October, 2024

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Fear Steals Your Best Ideas

Phil McKinney

Let's talk about something that's probably holding you back right now: fear. You know that brilliant idea you had last week? The one you talked yourself out of because "it might not work"? That's fear in action, and it's costing you more than you think. Your Brain on Fear: Not as Smart as You Think Here's what happens when fear kicks in: your brain basically goes into caveman mode.

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Redefining Business Models in the Age of AI: People, Purpose, and Profit

Tullio Siragusa

Redefining Business Models in the Age of AI: People, Purpose, and Profit As we stand on the precipice of unprecedented technological advancement, the future of business isn’t just being shaped by automation and AI — it’s being redefined by how we choose to integrate people, purpose, and profit into these evolving models. After listening to Xiaochen Zhang, founder of FinTech for Good, on The Bliss Business Podcast , it’s clear that we are entering a phase where AI will fundamentally reshape not o

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How Design Thinking Enhances the Ideation Process

Qmarkets

Generating innovative ideas is crucial for business success, but it doesn’t happen without the right approach. Ideation thrives when guided by a structured method that fosters creativity while keeping the user’s needs front and center. Design thinking offers exactly that—a human-centered framework that transforms ideation into a process focused on meaningful, practical solutions.

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Get Out of the Product Cave: From Plato to Steve Blank

IM Insights

By Elijah Eilert Did the philosopher Plato lay down one of the most crucial startup and innovation principles? Steve Blank, a contemporary innovation thinker (and, dare I say, philosopher), popularised the widely accepted principle “Get Out Of The Building,” urging entrepreneurs to engage directly with customers early in the product development cycle, challenging critical assumptions.

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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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Crafting the Interconnected Business Ecosystems Story is complex in itself.

Ecosystems4Innovating

Crafting a compelling story that encompasses building ecosystem capabilities, establishing the Interconnected Business Ecosystem Needs, and implementing a blueprint to navigate the ever-changing landscape involves far more than I initially contemplated. Business Ecosystems are complex. To argue the need to interconnect makes this even tougher and let me put some initial structure to this.

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The War On Innovation: How You Can Win, Dominate Your Market and Knock out the Competition

IdeaScale

What Is The War On Innovation The "War on Innovation" is the ongoing battle against a range of obstacles that slow or block technological and business advancements.

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Communicate A Vision To Shift Strategy, Shape Networks To Change Behavior

Digital Tonto

The 18th century French enlightenment writer Voltaire once said, “If you wish to converse with me, define your terms,” and we need to approach transformation with a similar mindset. Some transformations require changes in investments, while others require changes in behaviors and these have very different challenges. Until fairly recently, our economy was based on atoms and transformations were usually focused on strategic decisions such as building a new factory, entering a new market or launch

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6 Essential Leadership Skills — and How to Develop Them

Harvard Business Review

Expert advice on what every leader needs to know.

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Innovation is Combination

Innovation Excellence

Silicon Valley’s Innovator’s Dilemma – The Atom, The Bit And The Gene GUEST POST from Greg Satell Over the past several decades, innovation has become largely synonymous with digital technology.

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Harmonizing Teams is Key to a Strong Collaborative Culture

Leapfrogging

A collaborative business culture is all about an environment where people and groups willingly share knowledge, bounce around ideas, and swap resources to hit shared targets. This vibe pushes open chats, respect all around, and a team effort in tackling issues. In this setup, folks feel like they’re making a mark with their own viewpoints and skills, which cranks up creativity and efficiency.

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

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

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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Why Your Best Ideas Aren’t Always Yours

IdeaScale

We all like to think our best ideas are the product of our own brilliance. But if we're being honest, some of the most innovative solutions don’t come from a single person—they come from a collective. The truth is, your best ideas might not even be yours, and that’s actually a good thing.

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Recognizing the distinguishing points of Innovation Ecosystems

Paul Hobcraft

What distinguishes an Innovation Ecosystem from Open Innovation? Within a short series about Innovation Ecosystems this post asks what really are the distinct differences within innovation ecosystem thinking and design, to provide a set of common distinguishing points to move from “just” open innovation. What distinguishes an innovation ecosystem and makes it a must-have, is its ability to create a highly interconnected, dynamic, and supportive environment where innovation can flouri

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Why Incentives So Often Fail

Digital Tonto

Many managers spend a lot of time and energy designing compensation schemes to incentivize performance. Yet as Daniel Pink explained in Drive, decades of studies show incentive pay often decreases productivity, especially for tasks that require creative thinking. He argues that the best way to motivate people is to give them opportunities for autonomy, mastery and purpose.

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When You’re Told You’re Not Strategic Enough

Harvard Business Review

How to articulate and broadcast your vision successfully.

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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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Sometimes to Innovate You Must Do the Following

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski What it takes to do new work: Confidence to get it wrong and confidence to do it early and often. Purposeful misuse of worst practices in a way that makes them the right practices. Tolerance for not knowing what to do next and tolerance for those uncomfortable with that.

