Digital Tonto

MAY 4, 2025

In thinking about social justice, the philosopher John Rawls proposed a thought experiment known as the Veil of Ignorance. What kind of society would you design if you didnt know what position youd occupy in itrich or poor, Black, white, or brown, gay, straight, or trans? While Rawls was focused on justice, not innovation, the Veil of Ignorance offers a useful model for thinking about how access and influence are structured within organizations.

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Qmarkets

MAY 7, 2025

Innovation used to be something companies scheduledan offsite, a brainstorm, a quarterly initiative. Now, its something that has to be built into the way people think, work, and make decisions every day. That shift has created a new kind of pressure: not just to have great ideas, but to make sure your workforce is ready to act on them. Because without strong innovation skills, even the most ambitious strategies stall before they start.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 4, 2025

GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard Sometimes a short and simple word-play brings out some great reflection. Resistance kills Change Fear kills Experimentation Bureaucracy kills Speed Control kills Flexibility Tradition kills Disruption Pressure kills Creativity Hierarchy kills Agility Silos kills Collaboration Organizational inertia trumps Talent Now, read that RIGHT to LEFT.

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ITONICS

MAY 5, 2025

A virtual suggestion box is like a well-tended gardengive employees the space, tools, and sunlight of trust, and great ideas will grow. This article explores how to plant the right suggestion box system, nurture ongoing feedback , and harvest real innovation that boosts engagement, improves processes, and strengthens your company culture.

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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.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 7, 2025

AKA Self Plagiarism GUEST POST from Pete Foley This morning I came across a wonderful piece of music by one of my guitar heroes, Robert Fripp, of King Crimson fame. It was a duet with Andy Sommers (The Police).

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Game-Changer

MAY 8, 2025

I don’t get it? Many marketing presentations look like this scene from the movie Big. The presentation focuses on what toy sales can do for the company, not what the toy does for kids! Here’s the scene: The Scene That Still Resonates In the 1988 film “Big,” a pivotal scene continues to offer valuable marketing lessons more than three decades later.

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Innov8rs

MAY 6, 2025

Innov8rs | You don’t ever have to make your case. You dont have to beg, coerce or plead with people to join your movement.You dont need to host a massive event to announce the start of the transformation. There is only one thing you need to do create momentum. Invite the right people to your movement at the beginning. Then work with those people to create the gravity that will attract the rest of the organization.

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 8, 2025

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Companies today face three critical marketing and Customer Experience (CX) challenges: How can you keep customers coming back? How can you get your customers attention so they dont consider switching to the competition? How do you create an experience that makes price less relevant?

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Planview

MAY 9, 2025

In todays climate of economic uncertainty, organizations are being forced to rethink how they operate, invest, and innovate. Markets can shift overnight, and budgets shrink without warning. For technology leaders expected to do more with less, one powerful but often overlooked opportunity stands out: toolchain integration. As demands rise and resources shrink, how well your software development, operations, and DevOps tools work together can determine whether you move forward or fall behind.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 7, 2025

Self-Management: The Most Overlooked Impactful Business Strategy in the Modern Workplace What if weve been getting work wrong for the past century? Thats the question Pim de Morree and his team at Corporate Rebels set out to answer nearly a decade ago. Frustrated by outdated corporate structures, Pim left his traditional job and began traveling the globe to learn from the worlds most progressive organizations.

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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.

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Innov8rs

MAY 6, 2025

Innov8rs | Stakeholders demand results. CFOs ask for projections. Yet innovation teams often find themselves pitching bold ideas with little more than a business model canvas that doesnt fit a quarterly earnings report. As Tristan Kromer, Founder and CEO of Kromatic, puts it: “At some point, somebody with a calculator is going to ask how much money your project will make.” That moment is when most innovation teams stumble because the language of innovation often clashes with the metr

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 9, 2025

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski Wanting things to be different is a good start, but its not enough. To create conditions for things to move in a new direction, youve got to change your behavior. But with systems that involve people, this is not a straightforward process.

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Faisal Hoque

MAY 7, 2025

Todays managers have to guide both human professionals and AI systems. As far back as records of the subject go, the art and science of leadership has always addressed one constant question: How should humans lead other humans? Today, that paradigm is shifting. Leaders must now learn to guide hybrid teams composed of both human professionals and AI systems that support and augment human team members, while increasingly also performing complex tasks independently.

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Tullio Siragusa

MAY 5, 2025

Why Doing Good Is No Longer Optional inBusiness For decades, the default setting in business was clear: prioritize profit. Social responsibility, if mentioned at all, was usually a side note or a holiday donation. But as Bea Boccalandro shared on a recent episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, that era is over. Its just time, she said. And shes right.

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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.

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Innov8rs

MAY 6, 2025

Innov8rs | As a corporate innovator, youve likely faced the formidable challenge of solving complex problems with limited resources, slow-moving processes, or a lack of entrepreneurial flexibility. Turning to startup partnerships might seem like the perfect solution to drive fresh energy and innovation into your organization. But too often, these collaborations fall short.

