Entrepreneur - Innovation
JUNE 1, 2022
Below are three everyday excuses you may hear in your own organisation that may make your hairs stand on end, and set alarm-bells ringing. Included are some tips on how you can make excuses a thing of the past, while creating real innovation for the future.
Idea to Value
JUNE 1, 2022
Innovation teams often see a problem and think that the most effective thing to do is to create a solution for it. Often, this involves developing a solution that automates a task that previously had to be done manually by someone, or at least makes the activity significantly more efficient. However, sometimes the time, effort and resources spent developing the solution to fix what in reality is a minor problem can be significant.
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Digital Tonto
MAY 29, 2022
No matter what’s going on during the year, I always look forward to summer. I love the heat and, despite spending 15 years in frigid Eastern European countries, I hate the cold. Every year I. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
Business and Tech
JUNE 3, 2022
Company leaders are losing focus on well-being—but their employees aren’t. A recent survey conducted by Microsoft found that 53% of employees are more likely to prioritize health and well-being over work than before the pandemic. But as the world deals with historic change, a worrying trend has emerged: Employers scaling back support for employee mental health.
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.
Daniel Burrus
JUNE 2, 2022
Augmented reality has seemingly had its “time and place” in our lives in the past decade, most notably through interactive games like Pokemon Go or other geocaching applications. So many business professionals and general consumers have filed it under the label of a luxury item that it is only good for entertainment purposes. But little do many who turn a blind eye to the powers of A.R. know that there is a whole growing and disruptive world outside of this physical one we call home.
Idea to Value
JUNE 2, 2022
One of the most common questions I am asked is what tools I use to manage my successful online business. Considering I am constantly giving advice on the ways that companies can improve their innovativeness, and people can come up with new business models and business ideas based on their creativity. So, I wanted to provide a simple list of all the tools that I personally use on a day-to-day basis to run a successful online business.
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Viima
JUNE 2, 2022
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. Quality talent can make a business up to 800 times more productive. But some of the biggest managerial challenges of senior leaders are finding the right talent and encouraging innovative behavior in employees.
Faisal Hoque
JUNE 2, 2022
How business growth, impact, and empowerment can be created through data collection, data sharing, and creative collaborations.
Idea to Value
MAY 31, 2022
Have you ever been in a group discussion, where it seems like a decision was made that nobody actually thought was ideal? You might have just witnessed a psychological bias known as groupthink. Groupthink occurs when a group of people need to make a decision, and due to the pressure of not creating conflict between the group members and a desire for harmony, come to an irrational or dysfunctional decision.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 29, 2022
GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. The number of MD/MBAs graduating from medical schools continues to expand with about 5% of the roughly 20,000 US medical student graduates having dual degrees.
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.
Jeffrey Phillips
MAY 31, 2022
One of my favorite questions when I work with software teams is this: given a choice, would you rather work on existing systems in a support and maintenance role, or would you rather work on developing or implementing new systems with new technology? The answers are always the same. About 30% of the group I'll survey is comfortable with the existing systems and code and is happy extending it and maintaining it.
Faisal Hoque
MAY 31, 2022
Fake news in its varied forms is costing the global economy some $78 billion a year.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
JUNE 3, 2022
Blockchain in Supply Chain was a hot topic - then fell very quiet. Where is it today?
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 2, 2022
The harder I try not to think of myself as an artist, the stronger I’m pulled back to the idea that even if my art is a little different than traditional drawing, painting, photography, music, dance and other traditional arts, … Continue reading →
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.
Kainexus
JUNE 1, 2022
Lean manufacturing , also known as Lean management, or Lean Six Sigma, is a structured business improvement method that helps organizations achieve their short and long-term strategic goals and objectives. The approach started in the manufacturing sector, hence the name, but it is now widely used by all types of organizations. Lean manufacturing tools and techniques are used in organizations as diverse as software development, education, healthcare, and construction.
