Innovation Excellence
JULY 12, 2022
GUEST POST from Greg Satell I first became interested in transformation in the fall of 2004. I was managing a leading news organization in Kyiv, Ukraine when the Orange Revolution broke out.
Digital Tonto
JULY 10, 2022
When we’re passionate about something, we want to take action. We want to launch an initiative, start a business, hit the streets, get stuff done. Yet our bias for action can be a trap that. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Leapfrogging
JULY 15, 2022
Keep and develop your best people to create a high-performance culture and competitive advantage. 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?
Wellspring
JULY 14, 2022
Today, Wellspring announced a significant capital raise. You can read the press release to learn more about Resurgens , our new growth partners, and the deal itself. In this post, I’d like to focus on the bigger picture — why it made sense to raise a fresh round of capital, why 2022 was the right time, and why I’m deeply excited for Wellspring’s future.
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.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 14, 2022
GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky When Gordon Bethune took over as CEO of Continental Airlines in 1994, the carrier had just emerged from its second bankruptcy and was headed for their third and potentially final round.
Kainexus
JULY 15, 2022
Karidja Sakanogo joined us on our Continuous Improvement webinar series to share the core values and dimensions of Lean management that can alleviate parenthood. You can watch the webinar recording here or read the webinar transcript below.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Wellspring
JULY 11, 2022
Get a look at how the supply chain has missed on innovation in the past, and why strategic innovation is proving to be the way forward. This article was originally published on Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 13, 2022
GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Managing with empathy is a leader’s superpower. Empathy opens the door to increased innovation, collaboration, and engagement.
Kainexus
JULY 12, 2022
Mark Graban, Senior Advisor at KaiNexus, joined us on our Continuous Improvement webinar series to talk about My Favorite Mistake, Your Favorite Mistake? Learning From Mistakes as Individuals and Organizations. In this webinar, you'll learn and hear stories about: · Why it’s important to admit mistakes to ourselves · How to reflect on mistakes without being too hard on ourselves · How to prevent repeating our mistakes · Key leadership behaviors that create a culture where it’s safe for people to
Christensen Institute
JULY 14, 2022
Over the last two and a half years, if there was a glass-half-full way of looking at COVID-19’s effect on education, it was to consider how the challenges created by the pandemic might also catalyze innovation. Remote learning led to substantial investments in devices, software, and connectivity that could serve as basic infrastructure to support innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
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.
Stephen Shapiro
JULY 13, 2022
Tip 12 from Best Practices are Stupid… Imagine you are the former Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Your state is struggling with myriad issues ranging from a perpetual and growing deficit to a decaying education system to an infrastructure that can’t handle the ever-increasing population. What do you do? Like any good innovator, you turn to crowdsourcing, just as Governor Schwarzenegger did.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 15, 2022
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Nothing lasts forever … or does it? If something could last forever, what would the business model look like?
Entrepreneur - Innovation
JULY 10, 2022
In today's workplace, you need a culture that allows people to be their best -- inclusiveness and acceptance are essential.
ITONICS
JULY 14, 2022
Which emerging technologies will be game-changers for your industry? Recognizing this early can be a great asset to your business. To adapt to changes in the market, companies must research technological breakthroughs and use them to develop products and services to meet evolving consumer needs.
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.
Rmukesh Gupta
JULY 14, 2022
Premise: I read a post by Michael McCune on Gartner’s blog about thought leadership and it resonated really well with me. In the post, he talks about the importance of original thought provoking content. Content that deepen’s someone’s understanding of their own challenges and how to solve them by sharing an insight that is either original or is non-obvious has significant impact.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 10, 2022
GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D.
Michael Roberto
JULY 12, 2022
Source: Small Biz Daily Chip Cutter of the Wall Street Journal reports today on the work being conducted at several firms to reduce new employee turnover, particularly among hourly workers. Cutter writes: Hold on to an employee for three months, executives and human-resources specialists say, and that person is more likely to remain employed longer-term, which they define as anywhere from a year on in today’s high-turnover environment.
