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Here’s How You Build Transformative Teams

Digital Tonto

The truth is that there is no effective answer for the question, “how do we find innovative people?” Talent isn’t something you hire or win in a war, it’s something you empower. It depends less on. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to and Why Be Genuine as a Leader

Tullio Siragusa

How to and Why Be Genuine as a Leader. There is a significant difference between leadership and management. Leaders inspire and work in an upside-down pyramid fashion, while managers are often seeking to be on the top of the pyramid with everyone else beneath. Leaders create and move things forward; managers handle things. Leaders lead people, managers manage stuff.

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Why Innovation Operations Are Critical

Wellspring

This article was originally published on Chemical Engineering.

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Phasing the Energy Transition by Technology and Horizon Management

Paul Hobcraft

Applying the Three Horizon Methodology is an Evolutionary Perspective. Innovation is the key enabler to turning our world from a fossil-led one into one based on renewables. For this to happen, our focus today should be fully on low-carbon technologies and their technical realization. We should be looking at applying the three horizon methodology here to determine a pathway from today through to 2050 to achieve our goals of having a world free of man-made carbon emissions.

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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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What’s the Real Difference between Creativity and Innovation?

IdeaScale

Creativity and innovation are often seen as interchangeable. However, while they overlap, they’re different in key ways. Here’s how to understand the differences and apply them in your innovation strategy. Creativity Vs. Innovation. Creativity is the act of conceiving something new, while. Innovation is the act of putting something into practice. Creativity is thinking up the idea of flying into space, while innovation is building the rocket.

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Three reasons to change the global poverty fighting paradigm

Christensen Institute

Every year, the development industry spends around $150 billion fighting poverty in order to prevent situations like the aforementioned. Last year, it spent approximately $161 billion. . Progress is not only slow but whatever “progress” is made is also shallow. Development indicators, such as children in school, life expectancy, infant and maternal mortality, and so on, may go up, but they mostly mask the shaky foundation upon which these positive indicators are built.

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Innovation strategies to promote more profitable new product development

Sopheon

To ensure efficient new product development and reduce time-to-market, enterprises must implement these digitization strategies. The post Innovation strategies to promote more profitable new product development appeared first on Sopheon.

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Leading a Culture of Innovation from Any Seat

Innovation Excellence

3 Ways to Leverage Human-Centered Design at Your Organization GUEST POST from Patricia Salamone In a world where business challenges are increasingly complex, identifying your objective and framing your problem correctly is an integral way to demonstrate leadership and ensure … Continue reading →

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How Planview ERGs are Encouraging Employees to Honor Juneteenth

Planview

June is an exciting and busy month of the year. It is the beginning of summer vacation, PRIDE month, and a monumental holiday. An important holiday that more than a quarter of Americans know nothing about: Juneteenth. The Planview BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) and the Force for Good ERGs came together to inspire our employees to commemorate the day and support local black communities.

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Innovation Trends in Life Sciences

Yet2

Life science scouting projects are some of the more popular topics amongst the project team at yet2. With the pace of scientific innovation accelerating so quickly, the topics always focus on cutting-edge technologies and devices, and never fail to provide ample opportunity for jaw-dropping reactions to cool, new science. Scouting for life science technologies is also a popular ask across our clients, and why we have so many project leaders with backgrounds and PhDs in chemistry, biochemistry, a

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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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7 Ways to Create Confidence, Power and Power Momentum

Entrepreneur - Innovation

It takes guts to stand up for what you believe in, especially when nobody else does. How to be unafraid of navigating new possibilities.

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What Can Leaders Do to Have More Innovative Teams?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Diana Porumboiu Talent is one of the main drivers of innovation and its scarcity and high value makes it a frequent cause for concern for leaders from all over the world. And for good reason.

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Sustainability Is a Must: Time for More Meaningful Innovation

PlanBox Innovation

According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2022 is the Year of the Tiger. That’s appropriate given the short-term and long-term pressures facing humanity. We are going to need the speed, strength, and bravery these big cats are renowned for. To balance immediate quarterly objectives with developing a sustainable strategy for the long haul, organizational leaders will have to be both agile and courageous.

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3. Asking for Ideas is a Bad Idea

Stephen Shapiro

This is tip 3 from Best Practices are Stupid. I love this one. It’s core to so much of my innovation work. The concept of the SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO is overlooked yet critical. Here’s a short snippet of the content: A large European retail bank that was suffering from eroding market share thought they had a great idea to solve this emerging problem.

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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 Improve Project Management to Waste Less Time and Make More Money

Entrepreneur - Innovation

How project management practices based on well-defined goals and clear communication can transform your company.

