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Why Good Ideas Fail (And How To Help Yours Succeed)

Digital Tonto

We tend to think that if we get an idea right, that others will recognize its worth. That’s hardly ever true. In fact, if your idea is truly new and different, you can expect to encounter stiff. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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4 Fantastic Agile Sprint Retrospective Templates

InnovationTraining.org

These top agile and scrum sprint retrospective templates can be used during remote meetings with your team. Need retrospective ideas? If you haven’t been doing a scrum retrospective, or your sprint retros are ineffective and leaving your team with the feeling that nothing in your agile practice ever changes, you may want to consider utilizing a creative sprint retrospective template designed specifically with your need in mind.

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The law of diffusion of innovation

Idea to Value

Any company planning on bringing a new innovative solution to market must accept the fact that not every customer will be willing to buy it immediately. There will always be certain target customers who are more resistant to trying out new ideas than others. One of the best and most important concepts to help understand the impact on your innovation strategy is the Law of Diffusions of innovation, also sometimes known as the Product Adoption Lifecycle.

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33 Hidden Countries

Destination Innovation

Can you find 33 hidden countries in the text below? “Don’t look back in anger,” many a wise man has said, including William Shakespeare who wrote “Much Ado about Nothing.”. The captain asked the sargent in an email if he could plug and advertise the notice in the formal information pack. He wore a jumper under his coat and a cap which protected him when the ice landed on his head.

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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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Two documents that tell you all you need to know about innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

If you believe everything you hear, or read, within your corporation about innovation, you may end up a bit disappointed. As we've seen over the last two decades, talking about innovation is easy, but implementing it and realizing the benefits are a bit more difficult. Plus, with all the swirling definitions of innovation, what is one woman's innovation is another woman's incremental change.

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Are you catching the right wave?

IdeaSpies

As a leading executive today you would have ridden many waves to be where you are. In recent months, I have had the opportunity.

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What Do Innovation Maturity Assessments Have in Common?

InnovationManagement

Building a repeatable model for innovation is a journey, not a trophy. An innovation department builds services and competencies across multiple disciplines – from research to communications and culture. And even with a dedicated innovation department, they must cooperate seamlessly with other parts of the business in order to deliver meaningful results on an ongoing basis.

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Why We Should Advocate for Decentralized Finance and Its Regulation

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Technology has proven time and again that innovation has the ability to identify trends that enable success. It can also help businesses worldwide with their attempts to attract funding by going public.

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Here Are Some of the Strategies for Getting a Vaccine Distributed Across America

IdeaScale

COVID-19 continues to spread, prompting the need for the fastest vaccine in history. Millions of people in the U.S. will get vaccinated very soon. Here are some distribution strategies. What’s happening pre-vaccination? The race is on for making the COVID-19 vaccine available. As this government innovation continues, officials will grapple with the most efficient ways … Continued.

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Research shows that having a phone on your desk makes you more stupid

Idea to Value

A lot of people joke about how having a smartphone is making us all less intelligent. And new research provides evidence that this is true. In a recent study of over 520 students, an experiment by Ward et al was conducted to see what impact having our smartphones near us would have on our ability to complete complex tasks. The theory is that people are so often distracted by their phones that simply having them nearby would limit the mental resources available for more demanding tasks.

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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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5 cultural shifts fashion brands have to pioneer

Board of Innovation

Pick 1 of these Fashion trends to accelerate past the basics in 2021. The post 5 cultural shifts fashion brands have to pioneer appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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How to turn Innovation theatre into innovation outcomes

Strategyzer Innovation

We are often asked by senior leaders and innovation managers “how do I know if the innovation programs we have are successful?”. In other words: how do we know if these programs will produce long-term growth for our company? While one might be tempted to answer such a question by simply looking at the number of new business ideas that their innovation programs generate, we believe that this question can only be answered by looking at the totality of a company’s innovation ecosystem.

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IdeaScale Podcast – NSW Health Pathology

IdeaScale

In the best of times, New South Wales (NSW) Health Pathology, a statewide clinical service, has a complex mission. Formed in 2014, the department supports the critically ill, protects public health, analyzes health data, and supports the state across a suite of functions, including crime-solving. More than half the population of the state has used … Continued.

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How to Remove Roadblocks to Creativity

Idea to Value

When people think about what barriers a marketer may have to success, they usually think of technical challenges. They think of things like defining a target audience or anticipating consumer response. While these are all important, there is another more important attribute of the job that causes concern. Creativity and innovation are key tools in the marketing professional’s toolbox and ones that aren’t always as accessible as we’d like.

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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 Ways to Align with Ethical Values and Accelerate Your Brand

Board of Innovation

Hand-curated takeaways to prove your worth in ethical consumption, utility, and sustainability. The post 3 Ways to Align with Ethical Values and Accelerate Your Brand appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Innovation and Customer Relationships: 4 Keys to Keeping Your Ratings High

Daniel Burrus

Between fact-checkers and Yelpers, the Information Age is laden with a visual archive of how customers and clients perceive products, services, or even your organizational culture. Navigating how to keep your customers happy is already an insurmountable task some days, and now we must factor in their very public display of their satisfaction or dissatisfaction with you.

