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What Companies That Excel at Innovation Do Right

IdeaScale

Innovation can be challenging. You need a strategy with the right people and solutions in place to effectively drive the process. Companies that excel at innovation share common traits. Here are some of those characteristics that lead to success. Develop an innovation strategy You need an innovation strategy to achieve sustainability. It should align with … Continued.

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Quality Improvement in Residency Programs

Kainexus

I received an interesting call a few weeks back from Bahnsen Miller, MD. Bahnsen is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia Health System. He attended LSU School of Medicine and completed his residency training there. After residency training, he completed a quality improvement and patient safety fellowship at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge—this is where he learned about KaiNexus.

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The Courage to Belong No Place

IdeaScale

“You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great,” Maya Angelou told Bill Moyers in a 1973 interview. As a leader, you may find yourself toeing the line between fear and courage. As Angelou teaches, mustering the vigor to … Continued. The post The Courage to Belong No Place appeared first on IdeaScale.

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A pathway to building more dynamic innovation capabilities

Paul Hobcraft

To build a pathway to enabling more dynamic innovation capabilities needs to go through Nine Stages. These nine stages are, in my opinion, needed for developing an understanding of your innovation capabilities, so as to make them more dynamic and, as a result, to be at the top of your innovation game. This “step process,” I believe, gets you to the point of understanding what innovation capabilities are a better ‘fit’ for the purpose, to deliver on your innovation needs on a consistent, repeatab

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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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How to Remove Roadblocks to Creativity

Idea to Value

The power of the mind is something we have only begun to grasp and understand with the help of science. However, creativity is an expansive expression of what the mind can envision, create, and conceptualize. The beauty of a fine painting. The elegance of a story that makes us think and emote. Even the email that gets everyone on board and fired up for the next meeting.

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We Need To Finally Break Free Of The Engineering Mindset

Digital Tonto

To solve big, important problems, we often need to discard up our illusions first. It would be nice if the general well-being could be reduced to a single metric like GDP or the success of an. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Don't Just Disrupt How Consumers Think: Walk Your Talk

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Disrupting means nothing if you're not creating real value.

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What Smart City Solutions Can Elevate the Human Experience?

IdeaScale

As sensors and data analysis tools drop in price, cities and towns are incorporating them into their innovation process for “smart cities,” leading to better public works, increased efficiency, and engaged citizens. Here are a few examples of projects that will lead to a smarter city. Purdue University’s Digital Farm As urban farming becomes more … Continued.

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6 Ways to Create Innovation Culture with Virtual Tools

Leapfrogging

Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Shape it to get more innovation, even from your remote workforce. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. We’re seeing a sea change toward remote work and how to make it more fun and effective.

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Podcast S4E82: Shama Rahman – using AI to augment human intelligence & creativity

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value podcast, we speak with artist, neuroscience researcher and startup founder Dr Shama Rahman. We speak about how we are using Artificial Intelligence and mental models to better understand and even enhance our human intelligence and spark creativity in new ways. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:03:00 – What she was researching and her findings, to see if there are certain brain activities depending on the creative process. 00:08:00 

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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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A Decade of Action

IdeaSpies

The year 2020, with all its tribulations, brought forth the "Decade of Action". With just 10 years to go, an aspiring globa.

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The 5 biggest sustainability challenges our clients currently face

Board of Innovation

Sustainability goals and Circular Economy targets are a recurring theme in large corporates’ strategic priorities. But what are the most common pain points they face in the process? Read all about it. The post The 5 biggest sustainability challenges our clients currently face appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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6 Ways to Create Innovation Culture with Virtual Tools

Leapfrogging

Culture is a key success factor for every team and organization. Shape it to get more innovation, even from your remote workforce. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Box, Slack, and Salesforce all say that employees can keep working remotely well into next year or even forever. We’re seeing a sea change toward remote work and how to make it more fun and effective.

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Solve the Real Problem with Exponential Thinking

Daniel Burrus

I have discussed at length the importance of making sure that the problem you and your organization are facing is the correct problem to be focusing on. Currently, we are moving toward a post-pandemic “new normal” as we navigate the tidal wave of COVID-19. In one way or another, all industries were affected, but brick-and-mortar businesses were impacted the hardest, as they were forced to close by government-mandated stay-at-home orders.

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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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Improvement Culture: 4 Signs of Trouble

Kainexus

Modern leaders are fortunate to have a host of proven continuous improvement tools like DMAIC , Standard Work, kanban, Hoshin Kanri , and more. We owe a lot to those who pioneered Lean management and other methodologies that bake quality improvement into daily business processes. These tools are available to everyone, but not all organizations that strive for improvement achieve it.

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Book Excerpt: The Catalyst’s Guide to Working Well

Innovation Leader

The new book Move Fast. Break S**t. Burn Out. is about “Catalysts,” a subset of innovators with “a deep-rooted need to create positive change.

