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The Lifecycle of a Breakthrough

Digital Tonto

The global activist Srdja Popovi? once told me that when a revolution is successful, it’s difficult to explain the previous order, because it comes to be seen as unbelievable. Just as it’s hard to. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Are You Unconventional Enough in Your Thinking?

Phil McKinney

Unconventional thinking from unconventional individuals is the lifeblood of innovation. They are the people who see things in a new way, and because of this, they often come up with truly unconventional ideas. Ideas that conventional thinkers would never think of. And while it's true that many unconventional individuals do not have formal training in […].

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The innovative ways that Airlines make money with frequent flyer points

Idea to Value

Airline loyalty programmes are fascinating. Not just because we happen to have enough frequent flyer points with one airline to fly around the world, but instead because of how they completely changed the business model of airlines. If you have any interest in understanding business model innovation , I highly recommend you watch this video (above on the blog) to see what I mean.

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Society 2045’s Future of Work for the Betterment of Humanity

Tullio Siragusa

Society 2045’s Future of Work for the Betterment of Humanity. The world is transforming at its own pace. People who are thinking to bring out more changes into the system are doing so with the desire for the betterment of humankind. Sadly, often change has been coerced with force and domination tactics. Can we manifest positive change without forced regulation?

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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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ENERGIZE YOUR BRAINSTORMING

Michael Michalko

ENERGIZE YOUR BRAINSTORMING. If we toss seeds on hard packed ground, the chances of them taking root and producing healthy plants are 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.

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From Nightmare to Better Business

Strategyzer Innovation

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What You Need to Know Before Leading a Design Thinking Workshop

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Douglas Ferguson Leading a design thinking workshop can completely transform your company for the better.

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WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT?

Michael Michalko

There is not one operation by which the sun attracts Jupiter and another by which Jupiter attracts the sun, but one operation by which he sun and Jupiter endeavor to approach each other…there is one action between them by which they both approach each other. Similarly, creativity comes from observing the relationships between objects, rather than objects themselves, and making analogical connections.

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A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer at Planview

Planview

Roni Lev, Software Engineer at Planview. To play an instrument, you must be able to read sheet music. When travelling to a different country, you need to practice and learn the common vernacular of the country you are visiting. In the same way, to be a Software Engineer you need to have an extensive knowledge of programming languages. Roni Lev, a Software Engineer, is one of the faces behind the Planview Clarizen software and he knows a thing or two about all the above. .

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What is ‘True Creativity’? (part 4 of 5)

Idea to Value

Over the past few weeks , I have been telling you about the history behind True Creativity. How I started on the journey to find out how creativity worked, and why I found it so important to focus on the science of creativity. Today, I’d like to give you a sneak preview about what exactly I have been working on in secret over the past few years.

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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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The Intersection of Enterprise Innovation Management and Project Portfolio Management

Sopheon

Enterprise Innovation Management & Project Portfolio Management are often seen as two separate activities. In reality, they have a very important intersection. The post The Intersection of Enterprise Innovation Management and Project Portfolio Management appeared first on Sopheon.

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The 7 Seeds of Idea Management Platform Success at Barenbrug Group

Qmarkets

In our last blog for Qmarkets we introduced you to the concept of Three Horizons and explained how this methodology can help you create a balanced long-term innovation portfolio. We also touched on why you might need to invest in a system to support your exploration activities, and in this blog we will share a case study that explains why this approach can be so successful.

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Five Immutable Laws of Change

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When I first arrived in Poland in 1997, change was all around me. It was like watching a society transform itself through time-lapse photography.

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Dear Leaders: Stop preventing other people trying what you couldn’t succeed at

Idea to Value

We already thought of that, and it didn’t work. How often I have heard that statement from teams when we have discussed potential new innovation ideas. It is often repeated by people who have been in the organisation longer, and who may have had a similar idea previously. They mean it as a warning to not put in much effort since the idea probably isn’t very good.

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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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Innovation Management Data Trends from 2021: What Can We Learn About 2022?

