March, 2022

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Why we value our own ideas so highly: The IKEA effect

Idea to Value

There is a tendency for people to love their own ideas. Not necessarily because the ideas themselves are better than others, but instead because of the work which people put into developing them. As a result, they are often disappointed when other people do not care as much about their ideas as they do. This is partially down to a cognitive bias which most of us suffer from called the IKEA Effect.

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Creating Space for Black Women in Gaming

Business and Tech

During graduate school, I realized my gaming life was missing something. Being a Black woman online was an experience that often left me wanting many things: safety, community, camaraderie, cultural understanding. So, you can imagine my elation when, while looking through various platforms and networks to connect with, I came across Black Girl Gamers on Twitter.

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Get Someone Else to Do the Work

Destination Innovation

Mark Twain. One of the most famous scenes from Mark Twain’s book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is when Tom has to whitewash a fence as a punishment. His friend Ben Rogers comes along to ridicule him about having to work. Tom ignores him and concentrates on painting, so Ben eventually asks if he likes doing it. Tom replies, “Like it? Well, I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it.

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Adopting A Changemaker Mindset

Digital Tonto

People who believe in change want to believe that if everyone understood it, they’d want it to happen. That’s why “change management” gurus focus on communication and persuasion. They think that if. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Welcome to the Future of Hospitality: Smart Rooms Start Here

Speaker: Jady West, VP of Hospitality & Chris Bennett, Head of Sales & Engineering

The modern hotel room is no longer just a place to stay—it’s an experience to remember. Today’s guests expect seamless connectivity, personalized comfort, and high-tech convenience. From AI-powered smart room controls to keyless entry, in-room entertainment, and app-based services, technology is redefining hospitality from the inside out. In this new session featuring industry pros Jady West and Chris Bennett, we’ll explore how high-speed, high-bandwidth connectivity powers the innovations that

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Opportunities for collaboration in innovation between Australia and the US

IdeaSpies

Following is the transcript of the speech delivered by the Hon.

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11 Incredible Women Who Broke New Ground and Achieved Firsts in Business

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Get inspired by the stories of these women leaders.

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DC Fast Charging Alone Isn’t a Sufficient Answer to America’s EV Charging Future

Business and Tech

The United States is now rolling out a once-in-a-lifetime level of investment to accelerate a fast charing EV adoption by funding EV charging infrastructure. But there’s a problem: we’re obsessed with speed, and focusing on fast alone isn’t going to cut it. There is absolutely a need for DC Fast Charging (DCFC) along our highway corridors to enable long-distance travel for EVs.

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A Lateral Way to Expose War Crimes and Fight Disinformation

Destination Innovation

Eliot Higgins. The English journalist and blogger, Eliot Higgins, became interested in open source methods in 2011 when he wanted to authenticate video clips from war zones and crime sites. He found that you could use satellite imagery to check the locations of videos but it needed many pairs of eyes to review all the possible comparisons. In 2012 in his blog ‘Brown Moses’, he posted articles with videos from the civil war in Syria.

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We’re In For A Decade Of Generational Strife. Here’s How To Navigate It.

Digital Tonto

The almost seismic shift in values that the transition from Boomer to Millennial dominance represents would be enough to set the stage for conflict. What will make this decade even more difficult is. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Should You Trust Your Gut?

Phil McKinney

Your gut is surprisingly smart. It knows what’s good for you, and how to keep your body functioning properly. When you are in danger, it is your gut reaction that triggers your fight-or-flight response. But do you trust your gut? Do you trust its decisions? Chances are, sometimes you do and sometimes you don’t. You […].

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Prospect, Personalize, Profit: The New Way Sales & Marketing Teams Are Aligning with AI

Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant

AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.

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What’s the key to success in corporate-startup collaboration?

