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10 Game-Changing Strategic Marketing Innovations You Need to Implement Right Now

IdeaScale

Strategic marketing innovations are crucial for businesses looking to stay ahead of the curve and succeed in today's highly competitive market. With the constant changes in technology and consumer behavior, it's essential to keep up with the latest trends and adopt new strategies that can help your business grow.

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Innovation is Rubbish!

Innovation Excellence

Why waste recycling and reuse may represent a valuable entrepreneurial opportunity… GUEST POST from John Bessant One of our family traditions at this time of year is the big clear-up.

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Putting People First In The Innovation Process

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Placing people at the heart of innovation ensures a more resilient, adaptive organization poised to achieve sustained success in a dynamic marketplace.

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Don’t Underestimate the Power of Small Breaks During a Busy Workday

Harvard Business Review

Many people operate from the belief that there’s too much to do and they can’t afford to pause during their workday. But taking effective breaks is essential to preventing burnout. In this article, the author outlines eight strategies to try to build more breaks into your day.

Strategy 134
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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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Business Model Innovation: 5 Frameworks for Success

Qmarkets

At its heart, business model innovation is about change. It’s a way for businesses to look at what they do and ask, “Can we do this differently?” This isn’t just about adding a new product or tweaking a service; it’s about shaking up how a business operates from the ground up. Why? Because the world doesn’t stand still.

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Use GenAI to Turn Insights into Investable Ideas (Part 1)

IdeaScale

Innovation is often glamorized by the bookends of sourcing promising ideas like colorful post-it notes or highlighting the final polished product we see in the store. Stories of the unglamorous hard work required to bridge the gap between “I have an idea” to its realization are often not shared.

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The Benefits of Innovation That Isn’t Disruptive

Harvard Business Review

Disruption is not the only path to innovation and growth. Creation without disruption or nondisruptive creation is about creating a new market outside or beyond existing industry boundaries, and has its own organizational and business advantages. In this article, the authors outline four advantages to opting for this nondisruptive route: 1) It allows you to avoid direct confrontations with established incumbents. 2) It is an effective way to respond to full-on disruption. 3) It makes it easier t

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Unleash Your Teams Strategic Potential: 10 Ways to Craft the Best Business Strategies

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Strategic Thinking in Business The Importance of Strategy in a Disruptive World In today’s business environment, disruption is the new norm. With technology advancing at breakneck speeds and market dynamics shifting unpredictably, it’s crucial for you as a business leader to embrace strategic thinking. A well-crafted strategy can serve as a compass, guiding your organization through the complexities of a disruptive world and towards sustained success.

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Use GenAI to Turn Insights into Investable Ideas (Part 2)

IdeaScale

This article builds on our previous write-up (Part 1) where we demonstrated how to transform your initial thinking into a compelling value proposition. We showed how you can increase your chances for approval and funding by using generative AI and CO-STAR to accomplish this critical first step in ideation and complete it almost instantaneously.

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Who is minding the change and culture store?

Jeffrey Phillips

In my last two blogs, I made the argument that given how fast change is happening, your strategy must incorporate and address external change and the ability to change internally. Otherwise, you are creating strategy that ignores exceptionally powerful forces that are creating change and shifting the competitive markets in real time. In the more recent blog, I wrote about what I consider the most difficult thing to change in an organization - its culture.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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How Organizations Can Encourage Productive Allyship

Harvard Business Review

Many leaders want to be allies for underrepresented groups, but fear their attempts will be awkward or offensive. New research suggests these fears are often unfounded, with acts of allyship generally being appreciated more than anticipated. Organizations can help by educating potential allies on how their efforts are received and by creating a culture where open communication and support are encouraged.

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I Moved My 80-Person Company to a 4-Day Workweek Even Though It's Against the Industry Norm. Here's Why We'll Never Go Back.

Entrepreneur - Innovation

Dominic Tremblay and his partner Ludwig Ciupka are co-founders of TUX, a creative agency that introduced a 4-day workweek. Read more about the model's success.

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Why Materials Science is the Most Important Technology of This Decade

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Think of just about any major challenge we will face over the next decade and materials are at the center of it. To build a new clean energy future, we need more efficient solar panels, wind turbines and batteries. Manufacturers need new materials to create more advanced products.

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What is a product manager? | Sopheon

Sopheon

The product manager role is evolving at an unprecedented pace. The changes we’ve seen in the role over the last decade are head-spinning. And the answer to the question, “What is a product manager?” will be completely different ten years from now (thanks to AI).

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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What French Bakeries Get Right About Strategy

Harvard Business Review

One would think that if you run a traditional consumer business that can’t compete on costs with more efficient competitors, you would want to avoid them like the plague. But a study of boulangeries in Lyon, France, found that by locating next to more efficient “modernist” rivals, “traditionalists” were able to better highlight their traditions and value and win.

Strategy 124
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Multitasking – NOT the Best Strategy

Focused Momentum

Multitasking is often a skill identified with a highly productive person, yet today our use of technology has pushed multitasking to ridiculous levels. As you know, it has gotten so bad that we’ve had to pass laws to do less of it, and now research indicates that rather than increasing productivity, it could be harming us. As an expert in strategy development for more than 20 years, I have had a front row seat to how this trend has impaired strategic thinking too.

