Sat.Sep 28, 2024 - Fri.Oct 04, 2024

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The War On Innovation: How You Can Win, Dominate Your Market and Knock out the Competition

IdeaScale

What Is The War On Innovation The "War on Innovation" is the ongoing battle against a range of obstacles that slow or block technological and business advancements.

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To Lead Change, You Need To Shift From A Manager Mindset To A Changemaker Mindset

Digital Tonto

Most of the time, we operate with a manager mindset and that works fine. We build consensus and execute with predictable outcomes. Our colleagues are motivated, customers are satisfied and everybody is happy. In an era of disruption, however, it’s only a matter of time until we need to adapt and drive transformation. That’s never easy. To pull it off we need to shift from a manager mindset to a changemaker mindset in which we no longer assume an environment of predictability but explore unknowns

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Research: When Should Startups Scale?

Harvard Business Review

Silicon Valley often touts rapid scaling as the best strategy for achieving startup success. However, new research reveals that scaling early, particularly within the first 12 months, significantly raises the risk of startup failure, especially for two-sided platforms. The key takeaway for entrepreneurs: Be cautious with early scaling and prioritize a culture of experimentation.

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Supply Chains Belong at the Top of a CEO’s Agenda

Harvard Business Review

After the big Covid-19 whipsaw, the most obvious forms of supply chain distress started to fade away. But the relative peace and quiet that executives are perceiving is actually ominous. Under the surface, supply chain risk has become severe, systemic, and strategic. Addressing the risk cannot be left to procurement and operations teams alone, however smart and skillful they are.

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AI In Accounting: A Practical Roadmap For Smarter AP

Speaker: Gerald Ratigan

The accounts payable (AP) function is evolving and AI is leading the charge. As finance teams face rising invoice volumes and expectations for speed and accuracy, AI-powered automation has shifted from a futuristic concept to the most practical solution. But for finance leaders, success isn’t just about selecting the right tools, it’s about implementing the right strategy.

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How to find Opportunities to Unlock Significant Performance

Rmukesh Gupta

Premise One of the things that every leader is expected to do is to find ways to drive significant value from their teams. Good leaders are always trying to look for opportunities that can unlock significant value creation. If you know me at all, you know that I am a big fan of the work done by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, the creator of the “Theory of Constraints“ He had this belief that the biggest constraint that any business faces is Management attention.

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How Innovation Management Software Streamlines Resource Allocation: Maximizing ROI in Education

IdeaScale

In today’s education landscape, schools and universities are under increasing pressure to do more with less. Whether it’s optimizing budgets, improving operational efficiency, or enhancing the student experience, maximizing return on investment (ROI) is a top priority for educational institutions.

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Looking Beyond the Surface: Solving True Business Challenges with Anticipatory Thinking

Daniel Burrus

Innovation is not a seamless linear process. Introducing the next big idea or remarkable invention to the marketplace is full of starts and stops, progression and regression, and forward and backward movement. Each start and stop represents a unique business challenge. Amidst this complex journey, it is easy to get caught up in what seem to be the most pressing business problems, only to realize later that they were merely distractions.

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Shifting Gears: Transforming Traditional Automotive Software Delivery in the Digital Age

Planview

The automotive sector is undergoing a paradigm shift, transitioning from its traditional hardware focus to a software-centric industry. To remain relevant and competitive, automotive companies must embrace digital transformation across their operations. Adapting to technological innovations and making strategic decisions is key to thriving in this rapidly evolving environment.

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Advancing Astronomical Sciences: New AI Institutes Launched

IdeaScale

In an exciting development for the field of astronomy, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Simons Foundation have announced co-funding for two pioneering AI research institutes dedicated to astronomical sciences. This initiative aims to enhance our understanding of vast astronomical data, making it more accessible and intelligible across several partner universities.

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Five Secrets to Growing Talent

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski 1. Do it for them, then explain. When the work is new for them, they don’t know how to do it. You’ve got to show them how to do it and explain everything.

