innosabi Innovation Insights
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
There are primarily four types of innovation, each offering unique benefits to businesses. In this comprehensive overview, we’ll explore these four types in detail: Incremental Innovation: The foundation of continuous improvement. Disruptive Innovation: Challenging the status quo and creating new markets. Adjacent Innovation: Expanding into related markets or industries.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell The Cold War was fundamentally different from any conflict in history. It was, to be sure, less over land, blood and treasure than it was about ideas. Communist countries believed that their ideology would prevail. They were wrong. The Berlin Wall fell and capitalism, it seemed, was triumphant.
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Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Rethink how you’re steering the ship to stay ahead of the game. Innovation isn’t just a shiny new product; it’s about jazzing up your services, tweaking those internal gears, and shaking up your business playbook. That’s how you keep moving forward and stay in the ring as things shift and change around you. To truly make the thrilling leap with innovation, go bold—foster an atmosphere where creativity and a bit of daring flourish.
Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
In a world where change is like a pesky neighbor who always shows up unannounced, planning ahead is your best friend. It gives the big shots at the top a game plan, making sure resources aren’t thrown around like confetti at a parade. The business vibe these days is a whirlwind—tech is always one step ahead, folks are changing their minds faster than a kid in a candy store, and the market’s mood swings like a pendulum.
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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.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
GUEST POST from David Burkus It’s often said by teams that “diversity is our strength.” We take for granted the idea that diverse teams bring more lived experiences, ideas, and solutions to the table. When asked, “How does diversity affect teamwork?
Innov8rs
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Innov8rs | Don’t look at the size of the opportunity - focus on strategic fit to select the right innovation ideas for your business. Can innovation in an established organization be compared to innovation in a startup? As David Rogers, author and Columbia Business School professor, noted in his recent Innov8rs session, both of these setups are something of a double-edged sword, with benefits and drawbacks.
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Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
To keep your business on top of its game, you need to understand how innovation and strategic planning work together. It’s not just about rolling out fancy new gadgets or services; it’s about rethinking how everything ticks in your company. Strategic planning maps out how you’ll crush your long-term goals, and stirring some innovation into the mix helps your business roll with whatever curveballs the market throws.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When your most important product development project is a year behind schedule (and the schedule has been revved three times), who would you call to get the project back on track?
Innov8rs
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Innov8rs | Can you make innovation everyone’s priority? It’s an admirable goal, since if all employees are invested in finding ways to do things better there’s a far higher chance of new ideas and initiatives being successful. This is the belief of Vlora Muslimi, Senior Manager at TD Bank Group, who’s responsible for the organization’s iD8 program- a formalized way of fostering innovation across all areas of the bank.
Tullio Siragusa
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Critical Habits of High Performers in the New Normal: A Blueprint for Sustainable Success Where the lines between personal and professional life blur, the question of high performance has become more relevant than ever. How do individuals and organizations not only achieve but sustain excellence in this “new normal”? Mark Cunningham, founder of The Achieve Institute, shared insights on The Bliss Business Podcast that offer a timely and profound answer to this question.
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.
Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Cooking up a winning business plan needs a dash of clear sight and a spoonful of fresh ideas. Melding these two can pack quite a punch against your rivals. Defining Your Business Strategy Think of your business strategy as your GPS, directing you to your future success. It hammers out who you are, your dreams, and what’s at the core of your company.
IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Innovation thrives when ideas are shared, refined, and executed with precision. But in today’s fast-paced world, managing innovation across various teams, campaigns, and communities can quickly become a juggling act that drains time and resources.
Innov8rs
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Innov8rs | ROI, AI, ESG and more. At The Innovator’s Handbook 2024 Launch Event last year December, we invited several thought leaders and experts to share their predictions for what would happen in the world of corporate innovation in 2024, in short 8-min talks. The year did fly by… and much has happened. So with 2025 already in its final quarter, we checked in with some of the guests, asking how their prediction played out.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken At the end of the CEO’s speech to his employees, he said, “And one other thing, we want to deliver better customer service.” Then he walked off stage. Delivering better customer service is a good idea, but just saying you want to do so will not make it happen.
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.
Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Taking stock of your business approach is like tuning your car engine – crucial for a smooth ride and crucial to avoid nasty surprises down the road. Here, we’ll tackle the ways to check if your current game plan’s a winner or if it’s time for a reboot. Assessing the Effectiveness of Your Current Business Strategy To see how your business strategy is holding up, dig into a few KPIs.
ImagineNation
NOVEMBER 2, 2024
Scaling your business is an excellent way to raise revenue and build a lasting brand, but it can be tricky, right? You can make it a little easier for yourself by doing the following: 1. Get Your Finances Sorted Scaling means spending—on inventory, marketing, team expansion, or maybe a fancy new office (if that’s your thing). To make it work, you need to keep a close watch on your cash flow.
