more smoothly and efficiently when the driver doesn't have to think about each action, so can our lives run more smoothly when some tasks are done automatically. For example, if you've ever ridden in a car with someone learning to drive, you know it's not a very smooth […].

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Idea Generation in Business: Eight Techniques to Supercharge Creativity

Qmarkets

Ideas are vital to innovation. They are the seeds from which every innovation grows. When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential.

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Innovation time machine: Putting primitive fire making through a new product development process

Sopheon

What would a new product development process look like during the prehistoric invention of fire? Let’s take a closer look. The post Innovation time machine: Putting primitive fire making through a new product development process appeared first on Sopheon.

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A Day in the Life of Senior Human Resources Business Partner at Planview

Planview

Picture this: you have accepted a job offer from your dream company. It is your first day and you are excited yet nervous to start your new journey. You have a ton of questions before you can even get started, but who do you direct your questions to? The People Team (also known as Human Resources), of course! The People team handles everything from hiring and recruiting, to compensation and benefits, to training and development.

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The Power of Stopping

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If when you write your monthly report no one responds with a question of clarification or constructive comment, this may be a sign your organization places little value on your report and the work it stands for. If someone sends a thank you email and do not mention something specific […].

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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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What is Stakeholder Theory? The Benefits of Applying it

Cascade Strategy

Stakeholder Theory Overview. Milton Friedman is one of the most famous economists of all time. He put forward a theory (among many others) that companies are ultimately beholden to just one stakeholder - their shareholders.

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Rethinking Development Can Turn “Latin America’s Vicious Circle” Into a Virtuous One

Christensen Institute

The article, “ Latin America’s Vicious Circle is a Warning to the West ”, claims that Latin America is stuck in a development trap, citing lack of opportunities for educated youth, corrupt and unstable governments, and not enough innovation. This developmental trap is leading to the fall of democracies, and the rise of autocracies, and the problem, as the article states, is “not just that democracies devolve into dictatorships, but that Latin America drifts away from the orbit of the West”.

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Achieve Alignment with Hoshin Kanri

Kainexus

Hoshin Kanri , also known as Policy Deployment, is the Lean approach for ensuring that an organization's strategic goals are driving process and action at every level. Hoshin Kanri translates from Japanese to English as "direction setting" or "management compass." It is a seven-step process incorporated into strategic planning, during which goals are communicated and operationalized through the company.

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This 9-Box Grid Can Help Grow Your Best Future Talent

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Soren Kaplan Hiring good people is tough. Retaining your best talent can be equally challenging. In today’s disruptive world, competitive advantage relies as much on people as it does technology. So, how do you objectively know which people are your all-stars, especially in a bigger organization? And not just the best talent today, but the best […].

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

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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4 Ways to Increase Cross-Collaboration in Trend & Technology Scouting

ITONICS

Y ou have a list of super-relevant trends and technologies for your business but not yet an efficient way to select the most strategically valuable ones? In this blog, you’ll learn about the power of cross-functional collaboration in trend and technology evaluation and how to improve knowledge exchange between different experts or teams.

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Turning Reverse Engineering of Business Goals into Strategies

Tullio Siragusa

Turning Reverse Engineering of Business Goals into Strategies. A lot of learning can come from reverse-engineering many things. In business it can be a creative process on how to bring about new change, and innovation. Tech Backstage interviewed Jason Jepson to learn more about reverse engineering. We talk about reverse-engineering outcomes into strategy, building and positioning for technology, and the ins and outs of storytelling.

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Moving from Project to Product: A Five-Stage Journey

Planview

The way we work and organize is changing. And so is the mindset around productivity and team structure. In the traditional project-centered model, companies are organized around tasks, with each group focused on one element of a project. But greater emphasis is being placed on moving from project to product, which focuses on enabling teams to become end-to-end experts.

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How Consensus Kills Innovation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell “I hate consensus,” legendary Silicon Valley coach Bill Campbell used to growl. The problem, as the authors explain in the book, Trillion Dollar Coach, wasn’t that he didn’t want people to get along, but that an easy consensus often leads to groupthink and inferior decisions. It’s often just easier to […].

