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How Experian’s Networked Culture Drives Innovation

Digital Tonto

Today, competitiveness is no longer determined by the sum of all efficiencies within a business, but the sum of all connections Related posts: How Connection Drives Innovation. How Experian’s. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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For interesting innovation, ignore your instincts

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been around the block for a while, and every once in a while I'll tell the folks on my team who are younger than me what's likely to happen with a specific strategy or project. Since they are young and a bit wet behind the ears, it often comes as a surprise to them that I can predict with some degree of certainty what's likely to happen. What they don't realize is that I have the blessing of past experience, and from that experience I can recognize patterns and previous behaviors, and inter

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Understanding Open Innovation

IdeaScale

Historically, research and development departments within organizations were solely responsible for coming up with innovative ideas. Traditionally, corporate innovation has been an inside job, with few exceptions. Things have changed with the digital revolution, however, and the boundaries shielding organizations from outside ideas have become more permeable.

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Importance of Innovation – What it Means for Businesses and Society at Large?

Viima

According to McKinsey, 84% of executives say that their future success is dependent on innovation. Although innovation may sound like a buzzword for some, there are many reasons why companies put a lot of emphasis on it.

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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 Leverage Your Strategy Reviews?

Ankush Chopra

It is common knowledge that if you want to succeed in a business career, you must demonstrate your mettle again and again. But to prove that you are a heavy hitter, you need to stand on the home plate; if you never get to the home plate, the world will never know your batting average. It is not surprising then that half the work in your climb to career heights is in getting to the home plate.

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How to Stop Killing your Staff

Destination Innovation

Are you the kind of boss who gets in at 7.30 am, works hard till 7 pm and expects all your people to do the same? Are you finding it hard to recruit people who want to? Trust me when I tell you that this approach is not so good. There is considerable evidence that in office work, long hours do not lead to increased output. And there are negative consequences to overwork.

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Are You Prepared to Run a Digital Business for the Digital Age?

Braden Kelley

In our digital age, all companies must change how they think, how they interact with customers, partners, and suppliers, and how their business works on the inside.

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Does Your Idea Management Software Go the Distance?

IdeaScale

Ideas are more than brainstorming. It’s easier to begin a project than to take it to fulfillment and easier to rest on your laurels than to keep pushing. We’ve all learned this, whether it’s that new hobby or a newly launched business, and it also applies to ideas. In the beginning stages, collecting ideas is easy. But does your idea management software help your team when the hill begins to slope upward?

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The Maginot Line and the Fall of France

Destination Innovation

Image by Jean-LouisBourgogne from Pixabay. After their experiences in the first World War the British and French High Commands assumed that any new war with Germany would be similar to WW1 – a massive static engagement between two huge armies. So the French built the Maginot Line, named after the French Minister of War, André Maginot. It ran along the entire French border with Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Luxembourg and consisted of massive defensive fortifications.

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When Should You Collaborate and When Should You Compete?

Digital Tonto

You collaborate to reveal, but compete to develop and build. To build a great enterprise, you need to learn to do both zealously Related posts: 3 Paradigm Shifts That Will Drive How We Compete In. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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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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We Actually Went Driverless 100 Years Ago

Innovation Excellence

Most of us don’t have a clue that this isn’t the first time we’ve been afraid of going driverless. Part 2 in a series of columns about Autonomous Cars In the aftermath of Ubers’s recent fatal crash in Tempe, which involved a driverless car, there has been a great deal of speculation about the future.

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How to Measure Your Organization’s Innovation Maturity

IdeaScale

Before you can assess your organization’s innovation maturity, you have to ask and answer the question, “What does innovation mean to us?”. Unless your organization has deliberately built a culture of innovation throughout, answers to that question will vary – perhaps widely – among those you ask. What does innovation mean to your team members?

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Launching innovationstack.io: our favorite InnoTech tools

Board of Innovation

Curious to find out what this new buzzword “InnoTech” is? We’ll guide you through what it is, show you our favorite four InnoTech tools – including how to use them and where to find them. What can InnoTech mean to you (besides being another buzzword)? InnoTech are the tech tools that make corporate innovation more. Continue reading. The post Launching innovationstack.io: our favorite InnoTech tools appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Augmented Reality Defined with Opportunities

Daniel Burrus

Several years ago, I started using an augmented reality (AR) app for my smartphone whenever I ventured into the mountains. It was quite useful; I could point my device at any mountain to see information overlaid on the image. When I moved my device around, the information changed to correspond with what I saw. Google Glass was an early example of AR glasses.