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Bed, Bath & Beyond Announces $1 Billion Innovation Strategy

IdeaScale

Leading home goods retailer Bed, Bath & Beyond is upping the innovation game by launching an omnichannel transformation to drive sales. As part of a new three-year strategy, the $1 billion to $1.5 billion investment is designed to drive growth and increase cash flow. Introducing the plan The plan was introduced by relative newcomer CEO Mark Tritton … Continued.

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The Right Time to Put on Your Long-Term Glasses

BrainZooming

You are considering a new opportunity. It’s in the early stages. You have some sense of the idea or concept. It’s an attractive possibility , yet you are still very early in understanding how this possibility fits relative to your objectives. In a situation like this, when do you decide to put on your long-term glasses? Those are the ones that shift your perspective to what the opportunity will look like years from now, when the new wears off.

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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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Why Fashion Brands Don’t Understand Biomimicry

Board of Innovation

(and three shifts they’re missing). The post Why Fashion Brands Don’t Understand Biomimicry appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Mastering Creative Thinking: Two Techniques to Make Creative Thinking Stick

Innovation in Practice

Becoming even just a little bit more creative will enhance what you do every day – whether at work, at home, or just about anywhere. . But how do you learn creativity? . More importantly, how do you make it stick? Specifically, there are five patterns of systematic inventive thinking (SIT) method that tend to explain the majority of innovations out there.

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Mastercard’s Chief Sustainability Officer on Getting Customers to Go Green

Innovation Leader

Kristina Kloberdanz, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mastercard, discusses programs and partnerships that encourage cardholders to make more sustainable choices…

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The Six Big Losses in Automotive Manufacturing

Kainexus

In automotive manufacturing, there are several things you can take for granted; unfortunately, some are unwelcome. The Six Big Losses are an uninvited guest in automotive manufacturing plants everywhere. They are the wastes that rob your organization of productivity, opportunity, time, and money, often under the radar. To counter the Six Big Losses, you have to understand them.

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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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Inspiring Next Purposeful Innovation

Inspiring Next

Ripi Singh The Fourth Industrial Revolution has put innovation at the center stage of discussion across the world since 2015. We need an open mind and a suite of processes to develop, adapt, and apply digital technologies that are rapidly fusing with the physical reality. The global pandemic pushed everyone out of their comfort zone,… Read More » Inspiring Next Purposeful Innovation.

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10 Productivity Tips for Working from Home

CMOE

COVID-19 has drastically affected our daily lives. Many people have lost their jobs, and the health of the global economy has plummeted. We need to be able to work to pay our bills, to send our kids to school, and to buy food, medicine, and other necessities. But how can we continue to work if we are restricted from going out? Working from home is often the best solution for coping with the present situation.

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Why Tapping Into Employee Insights is a Business Imperative

Innovation Leader

Organizations need to rely more and more on those employee insights, not least because employees know where the opportunities are.

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#2,074 – Smart Nails

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Some wearable devices have caught on (FitBit, Apple Watch) while others have lagged behind or been completely written off (Google Glass). For a smart technology to work it has to be socially acceptable and fashionable in addition to smart. Which is where smart nails could come in since millions of people already get regular manicures. But these are no ordinary manicures we’re taking about.

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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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How To Write A Strategic Plan (Updated 2021)

Cascade Strategy

Writing a strategic plan can be a daunting process, even for seasoned strategy professionals. After surviving the chaos that was 2020, businesses and organizations of all sizes understand the importance of having a well devised strategic plan now so more than ever. Here at Cascade we often get asked, How do I Write a Strategic Plan? This contributes to the general consensus that writing a Strategy Plan is a difficult process.

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How AI can Deliver Sales Innovation

Tullio Siragusa

How AI can Deliver Sales Innovation. We often speak about innovation as it relates to design, products, services, and people strategies. Innovation in the sphere of sales and marketing is probably the greatest opportunity of our time in any industry. Salespeople are always racking their brains for newer techniques to help them boost sales. Everything in the world depends in some form or fashion on sales.

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The Roles of Risk and Luck in Innovation

Viima

One of the most controversial, and perhaps even misunderstood topics in innovation are the roles of risk and luck for innovation success.

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#2,066 – Brand-Aids

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

On the one hand I hate advertisements. How purposely catchy they are. How pervasive they are. The repetitive nature. Whether it’s watching TV, listening to the radio, taking in a baseball game, or standing at the gas pump advertisements are everywhere we go. A trend that’s likely only going to get worse thanks to Augmented Reality and the ability for targeted micro ads to follow us while we shop Minority Report style.

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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.