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We Need To Prepare For Future Crises Like We Prepare For War

Digital Tonto

No one knows how long the Coronavirus epidemic will last or what the impact will be, but one thing is for sure — it will not be our last crisis. The future, however, is not inevitable. It is what. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Top 5 Missteps of Innovation Labs

Peer Insight

A successful corporate innovation lab, incubator, or accelerator depends upon three things: people, people, and people. That’s what I learned by speaking with the heads of innovation labs at 12 Fortune 500 corporations over the course of eight weeks. These market leaders came from a range of industries: healthcare, apparel, construction materials, chemicals, high-tech, food & beverage, hospitality, insurance, logistics, and retail.

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Innovating for Success after COVID19

Innovation Excellence

We will beat the COVID19 virus, and innovation will play a key role in that victory. We will find new treatments, using either new drugs, or hopefully fast-tracking reapplication of existing ones. We will reapply existing technology to mass produce respirators. Nothing spurs innovation like a crisis, or a war, and we are in the middle of.

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Innovators, How Do You Find Your Next Problem to Solve?

InnovationManagement

If you’re working in innovation there’s nothing as rewarding as making the long journey from inspiration to implementation. The post Innovators, How Do You Find Your Next Problem to Solve? appeared first on Innovation Management.

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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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Guest Post: Sabbath and COVID-19

Kainexus

Sabbath and Coronavirus - those are probably two words you would not put together. Recently, I have researched (and not on the obvious), the Sabbath. Everywhere I looked and everything I saw said, "to slow down," "you are exhausted," "you aren't enjoying your life." The word Sabbath started appearing everywhere. People on Instagram, Podcasts, reading, everywhere.

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Makers of Tomorrow: William Wang

Entrepreneur - Innovation

A Q&A with the Vizio CEO about how his company is reimagining smart TVs amid the streaming revolution.

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This Company Is Making Texting With Your Doctor the New Normal

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Vermont-based startup OhMD is making HIPAA-compliant texting free for medical practices across America and accelerating the ubiquity of telemedicine.

Company 101
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How About COVID-19 AND the Economy?

Kainexus

Many conversations about our fight against the Coronavirus imply that combating the virus is unnecessarily destroying the economy. Or, said another way, to preserve the economy, we need to relax our fight against the virus.

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How to Run Remote Design Thinking Workshops

ITONICS

Like everyone these days, we are experiencing challenging times when it comes to activating and engaging relationships with our customers. As seen all over the world, we decided to close our office, stop travelling and work from home instead. This leads to a couple of difficulties, especially when you are scheduled to hold an interactive and Design-Thinking-inspired workshop format that could neither be postponed nor be executed at the client facilities.

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Best TV Box Sets

Destination Innovation

Bryan Cranston in Breaking Bad. Here are my choices for the top TV box sets to binge watch. Breaking Bad. The very best. Bryan Cranston is brilliant as a high school chemistry teacher who starts a new career as a meth producer. Five seasons of compelling drama. The Sopranos. A gripping tale of an everyday Mafia family. Tony Gandolfini stars as Tony Soprano, a complete villain, who you cannot help supporting.

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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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Innovation fails because humans have emotions

Idea to Value

A while back, one of my consulting partners from another office asked me to review their client’s innovation process. Their team had been engaged to review why their innovation process was not delivering results. Ideas were apparently being developed, but never successfully scaled within the company so that they were resulting in increased revenue.

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Innovation, NASA-Style: 1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration

IdeaScale

NASA’s need for innovation is near-constant. NASA has driven technological innovation in ways that might surprise you. The space program has delivered innovation everywhere from food safety to materials science to medicine. NASA didn’t get there by luck or sheer intellect. As Carissa Callini, Ryan Stewart, and Jeff Doy of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation explain on the latest IdeaScale Nation podcast , it’s a tradition of hard work.

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Having a company vision is great, but if you set objectives and key result metrics with this OKR template you will fare much better.

Leapfrogging

Sometimes big visions can be powerful motivators to drive people, but clear objectives and metrics deliver results. I’ve worked with some of the world’s most innovative startups and big companies for over 25 years. In that time, I’ve seen leaders and teams become enamored with the idea of building their own “disruptive” future visions.

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Recession, Survival and Innovation

Destination Innovation

In times of severe recession should you cut costs and focus on survival or take the opportunity to invest in innovation so that you can benefit from the eventual recovery? Well the short answer is that you have to survive first. If the cash dries up and you cannot pay the rent then a pipeline of great innovative products and services is of little help.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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Podcast S3E51: Stephen Shapiro – Using different lenses to reframe business problems

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak again with Stephen Shapiro about his new book, Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems. We go through multiple examples of how companies have achieved innovation success by approaching problems in a new way, enabling them to ask better questions.

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Upskilling to drive growth in times of uncertainty

Innovation Excellence

Someone asked me recently, how many times I have reinvented myself and my business, throughout my long and stellar career. I found myself hard-pressed to accurately share the actual number. It seems that, for me, reinvention became a really useful and rewarding habit, especially as it forced me to upskill, to successfully and continuously adapt.