HYPE Innovation

While research on corporate-startup collaboration is not new , it has attracted increasing interest in recent years. In fact, there was a staggering 81% increase in the number of scientific articles on the subject between 2016 and 2020 compared to 2011-2015, which coincides with the exponential rise of information and communication technologies, Uberization in particular, and their huge impact in many sectors of activity on existing business models relating to large groups.

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What is the relationship between talent, creativity, skill and performance?

Idea to Value

Often, when someone says they are not creative , what they are really saying is that they do not believe they have the same level of skills or talents as people they look up to as creative. Even if the people they look up to have spent an entire lifetime developing those talents. What they do not realise is that creativity and skill are related, but not the same thing.

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How Women Can Overcome Barriers That Some Men Don’t Even See

Business and Tech

Picture this. Several weeks ago I was on stage in front of an audience delivering a keynote speech about the topic of “Wellness Privilege.”. Laura Putnam Author, “Workplace Wellness That Works;” CEO, Motion Infusion; Creator, Managers on the Move. For those who have never heard the term before, it is the concept that some people in the workplace have more advantages than others in their pursuit of well-being because of their gender, race, religion, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, age,

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Great Innovators Quiz

Destination Innovation

Test your knowledge of great thinkers and innovators with this short quiz. Scottish doctor who opposed conventional medical practice and pioneered antiseptic surgery. J L. The woman who is the only person to win Nobel prizes in two different sciences. M C. Brilliant rock star who was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar in 1946. F M. Actress feted as the ‘most beautiful woman in the world’ who invented a radio technology used in wi-fi and blueooth.

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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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There Are Important Lessons We Should Learn From The War In Ukraine

Digital Tonto

We tend to imagine people will act rationally and that, by taking their interests into account, we can come to some sort of reasonable strategy. Yet the events in Ukraine belie that basic assumption. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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So what is value creation?

Paul Hobcraft

[link]. Value creation is highly dynamic, it is going on all the time and can increase, decrease or transform, in different ways, when you exploit your different capitals that will be in constant change and adjusting to reflect your organization’s business activities and eventual outputs. This is when you can begin to see the value created by the use of deploying all the capitals to build new growth and what I call “stock” that along with “flow”.

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Collaborating Effectively with Startups: Anticipation, Key to Success

HYPE Innovation

What are the key factors promoting harmonious and fruitful collaborative innovation between large groups and technology startups? How can we increase the chances of success of collaborative projects between these asymmetric partners from the outset? These are the questions that this article addresses by focusing on the relational and organizational dimensions upstream of collaboration.

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The creative stereotype: What does a “creative person” look like?

Idea to Value

When it comes to creativity , generating ideas is only one part of the process. You also need to execute the ideas. And once they are executed, they usually need to be seen or evaluated by an audience. But can the audience evaluate the idea differently based on who the creator is? Yes, and the stereotype of what a creative person “should” look or behave like can have a powerful influence on how the idea they create is perceived.

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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.

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Seizing an Opportunity for Women in the Metaverse

Business and Tech

Many people think women don’t love video games, but they’re wrong. One in three people worldwide plays video games, and nearly half of those gamers are women. However, less than a quarter of the employees in the video game industry are women, suggesting stereotypes may be a contributing factor to underrepresentation in the workforce. . Part of my job is to help fix that — by encouraging girls and women to take their passion for the power of play to the next level.

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How to See Your Hidden Assumptions

Leapfrogging

Successful strategy and innovation are about how fast you can become aware of your assumptions. When it comes to strategy and innovation , success depends on how fast you become aware of your assumptions and then modify them. But it’s a paradox: You can’t see your most fundamental assumptions until you overcome them. This means that you can only understand your mindsets that were barriers retrospectively.

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We Need To Stop Doubling Down On Bad Ideas

Digital Tonto

Business today moves fast. So we like simple statements that speak to larger truths. It always seems that if we can find a simple rule of thumb—or maybe 3 to 5 bullet points for the really big picture stuff—managing a business would be much easier. Whenever a decision needs to be made, we could simply refer to the rule and go on with our day. Unfortunately, that often leads to cartoonish slogans rather than genuine managerial wisdom.