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How One Smile Can Change the World

Tullio Siragusa

How One Smile Can Change the World. It is one thing to put on a great smile in front of everybody and say you are doing great but realize there is a deeper more genuine smile that we often miss out on. We are so busy with the ways of the world around us that we can easily forget what a genuine smile means and how it can impact the people around us. “A genuine smile is magical indeed and we all have that magic within us.”.

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#1,968 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A quick look at everything that tickled my fancy this past week: Virgin Hyperloop. Sir Richard Branson is getting into the Hyperloop game, building a new test track and research center in Virginia that could one day make the dream of high speed travel that connects far flung cities in a manner of minutes a reality. As Futurism puts it: “The center will be the first of its kind in the US, Reuters reports , and will serve as a regulatory proving ground for future hyperloop systems.

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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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2 Guys From Utah Co-Founded a Healthcare-Solutions Company. Within a Year, They Were Managing Covid Testing for 3 States

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Joshua Walker and Mark Newman thought they were going to revolutionize healthcare administration. Then the coronavirus revolutionized their business.

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Ideating at Enexis – Driving Operational Innovation in Dutch Energy Sector

Qmarkets

The Enexis Group finds itself in an industry prime for innovation stagnation; well-established solutions, a workforce often resistant to change, and heavy regulation on procedures and costs, means that spontaneous innovation is not something that can happen easily. Yet the company has managed to generate hundreds of new ideas each year since 2014, resulting in millions in cost-saving and improved employee safety.

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Automating Complex Marketing Models for Insight That is Deep and Frequent

Brunner

Speed versus depth of insight is a fundamental trade-off marketing strategists often face when working with analyst teammates. Both sides contribute to this reality. Strategists often ask nuanced or difficult questions (what is the ROI of a sports sponsorship?), and analysts or data scientists, reacting to a wide variety of these questions, tend to approach each new project from scratch.

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#1,967 – Slow Blinking

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Lots of people believe that their cats are highly intelligent, capable of understanding them. We usually call those people crazy cat ladies and move about our business but now there’s scientific evidence that proves their point as cats may be able to use “slow blinking” as a form of communication. The Huffington Post explains: “Slow-blinking means making eye contact with a cat and then slowly closing and opening your eyes.

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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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Play Bold: Bring African Ubuntu to the table

Innovation 360 Group

Isaiah C. Engelbrecht, member of the South African National Advisory Council of Innovation and the executive. The post Play Bold: Bring African Ubuntu to the table appeared first on Innovation360.

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RPA Vs BPM: Differences Every Enterprise Leader Should Know

Acuvate

RPA Vs BPM: Differences Every Enterprise Leader Should Know Business Process Management (BPM) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) have been an integral part of organizations’ digital transformation strategies as companies are continuously pushing the envelope to gain competitive advantage and optimize their business processes. BPM, often known as Business Process Automation (BPA), is an approach […].

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How to “Manage” A Blue Lobster

Mills-Scofield

As we think ahead to the surreality of these times, many of us are trying to figure out how to support, encourage, understand our employees, in particular, how to find, nurture and develop our blue lobsters. So, I adapted this ‘ oldie ’ to remind us how, before I even knew about blue lobsters. My first boss at Bell Labs had a habit of yelling. While he was an equal-opportunity yeller, when he shouted at me in my first department meeting, I got up, told him when he wanted to talk, not yell, I’d b

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#1,972 – Sponge Scrapers

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Skyscrapers are modern marvels. Feats of ingenuity that allow us to reach for the sky while living and working closely together inside of diverse, densely packed cities. Without them we would quickly run out of room, our talent and best ideas spread out among vast urban sprawl. A reality that would quickly stifle our ability to innovate. As important as they are, usual skyscraper innovation is reserved for unique designs or attempts to break the record for world’s tallest building.

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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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The First iPhone 12 Hands-On Happened on 'Good Morning America'

Entrepreneur - Innovation

For an early in-hand look at the new iPhones, you'll have to check this 'Good Morning America' segment.

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Tidying Up - The Greening of Cleaning

Wellspring

As concerns for personal and environmental health continue to build, a growing proportion of consumers have chosen to replace traditional cleaning products with green, eco-friendly products. Despite early skepticism that consumers would actually change their purchasing habits, this shift in purchasing behaviors is hardly unexpected. Sustainability is becoming increasingly important to buyers, especially in household cleaning products and personal care products.

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6 Ways Curb Appeal Is Different For Businesses

The Human Factor

The importance of curb appeal for a residential building is obvious – the better the exterior looks, the quicker it will sell. It’s an age-old equation that has secured millions of homeowners the best deals, which is why there’s an emphasis on making the outdoor area of a house as eye-catching as possible. However, your property isn’t a home, and you’re not attempting to sell to turn a profit, so why do curb appeal tactics matter to you?

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#1,971 – Genetic Brain Editing

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

CRISPR-CAS-9 is so revolutionary that is just won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. But it’s not the only game-changing, gene-editing technique in the works. In fact, there’s another method under development that may be capable of conducting gene edits in specific organs and even inside the brain. Futurism explains: “A team of scientists have developed a new gene-editing tool that, for the first time, can target the specific cells or organs that doctors want edited — including

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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.