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NASA’s Work to Fight COVID-19

IdeaScale

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations to take a different approach to how businesses are run. Innovation management has taken priority as business leaders scramble to find new ways of providing relief and assistance. Technology is a critical part of all businesses but is now one of the highest accelerating business trends in the market. As seen … Continued.

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"Lean Thinking" and the 5 Principles of Lean Manufacturing

Kainexus

James Womack and Dan Jones are the founders of the Lean Enterprise Institute and the Lean Enterprise Academy (UK), respectively. Their book, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation , is considered by some to be the bible of Lean manufacturing. It was originally published in 1996 based on their in-depth study of Toyota’s fabled Toyota Production System (TPS).

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Strictly for English Grammar Nerds

Destination Innovation

An Oxford comma walks into a bar where it spends the evening watching the television, getting drunk, and smoking cigars. A dangling participle walks into a bar. Enjoying a cocktail and chatting with the bartender, the evening passes pleasantly. A bar was walked into by the passive voice. An oxymoron walked into a bar, and the silence was deafening. Two quotation marks walk into a “bar.”.

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Building our understanding of the factory of the future

Paul Hobcraft

Siemens Digital Enterprise SPS Dialog Results. Last week, Siemens had a really valuable virtual event called their “ Digital Enterprise SPS Dialog “ Those that missed it you can watch previous sessions on-demand at any time via “Recordings”. They provided an outstanding virtual showroom packed full of innovations, product presentations and use cases are exhibited in an exciting real 3D environment.

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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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Innovation Isn’t Just About What You Know, It’s About Who You Talk To

Digital Tonto

The best innovators are not necessarily the smartest or even the hardest working, but those who actively build up a strong network of collaborators. What’s becoming clear is that collaboration is. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Podcast S4E89: Brant Cooper – The 5E Model of Innovation

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with Brant Cooper, Founder of Moves the Needle. We wrote the first book on the Lean Startup method, The Lean Entrepreneur, and we speak about Lean Innovation and dealing with Uncertainty. Topics covered in this episode: 00:04:00 – The 5E Model of Disruption Poetry. 00:06:00 – Everybody needs to balance execution work with exploration work. 00:09:00 – Teams need to be agile. 00:12:30 – How to measure and impro

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The Pandemic Pivot: The Need for Product, Service and Business Model Innovation

InnovationManagement

The pandemic and economic depression the world faces is a dark period for all businesses, but there are also opportunities. The companies that see the opportunities, and pivot to exploit them, will succeed, while those that fail to innovate will fade away. The post The Pandemic Pivot: The Need for Product, Service and Business Model Innovation appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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Exago wins 2020 BIB MVP Awards Innovation in Action category

Exago

These awards recognize the Most Valuable Posts shared by Business Innovation Brief as judged by readers, award committee, the machine intelligence and social media. Business Innovation Brief recognises the posts that provide the highest value to the innovation industry professionals, “useful and actionable information, that is tactical or strategic in nature, providing either long-term or short-term value”.

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How Have Organizations Approached Changed Management with COVID-19?

IdeaScale

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the preparedness of some organizations to deal with change. Other companies, however, are struggling to find new ways of doing business in a constantly shifting landscape. Here’s what we have learned about the response over the past six months. Combatting COVID-19 calls for change management. It requires obtaining business continuity … Continued.

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How Regulatory Frameworks Drive Technological Innovations

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The spirit of regulation is to establish fairness and openness, which encourages better participation among innovators and users.

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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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Testing Business Ideas: 4 most common tests to get you started

Strategyzer Innovation

Great innovation teams are able to gain momentum and build up stronger evidence over time with a series of experiments. In this blog post, we share one four-step example of how to execute and analyze multiple experiments in order to increase the strength of your evidence.

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How Is Machine Learning Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management

Acuvate

How Is Machine Learning Revolutionizing Supply Chain Management Supply chain management is a complex medley of processes in which even a slight lack of visibility or synchronization can lead to enormous losses and overheads. But with the recent developments in AI & machine learning, we can now harness historic and real-time supply chain data to […].

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Innovation in the Drive for a Coronavirus Vaccine

IdeaScale

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and impacts from attempts to manage it have brought forth some stunning creativity and scientific work. However, to move the world forward from the pandemic will require an innovation strategy in vaccines and medical science. Here are some fascinating steps forward as we find that way. Scientific Innovation By far, … Continued.

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Teen Scientist and Inventor Named First-Ever 'Time' Kid of the Year

Entrepreneur - Innovation

The 15-year-old wunderkind was interviewed by Angelina Jolie about her efforts to combat everything from contaminated water to cyberbullying.

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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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6 Steps to Improvement in Manufacturing

Kainexus

One of the most important responsibilities of managers in manufacturing environments is to contain costs. The most obvious cost to eliminate is the cost of low quality. Defective products and lost labor hours add no value to the customer and represent a significant strain on the organization. To eliminate the waste of low quality, a strategic approach to improvement is essential.

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Purpose: A Key to Success | Hosted by C2E2 for UConn Center for Clean Energy (Nov 16, 2020)

Inspiring Next

On Monday November 16th 2020, C2E2 hosted Dr. Ripi Singh for a seminar on “Purpose” on a professional and personal level. The audience consisted of professors and students who are affiliated with the UConn Center for Clean Energy. The seminar reminded the audience of their purpose with questions like why did you decide to do… Read More » Purpose: A Key to Success | Hosted by C2E2 for UConn Center for Clean Energy (Nov 16, 2020).