Christensen Institute
JUNE 2, 2022
Health care executives know that how they get paid is evolving. And as part of the pressure to move towards value, they are seeking to address drivers of health (DOH) – also known as social determinants of health – as part of their care models. But what leaders may not know is that trying to address DOH from within their current business models will be a harsh lesson in failure.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
JUNE 1, 2022
Internal innovation is key to building a growth-enabled company. Here are four steps that must be taken to achieve that.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 2, 2022
GUEST POST from Annette Franz The work that we do as customer experience professionals can often be summed up as change management – or change leadership.
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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.
Kainexus
JUNE 2, 2022
The Lean business model is about making continuous improvements to business operations and implementing processes that result in optimum business efficiency. The desired results are reached by removing ineffective processes, identifying and eliminating unprofitable products, and improving team productivity. The Lean approach is sometimes referred to as operational excellence or continuous improvement.
Christensen Institute
JUNE 2, 2022
The Khan Academy and Arizona State University Prep Digital’s partnership to launch the Khan World School, a virtual school for high schoolers, brings together two powerhouses in digital learning with the promise of creating a breakthrough schooling model. With the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rush to virtual schooling—or what some have termed emergency remote schooling—the results have been unsurprisingly poor.
Brunner
JUNE 1, 2022
ATLANTA (June 1, 2022) – Goodwill of North Georgia , one of the largest and oldest non-profits in Georgia, has selected marketing firm Brunner as agency of record (AOR), responsible for overall media planning, creative strategy, as well as digital strategy including paid social, digital display and digital video. With nearly 100 years of experience, the organization sought a new agency to partner with them to evolve and grow in this new age of digital transformation and innovation.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 30, 2022
GUEST POST from Greg Satell In 2018, Steve Blank wrote a piece in Harvard Business Review questioning the viability of the “lean startup” model. Given that Steve had pioneered lean startup techniques, I was intrigued.
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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.
Faisal Hoque
JUNE 1, 2022
Developed nations can expect to see job loss rates of up to 47 percent within the next 25 years. [Source: University of Oxford Study].
Christensen Institute
MAY 31, 2022
Education wonks in Washington have once again worked themselves in a tizzy trying to micromanage how colleges and universities serve students. Rather than waste time trying to create universal rules and regulations to govern how universities should operate and what contracts they may or may not enter into, regulators should instead focus on actually helping students.
ITONICS
MAY 30, 2022
Gartner states: “Every innovation program needs well-developed objectives and goals to improve specific innovation ability and leverage innovation capabilities.” This article looks at how you can define and establish these goals and objectives, closely examining the “Composition of a SMART Business Goal” according to Gartner ®.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 31, 2022
GUEST POST from David Burkus Creativity is a team sport. It’s been that way for a long time. But the level of teamwork required to solve problems and find innovation has increased over the last decade and even century.
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
Planview
JUNE 3, 2022
As executives, we tend to spend a lot of our time and energy on setting strategy – the direction in which we want the figurative ship to go. We search for inspiration, high upon the mountaintops, and emerge only after we have a direction we feel confident in sharing with the company at large. But the real challenge isn’t in setting the strategy – it’s in keeping the ship on course, over time, especially as conditions change.
Cascade Strategy
JUNE 2, 2022
It’s no secret that the engineering and construction industry is a major powerhouse of the global economy. Representing 13% of the total global GDP , the construction industry is under constant pressure to innovate, become more efficient, and address cost pressures. The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges and has forced industry leaders to rethink the way they approach technology.
Acuvate
JUNE 1, 2022
Analytics modernization- you must have come across this term one way or another. Data is the most valuable asset in a rapidly digitizing world. Companies are looking to make use of the available data to make error-free, fast decisions, perform better analyses and stay ahead of the customer expectations. Today, every organization prioritizes using data and analytics to stay ahead of the curve.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 28, 2022
The late Clayton Christensen wrote a little book called The Innovator’s Dilemma that many of you I’m sure have read.
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