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4 Essential Innovation Techniques to Drive Growth

Qmarkets

Innovation within a large organization doesn’t happen by chance. It requires a deliberate approach, using structured techniques that not only generate fresh ideas but also solve complex problems and bring those ideas to life. In this article, we’ll explore several powerful innovation techniques—ranging from problem-solving frameworks and ideation methods to hackathons and structured innovation programs.

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AI Can (Mostly) Outperform Human CEOs

Harvard Business Review

When researchers at the University of Cambridge pitted human competitors against a leading LLM, the chatbot beat the top participants on almost every metric. It also was fired more quickly.

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Don’t Bring A Can Of Gasoline To A Fire

Innovation Excellence

Crisis Management GUEST POST from Shep Hyken This is a departure from my usual customer service and customer experience (CX) articles. While it does tie in to service and CX, it is really about leadership.

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What Is Business Transformation? Steps to Get Started

Kainexus

Business transformation is a crucial journey that strategically revamps an organization's processes, technologies, and business models to boost efficiency, competitiveness, and customer value. In today's fast-paced environment, embracing business transformation enables organizations to achieve sustainable success. This article provides straightforward and actionable steps any organization can take for successful business transformation.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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I Sent AI a Survey

Innovation Excellence

… and the Results Were Brilliant … and Dangerous GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton AI is everywhere: in our workplaces, homes, schools, art galleries, concert halls, and even neighborhood coffee shops. We can’t seem to escape it. Some hope it will unlock our full potential and usher in an era of creativity, prosperity, and peace.

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Organisational Stresswood: How a little adversity is required to become resilient

Idea to Value

A while back, I came across a great article by Aidan McCullen , the host of the excellent Innovation Show podcast, about Stresswood. In an Arizona research facility called Biosphere 2 , opened in 1991, researchers tried to create a completely sealed-off ecosystem to see if a man-made biosphere could produce enough fresh water, oxygen and ecosystem growth to support a human population.

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Sometimes The Future Demands A Vision. This Is Probably Not One Of Those Times.

Digital Tonto

Over the past two centuries, we have seen echoes of the same pattern first established in the late 18th century: a wave of new ideas is resisted by the dominant powers, as tensions build below the surface and eventually explode. Sometimes order holds and sometimes it gives way to a period of chaos and destruction before, eventually, finding some sort of homeostasis.

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How to Keep Learning at Work — Even When You Feel Fried

Harvard Business Review

Continuous learning is the key to having lasting influence in your career, yet a heavy workload makes it hard to find the time. To ensure you’re creating opportunities even when you’re feeling depleted or overwhelmed, try these five strategies: 1) Challenge your beliefs about your capacity; 2) Start with topics that solve urgent problems; 3) Don’t limit yourself to formal programs; 4) Make an emotional connection to learning; and 5) Work with your brain, not against it.

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The Ideation Process: Examples and Best Practices

Qmarkets

Innovation doesn’t happen by accident. Behind every groundbreaking product or service is a well-structured process that transforms creative ideas into actionable solutions. This process, known as ideation, plays a pivotal role in helping companies generate new concepts, solve problems, and stay competitive. Yet, many leaders struggle to harness the full potential of their teams’ creativity.

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What is Creativity in Business? Definition, Advantages, and Benefits

IdeaScale

 Table of Contents What is Creativity in Business? Creativity in business is defined as the ability to generate novel and valuable ideas that drive innovation, solve problems, and create new opportunities. It involves thinking outside traditional frameworks to develop unique solutions that can lead to competitive advantages and business growth.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Disinformation Economics

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell Marshal McLuhan, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, described media as “extensions of man” and predicted that electronic media would eventually lead to a global village.

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How to Learn from Your Mistakes and Make Better Decisions

Harvard Business Review

We all have scores of decisions to make every day, and we often want to move quickly, telling ourselves that speed equals efficiency. But true efficiency sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful, and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped. Too often we don’t want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past, especially if it contains uncomfortable missteps.

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When Is the Best Time to Have a Courageous Conversation?

CMOE

One of the most challenging aspects of difficult conversations can be finding the right time to have them. To select the best time to have a courageous conversation, there are three key factors to consider: Your mindset Their ability to receive the conversation The timing of the interaction When all three are favorable, you are more likely to have a positive outcome.

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Online Hackathons vs Offline Hackathons

Qmarkets

Hackathons have become a go-to strategy for driving innovation, solving complex challenges, and generating fresh ideas in a short time. As these events have evolved, three main formats have emerged: online hackathons, offline ones, and hybrid formats combining the two. While each type offers unique benefits, the real challenge lies in managing the vast number of ideas generated during these events—before, during, and after the hackathon itself.

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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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Coping with the Chasm

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore I’ve been talking about crossing the chasm incessantly for over thirty years, and I’m not likely to stop, but it does beg the question, how should you operate when you are in the chasm?

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4 Steps That Can Optimize Your Sales Process

Harvard Business Review

Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge.

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Create an Effective Supervisor Development Plan

CMOE

Should You Standardize Your Supervisor Development Plan? As your business evolves and expands, cultivating strong leadership becomes essential for sustainable growth. This may involve promoting high-performing team members to supervisory roles or investing in the professional development of existing supervisors. A vital step in this process is developing a robust supervisor development plan that nurtures leadership potential.

