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I'm running for the presidency of Innovation

Jeffrey Phillips

I thought - why not? Everyone else is running, so why be left out in the cold? If the governor of Washington State can run on the single plank of climate change, if senators who have barely introduced themselves to their colleagues can run, if a west Texas Irishman named Beto can consider running, then so can I. Of course my candidacy will be strictly tongue in cheek, and really meant to frame a more interesting question - where does innovation stand in all of this?

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Centralizing vs. Decentralizing Innovation

Integrative Innovation

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Calculating the ROI for Your Idea Management System Launch

IdeaScale

How is your idea management software performing? How do you measure the intangible? This is a particular struggle for innovation departments and committees launching an idea management system, who often need to come up with KPIs and metrics to explain what they’re doing and how it benefits the company. Here’s how to find the right way to measure the ROI of launching an idea management system.

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Try this Brainstorm Method – The Contradictory Innovation

Destination Innovation

Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay. Consider for a moment these self-contradictory innovations: The solar-powered torch (flashlight). The inflatable dartboard. The underwater hairdryer. The waterproof teabag. The concrete liferaft. At first sight they look silly but each contains the germ of an interesting idea. You can charge up a solar-powered torch in daylight and then take it into a cave.

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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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Lesson 10 from true innovation managers: implementation makes it all worth it

Exago

To mark Exago's 11th anniversary, we have put together pieces of wisdom from our clients, innovation managers, to truly bring innovation together. This is lesson 10. The post Lesson 10 from true innovation managers: implementation makes it all worth it appeared first on Exago.

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Before You Set Out to Transform Your Organization, You First Need to Build Trust

Digital Tonto

Trust empowers an organization because it demands that stakeholders are not merely treated as means to an end, but ends in themselves Related posts: How To Build Trust, Even With Your Enemies. How. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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5 Reasons Why Innovation Fails

Innovation Excellence

Today, many corporations are doing startup calls, setting up company accelerators, intrapreneurship programs, tech scouting, hackathons and datathons. However, despite these efforts, many companies still do not achieve innovation results. Getting innovation results is somewhat difficult, but keeping innovation going is even harder.

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Building the future of innovation through tech

Board of Innovation

We're using the most cutting-edge technology to innovate innovation. Here's how we're embracing machine learning, one digital tool at a time. The post Building the future of innovation through tech appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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IBM Is Building A Network To Drive The Future Of Quantum Computing

Digital Tonto

In the quantum era, collaboration is increasingly becoming a competitive advantage. Related posts: The Very Strange—And Fascinating— Ideas Behind Quantum Computing. Here’s What Our Quantum Future. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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How to Create Clarity of Purpose in an Innovative Environment

IdeaScale

Innovation is sometimes at odds with what many managers want, which is to improve the efficiency with which current processes operate. Innovation takes a different approach than finding efficiency improvements. While innovation can and should improve efficiency, it often steps outside “how it’s done” to develop new ways of thinking and doing. When a company or other organization has a clear purpose, it’s easier to accept innovation.

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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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How Amazon Innovates

Innovation Excellence

In 2014, Stephenie Landry was finishing up her one-year stint as Technical Advisor to Jeff Wilke, who oversees Amazon’s worldwide consumer business, which is a mentor program that allows high potential executives to shadow a senior leader and learn first-hand. Her next assignment would define her career. At most companies, an up-and-comer like Stephenie might.

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How not to fall in love with your prototype

Board of Innovation

Prototypes are disposable. Build it just good enough to learn, frame and test user behaviours, and move on. Here's what most people get wrong about prototyping, and our advice and tips on how to get it right. The post How not to fall in love with your prototype appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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The Journey Toward Performance Excellence

Kainexus

The urgency to improve organizational performance is at an all-time high. Today’s customers expect more value for every dollar, knowledgeable employees are difficult to find and retain, competition is fierce, technology and data grow increasingly complex, and business models evolve ever more quickly. Given all of that and the complexity of modern organizations, a scatter-shot approach to improvement is not enough.

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Happiness Is Key to the Success of Your Business

Tullio Siragusa

Happiness Is Key to the Success of Your Business. Productivity enhances a person’s sense of self-worth, self-esteem, accomplishment and need to make a difference. Being productive isn’t just about getting things done, it is an essential human need, which fulfills our desire to be co-creators of the reality around us. The ability to co-create in turn enables one’s happiness, and happiness attracts success in every aspect of life, including wealth.

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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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Here’s How Investors Are Adapting To The New Era Of Innovation

Innovation Excellence

In recent decades, innovation has become almost synonymous with digital technology. That wasn’t always true, of course. Long before the microchip was invented, we built an industrial economy based on electricity and internal combustion, harnessed the power of the atom and developed life-saving cures. Nevertheless, lately everything seems to be digital.

