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Design Thinking Rooted in Empathy Enables Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

Empathy is one of the best virtues to have as a leader of an organization or a group of people dedicated to achieving any cause, but it’s not exclusively valuable just to leaders.

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7 Ways Mind Maps Fuel Innovation

IdeaScale

There are many different exercises that people use for innovation, but very few of them are as effective as mind mapping. Mind maps create an intuitive structure of thought that enables your team to map out their scenarios in a very digestible and sequential format. In this article, we will walk through what a mind map is while discussing some of the important ways it fuels innovation.

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How to Create a High-Performance Organizational Culture

Kainexus

An organization's culture is the foundation upon which success, stagnation, or failure is built. It is imperative during times of growth or disruption. The problem is that often well-intentioned leaders don't make culture a priority during challenging times. Instead, they put their energy into protecting assets and maximizing efficiency. Of course, those strategies are essential, but leaders need to practice both defense and offense by creating a solid and resilient culture.

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Kill your darlings

Idea to Value

Sometimes, in order to produce the best creative work you can, it means you need to prune ideas from a project. People have a propensity to try and solve problems by adding more detail rather than removing, but when it comes to almost any creative work, whether it is artistic or business, you need to be willing to edit all of your ideas down to the core story you want to tell.

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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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The Modern Rental Market According to the Experts

Business and Tech

Real estate industry leaders share their insights on how the rental market has evolved in the face of COVID-19 and rapidly advancing technology. Dylan Lenz Founder and CEO, Naborly. Kulveer Taggar Co-Founder and CEO, Zeus Living. Elizabeth Francisco President, Resman. Barbara Corcoran Shark on ABC’s “ Shark Tank ,” Founder, The Corcoran Group.

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Getting back to the Future about Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Paul Hobcraft and Jeffrey Phillips in conversations around innovation. I have just finished the first of a planned series with one of my favourite long-term collaborators Jeffrey Phillips. Here is the link to the recording. In this series, planned to be only of 10 to 15-minute conversations, we are picking up on many of the fundamental building blocks of innovation.

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Podcast S6E142: Robyn Bolton – Building innovation capabilities

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Robyn M Bolton. She is the founder of Mile Zero, as well as having extensive innovation experience in large companies like P&G, as well as working with Prof Clayton Christensen at Innosight. We speak about what it takes for ideas to flourish in a company, and what innovation capabilities are required to execute ideas.

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This Platform Is Helping Small Businesses Modernize Payments

Business and Tech

Most entrepreneurs decide to start a business because they’re passionate about a service or product they can provide, not because they want to deal with the day-to-day intricacies of running a business. That’s where Thryv comes in. Thryv is an end-to-end customer experience platform that brings all aspects of business (including billing, customer relationship management, Google listings, and much more) into one central hub, and gives you the ability to manage or automate all of these tasks with

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Go-to-market: what healthcare could learn from how consumer goods are launched

Board of Innovation

Taking a product to market is a more complex process in the healthcare world than it is in the consumer goods field. But it doesn’t mean there’s nothing to learn from the latter. The healthcare industry could leverage cross-sector methods of getting their products to the right consumers, at the right time. The post Go-to-market: what healthcare could learn from how consumer goods are launched appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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How a Texas City Used LEGOS To Communicate to Its Citizens

IdeaScale

Overview: A serendipitous meeting between a city official’s hobby and a freelancer’s brainstorm led to the city of Arlington, TX, creating a stop-motion LEGO movie to explain the city’s budget. The video has been a huge viral hit, helping the city better communicate how its budget works and its priorities. The Challenge. The city of Arlington, TX, has over 400,000 residents, making it the seventh-largest city in Texas and one of the top fifty largest cities in the US.

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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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A baby can play soccer, but not volleyball

Idea to Value

Could you make a sport simple enough for a baby to play? Once a baby can walk, it can begin to “play” sports in a simplified form of what grown ups do. For example, running is a simplified version of the marathon. Paddling in a pool is a simplified version of swimming in an Olympic pool. And even soccer is possible. [I would call it football, but that might confuse any American readers here…].

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A New View of Risk in Real Estate

Business and Tech

Hoping for a return to “normal” in the real estate markets is a losing strategy. Instead, understand your risk and how to mitigate it. Just about every aspect of modern life has been affected by our tumultuous recent history, from how we socialize to how we go to work in the morning. The world of real estate is no exception — pandemic-driven shifts in evictions and renewals, damage from natural disasters (Hurricane Ida is predicted to cost more than $25 billion), the risk of civil unrest, and th

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Selling Agile to Executives: 8 Ways to Get Buy-in

Planview

Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. If you’ve gotten approval from leadership to embark on an Agile transformation, you may be gaining momentum from Agile teams embracing new ways of working and benefits like faster delivery, better quality, and improved morale.

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How Climate Change in Canada Will Impact Your Business

Innovators Alliance

The recent closure of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) has us all considering our environmental footprint. Speaking to global leaders at the conference, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signalled his government’s intentions to increase the price on carbon, cap Canadian oil and gas emissions, reduce methane emissions and reach net-zero emissions by 2035.

