Innovation Excellence
JUNE 20, 2022
This is What They Want GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Gen-Z is not your typical generation. By the way, neither was the Millennial generation … or Gen-X, etc. Each new generation has interesting differences, desires, likes and dislikes.
Digital Tonto
JUNE 19, 2022
In Richard Feynman’s 1974 commencement speech at Cal-Tech, he recounted going to a new-age resort where people were learning reflexology. A man was sitting in a hot tub rubbing a woman’s big toe and. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Stephen Shapiro
JUNE 21, 2022
Tip 9 from Best Practices are Stupid. We dig even deeper into open innovation. While attempting to find a suitable filament to make the incandescent electric light a viable device, Edison is famous for saying, “I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”.
Business and Tech
JUNE 24, 2022
Small businesses face a lot of challenges these days, including hiring and retaining employees, inflation, supply chain issues, and more. Read on as small business expert Gene Marks shares his insights to help small business owners navigate the current marketplace. Gene Marks Founder, Marks Group PC. “There has never been a better time to start a small business,” says Marks, owner of Marks Group PC, a ten-person firm that provides technology and consulting services to small and medium-sized busi
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.
Paul Hobcraft
JUNE 24, 2022
The three degrees of ecosystem design- the innovating equation. In any ecosystem thinking and design, we do need to find this “sweet spot” for encouraging more innovation. For me, it is the ability to build the dynamics within the involvement required. We live in a world where we are having greater connectivity than ever before. We are increasingly engaged in far greater interactivity with easy access to social and organizational tools than ever before.
IdeaScale
JUNE 24, 2022
Business innovation and sustainability go hand-in-hand. The evolution of technology and the demand for sustainable products and processes is becoming one of the main drivers of revenue growth and cost reduction across industries. Today’s sustainability leaders are 4 times more likely to be considered innovation leaders compared to those not focused on sustainability, as you can see in our downloadable infographic.
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Business and Tech
JUNE 24, 2022
Here are five ways small business owners can get prepared and get ahead amid economic uncertainty and rising inflation. Kevin Hubbard Co-Founder, Rhoback Activewear, Member, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Small Business Council. Inflation has continued to rise at staggering levels. Small business owners are often disproportionally impacted by rising costs as they don’t have the same ability as larger companies to absorb them.
Sopheon
JUNE 23, 2022
Chemical companies must become quicker in adapting their strategies to the new normal world and then make sure they execute quickly and swiftly. The post Creating a path from strategy to execution to drive chemical innovation appeared first on Sopheon.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 23, 2022
Finding and Growing Innovation Islands Inside a Large Company GUEST POST from Steve Blank How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company?
Cascade Strategy
JUNE 20, 2022
What is Strategic Project Management? Strategic Project Management (SPM) defines how a project may benefit a company's efficiency and strategic plan as a whole. It is the process of thinking about your Projects in light of their connection to your strategic plan. In other words, Strategic Project Management is about forming clear links between your Projects and Strategic Objectives.
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.
Business and Tech
JUNE 24, 2022
To grow their businesses in an ever-changing, on-demand world, small businesses find success with delivery platforms that offer broad choices, flexibility, and control. For small businesses, offering delivery can be an efficient way to expand beyond brick-and-mortar to online. As consumers’ appetite for using online delivery to get almost anything effortlessly — whether their next meal, grocery, or retail item — grows, you can meet their needs through delivery platforms.
Kainexus
JUNE 23, 2022
Most well-established manufacturing companies would agree a plan for every part (PFEP) is fundamental to their improvement efforts. The organization captures and manages a significant amount of data to ensure the characteristics of all materials required for their processes have a clear purpose, place, path , and plan for movement or storage. Teams often go to extraordinary lengths to evaluate details of these materials, including safety requirements, packaging dimensions, frequency of delivery,
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 21, 2022
GUEST POST from Tom Stafford, University of Sheffield ‘It’s important to me that I make my own decisions, but I often wonder how much they are actually influenced by cultural and societal norms, by advertising, the media and those around … Continue reading →
Entrepreneur - Innovation
JUNE 21, 2022
Kellogg is revamping its business strategy as it aims to transform its portfolio.
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.
Business and Tech
JUNE 24, 2022
As a startup entrepreneur, you wear all the hats — sales, marketing, fulfillment, invoicing, accounting, and business strategy, to name just a few. It can be exhausting, but entrepreneurs thrive on bootstrapping and solving impossible challenges. However, the time may come, several years into your business, when you are unsure how to achieve that next growth milestone.
