Sat.Feb 08, 2020 - Fri.Feb 14, 2020

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The True Value of Your Time

Leanstack

Time is our scarcest resource. Other resources like money and people can fluctuate up and down, but time only moves in one direction. When I share this quote with others, they appear to get it?—?but then their actions prove otherwise. Most people still value money more than time and make decisions based on the present value of money vs. the future value of their money investment (ROI).

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Create a Culture of Innovation with the 10 Laws of Trust

Leapfrogging

Trust is the currency of business success. Here’s how to build it into your corporate culture. Leading organizational change to create a corporate culture that delivers continuous innovation is one of today’s most strategic business imperatives. But how do you do that? We’ve seen what happens to companies when customers lose trust in their brands – just think Target (data breach), Chipotle (E. coli outbreak), and Facebook (selling user data).

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There's gold in the data - but have we learned the lessons?

Jeffrey Phillips

For some reason I can't get the song Clementine out of my head. Perhaps it's because of the line - dwelt a miner, a 49er. that keeps that song playing in my mind. We are in a significant transition. One breed of miner - the hardhat wearing, coal digging, heavy equipment manager is leaving the scene, being replaced by large equipment, robots, issues with safety and the environment and of course greenhouse gas concerns.

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Stop Itemizing Everything: Move Beyond Competition

Daniel Burrus

This Friday: Don’t Miss Daniel’s Live Webinar, “What’s Causing The Retail Apocalypse?”. Friday, February 14th at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Click to Register. Human beings are competitive in all circumstances, and it has only intensified in today’s predominantly technologically advanced world. No matter the industry or particular field, competition is fierce, and regardless of what you and your organization do in terms of products or services, there’s inevitably someone else offering a competitive alte

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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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What Role Does Competition Play in Innovation?

IdeaScale

Is your team working together, or splitting apart? Competition is innate in what humans do. Everybody wants to be the best at something, whether it’s their hobby, their job, or their industry. However, left unchecked, competition can become a toxic fight to win, rather than succeed. Balance is needed. That begs the question, exactly what role does competition have in innovation?

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Steps to Design Thinking in Practice

InnovationTraining.org

Are you interested in learning about the steps of design thinking so you can take action on applying the process? What is design thinking ? Design thinking is a popular approach to getting started with innovation that begins with empathy and understanding the needs of your users or customers. It’s a human-centered creative problem solving approach with a series of stages that you work through, while applying design thinking mindsets like having a bias to action, prototyping toward a solution, an

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Innovative Ideas When You Need Them

BrainZooming

Want a new, easy-to-access source of innovative ideas? I mean, who doesn’t, right ? Stuck at the airport during an ice storm, I was talking with a sales executive for a well-known insurance brand. His company’s big kickoff sales meeting was scheduled for the following week. He remarked that his company’s competitors also held sales meetings at approximately the same time annually.

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6 key dimensions to assess in an innovation management software

Exago

If you have been given the green light for an innovation management software that will arm you with the right tools for your innovation initiative, these 6 points will help you choose the optimum fit for your organisation. The post 6 key dimensions to assess in an innovation management software appeared first on Exago.

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Politics, Economics and Climate need to come together.

Paul Hobcraft

In the last few months, I have got increasingly nervous about where we are NOT going on climate change. I have never before published one article on each of my three posting sites. This post I just had to. It is shaping me in how I look at innovation, collaboration, ecosystems and most of all in our world of energy transition needed to reverse climate warming. so apologies if you see it on three separate sites but I don’t apologize for my real, underlying concern on where we are seemingly

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The latest digital innovations in Construction

Idea to Value

I’m currently on the train, coming back from the DigitalBAU expo in Cologne, where I had the pleasure of representing Z-LAB to new clients. It was fascinating to see all of the most recent developments and innovations which are coming to the construction industry in Germany in the coming months and years.Here are my takeaways of the most popular and important innovations on display: Platforms : Clients like construction companies are demanding a wider selection of services and providers, a

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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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IdeaScale and The Idea Guy Team Up to Create Best-in-Class Training

IdeaScale

Are you looking for training that will build systemic creativity within your organization? IdeaScale is partnering with The Idea Guy® to offer options that will expand our current offerings and significantly impact company performance by helping you develop an idea management strategy that works. The training programs established by this partnership will reach worldwide and will address important matters such as: Problem-solving Decision-making Ongoing innovation.

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Siemens 3i - Next Generation Cost Saving and Idea Management

HYPE Innovation

Mr. Wegmann, our sincere congratulations on the "Best Idea Management 2018" prize, which was awarded to you only recently in the presence of many fellow campaigners at the conference of Zentrum Ideenmanagement (Center for Idea Management) in Fulda.

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Why Software Won’t Eat The World

Digital Tonto

Make no mistake. The future will not be digital. The truth is that we still live in a world of atoms, not bits and most of the value is created by making things we live in, wear, eat and ride in. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Innovation building blocks: diverse perspectives and voices

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been writing a series of blog posts focused on some of the most fundamental building blocks. These fundamentals are necessary to sustain innovation in corporations, and are most often overlooked or treated as an afterthought. Some of the building blocks I've reviewed are: - having a cultural bias for innovation - encouraging discovery and exploration - ensuring enough time, and the right kinds of time, for innovation Today I am focusing on the importance of diversity for innovation success.

