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It’s Time To Be Skeptical About The Lean Startup. Here’s Why:

Digital Tonto

No innovation strategy fits every problem Related posts: The Lean Startup Is Doing More Than Transforming Business, It’s Changing The World. The Lean Startup Is Now Helping To Transform Government. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Dual Partnership Strategy: Centralized vs. Adaptive Innovation Ecosystems

Integrative Innovation

Being faced with disruption and increasing pace of change, many established companies fail to keep up. They often turn out to be ill-prepared to innovate under uncertain and time-critical conditions. Rather than going it alone, some companies reach out to suitable partners with the aim to build up innovation ecosystems that complement the companies’ capabilities, competences and strategy.

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The chance to think differently about Ecosystems for Innovation

Paul Hobcraft

Thinking about ecosystems certainly allows us to go out of our normal scope of invention, innovation and being creative. The ability to tackle those larger societal problems within an ecosystem, or combine unique resources to overcome a complex challenge you are incapable of solving alone, do have greater potential in a collaborative adaptive system.

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Sí, Exago Start innovation software is now available in Spanish

Exago

Very recently launched in English, the Exago Start innovation software can now be used by Spanish speakers in their language. Built to empower teams to innovate, the new edition easily brings everyone on board your innovation programme, in a record time, to get them to contribute to business evolution goals. The post Sí, Exago Start innovation software is now available in Spanish appeared first on Exago.

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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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There Are 3 Ways To Innovate, But Only One Can Win The Future

Digital Tonto

A key factor of success is how you source problems, build a pipeline and, ultimately, choose which ones you will work on. Related posts: 4 Ways Open Innovation Can Drive Your Business Forward. 4. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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The State of Innovation in the Financial Sector

IdeaScale

Fintech funding is increasing. Just over a decade ago, we were spending a little over $5 Billion on financial technology – today we’re spending nearly $78 Billion. Why are we seeing that investment accelerate? Because the financial sector is ripe for disruption and investors want to make sure that they’re part of the financial future which is an industry that is estimated to make up 20% of a country’s gross domestic product. .

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The Power of the Innovation Retreat Week

Stephen Shapiro

Busy entrepreneurs need to step away from the business in order to grow their business… As entrepreneurs, we are all busy. There never seems to be enough time to complete even the basic tasks we need to accomplish. So, when do we have time to innovate? 5 years ago, I realized that it felt like I was on a treadmill. I was running fast yet getting nowhere.

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12 Technology Categories That Will Transform Careers

Daniel Burrus

As technology continues to impact our lives, workers at every level in today’s ever-changing labor market need to be prepared with skills to adapt and succeed in the workplace. The problem is, we live in an uncertain world, and because of the high levels of uncertainty we all face, people of all ages and careers are finding it difficult to know what new skills to learn, what courses to take, and what degrees to get that will provide them with the most opportunity going forward.

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Executives Meet to Discuss the ROI of Innovation

Moves the Needle

Have you ever been in that electric environment where everyone around you possesses an intricate and expansive wealth of knowledge? If you answered yes, you know exactly the type of occurrence we are referring to. It’s the kind of conversation that captures your attention (and hours of your life), and when it’s over, you feel like your IQ has increased by at least 5 points.

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How to Use the Three Horizons for Future Sensemaking

Innovation Excellence

Plenty of pieces talk about the Three Horizons Framework from a 30k-50k ft level. However, this post will close the gaps and explore potential “tabletop” collaboration tips, templates, and examples to anchor this at a ground zero level. Do you have the capabilities to carry out those bets?

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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 to get the best ideas out of people? Cheat.

helloFUTURE

Prior to the widespread adoption of the web and the internet, I used to run something called a Bulletin Board System (BBS), where we would use phone lines to communicate on message boards. Every so often, our message boards would call each other and exchange messages, thus allowing us to communicate (this was in a… The post How to get the best ideas out of people?

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Dr. Isaiah Engelbrecht

Innovation 360 Group

Based in Pretoria, South Africa. Background. Isaiah Engelbrecht is an Innovation Growth expert. He partners with organisations to achieve with sustainable growth through building innovation capability. He believes that without innovation it is almost impossible for companies to survive and thrive in a turbulent business environment. In his career he has observed that most employees in organisations have great ideas and solutions to organizational challenges but more often than not, it is never u

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Play Within Your Bankroll to Increase Your Risk Tolerance | Collective Campus

Collectivecamp

In poker, your bankroll represents how much money you’ve set aside exclusively to play.

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Don’t Be Fooled By These 3 Overhyped Trends

Innovation Excellence

The Gartner Hype Cycle shows a remarkably consistent pattern. A new technology is first ignored, then begins to show promise and expectations get inflated beyond any realistic assessment of value. That leads to disillusionment and the technology is almost forgotten until, some years later, it begins to make a true competitive impact. What makes the.

