January, 2025

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Preparing for the Human & AI Innovator Team

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | With customer needs evolving rapidly and technologies like generative AI reshaping business processes, banks are under pressure to stay ahead. At ABN AMRO Bank, Anna-Lena Lorenz and her team are navigating this transformation by exploring how humans and AI can collaborate to drive innovation. At Innov8rs Milan, she shares how they are unlocking new possibilities that would be impossible with human effort alone.

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7 Critical Thinking Skills You Need in an AI Powered Workplace

Faisal Hoque

AI is fundamentally altering how we think, reason, and relate to each other. Without strong critical thinking skills, we risk becoming passive consumers rather than active, thoughtful partners. Were at a fascinating yet concerning inflection point with AI. A recent Gallup poll reveals that 79% of Americans are already using AI-powered products in their daily lives, often without realizing it.

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15 Innovations in Retail – Past, Present and Future

Destination Innovation

Retail is a highly competitive sector of the economy. It has been characterised by major innovations and continuous evolution, driven by technological advancements and changing consumer preferences. Innovations from Years Gone By: Self-Service Stores (Early 20th Century) : Innovation : The concept of self-service stores, where customers could pick their own items rather than having a store clerk retrieve them, revolutionized retail.

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The Most Innovative Large Companies in Europe

Destination Innovation

It is clear that Europe lags the USA in producing high growth innovative large companies. Europe does not have rivals to Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Meta, Microsoft and Tesla. However, there are many small companies that are doing surprisingly well and some large ones which are more innovative than you might think. Identifying the “most innovative” large companies in Europe involves evaluating several factors, including new products and services, entrepreneurial culture

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Enterprise ABM Marketing Tools: A Marketers Guide

Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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The Innovation Roadmap: Your Route to Success 

Qmarkets

John F. Kennedy once said, “Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.” In business, this sentiment holds true. Bold ideas and ambitious goals need a clear plan to guide execution and ensure progress. Enter the innovation roadmapa crucial tool for businesses seeking structured, long-term success. It provides a clear plan for setting priorities, aligning stakeholders, and tracking milestones.

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Relying on AI tools can reduce our ability for critical thinking

Idea to Value

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have revolutionized how we interact with technology, making tasks faster and more efficient. But as the convenience of these tools grows, so does a pressing question: are they impacting our ability to think critically? A new study titled AI Tools in Society: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking delves into this, examining how AI tools influence critical thinking through a phenomenon called cognitive offloading.

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The Role of Technology in Accelerating the Innovation Process

IdeaScale

Innovation is the cornerstone of growth in todays fast-paced world. But the journey from concept to execution has traditionally been slow and riddled with challenges. Enter technologya transformative force that is not only reshaping industries but also revolutionizing the way innovation happens.

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Dynamic Ecosystems: The Adaptive Core of Business

Paul Hobcraft

The Story of Dynamic Ecosystems- the adaptive core I am offering a different perspective here, one that explores dynamic ecosystems as a transformative organizational model. Sit back and listen. I asked Google Notebook LM to look at one of my articles: “A fresh perspective of Dynamic Ecosystems” Expanding on the idea of Dynamic Ecosystems as the decision-making and adaptability core of business ecosystems involves positioning them as both the “intelligence layer” and the

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An Innovation Manager’s Role as System Architect

HYPE Innovation

Building a repeatable, scalable innovation capability often involves turning to well-established frameworks or standardsyet a standard alone doesnt magically elevate performance. The real game-changer lies in how leaders shape, introduce, and sustain these systems.

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The Real Winners of Mega Events

Innovation Excellence

From the Super Bowl to Rock Concerts GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Fans who attend major sporting events and concerts may have memories to last a lifetime. The owners of the sports teams and producers of major music events may smile as they look at a sold-out crowd.

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Revolutionize QA: GAPs AI-Driven Accelerators for Smarter, Faster Testing

GAP's AI-Driven QA Accelerators revolutionize software testing by automating repetitive tasks and enhancing test coverage. From generating test cases and Cypress code to AI-powered code reviews and detailed defect reports, our platform streamlines QA processes, saving time and resources. Accelerate API testing with Pytest-based cases and boost accuracy while reducing human error.