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Four Reasons the Big Quit Exists

Innovation Excellence

Turns out the pandemic prompted mass numbers of employees finally say, “take this job and shove it” to employers and careers they don’t like. Life is too short to be miserable at work.

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Design Thinking Exercises and Activities

InnovationTraining.org

Learn about some of the most popular activities and exercises for design thinking. Here at Innovation Training, we’ve spent over a decade studying and applying design thinking techniques to help organizations and individuals create real, innovative change. Design thinking can help you figure out new solutions to grow and improve old processes and practices by doing things in better ways.

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Aligning Innovation Activities with Strategy Using Innovation Roadmaps

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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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Don't Make These Ideation and Brainstorming Session Mistakes

Entrepreneur - Innovation

How to not fall into the trap of thinking that a single brainstorming session will fix all your market and product woes, and other ideation pitfalls.

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The Lost Tribe of Medicine

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. I can remember opening my medical school acceptance letter.

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Drive Innovation and Focus on Strategic Outcomes that Matter 

Planview

To create interconnected products and services that move a company forward, business leaders must continually assess and evolve capabilities while directing cross-organizational coordination between strategy, work, people, technology, and outcomes. To help drive change and advance strategic objectives, organizations turn to enterprise-wide portfolio planning and delivery solutions such as Planview Enterprise One ® , which enables strategy execution, project portfolio management, lean portfolio m

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5. Expertise is the Enemy of Innovation

Stephen Shapiro

Today we move to tip 5 from the book. People who know me, know I am a fan of open innovation and crowdsourcing – when it is done correctly. Today’s post shares why I am such a strong proponent… Expertise can be the enemy of breakthrough thinking. The more you know about a particular topic, the more difficult it is for you to think about it in a different way.

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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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The Luxury of Invention

100%Open

Hands up who likes to be creative? I know I do. As someone who very firmly identifies as a Co-lab ‘Explorer’ I really enjoy taking things – physical, virtual or conceptual – and letting my imagination loose on what these could become. You might think that some of this is at odds with someone who has had a very structured, logical, scientific background and I wouldn’t disagree.

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Ask WHY?

IdeaSpies

Simon Sinek is an unshakable optimist who believes in a bright future and our ability to build it together. He has devoted his life to sharing his thinking, and leading a movement to inspire people to do the things that inspire them.Simon may be best known for popularising the concept of WHY in his first Ted Talk in 2009. It has since become one of the most watched talks of all time.

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Digital Transformation in Biotech: The Competitive Advantage

Cascade Strategy

The biotechnology industry has experienced incredible growth over the last few years. While other industries faltered during the COVID-19 pandemic, governments and markets across the globe turned to the biotech industry to help with the research and development of vital vaccines and innovative treatments.

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4. Don’t Think Outside the Box; Find a Better Box

Stephen Shapiro

This is tip 4 from Best Practices are Stupid and is the basis of my Invisible Solutions® book. It is fundamental to all of my work with innovation: Start with a well-framed opportunity. Here is a snippet of the text for this chapter… Leaders of organizations often use the expression, “think outside the box” while urging their employees to innovate.

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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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Episode 096: Is Virtual Idea Generation Less Effective Than In-Person? It Depends on the Technique!

Innovation in Practice

Are you as creative in the virtual world as you are in person? This is an important question to ask right now. The virtual world is taking over. More and more companies are going remote. You may even work fully remote! We need to know if our creative output can remain the same online. An article recently came out that says it can’t. It asserts that your innovation abilities and creative skills decrease when you’re virtual.

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There’s Never Been A Better Time For Innovative Startups

helloFUTURE

We certainly live in a fantastic time, don’t we? Even as recently as five years ago, we did not have nearly as many tools, frameworks, and platforms available to us as we do today to construct a firm that could do virtually anything. Do you know what aspect of the on-demand economy, known as the… The post There’s Never Been A Better Time For Innovative Startups appeared first on IDEATE + EXECUTE.

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Transform your Higher Ed Strategy with Cascade’s progress reports: A USE CASE

Cascade Strategy

How is your strategic plan performing?

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6. The Difference Between a Pipeline and a Sewer is What Flows Through It

Stephen Shapiro

One day, I was having lunch with a pharmaceutical client who said, “The problem with our innovation pipeline is it is really a sewer.” Ouch. But it was the inspiration for this tip from Best Practices are Stupid. Here’s a short snippet from that chapter: We hear the expression “innovation pipeline” tossed around a lot. But if you aren’t careful, your pipeline may get clogged.

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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.