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How to Embed Corporate Venturing into Your Innovation Program

Qmarkets

Corporate venturing has become a crucial strategy for businesses aiming to drive innovation and stay competitive. By engaging with startups or launching new business initiatives, companies can tap into fresh ideas, cutting-edge technologies, and untapped market opportunities. However, simply launching corporate venturing activities isn’t enough—embedding these efforts into an organization’s broader innovation strategy is essential for long-term success.

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Unlocking the Potential of Educational Innovation with IdeaScale

IdeaScale

In the ever-evolving world of education, innovation is not just a trend; it’s a necessity. Schools and universities are constantly challenged to find new ways to enhance learning, engage students, and streamline operations. But how can educational institutions effectively harness the creativity of their communities to drive meaningful change?

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Pitch me on why Innovation Ecosystems are better than my present open innovation approach

Paul Hobcraft

Pitching the reasons to change to Innovation Ecosystems in thinking and design So after working through the values of the Innovation Ecosystem over a series of three posts I asked Chat GPT to help me in making a pitch for the change from existing internal orientated innovation processes and structures. I wanted to go way beyond just “open innovation” here, I wanted to provide a compelling set of reasons to make this move or accelerate this into reality.

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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 to find Opportunities to Unlock Significant Performance

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise One of the things that every leader is expected to do is to find ways to drive significant value from their teams. Good leaders are always trying to look for opportunities that can unlock significant value creation. If you know me at all, you know that I am a big fan of the work done by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, the creator of the “Theory of Constraints“ He had this belief that the biggest constraint that any business faces is Management attention.

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Research: The Long-Term Costs of Layoffs

Harvard Business Review

A study of 146 companies that conducted layoffs showed that it often takes years — not months — for engagement, morale, and loyalty to rebound.

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Acting on Strategy and Tactics

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When it comes to strategy and tactics, there are a lot of definitions, a lot of disagreement, and a whole lot of confusion. When is it strategy? When is it tactics? Which is more important? How do they inform each other?

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Nurturing a Collaborative Organizational Culture

Leapfrogging

Making your workplace a more team-friendly zone can boost the whole crew’s mojo and lead to some serious wins. Let’s take a dip into how this whole teamwork gig works and why it’s such a big deal for your game plan. What’s the Big Idea with a Collaborative Culture? A team-focused workplace gets everyone playing nice and chatting openly, with a heaping side of respect.

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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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From Classrooms to Courtrooms: How AI is Reshaping Legal Education

IdeaScale

Artificial intelligence is reshaping the legal landscape, prompting law schools to adapt their curricula and policies to prepare students for the future.

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Innovation Ecosystems need you to engage and openly embrace?

Paul Hobcraft

Why engage in changing to Innovation Ecosystems Following on from my last two posts related to recognizing the importance of Innovation Ecosystems we need to ask what makes these dynamic, interconnected and engaging, from a diverse groups perspective? An innovation ecosystem becomes impactful and particularly effective in driving growth and value creation because it aims to leverage the collective strengths of its diverse participants to drive continuous innovation economic growth and societal p

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The Power of Going Opposite: Unlocking Hidden Opportunities in Business

Daniel Burrus

We have all heard the phrase “follow the path less traveled.” This typically refers to making unconventional choices, taking a different approach than what has been proven standard. In the world of business, innovation, and opportunities, this idea is more than just a poetic notion — it is an absolutely powerful strategy for success. However, many organizations prefer to err on the side of caution, sticking to the status quo and following established best practices.

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How to Avoid Strategy Myopia

Harvard Business Review

Stop prioritizing the urgent, the proven, and the easily measured, and focus instead on the long term.

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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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The Magic of Starting with Yes

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken It’s time to revisit the idea of avoiding the word “no,” but this time, I want to approach it from a different angle. First, let me tell you about my friend Dr.

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The Power of Creating Executive Team and Board Synergy

Leapfrogging

The synergy between your executive team and the board is like a well-choreographed dance; it’s all about moving together in harmony towards shared goals. When these groups communicate effectively, dream big together, and align their strategies, it’s magic. This teamwork utilizes everyone’s talents to push the organization onward and upward.

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Tackling AI Bias: A Call for Civil Rights Oversight in Federal Agencies

IdeaScale

As artificial intelligence becomes more integrated into key decision-making processes, concerns over algorithmic bias have come to the forefront. AI systems are increasingly relied upon in areas such as job applications, healthcare, education, and even mortgage qualifications, where the consequences of bias can have a significant impact on people’s lives.

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Buttons and Threads: A Modern Ecosystem Perspective

Paul Hobcraft

Buttons & Threads: Applying a Modern Ecosystem Perspective In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the “buttons and threads” concept perhaps is a powerful metaphor for understanding and designing interconnected business ecosystems. This updated perspective integrates technological advancements and business practices to illustrate how organizations can thrive in a network-centric world.

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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.