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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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How IBM, Google and Amazon Innovate Differently

Innovation Excellence

Every organization strives to innovate, but few succeed consistently over time. That’s why so many once dominant companies hit a peak and then decline. A recent study estimates that 50% of the current S&P 500 will be replaced over the next ten years. Success is supposed to breed success, but it often breeds failure. Yet.

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Emotional Intelligence: Why is It Pivotal to Good Leadership?

InnovationManagement

Emotional Intelligence has long been known for being one of the main qualities of a good leader. Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman wrote “What Makes a Leader”, a popular article from 1998, where he lists emotional intelligence as one of the main leadership components.

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16 Techniques to Encourage Innovation in the Workplace

Braineet

Promoting innovation in the workplace can be tough! Read-on to discover 16 (effective) ways to do it.

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How to look for strategic business partners?

Focused Momentum

Partnering has become a favored strategy to achieve growth goals. Favored because it is often faster to partner than to take the time to build what someone else has established and in today’s world speed to implement can be the difference between success and failure. However, not every possible partner is the right strategic partner for your future success and partnering without thinking about it deeply can be catastrophic.

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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 Packaging Industry is Massive, and It’s About to Be Disrupted

Innovation Excellence

Technology isn’t just for creating new products and services. Disruptive technologies are transforming the packaging that comes with just about everything we buy. Imagine a day when you receive an alert from your refrigerator as you walk past 7-11 because the carton of milk at your home just expired. Or a day when you receive.

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Before solving, learn more about the problem.

Mike Shipulski

Ideas are cheap, but converting them into a saleable product and building the engine to make it all happen is expensive. Before spending the big money, spend more time than you think reasonable to answer these three questions. Is the problem big enough? There’s no sense spending the time and money to solve a problem unless you have a good idea the payback is worth the cost.

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How Open Innovation is Helping the Fight Climate Change

Innocentive

By Jon A. Fredrickson Chief Innovation Officer - InnoCentive.

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Three Ways Your P&L Stifles Innovation | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

The profit and loss (P&L) statement is obviously key to measuring the financial performance of a business.

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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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Sleep Innovation: The New Rules

Innovation Excellence

The sleep category is growing rapidly. Sleep, or more pertinently, the lack thereof, is increasingly an issue for more and more people. Levels of anxiety, stress and insomnia are on the rise. Consumers are looking for solutions, and willing to spend money on them. 30% of the UK and US population report symptoms of.

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Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge

Gregg Fraley

What You Should Be Learning in Innovation Training. But you probably are not! Eleven Innovation Bullets to Dodge, in no particular order. Lack of Managment support will effectively kill any innovation program no matter how well conceived. If you don’t have Talent, superior talent, you’ll fail. Design Thinking alone will not guarantee success (or any other framework, Agile, Lean, etc.).

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Spring Lab: instilling startups mindset into large corporations

Rapid Innovation in digital time

Spring Lab helps its clients to accelerate the impact of their innovation, taping into the best of the startup culture.

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Key Obstacles to Innovation Performance

ImagineNation

Innovation has become one of the most important factors for long-term success. Because of the fast pace of global innovation and change, organizations must improve their performance more frequently than ever before. Although the ability to develop new ideas fast is essential to innovation, even the organizations that are able to move fast can face obstacles in managing global innovation and change.

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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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Why the Next Big Thing Never Turns Out Like You Think It Will

Innovation Excellence

The first thing we think about when we first hear the news about a major breakthrough is the great possibilities it unlocks. The space age spawned fantasies about living like the Jetsons and riding around in flying cars. That still hasn’t happened and possibly never will. Yet we’ve still benefited great from space technologies. Satellites have.

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Expose Yourself To New Everything and You Generate Real Innovation

helloFUTURE

To innovate – you must absorb many different sources of information – especially in the areas not in the area you are trying to innovate in, let those percolate in your brain, then apply them to your current challenges. On my sister podcast, think!life, I interviewed a “Purpose Coach,” who had a method to determine… The post Expose Yourself To New Everything and You Generate Real Innovation appeared first on hellofuture.

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The Innovators’ DNA in a Design Infused Company

Be-novative

Whether a company has ten or hundred thousand employees, it has access to an untapped resource of unique, diverse and broad perspectives and insights that employees of these companies don’t share effectively. Any company with a customer service has employees who make hundreds of observations each and every day, and generate new learnings, either consciously or sub-consciously.

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The 3 Crucial Pieces of Effective Innovation

Econic

The date on my calendar was approaching and my fear was growing… Weeks earlier I had told my mentor and friend, Bill Eckstrom , about the project I was working on to help professionals flip anxiety from a negative emotion into a positive ally in helping them perform at their best.As soon as I told him about it, he told me about a summit that his company was hosting for 70 sales managers from around the country.

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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.