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AI-Enabled Robotics Software for Manufacturing Automation: Speeding Time-to-Value

Robots are a cornerstone of a smart factory, automating a wide range of manufacturing tasks that are monotonous, physically straining, or even hazardous. However, real-world robotics deployments have not lived up to the revolutionary potential the industrial sector had originally envisioned. Robot implementations are typically confined to specific applications, carry high costs, and are time-consuming.

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Leading Strategic Planning: Clarity, Confidence, and Productivity

Focused Momentum

For a strategic planning process to be viewed as successful, it has to guide decision-making - no easy task given the management landscape we exist in today. So, whether you're leading a corporate department, managing a nonprofit or business, or offering consulting services, understanding the nuances of strategic planning and the expectations of those it serves can be the difference between the failure or success of your planning efforts.

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The increasing need for Business Ecosystem Impact Coaching

Ecosystems4Innovating

Delivering Innovation and Business Ecosystem Impact Increasing business ecosystem capacity through coaching There are many benefits from having an intense course of one-on-one coaching, irrespective of the level of responsibility you have for innovation and business ecosystem thinking and designing within your organization. In some ways it builds upon a similar approach to management behavioral coaching, one that is designed to change perceptions, re-orientate your thinking and approach it opens

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Innovating Public Transit with Autonomous Electric Shuttles

IdeaScale

Across the U.S., autonomous shuttles are quietly making their way into transit systems, promising a new era of mobility. Several states, including Michigan, California, and Florida, are leading the charge with pilot projects that integrate small, electric, autonomous vehicles into their existing public transportation networks. A key ingredient to the success of these initiatives?

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The Cost of Surprising Customers

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Shep Hyken Surprising customers with something they weren’t expecting doesn’t have to be expensive. In many cases, it can be very inexpensive or even free.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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Empathy Under Pressure: How Empathetic Leadership Navigates Crisis with Clarity and Strength

Tullio Siragusa

Empathy Under Pressure: How Empathetic Leadership Navigates Crisis with Clarity andStrength In times of crisiswhether economic, reputational, or operationalleadership is tested not by how quickly you react, but by how deeply you connect. The instinct to control, to fix, to revert to command-and-control thinking is strong under pressure. But the leaders who stand out arent the loudest or most reactivetheyre the ones who listen first, act with purpose, and keep their people anchored in trust.

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Behind the Strategy: A Conversation with Ryan Brant, Senior ABM Manager 

Planview

At Planview, our mission is to build the future of connected work by empowering our customers and teams to excel in what matters most. Whether it’s driving innovation or enhancing customer engagement, collaboration, and dedication are essential to success. This brings us to our latest employee spotlight! Today, we are getting to know one of the seven Ryans at Planview — Ryan Brant, a Senior Account-Based Marketing Manager.

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What is Creativity in the Workplace? Definition, Importance, Examples, Benefits, and How to Foster Creativity in the Workplace

IdeaScale

Table of Contents What is Creativity in the Workplace? Creativity in the workplace is defined as the ability of individuals and teams to generate novel and useful ideas, solutions, and approaches to challenges.

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We Need to Solve the Productivity Crisis

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Greg Satell When politicians and pundits talk about the economy, they usually do so in terms of numbers. Unemployment is too high or GDP is too low. Inflation should be at this level or at that.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

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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Risk or Opportunity? Promoting Innovation in Your Organization

Innov8rs

Innov8rs | Dig into human psychology to help people take risks and make innovation the norm within your organization. Imagine this: you’re on a game show standing in front of three doors. Behind one of the doors is a prize, behind the other two, goats. You select a door. The host then opens one of the remaining doors to reveal a goat, and offers you a choice.

