Jeffrey Phillips

APRIL 26, 2021

David Bowie sang a song about change called Changes. He spoke about the need to change - to "face the strange" - and find a new reality. Another band - Rush - talked about change as well. In their song Tom Sawyer, they wrote that "changes aren't permanent, but change is". What these rock stars and others help us realize is that change is constantly confronting us, as people, as society and as institutions.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 28, 2021

Many creators think that the ultimate accolade is for their new idea, product or innovation to be universally loved. However, this is impossible. It is impossible to please everyone. Everyone is different. Everyone is human. And as a result, some people are going to have different opinions about what they like. Some people like pop music. Some people prefer country music.

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 25, 2021

Since 1970, we have undergone three revolutions—financial, managerial and digital—and we are somehow worse off. It’s time to admit that we had the wrong theory of the case and chart a new course. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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HYPE Innovation

APRIL 27, 2021

This is the fifth blog post in HYPE’s series on the most often-asked questions about strategic foresight. While the fourth post provided insights on where and how to identify industry trends , this post offers a step-by-step process for scenario planning to prep your organization for the future. Strategic Foresight

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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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Leanstack

APRIL 26, 2021

(This is guest post by Alejandra Gonzalez , a seasoned business model strategist, product owner, and innovation coach. In this post, Alejandra shares her perspectives on when and how to incorporate lean, agile, and design thinking into your product lifecycle. Enjoy… -Ash) As a product design manager and portfolio owner, I have found myself endlessly defending why it takes 9 months to design and launch a product with no guarantee of success.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 26, 2021

Very rarely do we come across a specific moment where we can see an entirely new field of research begin. However, on Sep 2-8, 1950 , Joy Paul Guilford gave an impassioned speech as new president of the American Psychological Association where he introduced the need for more formal research into the previously vague field of creativity. It was this speech which kickstarted the field of creativity research, pioneered by himself and other researchers like Paul Torrance , and led us to the world wh

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IdeaScale

APRIL 28, 2021

While creativity is central to any innovation strategy, it doesn’t come on tap. Even those who make their living by thinking up new ideas can struggle at times. Drawing from the research behind our infographic , here are eight activities that promote creativity that you can do right now. Physical Activity. Taking a walk, doing some yoga, going for a bike ride, all of these have been found to make you more creative.

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CorporateIntel

APRIL 26, 2021

There’s no time like the present to set goals. Here’s a framework I use for myself and those I manage or advise. I generally try to classify projects into three levels of priority before I consider adding resources to anything on deck: Air, Water, and Food. In the unlikely event everything classified under Air, Water, and Food is done and behind us, I might move onto the next realm of importance, but generally, if it’s not Air, Water, or Food, it is going to get a very low priority, I’m st

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Idea to Value

APRIL 29, 2021

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with #1 hit music producer and composer Pascal Guyon about his creative process. Pascal has worked with music artists like Leona Lewis and Anthony Hamilton, as well as smaller groups like Jazz musicians in Cuba. Topics covered in this episode: 00:01:30 – How Pascal’s creativity and music started at a young age & his big break in Los Angeles. 00:06:15 – How he is now focused on several different creative endeavo

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Strategyzer Innovation

APRIL 26, 2021

In our work with companies, we have observed significant changes in the attitudes that leadership has towards innovation. Leaders now value innovation as the most important driver of growth. But even with leadership having understood the importance of innovation, there is still a need to ensure that companies create the right culture for innovation to thrive.

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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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IdeaScale

APRIL 27, 2021

Innovation is an ongoing process. It draws on existing principles and new ideas to effect positive change. As organizations find new ways to reach customers, they need to embrace new business processes. High value is placed on the customer. Research shows 86% of buyers will pay more for a positive customer experience , making it one of the most important aspects of a business.

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Board of Innovation

APRIL 28, 2021

How inclusion, equity and diversity should be common sense in business. For our third Impact Talk, Board of Innovation reached out to Thandi Dyani, Head of Partnerships at Girls Are Awesome. This Copenhagen-based Community, Brand and Impact Agency strives to amplify women’s voices across all echelons of society – especially in business. It has an […].

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Idea to Value

APRIL 30, 2021

Just because something is simple does not mean that it is easy to do. Similarly, just because something is complex does not mean it needs to be hard. Complexity and ease are often confused in innovation, both in design and in problem finding stages. But they are two fundamentally different aspects of a solution which exist on a spectrum, and can be mapped on a 2×2 matrix like this: Some of the best innovations are the result of taking all sorts of activities and making them easier to perfor

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Inspiring Next

APRIL 25, 2021

Oh Really? While most of us are still getting our hands around the fourth industrial revolution, we occasionally come across terms Industry 5.0 as return of the human touch or human-machine reconciliation or an attempt to address shortcomings of the fourth revolution. What do you think? The Four Industrial Revolutions Over the last three centuries,… Read More » Is it time for Industry 5.0?

