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AI-Powered Design Thinking: Accelerating Innovation and Insights

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Design Thinking Design thinking is a problem-solving approach that combines empathy, creativity, and rationality to meet user needs and drive successful business outcomes. It is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test.

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Why are Innovators Curious Like Cats?

IdeaScale

As the tidal wave of Artificial Intelligence continues to disrupt many aspects of our lives, there is one skill it has yet to emulate, according to a recent article by the Singularity Hub “OpenAI’s GPT-4 Scores in the Top 1% of Creative Thinking”: “Of all the forms of human intellect that one might expect artificial [.

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How well do you know your customers?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky Early in my career, I had the chance to lead a product development team in creating a new kind of internal communication platform for large accounting firms. Our target users were auditors and tax consultants.

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Unleashing Innovation: Mastering AI-Driven Design Thinking Strategies

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a non-linear, iterative process that teams use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. It is a methodology that combines creative and critical thinking to allow information and ideas to be organized, decisions to be made, situations to be improved, and knowledge to be gained.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

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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Navigating the Pitfalls of Google’s Performance Max for Online Advertising

Brunner

Brunner Recommends Rigorous Testing Before Going with ‘PMax’ Google launched Performance Max in late 2021 with lots of fanfare about the benefits of AI-powered online advertising. More than two years later, reviews are mixed. At Brunner, we manage paid search engine marketing (SEM) for clients of all types with significant monthly spends.

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The Future of Design Thinking: Integrating Artificial Intelligence for Success

Leapfrogging

Embracing the Evolution: AI Meets Design Thinking The intersection of artificial intelligence and design thinking is poised to redefine the landscape of innovation and strategy. As AI continues to advance, its integration with design thinking processes promises to enhance decision-making, streamline operations, and foster more impactful innovation. The Rise of Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence has permeated various sectors, demonstrating its versatility and power in augmenting huma

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The AI Advantage: Supercharge Your Design Thinking Techniques

Leapfrogging

Introduction to Design Thinking Design Thinking is a methodology used by designers to solve complex problems and find desirable solutions for clients. A design mindset is not problem-focused, it’s solution-focused and action-oriented towards creating a preferred future. Design Thinking draws upon logic, imagination, intuition, and systemic reasoning to explore possibilities of what could be and to create desired outcomes that benefit the end user (the customer).

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Barcelona: Exclusive Innovation Meetup

Qmarkets

Join us in Barcelona on March 14 as we host an exclusive meetup event hosted by Qmarkets director of innovation solutions Emma Sendra. The session will be a unique opportunity to meet, network, and exchange ideas among esteemed peers in the field of innovation. You'll enjoy a lunch provided by Qmarkets while engaging with other innovation leaders, drawing inspiration from their initiatives, and sharing best practices about everything related to innovation management.

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What Employees Need from Leaders in Uncertain Times

Harvard Business Review

It’s one thing to lead through a normal range of uncertainty with its ups and downs. But how do you lead when the inflections, disruptions, dislocations, and other threat conditions pile up, as they have in the last few years? While the leader has little to no control over the external competitive environment, they have astonishing influence over the internal performance environment, including employee engagement, morale, and productivity.

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Unveiling the Power of Living Databases in Open Innovation

Yet2

Words by Carlos Pichardo In today’s dynamic business landscape, staying ahead is essential. As companies increasingly rely on external expertise and solutions, reliable databases are indispensable. Traditional databases fail to address the dynamic nature of innovation challenges. Enter the concept of “living databases” – a game-changer in Open Innovation.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

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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How to Make Small Talk with Anyone from Anywhere

Harvard Business Review

Meet-and-greet conversations can be uncomfortable. And they can feel especially daunting when you’re paired with strangers from different cultures, like when networking in a global business context. In this setting, light and introductory-style conversations (what some of us know as “small talk”) can be very helpful, and even necessary. Small talk is a quasi-universal tool for initiating conversations with strangers from different cultures, for building a quick rapport, and for planting the seed

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The Key to a Fulfilling Career? Variety.

Harvard Business Review

If you feel bored or unfulfilled by a job you once relished, you might be succumbing to what scientists call habituation: our brain’s tendency to react less and less to things that don’t change, so that what once brought joy and meaning can stop doing so over time. The antidote is to pursue variety, both inside and outside of work, since ample research shows that people are most engaged and satisfied when they are learning something new.

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How Etsy Became Profitable — Without Sacrificing Its Purpose

Harvard Business Review

If you’re trying to define your organization’s purpose, this episode is for you.

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How Local Businesses Can Compete with Larger Rivals

Harvard Business Review

Community engagement can help to set you apart.

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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.