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4 Essential Innovation Techniques to Drive Growth

Qmarkets

Innovation within a large organization doesn’t happen by chance. It requires a deliberate approach, using structured techniques that not only generate fresh ideas but also solve complex problems and bring those ideas to life. In this article, we’ll explore several powerful innovation techniques—ranging from problem-solving frameworks and ideation methods to hackathons and structured innovation programs.

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AI Can (Mostly) Outperform Human CEOs

Harvard Business Review

When researchers at the University of Cambridge pitted human competitors against a leading LLM, the chatbot beat the top participants on almost every metric. It also was fired more quickly.

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Don’t Bring A Can Of Gasoline To A Fire

Innovation Excellence

Crisis Management GUEST POST from Shep Hyken This is a departure from my usual customer service and customer experience (CX) articles. While it does tie in to service and CX, it is really about leadership.

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What Is Business Transformation? Steps to Get Started

Kainexus

Business transformation is a crucial journey that strategically revamps an organization's processes, technologies, and business models to boost efficiency, competitiveness, and customer value. In today's fast-paced environment, embracing business transformation enables organizations to achieve sustainable success. This article provides straightforward and actionable steps any organization can take for successful business transformation.

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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I Sent AI a Survey

Innovation Excellence

… and the Results Were Brilliant … and Dangerous GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton AI is everywhere: in our workplaces, homes, schools, art galleries, concert halls, and even neighborhood coffee shops. We can’t seem to escape it. Some hope it will unlock our full potential and usher in an era of creativity, prosperity, and peace.

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Organisational Stresswood: How a little adversity is required to become resilient

Idea to Value

A while back, I came across a great article by Aidan McCullen , the host of the excellent Innovation Show podcast, about Stresswood. In an Arizona research facility called Biosphere 2 , opened in 1991, researchers tried to create a completely sealed-off ecosystem to see if a man-made biosphere could produce enough fresh water, oxygen and ecosystem growth to support a human population.

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How to Keep Learning at Work — Even When You Feel Fried

Harvard Business Review

Continuous learning is the key to having lasting influence in your career, yet a heavy workload makes it hard to find the time. To ensure you’re creating opportunities even when you’re feeling depleted or overwhelmed, try these five strategies: 1) Challenge your beliefs about your capacity; 2) Start with topics that solve urgent problems; 3) Don’t limit yourself to formal programs; 4) Make an emotional connection to learning; and 5) Work with your brain, not against it.

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The Ideation Process: Examples and Best Practices

Qmarkets

Innovation doesn’t happen by accident. Behind every groundbreaking product or service is a well-structured process that transforms creative ideas into actionable solutions. This process, known as ideation, plays a pivotal role in helping companies generate new concepts, solve problems, and stay competitive. Yet, many leaders struggle to harness the full potential of their teams’ creativity.

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Coping with the Chasm

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore I’ve been talking about crossing the chasm incessantly for over thirty years, and I’m not likely to stop, but it does beg the question, how should you operate when you are in the chasm?

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What is Creativity in Business? Definition, Advantages, and Benefits

IdeaScale

 Table of Contents What is Creativity in Business? Creativity in business is defined as the ability to generate novel and valuable ideas that drive innovation, solve problems, and create new opportunities. It involves thinking outside traditional frameworks to develop unique solutions that can lead to competitive advantages and business growth.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

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

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How to Learn from Your Mistakes and Make Better Decisions

Harvard Business Review

We all have scores of decisions to make every day, and we often want to move quickly, telling ourselves that speed equals efficiency. But true efficiency sometimes requires slowing down, being mindful, and especially looking back at the decisions we’ve made that didn’t go as we’d hoped. Too often we don’t want to spend time and mental energy revisiting the past, especially if it contains uncomfortable missteps.

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When Is the Best Time to Have a Courageous Conversation?

