Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Whatever we do, we do far better when we become emotionally connected. Often understanding a good story builds this emotional connection or simply puts you off. Stories can inspire and spark even greater ideas. The art of storytelling and making connections with the listener or reader has incredible value. A story has limited value; for me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 7, 2021

It would seem that the innovation process is simple: Get an idea, refine that idea, implement it, and repeat the process. Yet like anything that’s simple to put on paper, practice is another matter. Here are five common problems with the innovation process and how to resolve them. Challenges in “Buy-In”. This, by far, is the most common challenge faced across companies.

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Innovation Leader

APRIL 6, 2021

2020 was a brutal year that separated a few forward-looking companies that continued to invest in innovation from the rest of the pack. From mRNA vaccines to streaming services to commercial spaceflight, here’s our list of the Top 25 Most Influential Innovators working inside big organizations.

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Destination Innovation

APRIL 5, 2021

Most new products and services are developments or combinations of existing offerings. But just adding features can lead to a product overloaded with ‘feature bloat’ Instead try giving with one hand and taking away with the other. Add something different and take away something of little value. Start by focussing on the market leading product (or products).

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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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Idea to Value

APRIL 8, 2021

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with serial entrepreneur and investor Jeff Wald. Jeff’s most recent company, Work Market, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to manage freelancers was acquired by ADP in 2018. We speak about some of research behind understanding how the job market has changed over the past decades, and what this says about how it will change in the future.

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Digital Tonto

APRIL 4, 2021

Look at anyone who has truly changed the world and they encountered significant resistance. In fact, while researching my book Cascades, I found every major change effort, whether it was a political. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Whatever we do, we do far better when we become emotionally connected. Often understanding a good story builds this emotional connection or simply puts you off. Stories can inspire and spark even greater ideas. The art of storytelling and making connections with the listener or reader has incredible value. Yet, a story has limited value. For me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 7, 2021

What is more stable: A pure diamond or pure graphite? And what does this have to do with innovation? Both of these are a pure form of the element Carbon, so chemically at the atomic level they are identical, but structurally diamond is the hardest natural material in the world, whereas graphite is brittle and soft. We would expect therefore for diamond to be the most chemically stable form of pure carbon.

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IdeaScale

APRIL 6, 2021

Crowdsourcing can influence innovation. According to a 2017 survey, 86% of companies who incorporate crowdsourcing in the workplace cite employee engagement as a top priority. This gives everyone an opportunity to share ideas about the issues that affect them. Data gathered from IdeaScale’s innovation communities provides benchmarks and insights for innovators creating new crowdsourced innovation programs.

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Entrepreneur - Innovation

APRIL 5, 2021

While artificial intelligence and data-driven technologies are powerful, they can never master the mysterious impulses of human creativity that lead to breakthrough innovation.

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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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Paul Hobcraft

APRIL 6, 2021

Whatever we do, we do far better when we become emotionally connected. Often understanding a good story builds this emotional connection or simply puts you off. Stories can inspire and spark even greater ideas. The art of storytelling and making connections with the listener or reader has incredible value. Yet, a story has limited value. For me, it is the more powerful narrative that drives innovation, inspiring and gaining identification in multiple ways.

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Idea to Value

APRIL 6, 2021

I have a problem. One of my missions in life is to help spread facts and knowledge which helps individuals improve their creativity and innovation capabilities. I make a concerted effort to ensure that this advice is evidence-based, so that people can use that knowledge to make changes in their lives which should be proven to work. However, recent research shows that this may not be enough.

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Board of Innovation

APRIL 7, 2021

Speed has long been seen as a trademark of innovative companies – maybe it’s time for a different approach; see how slow innovation can help you manage in a high-speed world. The need for speed Let’s face it, we live in a time where we expect everything done quickly. We praise the fastest sprinter, crave […]. The post Slow Innovation: decelerating in a high-speed world appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Acuvate

APRIL 9, 2021

Why do digital transformation initiatives derail and how to bring them back on track? The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the future of business to your doorsteps in terms of where and how work is done. CIOs are rapidly integrating cloud, APIs, microservices, AI and other emerging technologies into their business operations in the hope of […]. The post Why do digital transformation initiatives derail and how to bring them back on track?

