Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 2, 2025
An annual survey of Fortune 1000 and global business leaders shows how companies are doubling down on data projects that they’ve struggled with in the past.
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 2, 2025
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken You cant argue with the evidence. Being easy to do business with attracts new customers, keeps existing customers and gives you a competitive advantage. Consider what we learned in our customer service and Customer Experience research (sponsored by RingCentral). Each year, convenience ranks as the most important customer service experience.
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Our readers share their best leadership advice from 2024.
Leapfrogging
DECEMBER 30, 2024
As the business world keeps spinning and flipping on a dime, leaders got to stay sharp to keep up with the fast pace of change. Adapting to new ideas, gadgets, and hiccups is a must to create a buzzing workplace. Being a good leader isn’t a one-and-done deal; it’s about constantly brushing up on skills to tackle what’s thrown at them.
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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.
Daniel Burrus
DECEMBER 30, 2024
AI-powered innovation transformed industries, drove unprecedented levels of efficiency, creativity, and profitability in 2024. As AI tools become increasingly more sophisticated, they will continue to redefine traditional business models and create opportunities for seamless integration between technology and human expertise. Amid this transformative wave, many leaders wonder: Will AI-driven innovation replace traditional business processes entirely?
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 31, 2024
GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton We identified four opportunities for market expansion, all adjacent to our current business, and entry into any one of them is almost guaranteed to materially grow our business. But no one is doing anything. I wanted to be surprised.
Business Innovation Brief brings together the best content for business innovation and strategy professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Acuvate
JANUARY 3, 2025
Introduction In the fast-paced business environment, effective communication is essential for ensuring smooth operations. Whether it’s handling order modifications, tracking shipments, or addressing maintenance requests, email remains a vital channel for information exchange. However, managing the sheer volume and variety of emails can overwhelm teams, resulting in delays, errors, and inefficiencies in managing critical tasks.
eZassi
JANUARY 2, 2025
How Digital Twins Technology is Impacting Industry Innovation and Driving Change Digital Twins enable simulation, testing, and optimization across industries like CPG and Manufacturing, Aerospace & Defense, and Energy. Innovative companies across various industries are increasingly recognizing the transformative potential of digital twin technology.
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 3, 2025
After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2024: Greg Satell Greg Satell is a popular speaker and consultant.
IdeaScale
JANUARY 2, 2025
Every organization aspires to innovate, but achieving meaningful innovation often feels elusive. Teams brainstorm, gather feedback, and implement ideasbut somehow, the most promising opportunities slip through the cracks. The problem isnt a lack of ideas; its the absence of a clear process to manage them. The missing piece? An idea management system.
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.
Acuvate
JANUARY 3, 2025
The manufacturing sector is on the brink of a transformative era, driven by advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins, and IoT-enabled Smart Factories. These innovations are reshaping the industrys landscape by allowing manufacturers to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and agility. As we look toward 2025 and beyond, adopting smart manufacturing is no longer optional; it is essential for maintaining competitiveness in a rapidly evolving market.
eZassi
DECEMBER 30, 2024
The Game-Changing Potential of Advanced Materials The Future of Advanced Materials in Consumer Goods, Energy, and Emerging Technologies In the fast-paced world of technology, advanced materials are playing a pivotal role in reshaping industries. From consumer packaged goods (CPG) and life sciences to energy, defense and aerospace, innovations in materials sciencesuch as self-healing polymers, bio-based materials, and nanostructuresare enabling groundbreaking applications.
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 1, 2025
How to Optimize the Latest Major Digital Touchpoint GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky Conversational commerce means interacting with your customer in an automated dialog via voice or text. Usage of voice-based conversational interfaces such as Alexa and Siri have been exploding for years.
IdeaScale
DECEMBER 29, 2024
In today's competitive landscape, where nearly 80% of companies prioritize innovation (BCG), it's crucial to have the right tools and processes in place to effectively identify and capitalize on new opportunities.
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.