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Information Age

MAY 8, 2025

By Stuart Stott on Information Age - Insight and Analysis for the CTO In an era defined by rapid shifts and unpredictable challenges, SMEs operate in a high-stakes environment where every decision carries weight. With limited resources and tight margins, a single misstep in strategy, inventory, or market expansion can spell disaster. Yet amidst this uncertainty lies a powerful tool emerging to help SMEs navigate these turbulent waters: prediction markets.

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Faisal Hoque

MAY 6, 2025

What an Amazonian tribe teaches us about technology. The Kanamari tribes rapid digital immersion shows how tech disrupts culture and connection. Their choice to limit access reminds us that in an always-on world, restraint is a radical act. KEY POINTS The digital flood arrived fastdisrupting identity, rituals, and ways of knowing. The Kanamaris digital shock reveals how screens quietly reshape all our lives.

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CMOE

MAY 9, 2025

Providing constructive feedback to your manager can feel like a daunting task. You are offering input to someone who holds significant influence over your career and daily work. However, considering that one in two employees leave their jobs due to poor management, giving feedback could be the key to improved job satisfaction and fulfillment. When given in the right way, managers often welcome feedback as an opportunity for personal and professional growth.

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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.

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Carla Johnson - Innovation

MAY 5, 2025

Innovation isnt just about big breakthroughs or revolutionary ideas. It’s about how you think, how you see the world, and how you approach challenges that others overlook.

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Qmarkets

MAY 9, 2025

The success of a hackathon often comes down to planning, not just passion. It might look like a burst of spontaneous creativity, but behind every productive session is a carefully structured framework that most people dont see. When done right, organizing a hackathon isnt just about booking a room or sending a calendar inviteits about designing momentum, focus, and follow-through.

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Michael Roberto

MAY 9, 2025

Is it valuable for an employee to seek out employers that will offer the possibility of a variety of roles that they may fill over a period of years? New research by Professors Ins Black and Ana Figueiredo suggests that role variety boosts wages, employee retention, and job satisfaction. Duke Fuqua Insights recently summarized their research: workers starting their career at firms with more occupational variety switch occupations internally more often within the first 10 years; as a result, work

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CMOE

MAY 9, 2025

Todays corporate landscape is dynamic, bringing together five generationsthe Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Zeach contributing distinct strengths, values, and work styles. While it can create some challenges, this diversity also offers a powerful opportunity to drive innovation, collaboration, and resilience across your organization.

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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.

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Acuvate

MAY 8, 2025

Imagine a digital workforce that never tiresswiftly resolving queries, automating tasks, and adapting intelligently with every interaction. No longer a futuristic fantasy, this is now a business reality. Thanks to Microsoft Copilot Studio, organizations can build sophisticated autonomous AI agents without writing a single line of complex code. These intelligent systems can act as powerful virtual assistants, managing workflows, handling conversations, and freeing human teams to focus on high-val

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Qmarkets

MAY 8, 2025

In large enterprises, continuous improvement often slows down not because of a lack of ideas, but because of the absence of structure. Teams frequently identify process gaps or inefficiencies, yet those insights rarely lead to meaningful change. Without a consistent way to manage and act on suggestions, improvement efforts become inconsistent, and opportunities are lost across departments (Source: McKinsey & Company ).

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Hatz AI

MAY 8, 2025

The bottom line is that MSPs are now proving AIs worth in the field. By operationalizing AI agents, theyre delivering measurable outcomes: higher productivity, better customer experiences, and new revenue streams for their clients. The experimentation chapter is closed; were now writing the execution chapter of AI.

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ImagineNation

MAY 4, 2025

People matter more than ever as we witness one of the most significant technological advancements reshaping humanity. Regardless of size, every industry and organisation can adopt AI to enhance operations, innovate, stay competitive, and grow by partnering AI with people. Our research highlights three workplace trends and four global, strategic, and systemic human crises that affect the successful execution of all organisational transformation initiatives and pose potential barriers to implement

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The Bliss Business Podcast

MAY 7, 2025

As your company scales, so do the risks of misalignment. Purpose can get buried under growth targets, new hires, or stakeholder pressure. So how do you stay grounded in what matters most? Join us for a new episode of the Scaling with Purpose Kit a mini-series on The Bliss Business Podcast exploring how to build and grow with intention. Hosted by Stephen Sakach, Tullio Siragusa & Ash Maher In this episode, well unpack: Why purpose tends to fade as complexity increases How to embed purpose

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Planview

MAY 8, 2025

On April 23, at Planview Connect the premier global gathering of Planview customers, partners, and industry experts we recognized six leading companies with a Planview Vision Award. For 14 years running, the Vision Awards have highlighted Planview customers with compelling journeys and remarkable outcomes. These companies are streamlining operations, aligning strategy with execution, accomplishing their digital transformation goals, and more.

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Wellspring

MAY 8, 2025

Accolade Core, now powered by the newly launched Core Six Framework a strategic operating model that transforms how companies manage innovation at scale.

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Rmukesh Gupta

MAY 7, 2025

In this short video about learning, I reference a blog post by John Hunter from 2014, which I still find incredibly relevant today. My key point centered on the difference between managing and leading, and how we typically teach these concepts. Drawing on Dr. Edward Deming’s ideas, I emphasized that while instruction can be very direct, truly effective leadership comes from hands-on experience.

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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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