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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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Qmarkets

APRIL 8, 2021

In recent years, the concept of crowdsourcing has become an increasingly common tool used in response to large scale crises and world events. From the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 to the Covid-19 solutions marketplace in Israel last year, crowdsourcing has been proven as an effective way to gather solutions and solve problems. So, in March 2021 when one of the world’s busiest trade routes became firmly blocked by a large container ship, it was another opportunity for crowdsourcing to prov

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Idea to Value

APRIL 9, 2021

Nobody knows exactly what the future is going to look like. This is especially true in business , and one of the main reasons why it can be so hard to get buy-in for new ideas. But in some cases, we can see what is coming up on the horizon and prepare for it. That is exactly why I just shaved off 99% of my hair. As I’ve previously written, I’m slowly getting older (actually, come to think of it, I’m getting older exactly as fast as everyone else…).

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Innovation 360 Group

APRIL 7, 2021

Many call her the Swedish 007. Christina Bengtsson is a global thought leader on mastering focus, a former military officer and world champion precision shooter, as well as a praised author and coach. The post Play Bold: Dear madam, please help me I lost my focus appeared first on Innovation360.

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Board of Innovation

APRIL 9, 2021

5 secrets of how leading businesses are building a better world and making an impact. Social and environmental challenges are becoming more pressing by the day, setting in motion societal transformations that will impact economic and social life in the decades to come. At the same time, awareness is growing among corporations and they are […].

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

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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Viima

APRIL 8, 2021

As we all know, innovating and creating something new is usually seen, for good reason, as an important, yet highly risky endeavor. As such, innovation leaders are constantly under a lot of pressure from many different directions. Now, when we talk about innovation, we often focus on the more practical side of things related to the topic, such as processes , best practices , and tools.

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Commodore Innovation

APRIL 9, 2021

Research and development expenditure grew dramatically in Q4 of 2020—by nearly 12% compared with Q3. However, just three sectors accounted for most of that growth: pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & medical research, and software & IT services. Excluding these three sectors, R&D … The post R&D investment grew by nearly 12% in Q4 of 2020?

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Tullio Siragusa

APRIL 5, 2021

How to Sharpen Your Intuition to Make Better Decisions. Intuition can be described as something that helps one make decisions from instinctive feelings rather than conscious reasoning. There are some people who have what is often referred to as an inner voice, that guides them about what to do and when to do it. That little voice is often right, and it is an art learning to listen to it and follow it.

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Daniel Burrus

APRIL 7, 2021

Whether it is a global pandemic or everyday disruptions, most of us default to reaction and agility when faced with a crisis. For many, reactionary behavior is all they know; the only option in dealing with disruption is to find the nearest metaphorical fire extinguisher and cauterize the problem immediately. However, in our current COVID-19 world, agility and reactionary behavior is even less productive than it was before.

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Innovation Leader

APRIL 6, 2021

How do Chief Technology Officers build roadmaps to implement new technologies? And, how do they leverage data to innovate? Leo Barella, Chief Technology Officer at Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, explains.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 8, 2021

Inside large companies, the first $1 million in revenue that a new idea generates often triggers skepticism: how big can this idea really get? Corporate innovators need a strategy for addressing that skepticism. The post 5 Ways to Overcome the $1 Million Paradox appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Articles from GroundControl

APRIL 9, 2021

What is a Corporate Venture Builder A Corporate Venture Builder is an innovation department that creates new corporate startups in succession. Corporate Venture Builders spin out startups to commercialize new products, services, or intellectual property and often have business models that are fundamentally different from that of the parent company. The Corporate Venture Builder looks […].

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Sopheon

APRIL 7, 2021

You are using features across products while managing feature and product releases. but how can you keep everything aligned and coordinated? The post The Challenge of Creating Smart Products appeared first on Sopheon.

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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 5, 2021

Moderna’s Chief Digital and Operational Excellence Officer shares insights on how the company’s digital infrastructure supported the design and production of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine.

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InnovationManagement

APRIL 6, 2021

2020 revealed our fragility and our capacity for adaptation, and what IdeaScale's 2021 State of Crowdsourced Innovation report reveals is improved innovation capability from faster implementation rates to more engaged leadership. Let's look at some trends and takeaways from this year's report. The post What Impact Did 2020 Have on Innovation? appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Innovation in Practice

APRIL 6, 2021

Guess who’s more creative – men or women? . Well, neither is more creative than the other because both are equally creative. They just have different roles in terms of their creative output. At the end of the day, men and women can both knock it out of the park when it comes to creative ideas. . It’s just a matter of finding that sweet spot of innovation and finding the right techniques to boost creativity – no matter the gender.

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helloFUTURE

APRIL 5, 2021

One of the vital life learnings which many dismiss is that “life is change” It has been my mission to help people and organizations deeply understand this fact of nature, learn to deal with this fact, and use it to forge their ideal futures. Part of forging your future is being and feeling sufficiently empowered… The post do you feel empowered to take action on the future?

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