ITONICS
JULY 13, 2022
As a variety of factors continue to impact the global economy, the clear call for companies to prioritize foresight and innovation across business activities is more relevant than ever. In this blog, we look at the role of foresight and innovation in supply chain management to anticipate and respond to future requirements for supply chains. Moreover, we provide three k ey factors to ensure future-fit supply chains.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
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.
Planview
JULY 15, 2022
In this post, you will find questions and answers from an incredibly timely and informative webinar that provided crucial new product development best practices based on lessons learned from the pandemic. The information collected in these Q&As will act as valuable assets for anyone wanting to make clear the real need for more adaptive product development and to show that an accelerated process is still highly possible, even in the face of consistent disruptions.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 11, 2022
Are you one of the nearly four million cashiers in the United States? If so, outsourcing and robots are coming for your job.
Cascade Strategy
JULY 15, 2022
Salesforce co-founder and co-CEO Marc Benioff developed the V2MOM framework in the early days of the company as a management process tool.
Stephen Shapiro
JULY 15, 2022
Tip 14 from Best Practices are Stupid…remember this is from over 10 years ago. Splitting this into two posts. Imagine you are a hearing aid manufacturer and you want to develop the next generation of product. You conduct surveys and focus groups and discover that nearly 80% of the hearing impaired population, despite the recommendations of their health care provider, refuse to wear hearing aids, mainly citing cost as the key reason.
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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.
Acuvate
JULY 15, 2022
With the world gearing to reach 175 ZB of data by 2025, many organizations have realized that moving their data to the cloud is the need of the hour. Not only does the cloud offer benefits in terms of scalability and reduced costs, but it also provides companies access to a host of data analytics and ETL (extract, transform, and load) tools, enabling them to process large amounts of information and extract meaningful insights from it.
InnovationTraining.org
JULY 12, 2022
Top insights from this 2022 Hasso Plattner Institute study. In 2015, the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the Stanford Design Thinking Research Program conducted one of the most extensive global studies looking into the state of design thinking in organizations. A replicative study was done more recently in 2021 , reviewing the development of the last six years and outlining the future of design thinking in organizations.
Cascade Strategy
JULY 13, 2022
OKR is a popular framework that few organizations manage to make it work for them.
Stephen Shapiro
JULY 14, 2022
Tip 13 from Best Practices are Stupid. Here I explore the lessons from one of my favorite movies of all time. In 1989’s “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” the nerdy archeology professor Indiana Jones advises students to “forget any ideas you’ve got about lost cities, exotic travel and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and ‘X’ never, ever marks the spot.”.
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
IM Insights
JULY 11, 2022
By Elijah Eilert. My friend Mark Vaughn recently found this interesting tool – OpenAI. In a group chat with friends, we had some fun with it, writing poems and asking the AI silly questions. Needless to say, I wanted to see how well the answer to this question would turn out: What is innovation accounting? “Innovation accounting is a framework for measuring and managing the progress of innovative initiatives.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
JULY 10, 2022
In today's workplace, you need a culture that allows people to be their best -- inclusiveness and acceptance are essential.
Innovation in Practice
JULY 10, 2022
Have you ever wondered if certain creativity techniques are better to use in certain situations? If so, this episode is for you. As you know by now, creativity is a skill that anyone can learn. It is a structured process and involves using structured techniques. These techniques are patterns that mankind has used for thousands of years to create new solutions without consciously realizing it.
helloFUTURE
JULY 10, 2022
Recently, there was a story about an AI model that used 4chan to learn behaviors. Needless to say, the AI it created was pretty horrible. Prior to that, there was another story about an AI trained on Reddit. It, too, turned out to be pretty terrible. Even before that, Microsoft created a bot called Tay… The post Why AI Models Turn Out Bad: Its Our Fault appeared first on IDEATE + EXECUTE.
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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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