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What Are Some of the Benefits of Open Innovation?

IdeaScale

The span of human knowledge has grown vastly in the last century, to the point where many feel a traditional “closed” model of independent, internal research and development teams is no longer effective. This has led to the theory of “open innovation,” and it’s one worth considering as you develop an innovation strategy. What Is … Continued.

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Building the Innovation Business Case

Paul Hobcraft

The building always the Innovation Business Case offers a unique approach to tackle one of the real problem areas within innovation- making the case compelling. One of the toughest aspects within Innovation is making the Business Case. Much of the information is imperfect, the returns are often fuzzy and the doubters ready to block and deter new ideas from entering the commercialization process.

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Cui bono?

Idea to Value

It is a Latin phrase which means “to whom is there a benefit?” Always ask this question honestly and without bias when you are listening to advice about a new idea, innovation proposal or service offering. Because in most cases, people proposing something to you will almost always suggest something which would benefit them. Did your advertising agency suggest it is time for a brand refresh after your new product didn’t fly off the shelves?

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Why You Need To Build Change On Common Ground

Digital Tonto

The truth is that while people like the idea of being different, change is always built on common ground. Differentiation builds devotion among adherents, but to bring new people in, you need to make. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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16 Best Free Online Brainstorming Tools in 2021

IdeaScale

What are the best tools for brainstorming in 2021? COVID-19 has driven organizations to adopt digital tools that can improve their processes and deliver more effective results. Whether you’re brainstorming virtually or in-person, coordinating it can require a substantial amount of creativity on your part. These web-focused brainstorming tools will allow you and your team … Continued.

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How Taco Bell Is Becoming the World's Most Innovative Franchise

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Let's take a glimpse at how the fast-food giant has maintained its globally iconic position.

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What Local Government Can Do with Crowdsourced Innovation

InnovationManagement

If you look up Westminster, Colorado, you’ll find a university that looks like a castle, a bell tower intentionally made to look like Big Ben, and pictures of smart and cozy suburban homes sitting at the feet of the Rocky Mountains. The post What Local Government Can Do with Crowdsourced Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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How Can Your Organization Crowdsource Ideas?

IdeaScale

The creativity of the world has never been more accessible, thanks to crowdsourcing. Yet incorporating crowdsourcing into your innovation strategy can feel like a challenge in need of that same creativity. How can you tap into the wisdom of large groups? Here’s what you need to know. Find Your Scale The first question is what … Continued.

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11 Beloved Inventions That Were Almost Canceled

Entrepreneur - Innovation

People tried to stop coffee, bicycles, comic books, and even birthday parties.

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Podcast S5E101: Eric Quint – Scaling creativity and design in large businesses

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Design expert Eric Quint. As a former Chief Brand and Design Officer at 3M and Head of Design Management and Consulting at Royal Philips, Eric has extensive experience in understanding what it takes to get design embedded within large businesses. We speak about the way innovation is approached at 3M and Philips, how this has changed over time, and what it takes to scale creativity and design.

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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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Innovative Businesses Prioritize Creativity

Daniel Burrus

Human beings are meant to be creative. Year after year, entrepreneurs and employees alike are constantly driven to transform the world around them into something new, useful, and impactful in both their careers and personal lives. One problem we witness too often in society is the treatment of creativity and business innovation as mutually exclusive occurrences.

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What Are Some of the Benefits of Open Innovation?

IdeaScale

The span of human knowledge has grown vastly in the last century, to the point where many feel a traditional “closed” model of independent, internal research and development teams is no longer effective. This has led to the theory of “open innovation,” and it’s one worth considering as you develop an innovation strategy. What Is … Continued.

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Apply Incremental Innovation to Cope With the Crisis

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Large corporations partner with innovative startups that help them in the process of adapting to changes more efficiently and quickly.

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Survivorship bias

Idea to Value

Survivorship bias is one of the most common selection biases, and can be extremely detrimental when assessing whether a new idea or innovation will work. Survivorship bias is the tendency for humans to be aware of an focus on thins (be it people or products) which made it past some selection process, and not pay attention to the other examples which did not make it through.

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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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The Top 4 Innovation Culture Best Practices from the World’s Most Successful Companies

Qmarkets

Today the world’s most innovative companies are also some of the most successful. This doesn’t come as much of a surprise, especially in the continuous waves of disruption we’re seeing. Innovation lends itself to success by provoking organizations to continuously push for improvement and always be on the lookout for new opportunities. Amazon , SpaceX , Apple , and Salesforce are far better placed to innovate than others, but this is not by chance.

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The Best 2020 IdeaScale Features

IdeaScale

It’s amazing how rapidly things change: ten years ago we didn’t have Uber, meal delivery kits, or Stranger Things. Now it’s hard to imagine life without them. It’s tough to keep up – especially when big things appear over the course of days, weeks, and years. A lot happened in 2020 and we’re on pace … Continued. The post The Best 2020 IdeaScale Features appeared first on IdeaScale.