Acuvate
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
As enterprises increasingly adopt multi-cloud strategies, the need for flexible, scalable data platforms that can unify data insights has grown significantly. AcuPrism , Acuvate’s powerful Enterprise Data Platform, has successfully supported customers on Microsoft Azure, and now, it’s expanding to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Rmukesh Gupta
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
In the past few years, we have seen a huge proliferation of data. With this amount of data being available, the expectation of data driven decision making has peaked as well. However, in my experience, just using data to make decisions is a trap and can lead to some bad decisions. Availability bias The first trap is to think that he data that we have is all the data there is.
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.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky There are three primary approaches to innovation. In our work with large brands focused on digital transformation, we have observed that the most effective of the three is also the least common. Which approach do you use? Approach #1: The Artist “I create for myself.
CMOE
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Supervisors in manufacturing fill a critical role that influences both the productivity and the culture of a plant. However, the transition from line worker to supervisor can be fraught with challenges that many companies fail to adequately address. This gap can lead to decreased performance, team discord, and high turnover. To prevent this, it’s crucial to recognize the unique demands of the role and focus on developing supervisors in a thoughtful and structured way.
ITONICS
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Most companies do not have a defined process to track and respond to disruptions in the market. Foresight is a technique that helps you recognize changes in your business environment at an early stage so that you can prepare for the future. But let's be clear: a n ad-hoc approach to foresight can lead to weakened strategic planning. The alternative is continuous foresight, a better approach to foresight that is more disciplined and consistent.
Thinkers360 - Thought Leader Interviews
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
At a Glance Timothy Hughes, Co-Founder and CEO, DLA Ignite Focus Areas : Social, Sales, Personal Branding, Marketing Thinkers360 In-Depth Profile & Portfolio: Timothy (Tim) Hughes Social Media: LinkedIn | X Books: Social Selling: Techniques to Influence Buyers and Changemakers Highlighted Content : Why you’re letting revenue slip through your fingers on social media , #TimTalk – Inform, inspire interview tips unpacked with Kim Chandler McDonald.
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.
Carla Johnson
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
November 5, 2024 I was sitting in a coffee shop in my little neck of the woods when I overheard something that made me smile.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Many leaders today are stretched beyond capacity, and in that state, feelings of resentment can readily emerge and take hold. Whether you’re already feeling resentful or just starting to feel the tinges of this emotion, try these five strategies to safeguard your and your team’s well-being and performance: pinpoint the source, step outside yourself, focus on solutions, communicate constructively, and let go.
ITONICS
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
If you ask any executive, they’ll probably agree that innovation is important. Yet, research shows that many feel that their organizations fall short of achieving reliable outcomes in terms of innovation. What stops them from improving performance? Part of the problem is that companies lack a systematic approach to innovation. They treat it like a wild garden, expecting groundbreaking innovations to sprout after occasional watering.
Digital Tonto
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Bent Flyvbjerg, author of How Big Things Get Done, frequently highlights the planning fallacy as a key reason why projects go awry. We tend to trust too much in our plans, often underestimating setbacks and complications. This issue becomes even more pronounced in change initiatives, where the change itself can provoke resistance, creating additional obstacles that slow progress.
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Leapfrogging
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Design thinking isn’t just a fancy buzzword—it’s all about shaking things up in how we plan strategically by spotlighting creativity, focusing on the customer, and trying stuff out to see what sticks. This method doesn’t just make the planning process more interesting; it makes it smarter, improving how customers see us and boosting the whole business game.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
When you’re planning for a vacation, it is essential to hand over work efficiently. Begin by notifying colleagues and clients of your absence well in advance, ideally four to six weeks ahead. It is good practice to find a colleague to act as your backup at least a month in advance. Then, create a detailed handover document, listing current project status, pending tasks, and instructions for what they’d need to take care of while you’re away.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Lessons from a Leaked Document GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In the often murky world of corporate communication, a leaked MrBeast document has emerged as a beacon of clarity. Far from being your typical vague, jargon-filled memo, this onboarding document is a crystal-clear recipe for success that’s as refreshing as it is rare.
eZassi
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
What is Social Innovation? Social Innovation refers to the creation of new solutions—ideas, services, or models—that meet pressing social needs and improve individuals' and communities' quality of life. Unlike conventional innovations focused primarily on profit, Social Innovations aim to create shared value, addressing complex challenges such as poverty, health, education, and environmental sustainability.
Speaker: Erroll Amacker
Automation is transforming finance but without strong financial oversight it can introduce more risk than reward. From missed discrepancies to strained vendor relationships, accounts payable automation needs a human touch to deliver lasting value. This session is your playbook to get automation right. We’ll explore how to balance speed with control, boost decision-making through human-machine collaboration, and unlock ROI with fewer errors, stronger fraud prevention, and smoother operations.
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