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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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How to Run a Virtual Design Thinking Project with Remote Teams

InnovationTraining.org

In this guest post, learn how to effectively implement a virtually-led design thinking project. This is an InnovationTraining.org guest article by Sprintbase. . Design thinking is a hot topic for business these days, and it’s no surprise. A growing body of research shows that organizations that have adopted this innovative approach based on customer-centricity, creative problem-solving and experimentation, are significantly outperforming their competitors.

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In Memoriam: Professor Clayton M. Christensen

Innovation Excellence

By Craig Hatkoff, Co-Founder, Disruptor Foundation and Disruptor Awards;Co-Founder Tribeca Film Festival By Rabbi Irwin Kula, Co-Founder, Disruptor Foundation and President, Clal, The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership Photo courtesy of The Disruptor Foundation “A professor, a rabbi and an entrepreneur walk into a bar….

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A Healthier Cooking Oil

Matthew May

A Healthier Cooking Oil. admin. /. February 8, 2020. /. Envato , Ninetheme. Previous. Next. We all intend to plan ahead. Never ever think of giving up. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Take all negative words out of your mental dictionary and focus on the solutions with utmost conviction and patience. The battle is never lost until you’ve abandon your vision.

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How Chatbots Are Revolutionizing the Hiring Experience

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Imagine being able to apply for a job over text message in less than five minutes.

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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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A Sad Fact: Leaders Who Lie Can Still Be Trusted by Their Followers

Leapfrogging

Being truthful and being trustworthy aren’t the same, which poses a problem for both society and the practice of leadership itself. In today’s world, it’s hard to know who to listen to and what to believe. Who’s the best Presidential candidate? Is Brexit good or bad? Which college is best for my child? Usually there’s no one “right” answer. Diverse opinions exist and “alternative facts” bolster every side.

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How to pick a coworking space in an innovation district

Innovation Excellence

Coworking is the way people work these days. Coworking now takes up 27million sq feet of office space across the US, and 19 more growth statistics that prove coworking is the new normal. There are currently 14,411 coworking spaces in the world today. The number of coworking members will rise to 3.8 million by 2020 and.

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We can be faster

Matthew May

We can be faster. admin. /. February 8, 2020. /. Envato , Ninetheme. We all intend to plan ahead. Never ever think of giving up. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Take all negative words out of your mental dictionary and focus on the solutions with utmost conviction and patience. The battle is never lost until you’ve abandon your vision. We all intend to plan ahead, but too often let the day-to-day minutia get in the way of making a calendar for the year.

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In Technology, Entrepreneurs Must Take the Biggest Shots to Make the Biggest Gains

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Here's how "moonshot thinking" can transform entrepreneurship - and three areas it could benefit the most.

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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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The True Value of Your Time

Leanstack

Time is our scarcest resource. Other resources like money and people can fluctuate up and down, but time only moves in one direction. When I share this quote with others, they appear to get it?—?but then their actions prove otherwise. Most people still value money more than time and make decisions based on the present value of money vs. the future value of their money investment (ROI).

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Hire The Future

Innovation Excellence

You’re about to hire someone in a key role. Your first question? “Tell me about your previous experience in this field.” OK, I get it, you want experience, a veteran, someone who knows their way around the space, who’s been there, done that. Fair enough. But is that always the right question, the most important.

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World Best Business Website Company

Matthew May

Never ever think of giving up. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Take all negative words out of your mental dictionary and focus on the solutions with utmost conviction and patience. The battle is never lost until you’ve abandon your vision. the main component of a healthy environment for self esteem is that it needs be nurturing. The main compont of a healthy environment for self esteem is that it needs be nurturing.

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2019 USPTO Patent Statistics: Breaking the Trend

Anaqua

Khyle Eaton, Product Manager of Business Intelligence at Anaqua. After five years of minimal change in total patents granted, 2019 finally broke the plateau. According to a 2019 USPTO patent statistics analysis using Anaqua’s AcclaimIP analytics software, last year there were 392,616 granted patents–a 15% increase from 2018. Further, there were 394,879 US applications published in 2019–a 5% increase from 2018.

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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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Being Intentional Is Key to Your Fulfillment

Tullio Siragusa

Being Intentional Is Key to Your Fulfillment. Intention guides our actions. It is a deep strong desire that stimulates our will to pursue and focus our attention on things that are purposeful in our lives. Having clear intention harnesses various cognitive processes such as our neural networks, leading to actions and usage of all available resources to translate our wishes into reality.

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MOFI Acquires Innovation Excellence

Innovation Excellence

Noted Disruptor, Shawn Nason, Embraces the Opportunity to Lead the Global Community of Innovation Practitioners Cincinnati, Ohio (Tuesday, February 11, 2020) – Speaker, thought leader and CEO of MOFI, Shawn Nason, announced a new adventure in the world of innovation and disruption, with the acquisition of Innovation Excellence, the acknowledged online home of the global.

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Best Classico Mockup

Matthew May

Never ever think of giving up. Winners never quit and quitters never win. Take all negative words out of your mental dictionary and focus on the solutions with utmost conviction and patience. The battle is never lost until you’ve abandon your vision. the main component of a healthy environment for self esteem is that it needs be nurturing. The main compont of a healthy environment for self esteem is that it needs be nurturing.

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Open Innovation Challenge Gives Student Rocketry Teams a Boost

IdeaConnection

More than 100 student teams send their rockets soaring into the skies above the desert of New Mexico.

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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.