Michael Michalko
MAY 20, 2022
Synopsis. Aspects of creative thinking that are not usually taught. 1. You are creative. The artist is not a special person, each one of us is a special kind of artist. Every one of us is born a creative, spontaneous thinker. The only difference between people who are creative and people who are not is a simple belief. Creative people believe they are creative.
Digital Tonto
MAY 15, 2022
One of the things that I’ve learned over the years is that it’s best to assume people are smart, hardworking and well intentioned. Of course, that’s not always true, but we don’t learn much from. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].
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Idea to Value
MAY 17, 2022
We know that a lot of people have a bias towards to keeping the status quo. Or if they do see a new innovation which is fundamentally different that what they know, they might see how other people react to using it first before they feel comfortable using it themselves. Yet at the same time, there are some innovations where we as humans have a bias towards liking things more just because they are new.
Leapfrogging
MAY 20, 2022
Having worked with innovation teams from global companies like Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark, Disney, Medtronic and many others, there’s one consistent success factor when it comes to innovation, no matter what you’re doing: it all starts with the customer. Companies spend oodles of time and money trying to understand customers.
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.
IdeaScale
MAY 18, 2022
When you’re an innovator, you’re constantly looking for inspiration. A big part of being an innovator is being a researcher—someone with continual learning on their mind. A great place for inspiration and information is the podcast realm. Here, people are constantly publishing content that revolves around inspiring innovation. To jumpstart your thinking, we’ve provided an [.].
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 16, 2022
Linking innovation needs constant evolving and recognizing. I have been working through my innovative points of focus, those that have, for me, my innovating purpose that needs constant referencing back and adapting to the future needs of innovation. So here are my points of focus with a number of reference links that I have selected and written upon in the past.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
CMOE
MAY 19, 2022
You can’t have strategy without leadership. Strategy formulation requires a clearly defined vision, long-term goals, useful tools, and a plan to win. But without the guidance of an insightful leader who can drive the process, it is difficult to make any strategy a reality. Ultimately, strategic leadership is what makes the difference between success or failure.
Tullio Siragusa
MAY 16, 2022
Design Thinking Can Help Grow Sales. Many businesses, in recent years, have started implementing Design Thinking to achieve more productive and profitable results. Specifically, Design Thinking is the way of using various techniques and tools to come up with innovative solutions centered around solving the problems that impact people most. . Sales growth methods used in earlier years are now becoming obsolete with rising competition in every sector across many markets.
Christensen Institute
MAY 17, 2022
Over the past couple of years, Americans’ positive perception of capitalism has decreased from 58% in 2019 to 49% today, according to an Axios/Momentive poll. To many, capitalism seems to be hurting everyone–customers, communities, employees, and the environment–except those with capital. . “Today, 18-34 year-olds are almost evenly split between those who view capitalism positively and those who view it negatively (49% vs. 46%).
Idea to Value
MAY 19, 2022
In this episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Salesforce’s Innovation and Growth Evangelist Tiffani Bova. Tiffani is recognised as one of the top management thinkers in the world by Thinkers 50, is the author of Growth IQ and is a well-known speaker on the topic of Growth. We speak about why the experience of your employees is one of the most overlooked drivers of the experience your customers have with your company, and how leaders might need to reevaluate their priorities t
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 20, 2022
As you know if you follow my blog, I generally write about the intersection of strategy and innovation. Increasingly, however, we need to invite data into this mix. As more and more data is generated, it creates new opportunities in the strategy realm and in the innovation realm. This post will consider the importance of data in strategy development and execution, as well as in innovation.
Sopheon
MAY 19, 2022
Prioritizing customer problems over solutions is the most tried and true path to innovative new product development. The post Your Customers Will Lead You to Innovative New Product Development Solutions appeared first on Sopheon.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 17, 2022
A remote or hybrid work culture requires a new approach to managing remote teams: use empathy and grace to keep your team connected.
Idea to Value
MAY 18, 2022
There is evidence to show that walking is a great way to encourage creative thought. Now, hot off the presses, we might soon learn that any type of random body movement might have the same effect. I recently interviewed Prof Angus Fletcher, whose team is studying how narrative creativity is built in the brain, for an upcoming episode of the Idea to Value podcast.
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Planview
MAY 16, 2022
If there’s anything we have collectively learned in the past two years, it’s that it takes effort to stay connected. Meeting new people, fostering relationships, building trust, collaborating – they’re all certainly possible in a hybrid / remote environment, but they require deliberate, consistent effort. At Planview, we’re very invested in helping businesses stay connected; our mission, which we repeat and display wherever we can, is to build the future of connected work.
