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8 Rules Molding Apple Innovation Culture

Braineet

When you think about innovation, chances are Apple is one of the first companies that comes to mind – and with good reason. Led by the company’s late founding visionary Steve Jobs, Apple has broken every rule in the book and defied every expectation on its way to the top. In doing so, the tech … 8 Rules Molding Apple Innovation Culture Read More ».

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5 Ways to Avoid Innovation Theater

Wellspring

Anyone reading the typical startup-world commentary about Innovation Theater might be tempted to make one of two assumptions. First, big companies are clueless about how to innovate. Second, they must be screwing up innovation on purpose – playing a cynical game just to convince outsiders (stakeholders, media, etc.) of what is in fact a flimsy, skin-deep effort to change.

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Diffusion Of Innovations: Influencing the adoption of a new strategy

Cascade Strategy

Any new strategy requires behavioral change. You need your team to embrace and adopt your new strategy in order to achieve business objectives. In this post, we’re going to be looking at implementing a strategic plan through the lens of the Diffusion of Innovations theory. Specifically, how we can influence certain factors to increase the momentum and likelihood of a new strategy being adopted by an organization, in order to achieve strategic objectives.

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The Five Building Blocks of Collaborative Innovation

IdeaScale

Are you looking for ways to inspire collaborative innovation in your organization? Your staff has the talent and intelligence, but are they working with the right people? Collaborative innovation involves bringing together ideas that can result in something groundbreaking. It is typically achieved by collaborating with larger organizations that can provide perspective and strategic development.

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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 fundamentals: using time effectively

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been writing an occasional series on some of the fundamental building blocks for innovation success - at least those that I think are critical, intangible and often overlooked. I've written previously about having a bias for innovation in your culture , seeking and finding important and unmet needs or opportunities , and introducing discovery and exploration in your innovation process.

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What Is an Innovation Manager – And How Do You Become a Great One?

Viima

In the last few months, I’ve had a few readers ask me how they could become an innovation manager, as well as how they could succeed in that role.

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Popular Corporate Innovation Tools and Tactics: Which One Is Right for Your Company?

Qmarkets

In both the workplace and the natural world , evolution is both inevitable and painful. Just as creatures must adapt rapidly to environmental changes to avoid the wrath of natural selection, businesses must adapt rapidly to technological changes to avoid the wrath of their competitors. Fortunately, companies can take control over their evolutionary destiny by harnessing the power of innovation.

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Why Agility Cannot Stand Alone

Daniel Burrus

When the competition launches a new product, how you react says a lot about you as a professional and your company as an organization. But it is likely that you act quickly and decisively to address the changing factors and conditions after they’ve occurred. This is called agility, and we often utilize agility to change directions and head the competition off at the pass.

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Improve Product Innovation with Internal and External Feedback

IdeaScale

Customers are integral to the product innovation process.?. Product innovation is all about new ideas from both your employees and your customers. Trying to develop a new product without input from your customers is akin to shooting arrows in the dark. You may hit your target, but then again, you may miss it by a mile. Customer input provides you with insight into customer pain points, behaviors, and desires.

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Podcast S3E50: Jeff Goins – Artists don’t have to starve

Idea to Value

In today’s episode of the Idea to value podcast, we speak with bestselling author Jeff Goins. Jeff is the author of “Real Artists don’t Starve”, and we speak about why so many creative people find out hard to make a living from their craft, and how a change in the stories they tell can change their fortunes. Topics covered in today’s episode. 00:01:30 Jeff’s personal journey, starting as a starving artist. 00:03:30 How he discovered the joy of writing, even th

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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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The Hard Thing About Hard Facts

Digital Tonto

As the physicist Richard Feynman put it, “We’ve learned from experience that the truth will out.The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” Truth. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The Limited Value Of Ideas

Innovation Excellence

There is a line of thinking that says that the world is built on ideas. It was an idea that launched the American Revolution and created a nation. It was an idea that led Albert Einstein to pursue relativity, Linus Pauling to invent a vaccine and for Steve Jobs to create the iPhone and build.

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From Inspiration to Execution: Charting the Journey

IdeaScale

Sometimes you have to make your own path. Creativity is not a scarce resource. Humanity’s creativity and imagination have been key forces in our history from its very beginnings. That said, history is full of grand ideas that aren’t executed, or only ever partially achieved. Moving from innovation to execution calls for more than just a good idea; it needs tools like innovation management solutions to guide it.

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How we’re building the (Exago) future

Exago

Aware of the importance of keeping your finger on the technology pulse, Exago's Head of Product & Technology, Marco Grácio, attended Building The Future, sponsored by Microsoft. The post How we’re building the (Exago) future appeared first on Exago.

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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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Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond the Hype and Getting Down to Business Webinar

Strategyzer Innovation

We had the pleasure of having Henry Chesbrough, faculty director of the Garwood Center for Corporate Innovation at the University of California, join Strategyzer co-founder Alex Osterwalder on our StratChat webinar series to discuss his most recent work - Open Innovation Results: Going Beyond The Hype and Getting Down To Business.

