IdeaScale
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Innovation isn’t a miracle. It’s not the product of a lone genius sitting in a garage or a serendipitous moment where someone trips over a breakthrough idea. It’s a process—a structure. And like a three-legged stool, it needs balance to stand. Without all three legs, innovation collapses.
CMOE
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Recently, generative AI (gen AI) has become more than just a fascinating tool or pastime but has established itself as a viable technology used to increase productivity, deliver improved customer experiences, broaden innovation, and ultimately contribute to organizational success and competitiveness. Some might argue AI is the latest industrial revolution.
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Daniel Burrus
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
As we approach 2025, the convergence of emerging technologies is reshaping business, industry, and everyday life. Drawing insights from my Tech Trends Report for 2025 , here’s a preview of the critical technology shifts that promise to drive exponential growth and innovation. This article highlights key trends, how they intersect, and how businesses and professionals can stay ahead.
Cris Beswick
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
While many companies proudly display values like “Innovation” and “Excellence” on their walls, few successfully translate these aspirational concepts into meaningful cultural change. The key to building an influential innovation-led culture lies not in proclamations but in embedding behaviours that support creative problem-solving and breakthrough thinking throughout the organisation.
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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?
Planview
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
In October 2024, Planview sponsored the first Project to Product Summit (and it won’t be the last). But in case you can’t wait until next year’s event, we’re sharing some of the key content to catch up on. In these sessions, speakers from FedEx, Nationwide, Spotify, Vanguard, Verizon, and Planview described their journeys, shared the roadblocks they encountered, and laid out the strategies they developed for the project-to-product shift.
HYPE Innovation
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Looking back at the beginning of this decade now that we’re closing in on the halfway point, it’s clear been a wild ride!
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Paul Hobcraft
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Dynamics- The core of Business Ecosystems Recognizing the value and potential to the Integrated Ecosystem Design The concept of having an integrated business ecosystem is central to the future growth and value businesses can provide. Yet, these have to be seen as highly collaborative, where mutual co-creation through networks of partners join forces to overcome more complex and challenging problems we seem to be facing today.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski If you use fewer natural resources, your product costs less. If you use recycled materials, your product costs less. If you use less electricity, your product costs less. If you use less water to make your product, your product costs less.
Tullio Siragusa
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
The Future of Work: Building Ethical, Sustainable Organizations Through Self-Management In today’s business environment, where innovation often outpaces ethics, the need for sustainable, human-centered models of leadership is more critical than ever. On The Bliss Business Podcast , Doug Kirkpatrick, a renowned advocate for self-management and ethical leadership, presented a compelling vision of the future of work — one that is rooted in autonomy, accountability, and a deep respect for the human
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Leaders and companies everywhere recognize the transformative potential that AI holds for their business — but very few of them have a systematic plan for how to experiment with and adopt AI at scale. In this article, John Winsor offers one, based on the successful work that he and Jin Paik have done in recent years helping companies experiment with and adopt digital-talent platforms at scale.
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.
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
Every groundbreaking innovation begins as an idea, but not every idea is destined for success. In fact, studies suggest that up to 42% of failed innovations stem from a lack of market need. This stark reality underscores the importance of idea validation—a critical step that ensures organizations prioritize the right ideas before committing valuable time, resources, and budget.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Wisdom from the Waters GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Once upon a time, in a lush forest, there lived a colony of industrious beavers known far and wide for their magnificent dams, which provided shelter and sustenance for many.
Ecosystems4Innovating
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Ecosystems in the business environment are taking on a growing importance to manage greater complexity and challenges in unique collaborations than the one single organization cannot handle themselves, so limiting their growth and value potential We need a different framing of Ecosystems, in appreciating the whole as well as its parts. Often, we describe Ecosystems in far too simplistic terms and fail to recognize the interconnected value we need to bring together from multiple Ecosystems and Ne
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
If you fail to understand the fundamental nature of these tools, you’ll inevitably use them incorrectly.