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 26, 2021

How to Develop and Maintain a Positive Attitude. We read despairing worldwide headlines on an almost hourly basis. We’ve heard of livelihoods and lives being lost and being stuck at home for over a year. There is a general dread of the most horrifying virus that through mutations may never come to an end. It is reasonable to assume that our physical, emotional, and mental health has taken a massive toll recently.

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Cascade Strategy

APRIL 29, 2021

Strategic planning models exist as blueprints that we can follow when tackling the process of creating a strategic plan.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 27, 2021

There are at least 5 things wrong with this image. Can you spot all of them all? When it comes to spreading ideas, the internet can be a blessing and a curse. While it allows knowledge to be exchanged across borders, to billions of people and at the speed of light, the question also arises as to whether that information can be trusted. There are thousands of people online who take great care in only showcasing information which has evidence to back it up.

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Board of Innovation

APRIL 29, 2021

The barriers preventing you from doing healthcare validation and 3 ways to tackle them. The post 3 ways to validate your healthcare innovations appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Innovation Leader

APRIL 29, 2021

Melanie Nuce is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at GS1 US. We sat down with Melanie as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.

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Norbert Bol

APRIL 25, 2021

Great news this week, that the European Union (EU) presented the draft proposal on the EU Artificial Intelligence Regulation and also the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) made a clear statement that it shall take enforcement actions against companies that are selling and using biased algorithms. In my former blogs I have stated that the future success of Artificial Intelligence (AI), depends not only on the further development of its current success factors.

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Wellspring

APRIL 29, 2021

Despite grand plans for disruptive innovation and headline-grabbing announcements, plenty of organizations manage to get in their own way when it comes to innovation. Many believe they have an impressive range of innovation activities, covering the gamut from incremental (H1) to adjacent (H2) to transformative (H3) - but the reality may suggest otherwise.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

APRIL 26, 2021

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer, creator of one of the most effective vaccines against Covid-19, reached the list prepared by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), dominated by Big Tech.

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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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Innovation Leader

APRIL 26, 2021

Daniela Jorge, Chief Design Officer at PayPal, shares insights on testing the Venmo credit card, getting design involved in innovation early and often, and the power of design thinking in large organizations.

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CMOE

APRIL 28, 2021

In a recent survey, 97% of 10,000 senior leaders surveyed said that being strategic was the leadership behavior most important to their organization’s success—but another study indicated that fully 96% of leaders say they lack the time for strategic thinking.*. Leadership today is about more than being operationally effective, solving existing problems, and guiding people through the work that needs to be done each day.

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Wellspring

APRIL 30, 2021

It has been 75 years since Vannevar Bush wrote in Science: the Endless Frontier that “without scientific progress, no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation in the modern world.” This call-to-arms jump-started a golden age for the United States as the world’s undisputed technological and economic superpower.

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ITONICS

APRIL 28, 2021

The question is no longer why the sustainability agenda holds strategic relevance or what action must be taken in order to achieve it - but rather how to do so. In order to achieve ambitious sustainability targets, businesses must move from an extractive approach to support generative and inclusive design. Sustainable business models deliver value propositions that create and leverage environmental and societal surplus, often carrying accumulative secondary value.

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The BMI Lab Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

This should not come as a surprise: Climate change is one of the biggest challenges that humankind faces today with a wide range of negative impacts such as droughts, floods, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity. Due to its complexity, there is no easy, quick-fix solution to address it. Experts agree that climate change is clearly linked to Green-House-Gas (GHG) emissions.

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CMOE

APRIL 27, 2021

Top 10 Characteristics of High-Performing Teams. 1. Decisiveness. 2. Alignment of Values. 3. Trust. 4. Drive. 5. Confidence. 6. Learning. 7. Diversity & Inclusion. 8. Celebrating Achievements. 9. Team Mentality. 10. Conflict Management. Outstanding business teams possess positive attributes that enable them to perform at a high level—and sustain that level of performance over years.

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mjvinnovation

APRIL 26, 2021

Ten years ago, we would not imagine that Artificial Intelligence would be at today’s levels. Now, it is part of industries and even devices for customer service. The time has come to take a step forward. The new frontier is Edge AI. In today’s post, you will understand what this concept is and why you will hear it a lot in the coming years.

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helloFUTURE

APRIL 25, 2021

After facing the future and feeling empowered to change yourself or your organization to design your ideal future, one of the next steps in my Foresight Leadership program is a risk assessment. Typically, most people and organizations are very risk-averse, especially if they have done up until now sort of “works.” They can maintain a… The post how do you feel about taking risks?

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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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