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Invest Year-End Budget in Technology Discovery Reports to Fuel 2025 Innovation

eZassi

Prepare for 2025 Innovations Maximize Your Year-End Budget with Technology Discovery Reports As we approach the end of 2024, many organizations are faced with the familiar challenge of allocating remaining budget dollars in a way that provides lasting impact. Ezassi’s Technology Discovery Reports offer the perfect opportunity to invest in your organization’s future by identifying key technologies, trends, and innovations that will shape your business in 2025 and beyond.

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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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Are You Continuing to Stop and Start the Hard Way?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski The stop, start, continue method (SSC) is a simple, yet powerful, way to plan your day, week and year. And though it’s simple, it’s not simplistic. And though it looks straightforward, it’s onion-like in its layers.

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How to Work for a Boss Who Always Changes Their Mind

Harvard Business Review

Working for a leader who always changes their mind is a maddening yet common experience. When the strategy is perpetually changing, it’s challenging to be enthusiastic about the strategy du jour. When rework is viewed as inevitable, high effort is difficult to justify. A leader who constantly changes their mind will often leave behind an emotional wake of resentment.

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Benefiting from Leadership Advice

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise There is a lot of leadership advice available on the internet – free and otherwise. I offer a lot of them myself, here on this blog. There are innumerable number of books being written on this topic, so much so that at times, it can become too daunting for someone looking for help. However, as leaders, we need to know which advice or ideas are relevant for us and which one’s are not.

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Invest Year-End Budget in Technology Discovery Reports to Fuel 2025 Innovation

eZassi

Prepare for 2025 Innovations Maximize Your Year-End Budget with Technology Discovery Reports As we approach the end of 2024, many organizations are faced with the familiar challenge of allocating remaining budget dollars in a way that provides lasting impact. Ezassi’s Technology Discovery Reports offer the perfect opportunity to invest in your organization’s future by identifying key technologies, trends, and innovations that will shape your business in 2025 and beyond.

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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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Igniting Innovation with Deep Dialogue

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack I have just returned from a short sabbatical in Bali, Indonesia, a place of unparalleled beauty, lushness, and deep spirituality. Bali invites and fosters opportunities for retreat, reflection, and replenishment and is a vital space for restoration and renewal.

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Data Collectives Are the Next Frontier of Labor Relations

Harvard Business Review

The AI boom — and the growth of gen AI in particular — has introduced new points of conflict between employees and companies. Some of these have already started to play out, such as in the Writers Guild of America strike over how AI can and can’t be used in the entertainment industry. But others are still on the horizon. As AI becomes more integrated into business, high quality data for training AI becomes more valuable and a more important part of employees’ contribution.

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Celebrate Innovation in Your Organization with the IA Innovation Award

Innovators Alliance

One of the ways that Innovators Alliance is different from other peer-to-peer organizations, is our focus on doing things differently. We know that creating and supporting a culture of innovation within your organization is critical for continued evolution, and we want to help IA members to champion innovation in their organizations. And that is the reason we have re-launched the IA Innovation Award – an opportunity for members to celebrate an employee who has been particularly innovative

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Mastering Innovation Challenges: A Roadmap for Success

innosabi Innovation Insights

During the deep dive sessions of innosabi connect, our annual customer meeting, innosabi’s Customer Success Managers and customers work together on best practices for current topics. One of this year’s focus was “Innovation challenges: Best practices for conducting successful crowd innovation” Innovation challenges are increasingly popular among organizations looking to harness collective intelligence and […] Der Beitrag Mastering Innovation Challenges: A Roadmap for Success er

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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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Use Your 2024 Budget to Spark Innovation: How Challenge-as-a-Service Prepares You for 2025 Success

eZassi

Unlock Innovation Now and Implement in 2025 Maximize Your Year-End Budget with Challenge-as-a-Service As we enter Q4 of 2024, many companies are looking for smart ways to allocate their remaining budget while setting the stage for success in the new year. Ezassi’s Challenge-as-a-Service (CaaS) offers the perfect opportunity to drive innovation and solve pressing business challenges before the year ends.

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A Better Way to Measure Social Impact

Harvard Business Review

All impact investors report the financial returns from their funds and investments, and many provide metrics on intended social outcomes, such as numbers of individuals served, or quality jobs created. But investors do not supply metrics about their impacts on individuals’ and families’ lives, and until they do, social impact reporting is unlikely to approach the level of robustness associated with financial and environmental reporting.

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The Purpose of a Team Leader: 7 Roles and Responsibilities

CMOE

Team leaders wield significant influence over team performance. Whether they’re leading small, specialized teams or overseeing large-scale operations, today’s leaders must navigate a complex array of responsibilities that can vary dramatically based on the scope of their role. Beyond simple oversight, team leaders must effectively adapt their approach to meet the needs of their team as they work to achieve organizational objectives.

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We need to change the story on the Energy Ecosystem

Innovating4Energy

I find Mind Maps as a great tool to think, record and review my thoughts. Within a recent evaluation of my positioning in contributing to the energy transition I drew up a series of approaches to undertaking changing the Energy Ecosystem. We need to build out the bigger Energy Ecosystem story. In my opinion , the burning need is to recast Energy into a new Energy Ecosystem.

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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.