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Best Practices for Engaging Your Innovation Community

IdeaScale

Developing a broad and deep innovation community puts a wonderful resource at your fingertips. Yet tapping into that resource requires more than just cheerleading. Here’s how to bring your community together and work toward a common goal. Know Your Community Start by truly understanding who your innovation community is. For example, perhaps the unifying factor … Continued.

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The COVID-19 Slingshot and the Evolution of Work

IdeaSpies

Given the circumstances we find ourselves in, there is much discussion about what the future of work looks like for lawyers (and b.

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How companies prioritized innovation during the crisis

Board of Innovation

To hunker down or branch out? We look at how large and small companies budgeted for innovation in the wake of Covid-19. The post How companies prioritized innovation during the crisis appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Who’s Responsible for Innovation? Everybody!

IdeaScale

Innovation is the key to forward movement. It creates value and improves existing systems so new ideas can emerge. Innovation research shows 61 percent of executives embrace open innovation to generate ideas. Positive change is derived through collaboration and sharing, which results in better ways of implementing products and services. So who is responsible for innovation?

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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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Podcast S3E66: Mark Metry – Overcoming social anxiety and shyness

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak with Mark Metry, host of the popular Humans 2.0 podcast and author of Screw Being Shy: Learn How to Manage Social Anxiety and Be Yourself in Front of Anyone. We speak about overcoming anxiety, mental illness and living a more fulfilling life. Topics covered in today’s episode: 00:01:15 – How Mark spent the first 18 years of his life trying to hide himself and his message, due to his social anxiety. 00:05:15 – How c

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How to Design a Strong Experiment that connects to your Value Proposition Canvas

Strategyzer Innovation

We work with teams all around the world to help visualize their business idea using tools such as the Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas. Ideally, teams should quickly test their canvases using experiments, as we’ve documented in the book Testing Business Ideas. But in reality, teams often go down a rabbit hole and forget about their canvases.

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Crowdsourcing Leads to Civic Engagement: Four Real-World Examples

IdeaScale

Civic engagement is fundamental to good governance, and crowdsourcing is a powerful way to draw in an enormous range of constituencies to hear what they feel is crucial to making their city a better place. Below are a few examples of civic engagement accomplished via crowdsourcing. 311 First established in Baltimore, multiple cities have developed a … Continued.

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Can social distancing optimise innovation in a 21st-century pandemic?

Exago

At such a difficult time for everyone, it is not yet clear what the real impacts of the pandemic will be on economies, companies and individuals. What is clear is that it is crucial to find ways to mitigate these impacts, and social distancing and remote work can actually enable us to create innovative solutions, in business and in life. The post Can social distancing optimise innovation in a 21st-century pandemic?

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Why Underinvesting in Innovation is Riskier Than Ever

Innovation Leader

As the world grapples with the current public health crisis and its long-tail impacts on society and the economy, many CEOs and their boards of directors are looking for reasons not to invest in innovation. That’s riskier than ever, contends Ali Geramian, a Managing Director at KPMG LLP.

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How Three Different Tech Companies Are Tackling the Common Fight Against Coronavirus

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Innovating in real-time to stop the pandemic.

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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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10+ Lean Blogs That You Should Be Reading

Kainexus

For a topic with so many authors, students, practitioners, and leaders, it’s probably no surprise that there are a ton of blogs about Lean - Lean manufacturing, Lean enterprise, Lean thinking, etc. This list includes some bloggers I’ve been reading for the longest time, those who are the most active, and those whose insights are really valuable (and sometimes, people fall into all three categories).

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Re-imagining Your Brand Experience after Covid-19

BrainZooming

You’ve heard of virtual hugs. What about shadow hugs? I won’t be demonstrating shadow hugs on Tuesday’s free Jumpstart Your Business Operations webinar. I will discuss, though, how shadow hugs are a simple example of an important concept right now: reevaluating your brand promise and innovating new experiences for your audiences to ensure your brand is positioned to still succeed in a pandemic-shaped world.

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Embrace Diversity & Inclusion with Intentionality

Tullio Siragusa

Embrace Diversity & Inclusion with Intentionality. Diversity at the workplace implies an organization that employs a diverse team of people that directly reflects the society in which it exists and operates. True diversity entails identifying all of the elements that makes us distinctive from one another and respecting and appreciating what makes each of us unique in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and nationality.

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The Tech Industry Can Be An Accelerator for Change. Here's How

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Instead of focusing entirely on company cultures and HR practices, we need to put our tech to better use.

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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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Experimenting 100 innovative solutions over 20 countries in Africa

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Experimenting 100 innovative solutions over 20 countries in Africa twice a year: that's the process we describe in this compelling interview with David L. Ross, Innovation teacher at Carnegie Mellon University.

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How R&D Keeps the CPG Industry on the Cutting-Edge

Innovation Leader

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) describes any product that requires routine replacement — from personal care to food. No matter the item, companies in this space have to create new offerings that shoppers will buy again and again. To find out how big bets empower the process, we talked to Ranjani.