CMOE

One of the most challenging aspects of difficult conversations can be finding the right time to have them. To select the best time to have a courageous conversation, there are three key factors to consider: Your mindset Their ability to receive the conversation The timing of the interaction When all three are favorable, you are more likely to have a positive outcome.

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Are You Continuing to Stop and Start the Hard Way?

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski The stop, start, continue method (SSC) is a simple, yet powerful, way to plan your day, week and year. And though it’s simple, it’s not simplistic. And though it looks straightforward, it’s onion-like in its layers.

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Benefiting from Leadership Advice

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise There is a lot of leadership advice available on the internet – free and otherwise. I offer a lot of them myself, here on this blog. There are innumerable number of books being written on this topic, so much so that at times, it can become too daunting for someone looking for help. However, as leaders, we need to know which advice or ideas are relevant for us and which one’s are not.

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

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.

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4 Steps That Can Optimize Your Sales Process

Harvard Business Review

Closing a sale is the result of earlier actions such as customer discovery, lead qualification, and performance management. Framework IT improved its sales process by better qualifying prospects, understanding key stakeholders, and promoting its differentiators, leading to increased deal sizes and customer satisfaction. In this way, proactive customer selection and lead qualification are crucial for driving profitable growth and maintaining a competitive edge.

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Create an Effective Supervisor Development Plan

CMOE

Should You Standardize Your Supervisor Development Plan? As your business evolves and expands, cultivating strong leadership becomes essential for sustainable growth. This may involve promoting high-performing team members to supervisory roles or investing in the professional development of existing supervisors. A vital step in this process is developing a robust supervisor development plan that nurtures leadership potential.

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Igniting Innovation with Deep Dialogue

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Janet Sernack I have just returned from a short sabbatical in Bali, Indonesia, a place of unparalleled beauty, lushness, and deep spirituality. Bali invites and fosters opportunities for retreat, reflection, and replenishment and is a vital space for restoration and renewal.

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Celebrate Innovation in Your Organization with the IA Innovation Award

Innovators Alliance

One of the ways that Innovators Alliance is different from other peer-to-peer organizations, is our focus on doing things differently. We know that creating and supporting a culture of innovation within your organization is critical for continued evolution, and we want to help IA members to champion innovation in their organizations. And that is the reason we have re-launched the IA Innovation Award – an opportunity for members to celebrate an employee who has been particularly innovative

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

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.

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How to Work for a Boss Who Always Changes Their Mind

Harvard Business Review

Working for a leader who always changes their mind is a maddening yet common experience. When the strategy is perpetually changing, it’s challenging to be enthusiastic about the strategy du jour. When rework is viewed as inevitable, high effort is difficult to justify. A leader who constantly changes their mind will often leave behind an emotional wake of resentment.

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Mastering Innovation Challenges: A Roadmap for Success

innosabi Innovation Insights

During the deep dive sessions of innosabi connect, our annual customer meeting, innosabi’s Customer Success Managers and customers work together on best practices for current topics. One of this year’s focus was “Innovation challenges: Best practices for conducting successful crowd innovation” Innovation challenges are increasingly popular among organizations looking to harness collective intelligence and […] Der Beitrag Mastering Innovation Challenges: A Roadmap for Success er

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The Purpose of a Team Leader: 7 Roles and Responsibilities

CMOE

Team leaders wield significant influence over team performance. Whether they’re leading small, specialized teams or overseeing large-scale operations, today’s leaders must navigate a complex array of responsibilities that can vary dramatically based on the scope of their role. Beyond simple oversight, team leaders must effectively adapt their approach to meet the needs of their team as they work to achieve organizational objectives.

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We need to change the story on the Energy Ecosystem

Innovating4Energy

I find Mind Maps as a great tool to think, record and review my thoughts. Within a recent evaluation of my positioning in contributing to the energy transition I drew up a series of approaches to undertaking changing the Energy Ecosystem. We need to build out the bigger Energy Ecosystem story. In my opinion , the burning need is to recast Energy into a new Energy Ecosystem.