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Why It’s Impossible to Prove Your Innovation Will Succeed (and Why That’s a Good Thing)

Idea to Value

The allure of certainty is powerful. In fact, uncertainty is one of the strongest fundamental fears most people suffer from. Businesses often seek to prove that a new idea, product, or service will succeed before they commit resources to launching it. They invest heavily in surveys, focus groups, and predictive models, hoping to eliminate risk and ensure success.

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How Much Supervision Should Companies Give AI Agents?

Harvard Business Review

AI agent autonomy is a conundrum. In many cases, supervision is needed in the form of a human in the loop to avoid disaster. Yet, you lose productivity gains if you impose excessive supervision on your agent. Too little latitude, and the agents capabilities are constrained to answering simple questions. Too much autonomy, and brand, reputation, customer relationships, and even financial stability are at risk.

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New Consortium Aims to Equip College Students with AI Skills for the Workforce

IdeaScale

As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes industries, colleges and universities are stepping up efforts to integrate AI skills into their curricula. A newly formed partnership, the AI Readiness Consortium, is taking a hands-on approach to ensure students gain the necessary expertise to thrive in an AI-driven workforce.

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3 Types Of Change Problems (And How To Solve Them)

Digital Tonto

People love to quote the pre-socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus about change. Yet pithy aphorisms like "Change is the only constant" and "You cannot step into the same river twice," are popular because they are so imprecise. They point to, as Kafka put it, some fabulous yonder, something unknown to us, something too that he cannot designate more precisely, and therefore cannot help us here in the very least.

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The Evolving Retailers Fulfillment Strategy: Meeting Demands with Agility

Speaker: Becky Parisotto and John Vurdelja

Fulfillment is no longer just about getting products from point A to point B – it's about crafting seamless, scalable, customer first experiences. Flexible fulfillment strategies are more important than ever for those aiming to stay ahead and build resilience as retail enters a new era in 2025. Learn how to optimize fulfillment processes, tackle complex, multi-vendor orders, and create seamless customer experiences – from white-glove delivery for high-value items to quick-ship solutions for ever

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Innovating Is Not Only an Option; It Is a Responsibility

HYPE Innovation

I SO 56001, the certifiable standard for innovation management systems, has now been published. This milestone represents over 15 years of collaborative efforts in international standardization. I have been fortunate to be involved in this project from the very beginning.

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Moments and Movements Are Not the Same Thing

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell On September 17th, 2011, protesters began to flood into Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. Declaring We are the 99% they planned to #Occupy Wall Street for as long as it took to make their voice heard. Similar protests soon spread like wildfire across 951 cities in 82 countries.

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Innovative Strategies for Facilitating Leadership Team Offsites

Leapfrogging

Setting up a leadership team get-together can spark new ideas and get everyone on the same page with the big goals. Let’s dig into why these escapes are a big deal and break down how to pull them off in style. Why Leadership Team Offsites Rock Taking the crew on an offsite adventure does wonders. Here’s why you don’t want to skip out on these gatherings: Think Big Time : Being away from the everyday grind gives you space to think big and map out future plans.

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6 Ways AI Changed Business in 2024, According to Executives

Harvard Business Review

An annual survey of Fortune 1000 and global business leaders shows how companies are doubling down on data projects that they’ve struggled with in the past.

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4 HR Priorities for 2025 to Supercharge Your Employee Experience

Speaker: Carolyn Clark and Miriam Connaughton

Forget predictions, let’s focus on priorities for the year and explore how to supercharge your employee experience. Join Miriam Connaughton and Carolyn Clark as they discuss key HR trends for 2025—and how to turn them into actionable strategies for your organization. In this dynamic webinar, our esteemed speakers will share expert insights and practical tips to help your employee experience adapt and thrive.

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From Insights to Impact: The Journey of an Idea in Innovation Management

IdeaScale

Every groundbreaking innovation starts with a single sparkan idea. But not every idea reaches its full potential. The difference between fleeting thoughts and transformative innovation lies in how those ideas are managed. Innovation management provides the framework to guide ideas from insights to impact, ensuring that great concepts dont get lost along the way.