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Should you Choose Tech Scouting or Crowdsourcing for your Open Innovation Project?

Yet2

How should you choose the best approach for your open innovation project? Should you opt for tech scouting or crowdsourcing? Tim Bernstein , CEO of yet2 and Christian Cotichini , CEO of HeroX tackle this topic in HeroX’s recent webinar, Crowdsourcing vs TechScouting: Which One is Better? Watch the video and you’ll hear Tim and Christian explain how NASA’s Technology Readiness Levels can be a good tool to use to determine if your open innovation project should use tech scoutin

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Nick Skillicorn awarded as Creativity & Innovation Development Coach of the Year (Europe)

Idea to Value

I’m proud to find out that I have recently been honoured as the Creativity & Innovation Development Coach of the Year (Europe) 2020 by Corporate Vision in their Corporate Coaching and Recruitment awards. This was a very pleasant and unexpected surprise. Thank you to everyone at Corporate Vision. I will strive to continue delivering the best Creativity and Innovation development insights for the coming years.

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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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The Rise of Second-hand: Exploring the Opportunities of Re-commerce

The BMI Lab Blog

The fashion resale market is booming. By 2029, it is forecasted to reach a value of $80 billion , doubling the size of fast fashion. As used clothing is taking over our wardrobes, we have decided to explore the phenomenon of resale from a business model perspective – and investigate how it can be applied to other industries. Definition – What is a re-commerce business model?

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Innovation Is Like Vitamin C for Your Company

Entrepreneur - Innovation

When you let the light into the brainstorm room, your company will never fail to innovate.

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#2,096 – DALL-E

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

OpenAI is at it again. Last year it was the development of GPT-3 , a text generating AI that could democratize the process of literary creation, that took the world by storm. Now it’s DALL-E, an image generator that could democratize the process of artistic creation. Or at least create some interesting weirdness. NBC News sums it up best: “OpenAI, one of the industry leaders in artificial intelligence development, released evidence in early January of a leap forward of its capabiliti

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How savvy retailers are attracting customers

IdeaSpies

Shoppers may be shifting away from cities, shopping centres and high streets, but here’s how big retailers are creatively coming.

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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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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: The Competitive Edge

CMOE

The Importance of Diversity in the Workplace. In today’s marketplace, one of the most relevant factors in gaining a competitive advantage is probably not listed among the business-success factors you learned years ago. That key factor is diversity, and it’s too-often overlooked. Leaders in the most competitive organizations today know that having a diverse workforce is critical to long-term success and profitability.

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The Source of Grit and Resilience

Rmukesh Gupta

In a recent post on HBR ([link] authors Rob Cross , Karen Dillon and Danna Greenberg talk about building resilience based on their yet unpublished research. They argue and I quote, A well-developed network of relationships can help us rebound from setbacks by: – Helping us shift work or manage surges – Helping us to make sense of people or politics in a given situation – Helping us find the confidence to push back and self advocate – Helping us see a path forward &#

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#2,100 – Spinach Communication

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

If you thought you had trouble getting to inbox zero as it is just imagine how much harder it’ll be when you start getting emails from your plants as well. Futurism explains: “MIT scientists are showing off engineered cyborg spinach plants that they say are capable of sending emails to their creators. The spinach doesn’t have much on its mind, so it’s thankfully not filling inboxes with idle chit-chat.

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Brunner Wins Best in Show at PRSA Pittsburgh 2021 Renaissance Awards

Brunner

Brunner Wins Best in Show at PRSA Pittsburgh 2021 Renaissance Awards. Agency receives highest score of all award submissions as well as four additional accolades. During a year in which employees worked from home and were challenged to push creativity and strategic thinking to new heights amid insurmountable uncertainty, Brunner rose to the occasion.

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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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Where does innovation start – with an idea or a need?

Inspiring Next

Ripi Singh The answer to this question is – you will never know. Innovation is an idea-need match making that happens at the subconscious level. At the conscious level, the innovator believes idea came first, while the entrepreneur goes after the need first. While both may have been in the subconscious for a while waiting… Read More » Where does innovation start – with an idea or a need?

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5 Lessons from COVID-Driven Innovation at Whirlpool Corp.

Innovation Leader

Christian Gianni, the former CTO of Whirlpool Corp.

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#2,097 – Emojicode

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Human language has come a long way from petroglyphs and hieroglyphics just to devolve back into emojis replacing full coherent sentences. Emojis have become so prevalent now that an entire computer programming language known as emojicode that has even been created in their honor. At first glance this may seem like a weird thing to do. After all, why further complicate something that is already complicated to begin with?

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An Introduction to Process Control Charts

Kainexus

Donald J. Wheeler, PhD is a world-renowned expert in continuous improvement. He's worked with W. Edwards Deming and wrote the classic book Understanding Variation. Wheeler once wrote and said, "Statistical Process Control is, at its heart, about getting the most from your processes. It is about the continual improvement of processes and outcomes. And it is, first and foremost, a way of thinking. with some tools attached.".

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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.