Innovation Excellence
MAY 8, 2025
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Companies today face three critical marketing and Customer Experience (CX) challenges: How can you keep customers coming back? How can you get your customers attention so they dont consider switching to the competition? How do you create an experience that makes price less relevant?
Paul Hobcraft
MAY 12, 2025
Building the integrated ecosystem knowledge architecture Once in a while you should stop and look back. I have been very focused on justifying Business Ecosystems by providing frameworks, mechanisms or attempting to demystify them with suggested analytical or practical proposals. I have been grouping my articles covered over two sites of paul4innovating.com and ecosytems4innovating.com.
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Innov8rs
MAY 6, 2025
Innov8rs | You don’t ever have to make your case. You dont have to beg, coerce or plead with people to join your movement.You dont need to host a massive event to announce the start of the transformation. There is only one thing you need to do create momentum. Invite the right people to your movement at the beginning. Then work with those people to create the gravity that will attract the rest of the organization.
Qmarkets
MAY 7, 2025
Innovation used to be something companies scheduledan offsite, a brainstorm, a quarterly initiative. Now, its something that has to be built into the way people think, work, and make decisions every day. That shift has created a new kind of pressure: not just to have great ideas, but to make sure your workforce is ready to act on them. Because without strong innovation skills, even the most ambitious strategies stall before they start.
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.
Tullio Siragusa
MAY 7, 2025
Self-Management: The Most Overlooked Impactful Business Strategy in the Modern Workplace What if weve been getting work wrong for the past century? Thats the question Pim de Morree and his team at Corporate Rebels set out to answer nearly a decade ago. Frustrated by outdated corporate structures, Pim left his traditional job and began traveling the globe to learn from the worlds most progressive organizations.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 9, 2025
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Wanting things to be different is a good start, but its not enough. To create conditions for things to move in a new direction, youve got to change your behavior. But with systems that involve people, this is not a straightforward process.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Faisal Hoque
MAY 7, 2025
Todays managers have to guide both human professionals and AI systems. As far back as records of the subject go, the art and science of leadership has always addressed one constant question: How should humans lead other humans? Today, that paradigm is shifting. Leaders must now learn to guide hybrid teams composed of both human professionals and AI systems that support and augment human team members, while increasingly also performing complex tasks independently.
Tullio Siragusa
MAY 5, 2025
Why Doing Good Is No Longer Optional inBusiness For decades, the default setting in business was clear: prioritize profit. Social responsibility, if mentioned at all, was usually a side note or a holiday donation. But as Bea Boccalandro shared on a recent episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, that era is over. Its just time, she said. And shes right.
CMOE
MAY 9, 2025
Providing constructive feedback to your manager can feel like a daunting task. You are offering input to someone who holds significant influence over your career and daily work. However, considering that one in two employees leave their jobs due to poor management, giving feedback could be the key to improved job satisfaction and fulfillment. When given in the right way, managers often welcome feedback as an opportunity for personal and professional growth.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 7, 2025
AKA Self Plagiarism GUEST POST from Pete Foley This morning I came across a wonderful piece of music by one of my guitar heroes, Robert Fripp, of King Crimson fame. It was a duet with Andy Sommers (The Police).
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.
Innov8rs
MAY 6, 2025
Innov8rs | As a corporate innovator, youve likely faced the formidable challenge of solving complex problems with limited resources, slow-moving processes, or a lack of entrepreneurial flexibility. Turning to startup partnerships might seem like the perfect solution to drive fresh energy and innovation into your organization. But too often, these collaborations fall short.
Faisal Hoque
MAY 6, 2025
What an Amazonian tribe teaches us about technology. The Kanamari tribes rapid digital immersion shows how tech disrupts culture and connection. Their choice to limit access reminds us that in an always-on world, restraint is a radical act. KEY POINTS The digital flood arrived fastdisrupting identity, rituals, and ways of knowing. The Kanamaris digital shock reveals how screens quietly reshape all our lives.
Qmarkets
MAY 9, 2025
The success of a hackathon often comes down to planning, not just passion. It might look like a burst of spontaneous creativity, but behind every productive session is a carefully structured framework that most people dont see. When done right, organizing a hackathon isnt just about booking a room or sending a calendar inviteits about designing momentum, focus, and follow-through.
CMOE
MAY 9, 2025
Todays corporate landscape is dynamic, bringing together five generationsthe Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Zeach contributing distinct strengths, values, and work styles. While it can create some challenges, this diversity also offers a powerful opportunity to drive innovation, collaboration, and resilience across your organization.
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.