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Building a Culture of Innovation

Fehmida Kapadia

Genius is created, not born. The right geographical, cultural, and economic environments can create an ecosystem that facilitates innovation and creativity. This was illustrated amply in Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers The Story of Success where he demonstrates that certain eras, situations and geographies created the right environments allowing people to flourish.

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Walking the Sustainability Road

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The innovation in the sustainable footwear industry has undergone a lot of changes over these years and the current trends speak for casual sneakers and canvas shoes, which are made with recycled rubber soles, upcycled products and sustainable or eco-friendly materials.

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The top 10 PMO KPIs you should be tracking (+ how to track them)

Cascade Strategy

Outstanding project portfolio managers have a set of PMO KPIs they track to showcase the business value of their office.

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Land Mines of Intrapreneurship

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Entrepreneurship is the pursuit of opportunity under VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) conditions with the goal of creating user/stakeholder defined value through the deployment of innovation using a VAST business model. Intrapreneurs are employees trying to act like entrepreneurs within their organizations or non-profits.

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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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Idea Generation in Business: Eight Techniques to Supercharge Creativity

Qmarkets

Ideas are vital to innovation. They are the seeds from which every innovation grows. When it comes to overseeing an idea management program involving thousands of employees or customers, it is crucial that the process is structured in a way that helps participants to generate the best ideas. In this blog, we highlight eight techniques for idea generation in business that will help your idea management participants to reach their creative potential.

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More schools should offer a year-round schooling option

Christensen Institute

Few events spark as much nostalgia as summer for parents. Heat waves notwithstanding, camps, vacations, jobs, and time in the neighborhood pool spark fond memories, which ripple into pop songs devoted to the joys of summer. Yet for many parents from all walks of life, the summer break from school can be simultaneously painful. That pain is why I argue in my new book, From Reopen to Reinvent , that it’s well past time that many more schools began offering year-round schooling.

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The first step is to understand the system as it is.

Mike Shipulski

If there’s a recurring problem, take the time to make sure the system hasn’t changed since last time and make sure the context and environment are still the same. If everything is the same, and there are no people involved in the system, it’s a problem that resides in the clear domain. Here’s a link from Dave Snowden who talks about the various domains.

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Why the EU, UK, US, and Japan are Exploring Space-Based Solar Power

Wellspring

Throughout the twentieth century, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky’s idea that solar power stations in space could generate power was a source of creativity and inspiration for science fiction writers. Today, however, in conjunction with Peter Glaser’s 1973 patent for solar-powered satellites, the fiction of the past could be the answers of the future. Patent: METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING SOLAR RADIATION TO ELECTRICAL POWER (Source: Wellspring Scout ).

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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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Follow The Leader: Seafood Souq Co-Founder Fahim Al Qasimi Is Building "A UAE-Born Business That Will Change The World"

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Here's how Seafood Souq is capitalizing on the growing trend of supply chain awareness in the global seafood industry.

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The Dos and Don’ts of Creating a Coaching Culture in the Office

CMOE

Many leaders and professionals tend to assume that coaching is a formal discussion you have when someone is struggling. In fact, it’s actually an agile practice that can be weaved into virtually any type of interaction. It could be a conversation between a leader and team member or between 2 colleagues. Organizational leaders must understand the importance of creating a positive coaching culture—a workplace environment where development, feedback, mentoring, and growth opportunities are front an

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Becoming a RAD Organization

Moves the Needle

The goal of the book Disruption Proof is to help leaders and founders of companies to create what I call RAD companies, which stands for being resilient, aware, and dynamic. RAD requires new behaviors and skills for all, while also establishing new systems, processes, and structure to deal with an increasingly complex and uncertain world. Be Resilient.

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Factors That Influence the Adoption of Power BI Dashboards

Acuvate

The growing importance and relevance of leveraging data and business intelligence cannot be overstated in today’s highly digitized business landscape. The business intelligence (BI) market size is projected to reach $39.35 billion by 2027. Amongst the plethora of BI tools and solutions available in the market, Microsoft Power BI has emerged as the leading BI software, commanding a 36% market share in 2021.

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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.