Kainexus
JUNE 21, 2022
Most modern business management methodologies have roots in Toyota's approach to quality improvement and business optimization following World War II. Techniques included in what they called The Toyota Way have been borrowed, adapted, and rearranged into an approach known as Lean manufacturing. Because the framework works for many types of businesses, from healthcare to higher education, it is now often referred to as simply Lean.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 20, 2022
GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2014, when Silicon Valley was still largely seen as purely a force for good, George Packer wrote in The New Yorker how tech entrepreneurs tended to see politics through the lens of an engineering … Continue reading →
Christensen Institute
JUNE 23, 2022
Start with why. Simon Sinek’s famous phrase has always resonated with me. Perhaps because understanding “why” gets to the root cause of a problem, one of the key questions we sought to answer in our latest research was, “ Why do health care leaders integrate drivers of health (DOH) into their business models?”. Using the lens of Jobs to Be Done , we set out to discover what specific jobs arose in health care leaders’ lives that led them to incorporate DOH into their organizations.
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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.
Business and Tech
JUNE 24, 2022
Small businesses generate 44% of the U.S. economy and are responsible for two-thirds of new jobs. One of the most often-overlooked sectors of the small business community is the 16 million people who are self-employed. Keith Hall, CPA President and CEO, National Association for the Self-Employed (NASE). “The state of mind of the typical self-employed person is by definition not typical,” says Keith Hall, chief operating officer and president of the National Association for the Self-Employed (NAS
IdeaSpies
JUNE 20, 2022
Jennifer Harrison, IdeaSpies Proptech Editor, explains how innovative proptech solutions are now powering everything from day-to-day tenant and landlord dealings through to complex commercial property operations.What is proptech? It’s a question I often get asked. And more often than not, people actually already know what it is … they just don’t know that it’s called proptech!
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 19, 2022
Judging by the headlines on their LinkedIn profile and their presence on social media, more and more MD/DOs are innovators, coaches, entrepreneurs and non-clinical consultants.
ITONICS
JUNE 22, 2022
What's the difference between a traditional innovation process covering ideas to projects and an end-to-end innovation approach from strategy to execution? The end-to-end approach will boost your return on innovation!
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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.
Business and Tech
JUNE 24, 2022
As organizations of every size strive to optimize individual and organizational well-being in evolving workplace models, employers are facing greater competition for talent. Mary Imboden, Ph.D. Director of Research, HERO. Sara Johnson, Ph.D. Senior Research Fellow, HERO. According to recent reports, mental health has been identified as the next global pandemic, and rates of burnout are at an all-time high.
Michael Roberto
JUNE 23, 2022
Source: Three Teachers Talk My dissertation adviser and mentor, David Garvin, used to love to quote Dr. Peter Carruthers of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Carruthers once said, “There’s a special tension to people who are constantly in the position of making new knowledge. You’re always out of equilibrium. When I was young, I was deeply troubled by this.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 22, 2022
Closing the Virtual and Cultural Gap GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Learning to connect a culturally diverse virtual workforce is an essential part of managing cross cultural remote teams.
Cascade Strategy
JUNE 23, 2022
Successful strategies are built on a strategic plan that outlines how your company or team will achieve its long-term goals. It’s a clear roadmap that explains to all stakeholders how will you get from the present state to desired future state.
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
Business and Tech
JUNE 24, 2022
Top motivational speaker Dan Clark discusses how small businesses can recover — and thrive — in a post-pandemic world. Dan Clark CEO, Clark Success Systems. The world continues to navigate unprecedented challenges, and nothing has been hit harder than small businesses. In fact, compared to 2019, 80% of small businesses are still experiencing significant challenges , with 63% reporting lowered revenue.
Planview
JUNE 23, 2022
As technology solution providers emerge from the unprecedented volatility of the last couple of years, services leaders are asking what are the most important capabilities that they need to master? How should today’s toughest issues be addressed and tackled? What are the industry’s most important business challenges? What ways have customer expectations changed and increased?
Innovation 360 Group
JUNE 22, 2022
The post Are you taking customer centricity too far? appeared first on Innovation360.
Acuvate
JUNE 22, 2022
“Digital banking,” “super apps,” “hyper-personalization,” “customer experience,” and “agility” — are the terms redefining the BFSI industry today. There has been a steady rise in banks and financial services organizations adopting powerful new-age digital solutions to reach and connect with customers on various digital touchpoints, driving the evident and much-needed shift from “financial inclusion” to “financial empowerment.
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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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