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Faisal Hoque
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
Agility has become the new organization currency in the age of AI. Agility, by definition, is an organization’s response to change and challenges driven by macro- and microeconomic conditions. In 2006, working with a dozen leading academics and Fortune 100 executives, we defined ‘Organizational Agility’ in our book, Winning The 3-Legged Race , as: “Agile organizations possess the processes and structures, or what we call ‘‘intangible assets,’’ that give them situational awareness int
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell The practice of change management is a relatively young discipline. It got its start in 1983, when a McKinsey consultant Julien Phillips published a paper in the journal, Human Resource Management.
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Balancing a variety of innovation projects, all competing for resources, is a key challenge for organizations today. While every project has potential, not all of them align equally with strategic goals or promise the same return on investment (ROI). This is where a structured innovation portfolio management process becomes invaluable. Through a systematic approach, innovation portfolio management helps businesses prioritize high-impact ideas, effectively allocate resources, and strategically ma
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world's best business and management experts.
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
Michael Roberto
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
Have you ever become incredibly stressed and anxious after receiving negative feedback? Have you spent more time worrying than actually addressing the corrective actions you might take in light of the criticism? David Rock and Chris Weller have written a useful article for Fast Company about coping with negative feedback. They offer some helpful tips.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
Why map-making skills matter in innovation GUEST POST from John Bessant There are some questions in life which can be answered quickly, no real thought required, simple yes/no options. Others might involve a longer period of time, perhaps a pleasant exploration of the possibilities. Philosophical enquiries, searching for meaning in life, the universe, everything….
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Innovation is the backbone of growth for large enterprises, but turning fresh ideas into actionable solutions is often a complex and resource-intensive process. For organizations seeking to develop these ideas with lower risk and higher efficiency, innovation incubators have become an essential strategy. Far beyond traditional R&D, innovation incubators provide a structured environment that nurtures early-stage concepts, offering the resources, guidance, and framework necessary to bring grou
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
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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.
innosabi Innovation Insights
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Let’s face it, today’s business world moves fast. To stay ahead of the curve, you need a smart strategy for managing your innovation projects. And that’s where innovation portfolio management comes in. By strategically managing a diverse range of innovation initiatives, businesses can maximize their impact and ensure sustainable growth.
Innovation Excellence
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell On July 16th, 1945, when the world’s first nuclear explosion shook the plains of New Mexico, the leader of the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer quoted from the Bhagavad Gita, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Discover how to future-proof your innovation process with cutting-edge AI solutions in our upcoming webinar, when we'll be joined by Matthijs Rosman of growth specialists RevelX. Drawing on extensive experience with enterprise clients, we’ll explore how to build an AI-driven innovation process designed for the challenges and opportunities of 2025.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
By challenging the conventional wisdom that bigger is always better, we can create space for a healthier, happier economy.
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.
Carla Johnson
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
November 19, 2024 I was standing in line to board my flight from Denver to Nashville when I overheard two women executives debating their company’s latest challenge. “We need creative thinkers to solve this supply chain mess!” one insisted. “No,” the other countered, “we need critical thinkers to analyze the data.
Michael Roberto
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
In this interview, Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky argues against the use of recurring one-on-one meetings between leader and team member. Here is an excerpt: I don't believe in one-on ones and almost no great CEO in history has ever done them. the one-on-one model is flawed it's a recurring one hour one-on-one meeting where the employee owns the agenda and what happens is they often don't talk about the things you want to talk about.
Qmarkets
NOVEMBER 22, 2024
In this webinar we showcase the power of our new and improved Q-scout technology scouting software. With the launch of our AI-enhanced startup research, you can now easily manage a process to commercialize solutions and technologies from a network of over 500K startups from across the globe.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Even when disabled employees demonstrate the same skills and behaviors as their nondisabled peers, their performance is often rated lower — especially for women.
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