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#1,730 – Dog Fitness Tracker

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

I used to be obsessed with my Fitbit and making sure that I got at least 10,000 steps everyday. So much so that I even lead my department to a first place finish in our team step challenge at work last year! But then COVID-19 hit and another scorching Phoenix summer came along and now I’m lucky if I even break 1,000 steps a day during the week.

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How to Write a Good Vision Statement, Step-by-step and with Examples

Cascade Strategy

A vision statement is the anchor point of any strategic plan. It outlines what an organization would like to ultimately achieve and gives purpose to the existence of the organization. A good vision statement should be short, simple, specific to your business, leave nothing open to interpretation. It should also have some ambition. This comprehensive guide will take you through the entire process of writing a good vision statement, with examples and resources to help along the way.

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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 Don't More People Share Their Best Practices with Each Other?

Idea Champions

If you are a member of a team, business, school, or volunteer organization, there's a good chance you want whatever project you are working on to succeed. Yes? Towards that end, you work hard, think hard, generate ideas, go to meetings, fight fires, and (hopefully) learn from your mistakes. If you are like most people, you sometimes get together with your team and talk about ways to increase your odds of success.

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How AARP is Pivoting Innovation in 2020 and Investing in Startups

Innovation Leader

At Innovation Leader’s recent online event for nonprofit organizations, Andy Miller of AARP discussed how his team helps build an innovative culture that permeates the organization — and how they’re making new investments in startups.

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#1,716 – Week In Review

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

A quick look at everything that tickled my fancy this past week: Alien Neighbors: With everything going on in the world it’s nice to have a fun distraction every once in a while and what’s more fun than thinking about alien civilizations?! In fact, according to a recent report we may have as many as 36 inter-stellar neighbors in the Milky Way alone.

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Fostering Supplier-Driven Innovation

ITONICS

As competitive environments rapidly change, technological leaders in manufacturing have to find efficient solutions to foster innovation. Crucial innovations are developed using internal sources of innovation , but at the same time, external sources of innovation are increasingly being identified and leveraged. Among external such sources, suppliers are known to have especially large innovation potential because they have a unique perspective of what the companies — that is, their customers — ar

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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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Importance of Employee Productivity Analytics In a Modern Workplace

Acuvate

The Importance of Employee Productivity Analytics In a Modern Workplace The COVID-19 pandemic has forced business across the globe into the world’s largest work-from-home experiment. Enabling high productivity and performance among a workforce that is still adjusting to the concept of remote working has become super critical for sustainability.

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Pulling Back the Curtain on Disney’s Storied Imagineering Department

Innovation Leader

Leslie Iwerks discusses growing up in a family of Disney creatives, and her new docu-series “The Imagineering Story.” She is joined on the call by her father, Disney legend Don Iwerks.

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#1,718 – Humidifiers To The Rescue

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

It has long been rumored that heat may be able to counteract the devastating effects of the coronavirus which is why UV lights have proven to be an effective sanitation tool and why a lot of people think that the virus might subside in the summer time before a second wave hits later in the year. However, two new studies seem to indicate that it is actually relative humidity that plays a key role, not heat itself, with dry air like that found inside offices, or on airplanes, that allows the viru

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The Future of 3D Printing in a Post-COVID World

Wellspring

Of the many procedural and technological changes in manufacturing over the past few decades, 3D printing is one of the more futuristic concepts to emerge. When the world stabilizes from the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic effects, 3D printing is one emerging technology with a trajectory that may look quite a bit different than before.

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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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Creating A Digital Supply Chain For The New Normal

Acuvate

Creating A Digital Supply Chain For The New Normal Supply Chain leaders across enterprises were already dealing with various issues in trying to do their best to achieve their service levels such as End to End Supply Chain Visibility. Lack of Data in some cases to analyses why a particular SKU went out of stock. […]. The post Creating A Digital Supply Chain For The New Normal appeared first on Acuvate.

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Stop Trying to ‘Bounce Back’ to Normal

Innovation Leader

Rather than trying to restore all of the activities from February 2020 in the US, we should be thinking about how to “bounce forward” toward something new.

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#1,732 – Spider Web Cognition

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Need a distraction from all the craziness in the world? Then let me weave you a story that will blow your mind. In this tale that I will spin you’ll come to find out that spiders may be offloading cognitive tasks to their webs! That’s right. Those engineering marvels that help them catch their prey are more than just spooky Halloween decorations.

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How Being Agile Can Help Your Company Win In The Post-Covid Economy

PlanBox Innovation

This article originally appeared on SalesTechStar. Amid the unprecedented economic uncertainty created by the Covid-19 pandemic , one thing is becoming clear. To survive – and even thrive – in the post-Covid economy, companies will have to be faster than ever in responding to change. As yet, we can only surmise how quickly customers will book air travel again or how soon they will return to places like shopping malls.

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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.