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Lets change the old record and sound on innovation

Paul Hobcraft

The old record and sound of Innovation certainly needs changing. Recently I have been reading about how innovation management needs to get back to basics or how it needs to be given a fresh lick of paint in professional certification, revised and updated university training programs or short courses. For twenty years, since I have been working in the innovation space, we have constantly complained about so many different aspects of innovation failure and offered solutions to why innovation manag

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A Systems Approach — Changing Our Innovation Game and Mindsets

HYPE Innovation

My innovation journey started decades ago. Two pivotal events influenced my view of the world and how important innovation could be for a better one: (1) a course on designing systemic change about the Why, the What and the How of making change happen, and (2) participating in a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)-led academic research project. Notably, this research started in 1995, spanned two decades and resulted in important findings about how to build a capability for adjacent and breakt

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Five Must Reads for 2025

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Tis the season for year in review and top 10 lists. As fun (and sometimes frightening) as it is to look back, it is just as fun (and sometimes frightening) to look ahead. After all, as innovators, that is what we naturally do.

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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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Chart Your Course to Success: Leadership Retreat Facilitation Insights

Leapfrogging

When you’re gearing up for a leadership retreat, it’s like setting the stage for a big showget it right, and you open the curtain on some serious innovation and strategy makeovers. Here’s how to roll out the red carpet for your A-team. Setting the Objectives Before you jump into the deep end, figure out what you want from this shindig.

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Why “Living Intelligence” Is the Next Big Thing

Harvard Business Review

AI is merely one facet of a sweeping technological change underway, and companies that fail to recognize the importance of other converging technologies risk being left behind. Two other technologies advanced sensors and biotechnology are less visible, though no less important, and have been quietly advancing. Soon, the convergence of these three technologies is going to underpin a new reality that will shape the future decisions of every leader across industries.

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Unscripted SEO interview with Ideascale CEO Nick Jain

IdeaScale

Jeremy Rivera recently sat down with Nick Jain, CEO of IdeaScale, for a discussion about the evolution of search, content strategy, and the future of SEO.

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Experian Was Being Disrupted by Fintech Startups. Then They Turned the Tables

Digital Tonto

As Robert Gordon explains in "The Rise and Fall of American Growth", the turn of the 20th century was a time of great change. New innovations like electricity, indoor plumbing and the automobile were changing the way people lived, worked and shopped. New supermarkets and department stores were edging out the old corner markets and dry goods dealers.

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Prepare Now: 2025s 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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How to Build a Lasting Innovation Management System with ISO 56001

HYPE Innovation

I n a world where innovation has often been equated with bursts of creativity or risky leaps of faith, organizations are starting to rethink their approach. The question on the table isnt just how to innovate, but how to sustain ithow to make innovation as predictable and enduring as financial planning or supply chain management.

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Profiting From Fear and Mistrust

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When I lived and worked in Ukraine, it was commonplace to see men in camouflage fatigues and Uzis in the waiting rooms of offices around town. They werent there as security, or to rob the place, but to help transfer money between businesses.

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Crafting Powerful Strategic Offsite Meeting Designs

Leapfrogging

Strategic offsite meetings are a secret weapon for bigwigs and top management folks looking to shake up their game plan and spark fresh ideas. These gatherings whisk everyone away from the daily chaos, giving leaders a bright, shiny place to dive into high-level strategy stuff. Once you’re out of that usual office bubble, your crew can get those creative juices flowing, team up like never before, and really think strategically, cooking up brilliant solutions and fueling business success.

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Research: Gen AI Changes the Value Proposition of Foreign Remote Workers

Harvard Business Review

But replacing U.S. workers with foreign talent isn’t as easy as supplying them with ChatGPT.

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4 AI Hacks to Make Sales Teams More Efficient

Over the last two years, there’s been a 76 percent increase in AI adoption across sales organizations. The reason for its rise? AI increases teams’ productivity by predicting and automating actions that require manual effort. In other words, the research that takes reps hours, AI can do in seconds. For sales teams, AI opens up a world of new possibilities, including automating outreach, identifying best-fit buyers, and keeping CRMs flush with fresh data.