Carla Johnson
JULY 2, 2024
June 4, 2024 You know that feeling when you’re binge-watching your favorite show and you just have to know what happens next? That’s curiosity! But in business, it’s not just about finding out who dunnit.
Digital Tonto
JUNE 30, 2024
I recently read David Sanger’s new book, "The New Cold Wars," which was excellent in many ways. It was very well sourced, often insightful and excellently written. It was also riddled with relatively minor errors. These didn’t really affect the story he was trying to tell, but they were annoying and undermined an otherwise excellent book. What probably happened is that the fact checker was intimidated by Sanger’s prominence and didn’t call him out or didn’t bother checking facts that, truth be
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Ecosystems4Innovating
JULY 2, 2024
Achieving a new positioning in Ecosystem differentiation I have been spending a lot of my time working through Business Ecosystems trying to get a decent “handle” on what really matters as the most important dynamics and why ecosystems are rising in importance to support reshaping multiple business landscapes and determine what practices will unlock value and impact.
Innovation Excellence
JUNE 30, 2024
GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard Strategic foresight is an essential discipline for organizations aiming to navigate an increasingly complex and uncertain future. It involves a systematic exploration of potential futures to inform strategic decision-making. This approach enables organizations to anticipate changes, identify opportunities, and mitigate risks, thereby ensuring their long-term sustainability and competitiveness.
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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.
ITONICS
JULY 1, 2024
In the ever-evolving world of business and technology, understanding how your team innovates—leveraging your strengths and augmenting your weaknesses—is key to staying competitive and fostering growth. Innovation, however, is not a one-size-fits-all process. It manifests in various forms and can proceed down multiple paths. To navigate this diverse landscape, it's essential to identify, enhance, and balance your team's unique innovation mode.
Paul Hobcraft
JULY 3, 2024
Embracing Innovation Ecosystems for Enhanced Competitiveness In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, innovation is paramount for organizations to thrive and achieve sustainable success. Traditional approaches to innovation, often isolated and siloed within a single organization, may not be sufficient in addressing the complex challenges and opportunities presented by the modern business environment.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
IdeaScale
JULY 3, 2024
The ability to innovate is crucial for success. Yet, many organizations struggle to harness their creative potential. Traditional suggestion boxes and unstructured brainstorming sessions often fail to capture valuable insights, leaving great ideas unnoticed. A 2023 Gallup study found that only 35% of American workers feel their ideas are heard at work.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 5, 2024
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Efficiency is a simple measurement – output divided by resources needed to achieve it. How much did you get done and how many people did you need to do it? What was the return on the investment?
Sopheon
JULY 2, 2024
The Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry is experiencing a period of tremendous change. Shifting consumer preferences, a growing demand for health-conscious options, sustainable practices and ethical sourcing are forcing companies to continuously examine how they approach CGP innovation to stay ahead of competitors. Throw in exterior challenges like nimble startups and volatile supply, and it’s easy to see how difficult the CPG landscape is today.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 2, 2024
If you want to move up the corporate ladder, you need to do more than meet deadlines and produce strong results. Employees who quickly move up often have an innovator’s mindset. These people ultimately position themselves as valuable assets by questioning assumptions and pushing their organizations to stay competitive. By consistently bringing fresh ideas to the table and demonstrating a proactive approach to problem-solving, they naturally attract the attention of higher-ups.
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IdeaScale
JULY 2, 2024
In a landmark decision, the California legislature has unanimously passed a bill aimed at preventing the replacement of community college professors with artificial intelligence (AI) bots. The brief, two-page bill, which now awaits the signature of Governor Gavin Newsom, seeks to ensure that only qualified human instructors lead college courses.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 3, 2024
GUEST POST from David Burkus With work and life becoming more intertwined than ever, people increasingly seek purpose through work. So, leaders are being called upon to create a sense of purpose on a team.
Planview
JUNE 29, 2024
With so much happening in June, we want to outline important events at Planview with some employee insight. At Planview, ERGs (Employee Resource Groups) play a crucial role in creating connections and involving people in groups that pertain to people’s interests. Our ERGs, such as Planview Kaleidoscope, Pride, and Women at Planview, are actively organizing events and educating employees about their initiatives.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 2, 2024
Bringing on seasoned leaders in “fractional” roles can help companies gain expertise without the expense and commitment of a full-time hire.