Michael Michalko
MAY 14, 2022
If we toss seeds on hard packed ground the chances of them taking root and producing healthy plants is minimal. However, if we plough and till the ground (that is, mix it up, break it apart, make it “less” solid and more “loose”) the chances of a variety of seeds (both those we purposely sow and those that serendipitously fall) will find a way to grow in the loose soil.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 18, 2022
How collaboration platforms can help turbocharge your innovation efforts GUEST POST from John Bessant Say the word ‘innovation’ and many people quickly conjure in their mind the wonderful ‘lightbulb moment’.
Idea to Value
MAY 16, 2022
What happens when you win a contest which is meant to reward skill and talent, but people say you didn’t deserve to win? Over the weekend, like millions of other people, I watched the Eurovision song contest 2022. The clear winner was the Ukraine, with 631 points, ahead of the UK on 466 points. Both were entertaining, with the UK having a more talented vocalist, and the Ukraine putting on more of a show.
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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.
Wellspring
MAY 16, 2022
In a recent study, the Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SREC) reported that solar panel usage is up, with 1 in every 2,400 households installing solar technology annually. Solar energy only made up 3% of the United States’s electricity generation in 2020 , but this number is expected to grow exponentially over the next two decades. Emerging players and advanced capabilities have made this technology much more accessible in recent years with companies like Tesla developing products (since its Sola
Michael Michalko
MAY 14, 2022
In school, we learn about geniuses and their ideas, but how did they get those ideas? What are the mental processes, attitudes, work habits, behaviors, and beliefs that enable creative geniuses to view the same things as the rest of us, yet see something different? The following are seven principles that I’ve learned during my lifetime of work in the field of creative thinking — things that I wish I’d been taught as a student.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 16, 2022
GUEST POST from Greg Satell It’s been clear to me for some time that 2020 would be a pivotal year. Globalization and digitalization, the two major forces of the last generation, have disappointed.
Kainexus
MAY 17, 2022
Lean management, also called Lean manufacturing, or just Lean, is a business methodology that helps organizations reach their most critical strategic objectives. Although it started in manufacturing, Lean management is now used by organizations of all types and sizes. It is popular in organizations as diverse as healthcare, construction, and software development.
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
IdeaSpies
MAY 18, 2022
A brief history of Legal Technology The first legal technology company can be traced back to 1982 and by the 1990s, word proc (Feed generated with FetchRSS )
Christensen Institute
MAY 17, 2022
What are health care organizations capable of? How much change can they bear? What types of innovations can they successfully deploy? Which ones require a fundamental restructuring of how organizations operate? The answers to these questions lies in a deeper understanding of business models, which ultimately determine what organizations can and cannot do.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 15, 2022
GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. The WSJ reported that Twitter Inc. TWTR 5.66% accepted Elon Musk’s bid to take over the company and go private, a deal that would give the world’s richest person control over the social-media network where he is also among its most influential users.
ITONICS
MAY 19, 2022
In this article, we shall unpack the Gartner ® Customizable Innovation Framework and the enterprise strategy to help you and your organization identify the key objectives and goals to initiate innovation planning and establish a clear scope.
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Michael Roberto
MAY 16, 2022
[link] Like so many people, you might be tired of endless meetings. Your calendar seems filled with a vast array of meetings, leaving you little time to do your own work. You might be tempted to make meetings more efficient by just "getting down to business" and eliminating the "small talk" at the start. I might suggest that you rethink that strategy.
Planview
MAY 20, 2022
In this post, we’re going to show you how to execute a project. You’ve initiated your project, created an in-depth plan, and secured stakeholder buy-in. Now it’s time to execute. Simple enough, right? Except that, as every PMO knows, project execution is the most challenging stage of the project life cycle, and it’s only gotten more difficult in a world of hybrid and remote work.
Phil McKinney
MAY 16, 2022
Thinking is one of the essential skills a person must learn. It allows us to decide, solve problems, and come up with new ideas. And yet, many people never learn how to do it properly. The history of thinking goes back centuries. The ancient Greeks were some of the first people to think about thinking, […].
Moves the Needle
MAY 20, 2022
In our last blog pos t we spoke about how the common understanding of Horizon Planning is broken. So, if the model is broken, how do we fix it? Visibility Planning. Unlike Horizon Planning where projects are prioritized based on “level of innovation” and “time to ROI”, Visibility Planning is based on evidence. In other words, we estimate the likelihood of achieving desired outcomes and when, based on market data and insights.
Speaker: Yohan Lobo and Dennis Street
In the accounting world, staying ahead means embracing the tools that allow you to work smarter, not harder. Outdated processes and disconnected systems can hold your organization back, but the right technologies can help you streamline operations, boost productivity, and improve client delivery. Dive into the strategies and innovations transforming accounting practices.
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