Game-Changer

JUNE 19, 2025

When most people think of innovation, they picture flashy new technologies or breakthrough products. However, in reality, innovation extends far beyond what you sell. The most successful companies treat innovation as a system, one that can impact every part of the business, from how they operate to how they serve customers and generate revenue. Here’s the problem: Companies with narrow innovation thinking systematically erode their competitive advantage.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 17, 2025

In today’s interconnected business landscape, success is no longer just about listening to your customers or partners. It’s about understanding and leveraging your entire ecosystem. In the complex web of modern business, success is no longer solely determined by individual companies, but by the strength and resilience of entire ecosystems.

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Digital Tonto

JUNE 15, 2025

To lead change you have to believe in it. You have to be optimistic and overcome doubts—your own and those of others. So it’s understandable that you want to make sure you have all the answers going in. Unfortunately that’s an unrealistic expectation. Change is inherently unpredictable and nobody has all the answers. But what you can do is ask good questions: Who will resist change and why?

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Business and Tech

JUNE 19, 2025

Small businesses are the heart of the U.S. economy. While many continue to succeed, today’s uncertain environment may require more tenacity and flexibility to thrive. From supply chain disruptions to rising costs, owners face tough decisions about how to grow, maintain status quo or stay afloat. Too often, they navigate this journey alone. Mike Walters President of Business Banking, KeyBank Business owners regularly wear the title of “Chief Everything Officer,” and success requires they pair dee

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The $53 trillion manufacturing economy in the US is undergoing a major automation paradigm shift due to Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thanks to new practical frameworks, automation projects that were once impossible or inefficient to implement are now being fast-tracked, and robotics automation is becoming increasingly relevant to a growing number of users and scenarios.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 18, 2025

GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard Let’s explore one of the biggest barriers to innovation – fear of failure – and share actionable steps to help your organization overcome it. Your perspectives, ideas, and feedback are much appreciated. What is the Challenge? One of the biggest barriers to innovation is the fear of failure.

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Board of Innovation

JUNE 17, 2025

Back to all insights How to use AI to surface evolving trends (even before they arise) Silvia Segura Strategist Lead Consumer behavior is not static. With increased access to information, social media and social movements, our behavior shifts more rapidly than ever, making it difficult to keep up with consumer segmentation. That’s where AI comes into play: AI-powered clustering can help uncover new micro-segments and surface evolving trends and consumer preferences that traditional methods miss.

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Paul Hobcraft

JUNE 13, 2025

Dynamic Ecosystems are core to Business Ecosystems I have published a number of posts on Dynamic Ecosystems and wanted to provide a concise summary of each, capturing key takeaways and suggested action points to encourage readers to dive deeper into each topic. Each summary will focus on highlighting dynamic ecosystems core aspects and operational strategies.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 18, 2025

Generosity Over Animosity: Leading With Love When Everything Is in Flux Change can reveal the best or the worst in people. Uncertainty amplifies emotion, and leaders either fuel anxiety or channel it into connection. In this Bliss Business Podcast roundtable, three pioneers of human-centered business shared how they keep generosity alive even when circumstances threaten to pull teams apart.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 17, 2025

Five Questions to Liz Wiseman GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Conventional wisdom tells us that transformation flows from the C-suite down because real change requires executive mandates and company-wide rollouts. But what if our focus on building transformation momentum is exactly backward?

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Faisal Hoque

JUNE 15, 2025

Human Capital Leadership Review How to effectively integrate human talent with AI personas and agents to create something greater than either could achieve alone. As artificial intelligence transforms our organizations, I’ve observed a critical leadership challenge emerging: how to effectively integrate human talent with AI personas and agents to create something greater than either could achieve alone.

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Speaker: Mark Gilham, FCCA, CPP

Finance used to be the function that counted, now it's the one that’s counted on. 📊 For accounting firms, controllers, and finance leaders, expectations are rising faster than headcount. Businesses want agile forecasts, granular analysis, seamless reporting, and smart automation—often without added resources while demanding uncompromised accuracy and compliance.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 17, 2025

Ever noticed how some of the best ideas come from happy accidents? Many breakthrough innovations weren’t carefully planned. Instead, they happened when someone looked at something old in a completely new way. This is called exaptation – taking something that exists and finding a surprising new use for it. But exaptation is more than a clever twist—it’s a powerful form of serendipitous innovation, where unexpected discoveries lead to real impact.

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Acuvate

JUNE 15, 2025

What happens when a bustling warehouse faces hours-long truck queues, delayed shipments, and manual paperwork that slows everything down? For one of the world’s leading bottling companies, this wasn’t just a logistical hiccup—it was a daily disruption impacting their supply chain’s efficiency and bottom line. With hundreds of trucks arriving and departing across multiple warehouse facilities, the manual truck pre-check-in process became a serious operational roadblock.

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Tullio Siragusa

JUNE 16, 2025

The Soul of Business: Why Purpose-Led Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron Capitalism is often criticized for its short-term mindset. Is it possible for business to still be a force for good? In this Bliss Business Podcast conversation, we sat down with John Hewitt, CEO of Loyalty Brands and founder of two of the largest tax service companies in the U.S., Jackson Hewitt and Liberty Tax, to discuss how profit and purpose can not only coexist, but actively reinforce one another.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 16, 2025

GUEST POST from Greg Satell In the summer of 1982, Poland was under strict martial law. The leaders of the revolutionary Solidarity movement were either in jail or in hiding. As the regime tightened its grip, any kind of protest risked arrest.

