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To Create Real Change That Lasts, Start With A Majority

Digital Tonto

There is a reason why the vast majority of organizational transformations fail, even though they typically have big budgets and C-Suite support behind them. To drive meaningful, lasting change you. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The 3 elements of an innovation ecosystem

Strategyzer Innovation

Developing an innovation capability within a large organization is a daunting prospect. In the past, many have tried but few succeeded. Often difficulties are linked to a too narrow and shallow approach, such as training a group of employees in an innovation methodology and expecting the organization to turn into an innovation powerhouse as a consequence.

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Ready or not, the future is unfolding

Jeffrey Phillips

I'm back to talk about understanding the future, returning to a subject that I think needs much more examination. By this I don't mean trying to find out when we'll all get our promised jet backpacks and fly to work rather than drive. No, when I am talking about understanding the future, I'd like it to be a bit more practical - say a future two or three years from now, with just enough notice about the impending changes that my company can structure new solutions in order to meet shifting market

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Podcast S5E105: Perry Marshall – Detox, Declutter, Dominate

Idea to Value

In this episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with one of the original kings of paid marketing, Perry Marshall. Perry wrote the highest-selling book on internet advertising, the Utlimate Guide to Google Ads , and has since spent his time refining the 80/20 Pareto principle into strategies to help companies focus on the parts of their business which bring the most reward.

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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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Fitness Landscape Dynamics for Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Fitness Landscape Dynamics. Innovation is not so easy, there are so many dependencies that you need to work through.The importance of recognizing innovation needs a systematic approach becomes clear when you begin to work through all the needs and issues to understand and translate. Here are some thoughts: By exploring and modeling the mutual dependencies you get to see how the existing and alternative future innovation system will behave as you begin to map out and recognize the different empha

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Be More Open and Less Directive

Destination Innovation

In the 1970s, psychologist Matie Flowers carried out an experiment to study how teams discuss and make decisions. Flowers asked 40 separate teams to come up with plans to solve a hypothetical problem at a school. This involved a mix of issues including staff conflicts, inadequate budgets and classroom discipline. Each team consisted of four people who played different roles; superintendent, principal, counselor and parent representative.

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Conan O’Brien quote on doing great creative work

Idea to Value

It’s all about the struggle. Great things, there is a mentality in showbusiness where people will say “That was great! Do that all the time.” And you think “No” By its nature the really great stuff has to be rare. You can even really love Monty Python, but the really great things, it’s not just back-to-back-to-back-to-back.

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Celebrating International Women's Day With HYPE

HYPE Innovation

Innovation means shaping the future. If done right, it means creating a better tomorrow. The team at HYPE wants to add our voices – and yours! – to create a fairer world. A world where gender equality is a reality and every person gets the opportunity to speak up and make a difference.

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PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer on Embracing Failure

Innovation Leader

Maruo Porcini, PepsiCo’s first-ever Chief Design Officer, offers insight on the intersections of innovation and design, methods for getting to the root of customer needs.

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What is an Innovation Maturity Assessment and How Can You Create One?

IdeaScale

To go forward, it helps to know where you’re beginning. When building an innovation strategy, this takes the form of an innovation maturity assessment that examines your organization, your team, and your personal innovation approach. Here’s how an innovation maturity assessment works and how to use one. Finding Your Location The innovation maturity assessment looks at a … Continued.

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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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Sarcasm can boost creativity in teams (well yeah, obviously…)

Idea to Value

“I was just being sarcastic” A dangerous statement in most workplaces, and often the sign of minor conflict between team members. It is often seen as being hostility disguised as humour. However, recent research reveals that in the right circumstances, sarcasm can actually enhance people’s creativity. A 2015 study by Francesca Gino, Adam Galinsky and Li Huang set out to test whether sarcastic exchanges between people could have positive effects in addition to negative ones.

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The Benefits of Using an X-Matrix for Strategy Deployment

Kainexus

Hoshin Kanri, sometimes called "strategy deployment", is an approach that helps companies achieve breakthrough goals over a three to five-year time horizon. The methodology is effective because it allows leaders to keep their eye on the long-term objectives that will change the game, without losing sight of the day-to-day improvements that can add up to significant benefits.

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Tips on Leading a Successful Transformation Effort

Rmukesh Gupta

Leading a successful transformation. Premise: We are living in a world where every organisation is undergoing some form of transition or transformation – forced or otherwise. Another thing we know is that most change efforts fail. Given this background, what can we as leaders do to tilt the probability of success on our side? Here are some suggestions that are offered in the book “ Terms of Engagement “ Flow of Information: In any transformation effort, the flow of relevant inf

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How the Pandemic Is Sparking Innovations in Tech Startups

IdeaScale

source: pexels.com. The pandemic of 2020 has been a truly overwhelming experience for many of us. The sudden emergence of the illness, combined with its rapid ability to spread around the world meant that life changed almost overnight. However, as terrible as this worldwide issue has been, these rapid changes have also provided an opportunity to rectify problems in the market and find avenues for growth.

