Board of Innovation

MAY 21, 2025

Back to all insights Scaling enterprise innovation beyond pilots: 5 lessons from Bayers AI startup Inside Bayers approach to building GenAI applications that deliver real value. How do you go from sandbox experiments to fully deployed GenAI solutions that drive business value without getting lost in the hype? Thats the question Bayer has been answering through its pioneering work in GenAI, particularly with its domain-specific model: E.L.Y. ( E xpert L earning for Y ou) In a recent episode of AI

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Daniel Burrus

MAY 21, 2025

Over 85% of companies say they have faced disruption in just the past two years. Yet less than 10% of those same organizations say they saw it coming. Thats not a failure of strategy. Its a failure of foresight. Far too many leaders are relying on agility alone, reacting as quickly as possible to unexpected events. But responding fast to disruption isnt leadership.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 21, 2025

Closing the Gap Between Aspiration and Execution GUEST POST from Noel Sobelman In todays volatile, technology-driven world, where the pace of change continues to accelerate, most executive teams agree on one thing: innovation, whether incremental, adjacent, or transformative, is critical.

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Planview

MAY 21, 2025

Remember when road trips meant unfolding paper maps and arguing over missed turns? Today’s navigation apps have transformed that experience, providing real-time guidance that adapts to traffic, construction, and changing destinations. Product portfolio management is undergoing a similar transformation. While technology has made business more complex, the right integrated solution can simplify your product development journey.

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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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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 21, 2025

The Secret to Authentic Business Success: Building Real Connections Business isnt just about transactions. Its about relationships. David DeLorenzo, CEO of Bar and Restaurant Insurance and author of Just Getting Started , has built his career around this principle. He didnt just create a business. He built a community. Davids journey is anything but traditional.

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Information Age

MAY 21, 2025

By Mark Wilson on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO While the world adapts to geopolitical changes, productivity has never been more important. Economic growth is a high priority for world governments, and improving productivity is vital to meeting growth targets. The UK currently places 25th on the global labour productivity performance table – worryingly beneath the G7 average and other comparable economies.

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Acuvate

MAY 21, 2025

Imagine this: Its a late night in a chemical plant. A valve failure brings an entire production line to a halt. The maintenance engineer scrambles to find the correct piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID), only to discover a faded, outdated print tucked away in a dusty cabinet. Precious time ticks away while teams try to decipher the layout, identify connections, and get operations back online.

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eZassi

MAY 21, 2025

Understanding the Innovation Pipeline: Strategies for Effective Innovation Management and Idea Development What is the Innovation Pipeline ? The innovation pipeline is a structured framework that transforms creative ideas into successful, market-ready solutions. By organizing the journey from ideation to commercialization, organizations can efficiently manage innovation and ensure that resources are focused on the most promising opportunities.

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The Bliss Business Podcast

MAY 21, 2025

Purpose isnt a taglineits a living, breathing part of your business. But as your company grows, how do you keep that purpose alive and aligned? This week on our final Scaling with Purpose Kit Series, we explore: When and how to evolve your companys purpose without losing its soul Why staying static can lead to irrelevanceand how to adapt with integrity Real examples of brands expanding impact by reconnecting with their essence Practical strategies for aligning purpose with your team, your cu

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Ecosystems4Innovating

MAY 21, 2025

Changing the Ecosystem Value is a paradigm shift Ecosystem Integration and My Strategic Approach Recently I went through a fairly comprehensive audit of my work to date around Business Ecosystems. The recommendations were to reduce the broader scope and provide more quantifiable metrics, emphasis and deepen more dynamic ecosystems in frameworks and the mechanics behind them, build technology into its rightful position as a foundational element into Ecosystem thinking, and give focused services t

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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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ITONICS

MAY 21, 2025

Resistance to innovation is rarely just about the idea. Its often about employees feeling excluded, uncertain, or unheard. Thats why engaging a company's employees is the key to building innovation that sticks. To break down resistance, leaders must focus on employee involvement from the very beginning. Involve employees in shaping the innovation process , not just reacting to it.

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Bubblegroup

MAY 21, 2025

Overcoming long-term planning challenges The upstream energy sector is no stranger to complexity. With volatile market conditions, regulatory shifts, and the ongoing energy transition, long-term planning can feel like navigating uncharted waters. Yet, such effective planning is critical for optimizing exploration, appraisal, development, production, and decommissioning phases.

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ITONICS

MAY 21, 2025

The modern Chief Technology Officer (CTO) plays a pivotal rolebridging long-term strategy with short-term delivery, aligning technology with business outcomes, and guiding teams through constant disruption. Yet in the rush to deliver, many CTOs fall into a familiar trap: tracking whats easy, not whats essential. Project timelines, sprint burndowns, infrastructure uptimethese are table stakes.

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Greatest. Idea. Ever.

MAY 21, 2025

In the course of planning my upcoming wedding I’ve attended four wedding expos, and I’ll probably check out a few more in the months to come. An expo for a wedding makes sense. There are a lot of vendors vying for business and hopeful brides and grooms need a place to connect with everyone they’ll need to work with from photographers and florists to DJs and dress makers.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2025

Enterprise software defines how organizations function. What happens if gen AI supplants it?

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The Bliss Business Podcast

MAY 21, 2025

Marketing has lost its soul. Lets get it back. 64% of consumers say theyre more likely to buy from a brand that shares their values. (Source: Accenture) Yet most marketing still sounds like this: Optimize operational workflows to drive scalable efficiencies. Thats not connection. Thats a keyword graveyard. In our latest workshop, From Clicks to Connection: Reclaiming the Soul of Marketing, we explored how purpose, empathy, and emotional resonance can transform your marketing from hollow to human

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2025

How the company is scaling their use of AI without losing control.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2025

The answer depends on its ability to harness network effects.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2025

As a manager, handling conflict is part of the job. But it doesn’t have to drag you down.

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