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What is Your Global Digital Health Strategy?

Innovation Excellence

WHO has released new recommendations on 10 ways that countries can use digital health technology, accessible via mobile phones, tablets and computers, to improve people’s health and essential services. However, implementing these ideas around the globe will require : Overcoming the barriers to dissemination and implementation Creating a global cybernervous system Transforming sick care to.

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How to Leverage AI to Upskill Employees

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Artificial intelligence is the answer to polishing math skills and plugging our workforce pipeline.

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What Innovation Funnel Should I Use?

InnovationManagement

After a decade working in innovation, I think many of us are sick and tired of seeing a funnel on another slide at an innovation conference. Lots of ideas at the top, just a few implemented ideas at the bottom… we get the idea. The post What Innovation Funnel Should I Use? appeared first on Innovation Management.

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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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Is the abundance of apps in the ecosystem killing productivity?

Tembosocial

Employee experience is a means to an end, not an end in itself. ? For all the time and attention and money we spend improving every part of the employee journey, from candidate to alumni and everything in between it must never be lost that the reason employee experience is important is that it drives customer experience.

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Top 20 Innovation Articles of January 2020

Innovation Excellence

Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month we will profile the twenty posts from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Innovation Excellence. We also publish a weekly Top 8 as part of our FREE email newsletter. Did your favorite make the cut? But enough delay, here are January’s twenty most.

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Growing in Self-Confidence Requires Action

Tullio Siragusa

Growing in Self-Confidence Requires Action. Self-confidence is knowing, acknowledging and acting your worth. It’s a magnet that attracts success. It is an ethereal idea that everyone of us desires of have as a strong trait. Naturally, it is not something we are born with, and it is not something you can achieve by dreaming or fantasizing. Anyone high in self-confidence has made some effort and taken some actions to boost themselves to get there. .

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8 Exciting Digital workplace trends To Watch For in 2020

Acuvate

As we forge into a new decade in 2020, we carry forward some of the most transformative digital technologies that have revolutionized the way we work. The outreach that technology today has and its capabilities in the workplace are so vast that artificial intelligence and other smart technologies can soon become our co-workers. In the past decade, we have seen organizations realize the fact that Employee Experience has a direct impact on not only attracting and retaining but also improving custo

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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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2020/1920 in Hindsight: Will 2020 Mark the Beginning of a New Era of Roaring Twenties?

InnovationManagement

There is no doubt that history is one of our greatest teachers, and the big question at this stage is whether history will, in fact, repeat itself. We'll compare workforce trends from the 1920s to the 2020s in this article. The post 2020/1920 in Hindsight: Will 2020 Mark the Beginning of a New Era of Roaring Twenties? appeared first on Innovation Management.

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“I think, therefore I am” … said the machine to the stunned humans

Innovation Excellence

She didn’t actually say it like that. She might have asked “to be or not to be?” and insisted that “that is the question”. In any case, machines are already up to asking profound existential questions. On 11th February 2019 a very unusual event marked the latest man-versus-machine challenge: a debate on whether we should.

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Wild is the Game: the art of facilitation

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Wild is the Game tells us about the art of facilitation, and how to let creative workshops of 300 participants land into an actionable workplan.

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Drone Racing Spurs Autonomous Flight Innovations

IdeaConnection

$1 million-dollar prize accelerates AI innovation for high-speed drone racing.

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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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Proud Delivery Partners of Global Innovation Policy Accelerator (GIPA) Programme

100%Open

The Global Innovation Policy Accelerator is a collaborative development programme for innovation policy leaders and managers, lead by Nesta. Governments around the world are seeking more effective approaches to fostering innovation. Ensuring innovation policymakers have the right skills, insights, tools, evidence and networks to help design, implement, evaluate and improve innovation policies is essential if these policies are to have the desired impacts on economic growth and social challenges.

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Only A True Entrepreneur Will Agree With This Quote

Innovation Excellence

Defining who is and who isn’t an entrepreneur may be subject to debate by academics and pundits, but if you get this quote you’re one of us. “It’s better to burn out, Than to fade away” — Neil Young, from his song “Into The Black” When I was in the throws of building my company.

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3 Ways To Put Time On Your Side

helloFUTURE

Set Your Deadline To Half The Time You Think You Need A while back, I read “When,” Dan Pink’s latest book on time. It was an interesting read to be sure, but the number one takeaway I pulled from the book has to do with deadlines. In example after example, he proved that when faced… The post 3 Ways To Put Time On Your Side appeared first on hellofuture.

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Where the Best and the Brightest are Most Vulnerable

Ankush Chopra

We all have blindspots as individuals. Thousands of books in psychology explain why that is the case. But why do organizations have blind spots? When you put people together, they should be able to cancel out each others’ blind spots. Isn’t that the reason why organizations are far superior to individuals in achieving major goals? But the more I study firms, the more it becomes clear to me that companies have well-developed blindspots.

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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.