IdeaScale
MARCH 28, 2024
Prototypes are a great way to get customer feedback about elements of your proposed innovation before you have to invest a ton of resources in them. But there is a bit of science to how you draw the lessons a prototype can teach you.
Qmarkets
MARCH 28, 2024
Learn how to stay focused in an everchanging world with the right organizational approach to innovation management. Julian Eberling from innovation management consultancy Lead Innovation will show you how to develop an effective scouting strategy and create the necessary processes and structures, before Qmarkets' Carol Wright demonstrates how our Q-scout software can be seamlessly integrated to solve the most pressing pain points in practice.
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Innovation Excellence
MARCH 28, 2024
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Often, it’s just a tiny bit more effort. Not long ago, I wrote an article and created a video on Doing More Than Expected – even when it’s not included in your job description.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
MARCH 28, 2024
Learn how innovation accelerators are powering startups, shortening time to market and increasing the survival rate of fledgling businesses.
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.
Yet2
MARCH 28, 2024
Words by Carlos Pichardo Modern medicine is one of the great marvels of the 21st century. Many diseases and ailments that plagued humanity for thousands of years are now obsolete. However, as recent years have shown, there is still much to be done. yet2 is shedding light on groundbreaking innovations and trends in health, wellness, and sustainability.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
MARCH 28, 2024
Instead of zeroing in solely on disruptive innovation, embrace a pragmatic approach to innovation, recognizing and leveraging the potential within ongoing industry shifts.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Stephen Shapiro
MARCH 28, 2024
Now that the audiobook is finalized, I wanted to offer everyone a sample of the content. Click here to get the audiobook version of the preface and introduction. Those sections set the stage for the rest of the book. This is not the final version; we did some audio processing to warm my voice. You need to provide an email address to get access. The post The PIVOTAL Audiobook – free sample!
Christensen Institute
MARCH 28, 2024
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, Jhaymee Tynan and Ann Somers Hogg discuss lessons from Jhaymee’s schools of experience, including her role as founder of 100×2030 and Principal, Health Care Services at Korn Ferry.
Stephen Shapiro
MARCH 28, 2024
What does it mean to be pivotal? The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as “Of crucial importance in relation to the development or success of something else.” The Cambridge Dictionary says it is “Important because other things depend on it.” From my perspective, it is about going deeper with customers to add more value in a way that makes you essential to them.
ITONICS
MARCH 28, 2024
Being the first to market can be a game-changer for companies that want to capture market share and consumer loyalty ahead of competitors. But the first-mover advantage also has drawbacks. If your company’s success is based on one initial novel business idea, your advantage will be hard to sustain. Let’s look at some examples of first-mover advantage and how your company can allocate resources effectively to reduce time-to-market.
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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2024
Employee disengagement is a persistent problem, and attempts to inject excitement often fall flat. However, gamification — using elements of games to motivate — has serious potential when thoughtfully executed. This article explores the psychology behind gamification, successful examples, and how to leverage probabilistic rewards (like lotteries tied to performance) to increase employee motivation.
Idea Champions
MARCH 28, 2024
Free the Genie is a lightly facilitated online brainstorming session that enables anyone with a need, goal, or aspiration to make a quantum leap of thought and action. Bottom line, it's a GPS for the creative process -- a highly engaging way to close the gap between dream and reality. Ideal for committed individuals and small teams. A Sampling of Testimonials "Priceless.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2024
In the current era of digital disruption, the pace of change has dramatically accelerated, leaving traditional risk management wisdom lacking. Across a variety of industries, technology-enabled disruptors have changed the rules. Many brands that moved cautiously have dramatically increased their risk of irrelevance or set themselves on a path to extinction.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2024
Many senior managers find themselves wondering: If data is such a game changer, why is it so hard to extract any value from it? For companies struggling to actually see results from their data program, it might be time to make a fresh start. There are three important issues managers need to understand as they restart: 1) Too many companies have made the mistake of viewing data as a technology problem, but data is a management problem, and it cannot be solved with technology alone. 2) Many compan
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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 28, 2024
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