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Leaders from Lyft, Fitbit on How Diversity Drives Innovation

Innovation Leader

Leaders with experience at Fitbit, Lyft, and the Alliance for Smiles discuss hiring diversely and support talent in an equitable environment.

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5 Major Advanced Analytics Use Cases In The Oil And Gas Industry

Acuvate

5 Major Advanced Analytics Use Cases In The Oil And Gas Industry Data analytics has made a considerable impact on the oil and gas (O&G) industry be it in enhancing ROI or enabling safety measures. According to a report by McKinsey, advanced analytics has yielded returns amounting 30-50 times the investment within a few months […]. The post 5 Major Advanced Analytics Use Cases In The Oil And Gas Industry appeared first on Acuvate.

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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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150+ Tools to Easily and Quickly Test Your Business Model

The BMI Lab Blog

“Which tool do we need to test this business model?” This is the most frequently asked question since we started implementing innovative business model ideas with our clients. The answer? There is no perfect tool for your test. There are a lot out there and the key is to select the one that best suits your needs. When it comes to the validation of your business model idea, never forget that the tests you want to run should be efficient and as cheap as possible.

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"Lean Thinking" and the 5 Principles of Lean Manufacturing

Kainexus

James Womack and Dan Jones are the founders of the Lean Enterprise Institute and the Lean Enterprise Academy (UK), respectively. Their book, Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation , is considered by some to be the bible of Lean manufacturing. It was originally published in 1996 based on their in-depth study of Toyota’s fabled Toyota Production System (TPS).

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Highlights from November on Culture Audits, Budgets, and AI

Innovation Leader

We’ve gathered the best pieces of recent advice we’ve been given by innovators in our live show, report, and other online coverage.

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The 3 Pillars of Manufacturing: Anticipation, Innovation, Collaboration

Daniel Burrus

Disruptive digital technology will transform every industry in one way or another. The manufacturing sector is absolutely no exception, having spent the last decade bouncing back from being affected by a down economy. Yet despite the coronavirus pandemic throwing a wrench in what was poised to be one of the best economic years in recent history, the manufacturing industry is still steadily rising thanks to a multitude of technological advances, and there is plenty more innovation to come.

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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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What to Expect When Pittsburgh Drops in Nielsen Rank

Brunner

When Nielsen announced Pittsburgh would drop rank from #24 to #26 in 2021, there was concern about how that would affect the market.?What would that mean for the local TV market??Would the market lose national advertisers?? . Nielsen’s market rank is determined by the number of TV households in the DMA. Even though Pittsburgh dropped in rank, I have good news.

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#2,018 – Starfleet

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

As I sit here watching Season Three of Star Trek Discovery I’m bothered by the fact that Starfleet isn’t a real thing. I know, I know. We are generations away from getting to the point where we’d have spaceships capable of traversing the galaxy in search of sentient life forms. Hundreds of years away from going where no man has gone before.

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The Three Factors That Drive Consumer Behavior

InnovationManagement

As the adage goes, the only constant is change, and such is the case with consumer behavior. Thus, tracking trends, using business analytics to predict where the next trend may be, and acting accordingly with your marketing is a recipe for success. The post The Three Factors That Drive Consumer Behavior appeared first on InnovationManagement.

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How Innovation Can Help Companies Be Successful During Difficult Times

Tullio Siragusa

How Innovation Can Help Companies Be Successful During Difficult Times. Every company at one point in time will face difficult circumstances. It can become difficult to serve customers and stay ahead of the competition. While it may seem to be an impossible task to make it through difficult times, there is still one aspect that can drive companies through them.

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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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An investment in your personal brand is an investment in your professional future

Brunner

And for women in the current job landscape, many of whose careers are disproportionally affected by COVID19, a personal brand is critical to gaining professional currency for their next career opportunity. That’s why Brunner’s Director, PR + Brand Engagement , Meredith Klein recently co-led a workshop on creating, refining and extending your personal brand with?

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#2,017 – Sanitizing Face Mask

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

When I was in college at Northeastern University it used to bother me when people like washed up comedian Colin Quinn confused my alma mater with Northwestern University. But now I wouldn’t mind being confused with that other school located in Chicago. For they have invented a face mask that sanitizes exhaled droplets, further keeping those around you safe.

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The Three Mistakes People Make With Business Case Method

Ankush Chopra

MBA students make three mistakes with business case method. These errors make their classroom experience less than optimal. As a result, they leave money on the table when exiting from the classroom. By making small changes in your approach to business cases, you can increase your learning manifold. Business Case Method If you are reading this, you already know that business case method is the dominant method of teaching in business schools.

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What is Shape? IDEO’s Latest Innovation Tool

InnovationTraining.org

Meet the latest visual, collaborative software tool from IDEO. Shape is the latest collaborative digital software tool created by IDEO to help with innovation and design thinking projects. This software platform was designed to be fully customer-centric – allowing users to quickly gather feedback and collaborate on new ideas. Learn more about Shape as well as resources designed to help you get started below.

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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.