Acuvate
MAY 8, 2025
Imagine a digital workforce that never tiresswiftly resolving queries, automating tasks, and adapting intelligently with every interaction. No longer a futuristic fantasy, this is now a business reality. Thanks to Microsoft Copilot Studio, organizations can build sophisticated autonomous AI agents without writing a single line of complex code. These intelligent systems can act as powerful virtual assistants, managing workflows, handling conversations, and freeing human teams to focus on high-val
Planview
MAY 9, 2025
In todays climate of economic uncertainty, organizations are being forced to rethink how they operate, invest, and innovate. Markets can shift overnight, and budgets shrink without warning. For technology leaders expected to do more with less, one powerful but often overlooked opportunity stands out: toolchain integration. As demands rise and resources shrink, how well your software development, operations, and DevOps tools work together can determine whether you move forward or fall behind.
Hatz AI
MAY 8, 2025
The bottom line is that MSPs are now proving AIs worth in the field. By operationalizing AI agents, theyre delivering measurable outcomes: higher productivity, better customer experiences, and new revenue streams for their clients. The experimentation chapter is closed; were now writing the execution chapter of AI.
Qmarkets
MAY 8, 2025
In large enterprises, continuous improvement often slows down not because of a lack of ideas, but because of the absence of structure. Teams frequently identify process gaps or inefficiencies, yet those insights rarely lead to meaningful change. Without a consistent way to manage and act on suggestions, improvement efforts become inconsistent, and opportunities are lost across departments (Source: McKinsey & Company ).
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The Bliss Business Podcast
MAY 7, 2025
As your company scales, so do the risks of misalignment. Purpose can get buried under growth targets, new hires, or stakeholder pressure. So how do you stay grounded in what matters most? Join us for a new episode of the Scaling with Purpose Kit a mini-series on The Bliss Business Podcast exploring how to build and grow with intention. Hosted by Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa & Ash Maher In this episode, well unpack: Why purpose tends to fade as complexity increases How to embed purpose
Michael Roberto
MAY 9, 2025
Is it valuable for an employee to seek out employers that will offer the possibility of a variety of roles that they may fill over a period of years? New research by Professors Ins Black and Ana Figueiredo suggests that role variety boosts wages, employee retention, and job satisfaction. Duke Fuqua Insights recently summarized their research: workers starting their career at firms with more occupational variety switch occupations internally more often within the first 10 years; as a result, work
Planview
MAY 8, 2025
On April 23, at Planview Connect the premier global gathering of Planview customers, partners, and industry experts we recognized six leading companies with a Planview Vision Award. For 14 years running, the Vision Awards have highlighted Planview customers with compelling journeys and remarkable outcomes. These companies are streamlining operations, aligning strategy with execution, accomplishing their digital transformation goals, and more.
Wellspring
MAY 8, 2025
Accolade Core, now powered by the newly launched Core Six Framework a strategic operating model that transforms how companies manage innovation at scale.
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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.
Rmukesh Gupta
MAY 7, 2025
In this short video about learning, I reference a blog post by John Hunter from 2014, which I still find incredibly relevant today. My key point centered on the difference between managing and leading, and how we typically teach these concepts. Drawing on Dr. Edward Deming’s ideas, I emphasized that while instruction can be very direct, truly effective leadership comes from hands-on experience.
ITONICS
MAY 8, 2025
77% of companies say their technology strategy is only somewhat aligned with business goals. For technology and R&D managers , that gap risks wasting resources and missing new opportunities. A clear, well-communicated strategy is a critical step to help organizations prioritize, execute, and deliver results that add foundational value to the business.
Carla Johnson
MAY 5, 2025
Innovation isnt just about big breakthroughs or revolutionary ideas. It’s about how you think, how you see the world, and how you approach challenges that others overlook.
Qmarkets
MAY 6, 2025
Complex problems demand creative solutions, and in an age of constant change, organizations must innovate to stay ahead. Innovation workshops provide a proven platform for unlocking creative potential and turning fresh ideas into impactful results. These workshops offer a structured approach, guiding teams to move from abstract brainstorming to concrete, actionable outcomes.
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
Harvard Business Review
MAY 7, 2025
The best leaders know how to say no—without losing credibility.
Innovation Excellence
MAY 12, 2025
GUEST POST from Greg Satell When I lived in Poland, it was common to say that life is cruel, and full of traps. From an American perspective, the aphorism can be a bit of a culture shock. Were raised to believe in the power of positivity, the American dream and the can-do spirit.
Ecosystems4Innovating
MAY 9, 2025
Business Ecosystems are interconnected and integrated networks to build unique value and greater resilience Ecosystems are living adaptive networks: these forms the basis of the integrated Business Ecosystems where Connection, Dynamism, and Evolution Converge. Central to my thinking in my Business Ecosystem offering is a core concept of multi-dimensional applications that combine the different ecosystem types (Innovation, Entrepreneurial or Start-Up, Business, Dynamic, (solo) Enterprise and Ente
Wellspring
MAY 6, 2025
If Id known the world was ending, I wouldve brought better books, is a famous line from the character Dale in the popular television series, The Walking Dead. Dales quote about the lack of great reading material during the zombie apocalypse was a lighthearted and funny scene in this otherwise heavy series. But it did make the larger point about the apocalypse.
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