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.

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Data Collectives Are the Next Frontier of Labor Relations

Harvard Business Review

The AI boom — and the growth of gen AI in particular — has introduced new points of conflict between employees and companies. Some of these have already started to play out, such as in the Writers Guild of America strike over how AI can and can’t be used in the entertainment industry. But others are still on the horizon. As AI becomes more integrated into business, high quality data for training AI becomes more valuable and a more important part of employees’ contribution.

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7 Hidden Internal Innovation Sources (With Examples)

innosabi Innovation Insights

Companies often get caught up chasing the latest trends, hoping the next big thing will give them an edge. But here’s the secret: the seeds of groundbreaking ideas might already be growing within your own walls. We’re talking about internal innovation sources – the kind that springs from your people, processes, and existing knowledge. […] Der Beitrag 7 Hidden Internal Innovation Sources (With Examples) erschien zuerst auf innosabi.

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BE PLANET FRIENDLY USE RENEWABLE ENERGY AND GO GREEN

ImagineNation

Let’s Think of the future as a giant, bold leap towards something better – and what’s better than saving some green while going green with renewable energy? The race is on to keep pace with the latest trends and be the trendsetter. And guess what? Moving your business into the renewable energy lane isn’t just smart—it’s an absolute must if we’re going to thrive in a world tightening up on resources.

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How to Nurture Innovation in the Workplace

Qmarkets

Companies that embrace workplace innovation are better equipped to adapt, grow, and outperform their rivals. However, fostering innovation isn’t just about coming up with new ideas. It requires a structured approach to encourage creativity, experimentation, and collaboration across teams. To thrive, organizations need to adopt proven methodologies that nurture a culture of innovation.

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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A Better Way to Measure Social Impact

Harvard Business Review

All impact investors report the financial returns from their funds and investments, and many provide metrics on intended social outcomes, such as numbers of individuals served, or quality jobs created. But investors do not supply metrics about their impacts on individuals’ and families’ lives, and until they do, social impact reporting is unlikely to approach the level of robustness associated with financial and environmental reporting.

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Innovating with Your Ecosystem and Managing Your Startup Portfolio

innosabi Innovation Insights

During the deep dive sessions of innosabi connect, our annual customer meeting, innosabi’s Customer Success Managers and customers work together on best practices for current topics. One of this year’s focus was “Innovate with your ecosystem and manage your Startup portfolio”. Why Innovate with Your Ecosystem? An innovation ecosystem is a dynamic network of companies, […] Der Beitrag Innovating with Your Ecosystem and Managing Your Startup Portfolio erschien zuerst auf innosabi.

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The Building Blocks of Connected Business Ecosystems

Ecosystems4Innovating

The Building Blocks of Business Ecosystems in thinking and design In a world where everything seems to be becoming complex, challenging or simply tough to make the necessary changes, we need to think differently. We need to collaborate and co-create and that comes from adopting the mindset of Business Ecosystems. Designing a shared strategic cooperation, recognizing everything needs or is interconnected to achieve a different market position we need to think differently.

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AI-Powered Innovation: Practical Examples & Best Practices – Video

Qmarkets

In this interactive webinar we showcase practical examples AI capabilities across various use-cases and scenarios, from strategic idea evaluation to image generation, and more. In this session, you'll see our product in action and gain insights into integrating these features across your own efforts.

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eCommerce in 2025: How Customer Experience Drives Online Retail Success

Speaker: Jennifer Wright and Nick Barron

2025 is right around the corner, and with it comes a new wave of consumer expectations, competitive pressures, and operational challenges. Success lies in finding the balance between operational flexibility and creating experiences that keep customers coming back. The future of retail belongs to those who can stay ahead of shifting customer preferences and marketing trends. 🔮 In this session, we’ll dive deep into what it takes to keep customers engaged and your operations nimble, no matt