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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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3 Life Hacks I Use to Boost Creativity and Avoid Burnout

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Often, we have to find our fuel elsewhere.

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Property Management During this Time: What’s Changed?

Business and Tech

If you’re an aspiring property manager, know that the rental market has continued to evolve in major ways since the COVID-19 pandemic began. . Take it from Byrdy Kelley — CEO and founder of Melan Property Management as well as REAME, a real estate tech company — who has broken through challenging barriers in the male-dominated industry. Kelley, who’s based in Plano, Texas, says that vacancy at the start of the crisis was high while rent was low, but those factors are currently reversed. .

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Discipline Has a Role in Innovation

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Jesse Nieminen Innovation is, without a doubt, a creative endeavor. However, many people still think it’s all about creativity. There’s a magical a-ha moment, and the rest is history.

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Uncovering the Metaverse: Jack O'Holleran from Skale Labs

Collectivecamp

The metaverse is one of the most trending topics at the moment and brands (and influencers) all over the world are looking to get involved.

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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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Everything Sucks, And Why That’s Perfect!

Daniel Burrus

You read that headline right: everything does suck! And in this article, I’m going to give you the solid reasons why this makes me both optimistic and excited about our future! Think to yourself: On any given day, how many times do you hear someone grumbling about their phone not working well, traffic patterns on their way to work driving them insane, how a business of any kind inconvenienced them by having poor customer service, or a government institution – commonly one like the DMV – putting

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The Reason Why Tenant Credit Scores Are Higher Than Ever

Business and Tech

It may surprise you to find out consumer credit scores increased throughout the pandemic, a time of record high unemployment and eviction moratoria. Alexandra Alvarado Director of Marketing and Education, American Apartment Owners Association. FICO reports that the average credit score now stands at 716, eight points higher than 2020, with consumers in lower score ranges seeing the biggest improvement.

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Are doctors wasting their time on entrepreneurship?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Arlen Meyers Medical students, residents and practitioners around the world are getting more and more interested in entrepreneurship for many reasons.

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The Seven Secrets To Genius By Leonardo Da Vinci

Michael Michalko

Leonardo Da Vinci is regarded as one of the greatest intellects of all time. Some estimate his IQ to be at least 220, given the awesome mental gravitas, skill and creativity he showed. But what are his secrets? And are these realistic enough to give us a unique insight into what creates genius intelligence? Below, you will find the 7 key qualities towards genius, as proposed by Da Vinci himself: 1.

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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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Questions & Answers with an Innovation Leader from Intel

Qmarkets

“Eureka!” We’ve all heard this famous ancient Greek term for “I’ve found it”. But how did it enter common parlance? The story goes that in the third century BC, the king of Syracuse ordered that Archimedes – the famous Greek inventor – find a way to determine whether his crown was made entirely out of pure gold, or whether he had been cheated.

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The Importance of Accurate and Objective Tenant Screening

Business and Tech

A troubling trend is occurring in some states that impacts the abilities of tenant screeners to help keep our communities secure. Living in an apartment building is just like any other neighborhood, except your neighbors are closer. And when you’re closer together, wall-to-wall, your standards for the person next door are bound to be higher. You want people in the space that will be good residents and respectful neighbors, both as a resident and especially as a property manager.

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Nominations Open for the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2021

Innovation Excellence

Human-Centered Change and Innovation loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will … Continue reading →

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How Technology for Improvement Supports Positive Change

Kainexus

If you look around any public space today, odds are you will see more than one person with a phone in their hand or pressed up to their ear. This is because mobile technology has become an integral part of our lives. This is one example of how technological advances have enabled changes in our behaviors that we now take for granted and understand as contributing to our quality of life.

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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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An Innovation Competition is a Great Way to Influence Culture

InnovationManagement

In a 2017 Harvard Business Review article, Anna Steinhage, Dan Cable, and Duncan Wardley talk about the impact competition can have in a workplace. They described how hosting an internal challenge can generate creative results and inspire collaboration or it can create unethical behaviors and cutthroat rivalry. The post An Innovation Competition is a Great Way to Influence Culture appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Google Spotlights Black-Owned Businesses This Holiday Season

Business and Tech

Over the last year and a half, Black-owned businesses have continued to face significant challenges. At the same time, consumers are looking to shop based on their personal values. Two-thirds (66%) of consumers who actively support Black-owned businesses say they use digital tools to find them. So, for the second year in a row, Google partnered with the U.S.

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How to Tap Into Innovation, the Most Essential Part of Your Entrepreneurial Journey

Entrepreneur - Innovation

As entrepreneurs, we have a vital role in the future of the world. Without innovation, humanity won't evolve.

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Actionable Tactics for Shaping Organizational Culture

Kainexus

Most leaders recognize that organizational culture has a significant impact on success. Delivering on strategic objectives requires that the way things get done in an organization is aligned with the values and common purpose of the organization. However, knowing that and building desired cultures that work are two different things. Culture will develop whether leaders shape it with intention or not, and negativity is the norm in too many cases.

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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.