InnovationManagement

Many people have said that 2021 was 2020 Part II, but IdeaScale looked at some of our system data (as we do every year) to see what we could learn, and there are a few key trends we think are different from 2020, and that we think bode well for a creative 2022. The post Innovation Management Data Trends from 2021: What Can We Learn About 2022? appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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The Root Word of Contemporary Is Temporary

CorporateIntel

Sometimes I wonder if the advancing of age and a leaning toward old-fashioned values are a hindrance to relevancy in our contemporary workplace. Then I remember who taught me the most about workplace navigation in the early years of my professional career. It was bosses and colleagues advancing in age and leaning toward old-fashioned values. I don’t think a bit of traditional thinking about the nature of workplace relationships is incompatible with rapid innovation, agile thinking, evolving work

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Disrupt Yourself, Your Team and Your Organization

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack Moving into a new year is always a time for retreating and reflecting to accelerate growth and harvest new ideas from our feelings, thoughts, and learnings gleaned from the last two years of disruption, extreme … Continue reading →

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Podcast S7E151: Jim Euchner – Lean Startup in Large Organisations

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Jim Euchner. Jim is Honorary Professor at Aston Business School (UK) and Editor in Chief of Research-Technology Management, a peer-reviewed journal for practitioners of innovation, technology and research management. He was previously Vice President of Global Innovation at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, where he led the development of new businesses and helped launch five businesses on three continents.

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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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The Principles and Implementation of Lean Improvement

Kainexus

To succeed in today's hyper-competitive environment, organizations must strive to improve continuously. But, because that's easier said than done, forward-thinking business leaders have developed several structured improvement methodologies over the years. One of the most widespread is an approach that grew out of the Japanese automotive industry, Lean manufacturing.

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What's New and Exciting in Energy

IdeaSpies

Great to be with IdeaSpies this morning and great to talk about one of my passion areas, which is what's happening in energy.

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Innovation Theater – How to Fake It ‘Till You Make It

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers The overwhelming number of doctors, engineers and scientists don’t have an entrepreneurial mindset.

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Becoming More Resilient: Three Excellent Tips

Michael Roberto

Source: Entrepreneur.com At several faculty meetings in recent weeks, my colleagues and I have been discussing how and why many college students seem to be suffering from a lack of resilience. Obstacles, challenges, and failures turn quickly into crises for many students. Some struggle to overcome seemingly small setbacks. To some extent, all of us have exhibited insufficient resilience over the past two years; the pandemic has worn us all down in many ways.

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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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Why Your Business Should Invest In Internal Communication

Collectivecamp

A poor internal communication strategy can hurt your bottom line.

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Cognitive RPA and Use Cases

Acuvate

Companies have been using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) to automate various repetitive activities and back-end business processes (such as payroll and invoice processing) for the past few years. Traditional RPA uses computer-coded, rules-based software robots to automate specific human tasks, save time and costs, and reduce the potential of errors.

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How engaged employees benefit strategy execution

Cascade Strategy

Focusing on strategy execution benefits employees. Strategies are not abstract ideas that only a select few are concerned with; they’re concrete plans of action that people implement in their daily activities.

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The 7 Innovation Management Success Factors at Barenbrug Group

Qmarkets

In our last blog for Qmarkets we introduced you to the concept of Three Horizons and explained how this methodology can help you create a balanced long-term innovation portfolio. We also touched on why you might need to invest in a system to support your exploration activities, and in this blog we will share a case study that explains why this approach can be so successful.

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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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Constructing the Future for Urban Development and Energy Efficient Homes

eZassi

The intersection of design and technical innovation come close to home in our workplaces and dwellings. Architects of today are tasked to design new buildings with emerging, energy efficient technology for the practical structures of tomorrow while maintaining beautiful and intriguing design elements. Home builders are provided a variety of new opportunities to make construction or renovations of their existing house more energy efficient, livable, green, and cost conscious.

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Innovation Strategies in a Post-Pandemic World

Innovators Alliance

Don’t miss our event this upcoming February 22nd | Innovation Strategies in a Post-Pandemic World. Soren Kaplan, bestselling author, Founder of Praxie.com, and Affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at USC’s Marshall School of Business, will share success stories and strategies to show what innovation looks like in a post-pandemic world.

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Episode 079: Is There a Magic Pill For Creative Thinking?

Innovation in Practice

Can you really learn to be more creative? Well, of course you can, but what if you didn’t want it to take the time to actually learn it? . What, instead, if you could just take a pill? Imagine if you went to a meeting with your colleagues and you all got ready to just pop a pill in your mouth, a magic creativity, pill, and voila! . It turns out that certain drugs can do just that. .

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How To Conquer Every Fear

helloFUTURE

It seems that most of what ails the human race is fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of change. Fear of looking stupid. Fear of missing out. You’d think, if only we could conquer our fears, then imagine how new and improved humans could be. We don’t want to be completely fearless – we aren’t… The post How To Conquer Every Fear appeared first on IDEATE + EXECUTE.

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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.