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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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Perceived value

Idea to Value

Why do people end up buying or adopting a new innovation? Is it because the new innovation is better than all the previous versions? Is it because they are early adopters in a market? Is it because they have compared the new innovation to everything else in the market ? No. It is because they perceive more value by having the innovation than by not having it.

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Two Big Themes from This Year’s World Economic Forum

Innovation Leader

While the pandemic and its repercussions permeated almost every discussion at the 2021 World Economic Forum, two big themes emerged for Imran Sayeed, a regular participant in the event: sustainability and reskilling.

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Tips for Small Business Owners Pitching Business to Large Corporations

Yet2

Are you a small business owner facing a pitch with a large corporate client for the first time? Are you worried that you may appear too operational, too niche or not growth-oriented enough to be an exciting partner? It is all in how you position yourselves. No question that startups have serious appeal when it comes to making a pitch. But so can small businesses!

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What is an Innovation Maturity Assessment and How Can You Create One?

IdeaScale

Working together requires more than just being in the same room. To go forward, it helps to know where you’re beginning. When building an innovation strategy, this takes the form of an innovation maturity assessment that examines your organization, your team, and your personal innovation approach. Here’s how an innovation maturity assessment works and how to use one.

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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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Don’t be a Superfluous Man

Idea to Value

In 19th Century Russian literature, there is the wonderful archetype of the Superfluous Man. This is an individual who represents being unnecessary and not achieving what they could with their position. According to Wikipedia: It refers to an individual, perhaps talented and capable, who does not fit into social norms. In most cases, this person is born into wealth and privilege.

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New Whys

Exago

[exagoColumn class=”col-md-4 col-sm-4 col-xs-12″] Hani Thalji Managing Partner of New Whys Contact me: hani@newwhys.com [/exagoColumn] [exagoColumn class=”col-md-8 col-sm-4 col-xs-12″] New Whys is a consultancy firm specialised in technology innovation, entrepreneurship, strategy management, and digital transformation managed by an executive team of vast expertise and knowledge.

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How to Apply Lean Startup at Big Companies

Innovation Leader

Slides on applying the lean startup from the former Director of Digital Innovation at a lighting manufacturer.

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Improvement Software Buyer's Guide for Manufacturers

Kainexus

Continuous improvement has long been an important goal in manufacturing. Some organizations leverage structured business management methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma, while others use a less formal approach. Either way, the goal is to maximize resources, reduce cost, and deliver quality products on time. Many organizations have turned to improvement management software to help remove the friction from positive change to achieve these critical objectives.

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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 Be Authentic as a Leader

Tullio Siragusa

How to Be Authentic as a Leader. Everyone has dreams, aspirations and ambitions. Although these differ from person to person, there comes a time in every person’s life when we begin to expect for our aspirations to become reality. Sometimes our aspirations are truly ours, and other times they are driven by the desire to be liked, even adored by our friends and family.

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SpaceX Starship Prototype Successfully Lands, But Then Explodes

Entrepreneur - Innovation

This reusable rocket needs a little more work.

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Empowering an AI-First Organization with Anthem’s Chief Digital Officer

Innovation Leader

How can AI and machine learning provide patients with personal, preemptive healthcare? Rajeev Ronanki, Chief Digital Officer and Senior Vice President of Anthem, explains.

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How Innovative is your Organization?

Inspiring Next

Really? It is very much possible to have a structured process to innovate consistently. Just a few years ago, I was grappling with this question, and dancing around the possible hypothesis in futile attempt to convince my superiors on the preferred innovation investment opportunities. I wish I had this framework a decade ago while leading… Read More » How Innovative is your Organization?

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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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#2,162 – SpeedWarm

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Everyone’s favorite wonder material, Graphene, is at it again. This time putting its magical properties to use in the form of a hoodie that can warm you up in just 60 seconds! Yanko Design explains: “Here’s the sheer magic of Graphene. A garment that’s about as thin as a regular fleece hoodie, possesses the ability of a down jacket or a thick comforter.

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Remote Work Readiness Checklist

CMOE

How Do You Lead a Team Remotely? A growing number of organizations are shifting to remote work environments either for the foreseeable future or on a more permanent basis. As leaders manage the implications, it is important to know how to help employees with a remote work environment that supports high levels of productivity and engagement—whether they are just starting out with remote work or have been doing it for a while.

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The Ultimate Guide to Continuous Improvement

Viima

Continuous Improvement is one of those topics people often talk about and rarely have anything against, but that still doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

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6 Leadership Roles to Expand Innovative, Collaborative Thinking

BrainZooming

In any collaborative meeting, you, as a leader, have an opportunity to foster innovative thinking. Moving to an anonymous, text-based online collaborative environment, though, offers multiple new, intriguing possibilities for leaders to cultivate innovation. For example, while designing and facilitating an early Brainzooming online collaboration in 2013, a nonprofit’s leader decided to change his participant role.

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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.