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10 CX and Customer Service Predictions for 2024 (Part 2)

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken As promised, I’m back with the second part of my top predictions and trends for 2024 in the world of customer service and customer experience (CX). You can read the first five here. So, let’s get started with No. 6. 6.

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Crafting a Future-Proof Organization: The Power of Transformation Over Change

Daniel Burrus

When it comes to the concept of disruptions in this world, we tend to focus on all the new digital tools that are creating ripples in headlines. From generative AI to digital currency, these digital disruptions are definitely leaving their impact. But instead, the focus of today should be on the very concept of disruption itself, not just digital disruption.

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HR Meets AI: ?The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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A New Way to Compensate Sales Teams

Harvard Business Review

Although the business environment is completely different than it was 20 years ago, the way most companies structure sales quotas and compensation has not evolved to keep up. To effectively compensate your sales team, follow these five steps. First, companies should determine their go-to-market maturity and set goals accordingly. They should then identify what is actually driving growth.

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The Imperfect Pursuit of Balance

Phil McKinney

At the heart of modern discourse on success lies the elusive concept of balance. From self-help gurus to executive seminars, the call to harmonize work and personal life echoes loud and clear. We are bombarded with advice on how to achieve balance, yet in reality, most of us find ourselves constantly struggling to maintain it. But why is balance so difficult to attain?

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The Remarkable Power of Negative Feedback

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Dennis Stauffer The most effective innovators—entrepreneurs, scientists, new product developers, and advocates of social change—are adept at seeking feedback. But not just any feedback. They look for a particular type of feedback that may surprise you. They actively seek negative feedback, feedback that tells them when they’re wrong.

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Product Showcase Webinar – Continuous Improvement Software

Qmarkets

Join us as we showcase our dedicated continuous improvement software Q-optimize. Our product specialist Joel Ben Nesher will walk you the tool and how you can leverage its cutting edge features and functionality to develop a continuous improvement process that delivers ongoing ROI for your organization.

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.

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It’s Time to Reconceptualize What “Imposter Syndrome” Means for People of Color

Harvard Business Review

The recent pushback against the imposter phenomenon in the media has largely focused on how and why it’s inappropriate for people of color. In this article, the author argues that, while there is merit to these arguments, getting rid of the idea entirely for Black students and workers is a disservice. Instead, he recommends reconceptualizing the term to include new research on how imposterism affects people of color, and urges organizations to better understand how racism, bias, and imposter fee

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The Intersection of Ethical Leadership and Technology: Navigating the Digital Age with Integrity

Tullio Siragusa

The Intersection of Ethical Leadership and Technology: Navigating the Digital Age with Integrity In an era where technological advancements are transforming every aspect of our lives, the role of ethical leadership has never been more critical. As we navigate through this digital age, leaders are faced with the challenge of making decisions that not only drive innovation but also uphold the highest standards of integrity and ethical responsibility.

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5 Innovation Leadership Lessons That Go Beyond “Yes, And”

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton “Yes, and….” You know it. You love it. You may even use it. The phrase is a core principle of improv that has become the “magic” brainstorming phrase.

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Maximizing Efficiency & Productivity: 3 Ways GenAI Optimizes Value Stream Management for Tech Leaders 

Planview

With a rapidly evolving digital landscape that continues to introduce waves of uncertainty, companies and organizations alike struggle for clarity and cognizance in organizational delivery for customer value. It’s no surprise the abundance of moving parts contributes to an ever-ambiguous world for software delivery. With a multitude of products and services that companies serve to customers, the recognition of Value Stream Management (VSM) in modern software delivery has never been stronger.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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Making Sustainability More Tangible

Harvard Business Review

A persistent managerial challenge is how to account for the intangible value generated from sustainability initiatives. Executives recognize the impacts these efforts engender with key stakeholders, including employees, customers, investors, partners, politicians, and the like. The challenge is that these important stakeholder impacts are difficult to see or measure — for example, you can’t look at two eggs and identify which one was grown sustainably.

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Video: Health Care Leaders Are Made, Not Born

Christensen Institute

The theory of Schools of Experience highlights that one is not born a leader, but rather a leader’s abilities are developed through their work and life experiences. In this video discussion, Dr. Jean Wright and Ann Somers Hogg unveil lessons from Jean’s schools of experience, including her current role as CEO of the COPD Foundation and her prior role as Chief Innovation Officer at Atrium Health (now Advocate Health).

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Truth Can Set You Free – If You Tell It

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Your truth is what you see. Your truth is what you think. Your truth is what feel. Your truth is what you say. Your truth is what you do. If you see something, say something. If no one wants to hear it, that’s on them.

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How Might We Learn?

IM Insights

In the uncertain world of innovation, learning isn’t just important—it’s foundational, especially during the initial stages of the innovation process. However, it’s critical to understand that not all learning is created equal. Learning through research and experimentation should acquire the right insights, at the right time, using the least amount of resources, and at maximum speed.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt