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4 Myths That Are Killing Business Today

Digital Tonto

The unicorn is perhaps unique among myths in that the creature doesn’t appear in the mythology of any culture. The ancient Greeks, for all of their centaurs, hydras and medusas, never had any stories. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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What is ‘True Creativity’? (part 5 of 5 – register for this Thursday now)

Idea to Value

So the time in nearly here. Over the past few weeks, I have told you about my journey to discover the secrets of creativity , the reason why understanding the true science behind creativity is going to be so important and what I am building with the new True Creativity Transformation System. Today, I just want to give you a final reminder that if you are interested in becoming one of the first people in the world to take your creativity to the next level, then join me this Thursday, 24th of Feb

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The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change

Paul Hobcraft

The critical interplay among innovation, business models and change. Jeffrey Phillips and I have collaborated over a number of years and I have always felt these have been highly productive, original in thinking and truly valuable. One such collaboration was around the interplay of innovation with business models and change. I wanted to extract part of this white paper” Critical Interplay Innovation Business Models Change 6-2 “(goes to PDF), in this post, as it offers all involved in

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Bringing innovation in from the cold

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been thinking a lot about innovation and it's "place" in a corporate structure. Innovation is often so different, so unique and so unfamiliar that many companies aren't quite sure where to place it. Does it belong with product teams, since some innovation is logically focused on new products? Does it belong in a strategy organization, since innovation is often focused on growth?

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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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Customer archetype segmentation

Board of Innovation

What if we told you that what you know about customer segmentation is outdated? Traditional segmentation doesn’t take into account the one aspect that will classify your research as either investment, or waste; behavior. The post Customer archetype segmentation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Diversity of thought can have a higher impact

Idea to Value

Diversity is good for creativity. That has been scientifically shown numerous times, such as when researchers compared the creative success of teams which had all worked together before and those who were all new to the group. The ideal ratio for creative performance seems to be about 50% new blood – 50% old groups. Now, I just came across another study which sheds more evidence on the value of diversity, as well as building deep links in a domain that you collaborate with regularly.

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How to Improve Cross-Functional Collaboration and Trust

Kainexus

Many business leaders see cross-functional collaboration as the key to innovation and optimal business performance. Organizations with excellent collaboration skills can innovate more quickly, implement more improvements, resolve conflicts, and create high-quality products and services. In addition, these organizations attract and retain top talent and enjoy high levels of employee engagement and satisfaction.

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CREATIVE THINKING EXERCISE

Michael Michalko

This exercise based on the forming of associative elements into new combinations. The more mutually remote the new combinations, the more creative the process or solution. Instructions: You are presented with three words and asked to find a fourth word that is related to all three. For instance, what word do you think is related to these three words?

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5 Tips on How to foster Psychological Safety on your teams

Idea to Value

If you work in a team, you may have heard me talk about the importance of Psychological Safety before. Developed by Professor Amy Edmondson , it is a principle which shows a team that they can speak up when things are not going well, and foster a culture of collaboration and progress on challenging tasks. While the principles themselves are simple, many leaders find it challenging to know exactly how they can create a psychologically safe environment.

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Disruption Should Never Sneak Up on You: Find the Courage to Change by Using Hard Trends

Daniel Burrus

I want you to take a moment and ask yourself: are you afraid of change? Many answer with a flat-out “yes,” some may answer “yes, depending on the circumstance,” and a select few answer “not really” or “not at all.”. Are those individuals who answered “no” to fearing change fearless? Not at all; everyone fears something. However, change not being one of their fears is most likely a result of them being Anticipatory as a business leader and an individual in society today.

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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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Innovators Worth Watching: Hinge Health

Christensen Institute

Our “Innovators Worth Watching” series spotlights interesting and potentially disruptive players across a spectrum of industries. One in five US adults reported living with chronic pain in 2016, with 8% of US adults reporting that it limited at least one major life activity. Chronic pain is linked to several other health problems, such as depression, anxiety, reduced mobility, and opioid dependency.

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100 Ways to Be More Creative on the Job

Michael Michalko

. 1. Find the most creative people at work and ask for their ideas. 2. Brainstorm daily with a co-worker. 3. Tape record your ideas on your commute to and from work. 4. Present your biggest challenge to a child. 5. Take your team off-site for a day. 6. Listen more carefully to your inner muse. 7. Play music in your office. 8. Go for a daily brainstorming walk. 9.