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6 simple points to address in a startup

IdeaSpies

When you are starting a business you will experience many difficulties and stressful times, as well as fun. You can overcome difficulties if you address some crucial points right at the beginning of the business. Given below are points that, if you follow them properly, can help in laying a solid foundation for the startup. Understand your idea. This sounds obvious as you can never start a business without an idea or a vision.

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“Lean Startup, or Business Model Design, or Design Thinking?” is the Wrong Question

Leanstack

In order to achieve breakthrough innovation, you shouldn’t be limiting yourself to any one of these frameworks, but rather using all three…and possibly more. The bigger context You don’t get a gold star for following process, but achieving results?—?specifically, business model results. What is a business model? A business model describes 3 things: value creation, value delivery, and value capture.

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Innovation Assessment: Is Your Company Lagging Behind?

Moves the Needle

Transforming your organization such that it is continuously innovating -- continuously looking for ways to improve existing products, finding new growth opportunities or reinventing the future -- is a long, difficult journey. Like all business initiatives, enterprise transformation should be driven by a company’s vision and corporate strategy. To complete the journey, people must know where they’re going, why they’re going there, and how they’re going to get there.

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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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Why Google Can No Longer Innovate – According to a 13-Year Veteran

Innovation Excellence

Four lessons that are at the core of why so many successful businesses eventually fail. Steve Yegge strapped on his parachute and jumped out of a perfectly good airplane, in fact, by any measure, it was not only safe but one of the world’s most successful and invincible planes. OK, he didn’t really go skydiving.

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Is it Intrapreneurship or Innovation?

InnovationManagement

Intrapreneurship and innovation are intrinsically linked ideas when you’re talking about corporate innovation programs. Whether you’re calling it a corporate accelerator, an organizational incubator, an innovation management program, you’re relying on the thinkers, creators and mobilizers to share their inspiration and find ways to integrate that value into your organization.

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How Chatbots Can Help Create A Culture of Analytics in your organization

Acuvate

Introduction. We currently live in an era where data is the oil that drives businesses of all sizes. Having data insights gives organizations a competitive edge and helps make well-informed decisions. Businesses today aggregate large sums of data involving customer profiles, sales and marketing statistics, financial metrics etc. in order to derive business insights from it.

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7 Leaders Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Legal Services | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

The way that legal services are delivered is fast changing due to advances in technology and business model innovation.

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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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Using Behavioral Intelligence to Create the Website of Tomorrow

Innovation Excellence

Every organization wants to be a leader in their industry. One way to get there? Creating an innovative, user-friendly site that thrills your audience. If you’re like most organizations, you’ve used data to guide your website improvement efforts. Web analytics tools such as Google Analytics are powerful and provide essential information. However, that data only.

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Using Mobile Apps to Transform Business Processes

Daniel Burrus

As our need for just-in-time information flourishes, our reliance on traditional technological processes has decreased significantly. The shift from personal computers to mobile devices has picked up now more than ever. It is difficult to determine whether stationary computers will vanish into obscurity; however, there is no doubt that mobile devices are here to stay.

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International Intrapreneurship Conference at Orange

Rapid Innovation in digital time

2019 February 19th took place at Orange Gardens the first Intrapreneurship International Celebration!

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Why Do Startups Fail?

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise: There has been enough written about startups and reasons why almost all of them fail. So, why write another post about this? Even though there is no dearth of resources (blogs, videos, books, stories, etc) on reasons why startups fail and how to avoid them, I don’t see any reduction in the failure rates of startups; I don’t see them learning from the mistakes of other failed startups; I don’t see them focus on the right things that can help them avoid failure.

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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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Design Innovation – The Fender Stratocaster

Innovation Excellence

Real world product and service design brings together form and function in ways that emphasise product/service features so that they convert to real and perceived customer benefits. There is often a great deal of redundancy in the design process. For example, one of the key weaknesses of early electric guitars was the fact that the.

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Be Brave To Innovate

Phil McKinney

Did you know the opposite of bravery is not cowardice? The opposite of bravery is conformity. Doing everything the same way that everybody else does it, being like everybody else, thinking the same way everybody else does. Conformity is the “safe” approach which actually puts us at more risk. It takes bravery to step out […].

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Does Customer Centric Design Thinking Impede Innovation?

helloFUTURE

I think it was Steve Jobs who famously stated something to the effect that customers didn’t know what they wanted, so he had to come up with it for them. Interestingly enough, that’s when Apple was at its most innovative, secretly putting products like the iPhone together with very little customer input, and then releasing… The post Does Customer Centric Design Thinking Impede Innovation?

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How to use AI in E-commerce

IdeaSpies

Do you run an e-commerce store that sells fast moving products or services? Well, if you do, then you are lucky. Research by Statistica shows that in 2018, total e-commerce sales hit $2.8 trillion. It is expected that this figure will significantly increase in 2019, and might hit $4.88 trillion by 2021. This means that, if you do everything right and reach a wider target market, your business will grow tremendously.

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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.