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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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Digital Technology MoshPit

Gregg Fraley

New Service Offering for Digital Technology Innovation. Discover Ideas for Long Term and Tactical Innovation Projects. Chicago, IL, August 1, 2018 — The MoshPit Innovation Service is an innovation project discovery service marketed by GFi (Gregg Fraley Innovation). It’s designed to uncover unlikely, but useful, combinations of technologies, products, services, trends, and insights that lead to breakthrough innovation.

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ABCDEFG of Successful Digital Transformation

Rmukesh Gupta

I came across this very interesting post by John Hagel, where he brings up a very interesting topic, one that I feel strongly about – Digital Transformation. It appears that you can not go through a corporate presentation or a CxO presentation without hearing the word “Digital Transformation” Not a day goes by when I don’t read about some initiative run by a business under the banner of “Digital Transformation” As with any other loosely thrown around words, th

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ITONICS as Product Challenger in the Market Segment “Accelerated Innovation”

ITONICS

In the recently published study by ISG Provider Lens – Digital Transformation Services & Solutions 2018 , ITONICS’ innovation management solution is listed twice as a “High Product Challenger” in the area of Accelerated Innovation (Information & Transformation) among other industry leaders. The market segment focuses on the holistic approach and integration of interdisciplinary innovation management and processes in companies.

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3 Problems With Positioning Statements

Innovation Excellence

The concept of positioning statements has been around for decades, however just because you know what positioning is, doesn’t mean you understand how to do it. The classic positioning statement is a fill-in-the blanks exercise where you create a single phrase that encapsulates what your offering is about relative to your competition. It usually looks.

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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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It’s All About Interaction!

InnovationManagement

The central role of Interaction Design when creating delightful customer experiences. Organisations depend on their competitive advantage in order to become or keep successful, relevant for their customers and grow over time. As we all know, competitive advantage is achieved via either one – or a combination - of the strategies involving pricing, service and product quality or customer service excellence.

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Antimicrobial Packaging for the Food Industry

Yet2

Over the past few years, there has been increasing interest and growth in food manufacturers seeking antimicrobial packaging solutions. In part this has been a result of the also growing global demand for processed and prepackaged food. A recent consumer preference trend favoring lightweight and environmentally friendly packaging – plus the need to preserve food according to safety standards – adds an additional level of complication to the equation.

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How to enable Disruptive Innovation in an enterprise?

Be-novative

Disruptive Innovation is not a linear process. This is why we need to change a few aspects of the traditional innovation management approach to encourage employees to become intrapreneurs and drive more breakthrough results. We created a short video for you on this topic.

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How can we prepare people for a future we cannot predict?

Innovation Excellence

As so many of us are aware, we are living in an era of extreme rapid & continuous change, driven largely by the technological leaps of the Digital Age, impacting exponential shifts in customers needs, priorities, preferences & expectations that affect all of us, no matter what business we are in, or what kind of.

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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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Crafting an Effective Employee Enrichment Program

InnovationManagement

Creating an employee enrichment program that actually lends itself to employees who are engaged is the backbone of a successful organization. A company can have the most innovative products and services under the sun, but if they do not also have employees who are supported and able to thrive, the company as a whole will wither.

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Spotting Innovation Opportunities

ITONICS

A strategic innovation field, let’s call it “ opportunity space ”, can be found by connecting all the dots between bits of diverse information you already know and put them together in a way that breaks a pattern. It is an advantageous space to innovate and grow in and builds the starting point for the development of ideas for products, services or new business models.

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Why KeyBank is Investing in Digital Innovation and Acquisitions

Innovation Leader

KeyBank is one of the biggest in the US, with over 1,100 branches. While investing in its digital relationship with customers, it remains committed to face-to-face interactions.

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To Solve Complex Problems, You Need A Networked Solution

Innovation Excellence

Every leader tries to keep things simple and predictable. You hire good people, treat them well, give them clear objectives and do your best to stay out of their way. If you do your homework, plan things well and your people execute efficiently, everything should go off without a hitch. Or so the thinking goes.

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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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When R&D Departments Hit a Wall, What are the Innovation Opportunities?

Innocentive

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Life Lessons Learnt from the Movie – Mission Impossible – Fallout

Rmukesh Gupta

Ethan Hunt is at his best again. Jumping off of cliffs, riding his bikes, shooting the bad guys and saving the world. Yesterday, I went and watched the latest edition: Mission Impossible – Fallout and thoroughly loved it. . Today over coffee, I was talking to one of my friend about the movie and while thinking about it, I realised a few things, nothing world shattering but still interesting for me.

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Open Innovation to Solve Health and Medical Problems

IdeaConnection

It’s not always the researchers and doctors who come up with the brilliant health and medical breakthroughs that can ultimately save lives. Members of the crowd play their part too via open innovation contests and hackathons. From mobility problems among the elderly to fighting the spread of infectious diseases, lay people are increasingly tackling public health issues.

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Why Product Innovation Starts with Materials

Innovation Excellence

Materials can elevate a product, to be sure, but using them incorrectly or ineffectively has the opposite effect. And because it's hard to know how a finished product will actually look and feel in the hands of consumers, it's easy to make mistakes in development. Here are some time-tested strategies for creating products that are better, not just different.

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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.