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
IdeaScale
JULY 2, 2024
Like many sectors, the military has begun rapidly implementing artificial intelligence into military operations over the past few years. The adoption of AI systems has allowed them to perform complex tasks with minimal human intervention, proving invaluable in diverse military applications. Recently, notable advancements in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision have been achieved.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 4, 2024
A Customer Experience That Will Be Appreciated GUEST POST from Shep Hyken My friend Norman Beck recently shared a quote that inspired him: We work hard to make it look easy. Isn’t that what the best people do? Whether it’s sports, entertainment, or business, some people are so good that what they do looks easy.
Daniel Burrus
JULY 3, 2024
Right now, we are experiencing technological advancements at an unprecedented rate. From self-driving vehicles to generative AI like ChatGPT, our landscape as both business leaders and consumers is changing exponentially. In fact, I believe that change is too mild a term for the advancements in innovation we are seeing. Technological transformation is far more accurate.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 3, 2024
The leadership questions surrounding new Washington Post CEO Will Lewis serve as a case study in the challenges of bringing in an outsider to lead an organization, highlighting the importance of transparency and alignment with company values. This article offers three lessons leaders can draw from it — as well as advice on how the Post and Lewis can move forward.
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.
Qmarkets
JULY 5, 2024
Qmarkets has always been at the forefront of AI. Now, we are injecting the full power of generative AI across our entire suite of innovation management tools. Join our product specialist Yoel Ben Nesher as he lifts the lid on these brand new AI features and demonstrates how they can be used to achieve unparalleled efficiency in your enterprise innovation program.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 4, 2024
A Fourth of July Celebration GUEST POST from Art Inteligencia As we gather to celebrate the Fourth of July, our nation’s Independence Day, we not only rejoice in the freedoms and values that define America but also reflect on the incredible ingenuity that has propelled our country forward.
Viima
JULY 2, 2024
We've returned with yet another Innovation Room Podcast episode. In this conversation, Colin was joined by Natalie Turner to talk about the inspiration behind The Six 'I's® model, lessons she learned while working in Asia, and explore the challenges and opportunities in the ever-evolving innovation landscape.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 1, 2024
Researchers found that service agents yield better results when they use warm language to start and end conversations, focusing on problem-solving in the middle.
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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.
ITONICS
JULY 5, 2024
Every industry is on the move. Automakers are transforming from car producers to data centers. Manufacturers are changing from human-dominated shop floors to autonomous systems. The energy industry is on the move from fossil to renewable sources. Information systems move from information carriers to conversational systems. The nature of work itself is transforming, with remote and digital work becoming more prevalent.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 2, 2024
Kodak. Blockbuster. Google? GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You know the stories. Kodak developed a digital camera in the 1970s, but its images weren’t as good as film images, so it ended the project. Decades later, that decision ended Kodak.
Yet2
JULY 3, 2024
Words by yet2 CEO Tim Bernstein Introduction: Effective decision-making in the corporate landscape often involves “disproving the negative,” a process that requires thorough exhaustive data collection to establish high confidence in the absence of alternative solutions. This approach is particularly valuable for large companies open to external-enabled paths, where the need to explore external and internal options adds significant opportunity but also significant decision-making complexity.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 3, 2024
Family is one of the most important things in most people’s lives, across cultures and geographies. Yet, the idea that family can be motivational at work has been overlooked. Instead, in the past, family has been mostly seen as competing with work for an employee’s finite resources, like their time and energy. A large body of research on work-family conflict drew on this notion and illustrated how work and family domains create conflicting demands and interfere with one another.
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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?
ITONICS
JULY 4, 2024
In today's hyper-connected world, manufacturing companies are increasingly looking beyond their borders to drive innovation. While technological advancements promise automated shop floors, digital twins, and smart factories, the industry faces significant challenges.
Innovation Excellence
JULY 1, 2024
Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?
Stephen Shapiro
JULY 5, 2024
A gift to 100 people… My Best Practices Are Stupid was published in 2011 by Portfolio Penguin. However, they never created the audiobook. Given some fantastic AI tools available today, I finally created the audiobook using my voice clone. It sounds 99% like me. It’s truly mind-blowing. And I am giving the first nine chapters away. That’s about 75 minutes of content.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 4, 2024
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly ubiquitous in business and governance, its substantial environmental impact — from significant increases in energy and water usage to heightened carbon emissions — cannot be ignored. By 2030, AI’s power demand is expected to rise by 160%. However, adopting more sustainable practices, such as utilizing foundation models, optimizing data processing locations, investing in energy-efficient processors, and leveraging open-source collaborations, ca
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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