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Podcast S7E152: Ashleigh Wilson – People over profits

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Ashleigh Wilson, founder and CEO of Auditmate. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:00 – Ashleigh’s life as an elevator baby. 00:03:00 – The moral compass required to find what customers actually need, in an established industry. 00:07:00 – A company should give permission to be human. 00:09:45 – A story about when there was an emotional disconnect in the team. 00:16:30 – People over profits

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Invest Yourself in All That You Do

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Diversity of thought and diversity of perspective is crucial to innovative solutions within teams. Building a work culture around diversity and inclusion is proven to provide performance rates that outshine the competition.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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What's New and Exciting in Space

IdeaSpies

The National Space Industry Hub was launched last week and there were over 100 people at that event, which shows that there's grea (Feed generated with FetchRSS )

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Meet CPG Profit Objectives with These Three New Product Development Priorities

Sopheon

40% of NPD projects fail to meet profit expectations. Often, the problem rests in 3 areas: inflexible decision processes, poor resource planning & over-reliance on low-risk offerings. The post Meet CPG Profit Objectives with These Three New Product Development Priorities appeared first on Sopheon.

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Happy Twosday

Idea to Value

Today is the 22 of Feb, 2022. Written numerically, that could be written as: 22.02.2022. 22.2.22. Both of which are a palindrome (same forwards as backwards), or since it is a date, perhaps better called a calendr ome. Additionally, in Europe we write our times in a 24 hour format. So 10:22pm with 22 seconds in Germany would be written as 22:22:22. And I have scheduled my blog to publish this article at exactly 22:22.

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Dare to Think Differently

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack As many of my colleagues are aware, I am at heart, a maverick, an unorthodox or independent-minded person. Who is curious and inquisitive, and finds change and challenging the status quo exciting, fascinating and stimulating.

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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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Solving Brazil’s education paradox

Christensen Institute

This is the second in a two-part blog series about the role of innovation in improving Brazil’s education system. The series is funded in part by Mind Lab. In part 1 of this series, I described Brazil’s education paradox–the country currently spends more on education than most countries in Latin America, yet its education outcomes are worse than its peers on the continent. .

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Employee Spotlight: Cecelia Bender

Brunner

Meet Cecelia Bender—Brunner’s new PR Director, new homeowner, and coffeeholic (you’ll fit in great, here!). We can’t wait to hear about your travels abroad. Read on to learn more! Q: Why did you choose Brunner? A: Brunner is a highly reputable agency in Pittsburgh – and the name recognition blows me away. Q: Where were you born? A: Pittsburgh, PA. Q: Do you have any siblings?

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How law firms can take governance seriously in today’s changing work environment

Anaqua

Briefing Magazine spoke with Dan Anderson, Vice President and General Manager at SeeUnity , an Anaqua Company, about how law firms can take governance seriously in today’s changing work environment by investing in content automation to keep their systems secure. Law firms around the world have had their work cut out managing the new ways their people suddenly needed to collaborate during the pandemic.

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Stop Fooling Yourself

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Early in my career I was working on a natural gas trading desk and found myself in Tulsa Oklahoma visiting clients.

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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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How To Become The Innovation Manager Every Company Is Dreaming Of

ITONICS

Innovation has the power to transform any organization. The innovation manager’s role therefore comes with an equally high level of fascination and expectation—which can be intimidating, especially for newcomers.

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MAKING GAMIFICATION ACCESSIBLE – BRINGING NEWNESS TO CORPORATE LEARNING

ImagineNation

I was first introduced to gamification when I met Mario Herger , in 2012, when he was a Senior Innovation Strategist at SAP Labs LLC, in Israel, as a participant in his two-day gamification workshop for Checkpoint security software. It was an exciting and exhilarating journey into the playful and innovative world of gamification pioneers such as Farmville, Angry Birds, and BetterWorks.

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How to make our planning process purposeful?

Be-novative

One of the biggest trends in 2022 is to design workplaces together that put people at the centre and craft experiences and organisational cultures that are more empathetic, inclusive, creative, healthier, humane?—?which makes organisations grow purposefully. To uncover the techniques that connect individuals, teams and organisations with a sense of purpose we involved best practices from our partner organisations.

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The ABCDEs of Technology Adoption

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers, M.D. Every day, doctors have to make daily decisions about whether or not to adopt a new technology and add it their clinical armamentarium, either replacing or supplementing what they do.

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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.

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Four Ingenious Ways to Attract Clients to Your Corporate Business

Collectivecamp

Whether you’re just starting out or have been running a business for years, the goals of most firms are pretty much the same - to maximize exposure in their particular sector, thereby attracting as many customers as possible and growing their market share.

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Imagining a Better Future: Keys to Human Progress

Phil McKinney

Playing it safe will lead to the decay of human progress. The way to a great future is through innovation and creativity. This may sound like something from the dawn of time, but it has never been more true in today's world. Innovation and creativity are at the heart of our economic recovery, our environmental […].

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Customer archetype segmentation

Board of Innovation

What if we told you that what you know about customer segmentation is outdated? Traditional segmentation doesn’t take into account the one aspect that will classify your research as either investment, or waste; behavior. The post Customer archetype segmentation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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The Evolution of Strategy: It’s time for the new way

Cascade Strategy

Have you hit a wall with strategy execution? You're not alone. In most companies, the best-laid plans drop like lead balloons.

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Maximizing Profit and Productivity: The New Era of AI-Powered Accounting

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.