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Careful about Romanticizing Failure

Michael Roberto

Source: Vistage Have we come to romanticize failure at times in business and in the society at large? Perhaps we have. Is that detrimental to us at times? New research suggests that we should be careful about romanticizing failure. Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Kaitlin Woolley, Eda Erensoy, and Minhee Kim have published a paper titled "The Exaggerated Benefits of Failure" in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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Supercharge Your Community Engagement with Ideascale’s Kudos Feature

IdeaScale

In the world of innovation and idea management, motivation and engagement are key to driving success. Enter Kudos, Ideascale’s unique feature designed to foster a culture of appreciation and recognition within your community. Here’s everything you need to know about Kudos and how it can transform your engagement strategy. What Are Kudos?

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Four Keys to Mastering Active Listening

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from David Burkus Are you a good listener? You may think you’re a good listener—maybe someone even told you were a good listener. Or maybe not. As a leader, this is a very important question.

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Doing More With Less: The Modern Finance Miracle

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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Innovative Work Models for the Future with Flavio D. Strianese

The Bliss Business Podcast

In an ever-changing digital landscape, how can businesses stay ahead? What do the work models of the future look like, and how can they empower both employees and entrepreneurs? In this episode of The Bliss Business Podcast, we’re thrilled to speak with Flavio D. Strianese, Founder & CEO of Striano and Co-Founder of Rooms101.io. Flavio brings a wealth of experience from his dynamic career across law, hospitality, and tech to offer insights into how businesses can successfully navigate their

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Mastering Strategic Planning: Clarity, Confidence, and Productivity

Focused Momentum

For a strategic planning process to be viewed as successful, it has to guide decision-making - no easy task given the management landscape we exist in today. So, whether you're leading a corporate department, managing a nonprofit or business, or offering consulting services, understanding the nuances of strategic planning and the expectations of those it serves can be the difference between the failure or success of your planning efforts.

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Customer Co-Creation Models: How Businesses Innovate with Their Customers

IdeaScale

As businesses increasingly focus on innovation and customer-centric strategies, customer co-creation has emerged as a powerful way to involve customers in the product development process. By actively engaging customers in idea generation, design, and decision-making, companies can better understand market needs and create products or services that directly meet customer expectations.

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Who is More Creative – Women or Men?

Innovation Excellence

753 Studies Have the Answer GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton You were born creative. As an infant, you had to figure many things out—how to get fed or changed, get help or attention, and make a onesie covered in spit-up still look adorable. As you grew older, your creativity grew, too.

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Speeding Robotics Automation with AI

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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5 Year Innovation Forecast: Essential Technologies Shaping the Future of Business

eZassi

Future Technolog y Assessments for Industry Series An Analysis of the Technologies Transforming the Business Landscape In much the same way that Gutenberg revolutionized knowledge dissemination employing machine efficiency, today’s technological advancements are triggering a new paradigm shift across industries. Just as the printing press transformed communication and made information accessible at unprecedented levels, emerging technologies are reshaping industries like Consumer Packaged Goods

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Looking Beyond the Surface: Solving True Business Challenges with Anticipatory Thinking

Daniel Burrus

Innovation is not a seamless linear process. Introducing the next big idea or remarkable invention to the marketplace is full of starts and stops, progression and regression, and forward and backward movement. Each start and stop represents a unique business challenge. Amidst this complex journey, it is easy to get caught up in what seem to be the most pressing business problems, only to realize later that they were merely distractions.

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7 Key Steps to Develop a Leadership Mindset

CMOE

“What you think, you become.” This notion, attributed to Buddha’s wisdom, encapsulates the mindset of an effective leader—but what is a leadership mindset, and what does it entail? At its core, a leadership mindset is a set of beliefs and thought patterns that empower an individual to guide and inspire others toward achieving shared objectives. Embracing this mindset can transform the way you approach challenges and harness opportunities in your role.

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Top 10 Human-Centered Change & Innovation Articles of September 2024

Innovation Excellence

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?

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Breaking The Commerce Bottleneck: Your SAP Exit Plan Starts Now

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.