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Innovation Ecosystem Understanding through an AI-driven approach

Paul Hobcraft

I always find it interesting when different though-strands seem to collide. You can put that down to serendipity, fate, luck or just being in the right spot at that time. I have always been a fan of the book “ The Medici Effect; breakthrough insights at the intersections of ideas, concepts and culture ” by Frans Johansson. I like to think I am often colliding at the innovation intersections where I keep finding lots of synergies that feed my research and innovative curiosity to suppo

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Unlock R&D Excellence: AI-Elevated Processes and Innovation Intelligence

R&D teams need smart processes and cutting-edge tools to stay ahead. Questel empowers R&D leaders with advanced solutions that accelerate workflows, improve decision-making, and deliver impactful results. Our AI-powered platform, Qthena, revolutionizes how you interact with scientific documents and patent literature. Analyze drawings, tables, and graphs instantly while generating strong invention disclosures in seconds—not hours.

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Wilo - Sustainability Through Innovation

HYPE Innovation

Sustainability is an integral part of the corporate strategy of the Wilo Group, one of the world's leading premium suppliers of pumps and pump systems for building services, water management, and industry. The products, systems, and solutions of the technology specialist from Dortmund help to supply people with water in a smart, efficient, and climate-friendly way.

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The difference between how a CEO and a department head think about failure

Idea to Value

What is the purpose of a CEO in relation to innovation? While they are required to help form the innovation strategy and allocate resources, one of the most important responsibilities they have is in setting the attitude towards failure in innovation projects. After all, we know that the majority of innovation projects fail. This costs time and resources.

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How the Collective Power of Artists Can Advocate for Workers’ Rights

Business and Tech

Liz DiFiore, president of the Graphic Artists Guild , an organization that advocates for graphic artists’ work rights, knows firsthand how independent artists can be taken advantage of in the games industry. “The guild’s whole mission is to educate and build the confidence of professional creators,” DiFiore said. “We advocate for ethical labor practices, business practices, and standards within the industry.”.

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Use Intuition for Innovation Just Like Apple and Target

Leapfrogging

‘Unconscious thinking’ helps you analyze data so you make the best decisions. I get asked a lot about how much to rely on data versus gut instinct when innovating the next big thing. I wrote about this extensively in my book Leapfrogging. The answer may surprise you. Disruptive Innovators Use Their Gut. Apple never did formal market research to tell them what to do.

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5 Ways You Can Win Faster with Gen AI in Sales

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Gender equality at Board of Innovation

Board of Innovation

We strive to achieve a gender equal world, free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination. To mark International Women’s Day, we’ve reflected on some of the things we do to empower women and ensure equality in the workplace, and on some of the areas, we need to improve. The post Gender equality at Board of Innovation appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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Approach a Problem on its Own Terms

Michael Michalko

One of the many ways in which we have become cognitively lazy is to accept our initial impression of the problem that it encounters. Once we settle on an initial perspective we don’t seek alternative ways of looking at the problem. Like our first impressions of people, our initial perspective on problems and situations are apt to be narrow and superficial.

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Spotting Future Market Needs and Harnessing Their Value

HYPE Innovation

This is the seventh blog post in HYPE's series on the ten most often-asked questions about strategic foresight. While the sixth post offered insights on how foresight can inform business models, people, and organization development , this post looks at foresight's support for innovation management in identifying future market needs and potential solutions for them.

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GLIDE: The new “creative” Artificial Intelligence which can compete with human graphic designers and artists

Idea to Value

If you have ever asked yourself whether a computer can be creative , we have just gotten closer to the answer. While software has long been able to generate artistic work like text, scripts and images, a new piece of software called OpenAI GLIDE AI has recently been released which blows these out of the water. See the video here to understand how it works: As you can see in the video , the software is able to take any text command you give it, and either produce an image with that, or even edit

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.