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Why Communication is the Key to Enterprise Innovation?

IdeaScale

According to Harvard Business School professor Clay Christensen, 95% of all product innovations fail after their release on the market. This statistic points to a major discrepancy between the solutions that businesses are offering and the problems that customers want solved. Too often, today’s innovators are developing new products in a vacuum—isolated from the real world and without consideration of how their buyers will actually use what they’ve devoted their time, labor force and resources t

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Having a company vision is great, but if you set objectives and key result metrics with this OKR template you will fare much better.

Leapfrogging

Sometimes big visions can be powerful motivators to drive people, but clear objectives and metrics deliver results. I’ve worked with some of the world’s most innovative startups and big companies for over 25 years. In that time, I’ve seen leaders and teams become enamored with the idea of building their own “disruptive” future visions.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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The Fallacy of the Aha Moment & Overnight Success in Innovation

Idea to Value

We’ve all heard the story of Newton and the apple. According to the legend, he came up with the theory of gravity when he was sitting under a tree and an apple fell on his head, at which point it all suddenly dawned on him. We love to hear stories of these great aha moments. The question is, are they true? Are innovations really born out of these miraculous moments of insight?

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Disturbance to Life

7innovation

I was 15 when the war came to my town.

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This Is A Defining Moment; Will You Squander It?

Daniel Burrus

New Year’s Day 2020 was the dawn of a new year, a new decade, and a strong stock market with strong growth forecasts, despite being an election year, in which a high level of uncertainty is prevalent. But now, with the global pandemic causing a much higher level of uncertainty, it’s never been more important to ask, “What are we certain about?”. If we take a moment to focus on this being an election year, we know that, before the pandemic made headlines, many companies had already planned to “wa

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To Kill or Persevere: How Do You Score Innovation Projects?

Strategyzer Innovation

Leaders often struggle with judging and making decisions on innovation projects. When faced with several teams that have been working on new innovative business ideas, leaders find it difficult to choose the ideas to give further investment and the ideas to stop. Each team will be passionate about their idea and convinced of its potential success. The real question for leaders is whether there is evidence that the teams are close to finding value propositions that resonate with customers and bus

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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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Podcast S3E51: Stephen Shapiro – Using different lenses to reframe business problems

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to Value Podcast, we speak again with Stephen Shapiro about his new book, Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems. We go through multiple examples of how companies have achieved innovation success by approaching problems in a new way, enabling them to ask better questions.

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WHO WILL BE IN ROOM 716?

Innovation Excellence

WHO WILL BE IN ROOM 716? Thursday, March 19th, 2020, will be a day I’ll never forget. My team and I landed in Southern California in the midst of the most widespread pandemic our world has faced in my lifetime. After we arrived at our (not small) hotel, we discovered that our group of four.

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Coronavirus Crisis Only Heightens the Need for Innovation and Co-Creation

InnovationManagement

Those of us that work in the innovation management sector need no convincing of the benefits that it can bring to businesses and government departments all over the world. Adopting an innovative culture and approach allows an organisation to survive and thrive in the highly competitive modern business world and helps prevent them from becoming irrelevant or even obsolete.

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Different Types Of Innovation: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All

Idea Drop

Each year consulting firm PwC takes the pulse of leaders around the world to see what excites them, what concerns them, and what drives their actions now and in the future. Innovation is usually at the forefront, driven in large part by the concerns around the pace of social, economic and technological change during the so-called 4th […]. The post Different Types Of Innovation: Why One Size Doesn’t Fit All appeared first on Idea Drop | Idea Management Software.

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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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12 of the Best Tools for Real-Time Team Collaboration

Innovation Leader

What are you using to collaborate, run brainstorming sessions, and move projects forward at this moment of remote work? Here are some tools our community recommended.

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COVID-19 Resources

Rebel & Reason

Rebel Friends, as our entire community takes this current time day by day, our team is working diligently to keep an up to date list of resources. Whether you need aid for yourself, your family, your neighbors, or your business, below are a few great resources you can use. If you are looking to support or donate, plenty of organizations below are seeking help.

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How to Live Curiously and Manifest Results

Tullio Siragusa

How to Live Curiously and Manifest Results. Champions in every field are generally curious creatures. Curiosity unlocks a drive and enthusiasm to learn and grow. It is a precursor to discovery and innovation. A curious mind is a mind that doesn’t accept the status quo, instead it longs for change. If you are a curious person, it is natural that you are a person full of ideas.

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Collaborating On Front Line Against Coronavirus

Planbox Inc.

I’ve had the great privilege to connect with most of our customers this week to discuss their priorities and concerns amid the coronavirus outbreak, and more importantly, to get feedback on their most pressing requirements and challenges; in all my conversations, the one thing that kept coming to to mind was a quote I’ve always liked: “Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.” – Roger Crawford.

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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.