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Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Faisal Hoque

JUNE 15, 2025

How can organizations best navigate the volatility of AI advancement? By focusing on purpose. The great challenge leaders will face as AI changes the world around us is to bring their organizations through the storms and upheavals in one piece. There is something of a paradox here, for the organization will have to change to survive in a changing world.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 19, 2025

Successful innovation starts with the right structure to turn ideas into action. Whether you’re building a new product, improving internal processes, or scouting emerging technologies, the systems you use to manage innovation make all the difference. That’s where the best innovation management software comes in. This article shows you how to choose a platform that supports long-term, scalable growth.

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Carla Johnson - Innovation

JUNE 18, 2025

​ There’s a story about Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport that starts with a whole lot of people standing around. Frustrated. Huffing and puffing. And constantly checking their watches. Passengers complained long and loud about how long it took to get their luggage. So the airport did what you’d expect: they hired more baggage handlers.

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Kainexus

JUNE 18, 2025

Rolling out Strategy Deployment can be daunting, especially when you’re managing complexity across multiple sites, departments, or regions. Where do you start? How do you keep every location aligned? How do you maintain visibility without creating noise? This post will walk you through the proven formula for successful Strategy Deployment, with a specific lens on how to scale it effectively across a distributed organization.

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Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 15, 2025

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack People matter more than ever as we witness one of the most significant technological advancements reshaping humanity. Regardless of size, every industry and organization can adopt AI to enhance operations, innovate, stay competitive, and grow by partnering AI with people.

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Faisal Hoque

JUNE 16, 2025

A practical road map to unlocking AI’s true value in the public sector. Government leaders worldwide are talking big about AI transformation. In the U.S. , Canada , and the U.K. , officials are pushing for AI-first agencies that will revolutionize public services. The vision is compelling: streamlined operations, enhanced citizen services, and unprecedented efficiency gains.

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Qmarkets

JUNE 17, 2025

Great ideas can emerge virtually everywhere—in meetings, emails, field visits, and casual conversations. But without a structured way to capture and build on them, even the most promising suggestions can fade into the background. Organizations that innovate consistently depend on well-built systems that give direction to creativity and support its execution.

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Planview

JUNE 18, 2025

You need to think like a coach when you lead a product operating model transformation. After all, a considerable part of your role is to architect a vision and set goals for achieving it. When you hit resistance, you rethink. And redirect. And rethink again. Until you encounter so many obstacles that you start plugging these types of prompts into ChatGPT: “Why do our teams keep working in silos despite all our efforts to collaborate?

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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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ITONICS

JUNE 20, 2025

It’s easy to get lost in innovation theatre. Hundreds of books, articles, and frameworks are published each month, each claiming to be the silver bullet to outpace the competition. But let’s be honest: only a few make a real difference. We’ve cut through the buzzwords to bring you the most powerful innovation methods, straight from the best books out there.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 13, 2025

GUEST POST from 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?

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Faisal Hoque

JUNE 19, 2025

The future of the grid may depend on advanced technologies, but employing it at scale will require careful implementation. This is two-part look at frameworks for understanding the risks and opportunities of AI-driven power line inspections. This articles was based on the concepts and frameworks presented by Faisal Hoque in “ Two frameworks for balancing AI innovation and risk ,” published in the Harvard Business Review. by Emma Gavala [Emma Gavala is the chief of staff at Arkion, an AI-powere

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Qmarkets

JUNE 16, 2025

Join this exclusive webinar to discover how AI agents can enhance every stage of the corporate ideation process. Dr Selina Lehmann from the University of Hohenheim will share her Ideation 3.0 framework, highlighting key innovation challenges and how different types of AI agents can address them.

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Daniel Burrus

JUNE 19, 2025

What if you could predict tomorrow’s trends today? In a time when disruption is the new normal, companies that anticipate change gain a serious edge. With innovations like AI, automation, and digital transformation reshaping every industry, organizations need more than adaptability—they need foresight. That’s where a futurist keynote speaker comes in: someone who not only spots what’s ahead but shows you how to turn it into opportunity.

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ITONICS

JUNE 16, 2025

Discover what it takes to succeed as an innovation manager—key skills, tools, habits, and strategies to drive impact and lead innovation with confidence.

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Innovation Excellence

JUNE 20, 2025

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Where’s the Marketing Brief? In product development, the Marketing team creates a document that defines who will buy the new product (the customer), what needs are satisfied by the new product and how the customer will use the new product.

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Faisal Hoque

JUNE 16, 2025

A call to action on how individuals, leaders, and governments can respond to AI-driven job disruption and anxiety. KEY POINTS AI companions soothe us but can dull our capacity for emotional growth and resilience. When machines echo our thoughts, we risk losing authorship of our own evolving identity. AI mimicry may feel like empathy, but it lacks the depth of real human connection.

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Speaker: Erroll Amacker

Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.

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