Innovators Alliance
JANUARY 2, 2025
As we head into a new year, its a natural time for reflection and planning. For entrepreneurs, especially those leading small and medium-sized businesses, this season presents a powerful opportunity to set intentions that will guide your decisions and actions throughout 2025. These intentions are more than just goals; theyre a declaration of your focus, values, and vision for the year ahead.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 3, 2025
Corporate executives often use war metaphors like declaring war on the competition to project strength and confidence in their strategies. Research reveals that these aggressive metaphors may provoke negative reactions from a critical audience: financial analysts. After analyzing nearly 1,000 acquisition announcements, the authors find that war-related language tends to trigger negative reactions from analysts, who see it as a sign of excessive risk.
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 3, 2025
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski All-or-nothing thinking is exciting well launch a whole new product family all at once and take the market by storm! But its also dangerous if we have one small hiccup, all turns into nothing in a heartbeat.
Acuvate
JANUARY 2, 2025
The manufacturing sector is on the brink of a transformative era, driven by advanced technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Twins, and IoT-enabled Smart Factories. These innovations are reshaping the industrys landscape by allowing manufacturers to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and agility. As we look toward 2025 and beyond, adopting smart manufacturing is no longer optional; it is essential for maintaining competitiveness in a rapidly evolving market.
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.
Daniel Burrus
DECEMBER 30, 2024
AI-powered innovation transformed industries, drove unprecedented levels of efficiency, creativity, and profitability in 2024. As AI tools become increasingly more sophisticated, they will continue to redefine traditional business models and create opportunities for seamless integration between technology and human expertise. Amid this transformative wave, many leaders wonder: Will AI-driven innovation replace traditional business processes entirely?
Innovation 360 Group
DECEMBER 28, 2024
2025: A Year for Bold Action Face challenges head-on with the 2025 Innovation Planner by MD Kasia Hein-Peters. Spark creativity, drive change, and lead with Innovation360 methodologies. Transform potential into impact today. The post Welcome to 2025: A Year for Bold, Radical Innovation appeared first on Innovation360.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 30, 2024
GUEST POST from Greg Satell All too often, we see change as a communication exercise. We think that if people really understood our idea, they would embrace it. In this view, bringing about change is really just a matter of messaging.
Acuvate
JANUARY 1, 2025
Introduction In the fast-paced business environment, effective communication is essential for ensuring smooth operations. Whether it’s handling order modifications, tracking shipments, or addressing maintenance requests, email remains a vital channel for information exchange. However, managing the sheer volume and variety of emails can overwhelm teams, resulting in delays, errors, and inefficiencies in managing critical tasks.
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.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 2, 2025
Employees with children have to make calculated decisions about who they interact with, and when, in order to both produce high-quality work and make time for caregiving. Research shows they tend to do this by avoiding interactions, like turning down invites to lunch; hiding from coworkers by working at home or even sneaking off to the bathroom at a time when everyone else is in a work meeting; organizing interactions strategically by booking meetings back-to-back so that they can promptly end a
Michael Roberto
DECEMBER 28, 2024
Here are some of the thought-provoking and interesting books that I've read in 2024. I hope you enjoy taking a look at some of these stimulating reads.
Idea to Value
JANUARY 2, 2025
First things firstHappy New Year! May your 2025 be bursting with creativity, innovation, and just the right amount of caffeine to fuel all your brilliant ideas. Now, lets address the elephant (or rather, the toddler) in the room. You may have noticed the blog was a little… quieter last year. I know, I knowfewer posts, less witty banter, and not nearly enough unsolicited advice on creativity.
Innovation Excellence
DECEMBER 29, 2024
GUEST POST from David Burkus Conflict on a team is inevitable. On diverse teams, where individuals come from varying backgrounds and possess differing opinions, those opinions will clash often in the form of disagreements and conflicts.
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Each yeah, HBR produces dozens of videos that cover a wide array of business and work topics, ranging from research-based business theory, to wisdom from top performers in their fields, to nitty-gritty tactics for surviving another day in an imperfect world of work. We took a look at our 10 most popular videos made in 2024, and noticed a couple themes emerging.
Leapfrogging
DECEMBER 30, 2024
Let’s get real: team building isn’t just a corporate buzzwordit’s the real deal for shaking up how organizations tick. When the big shots start giving the nod to team-building shenanigans, it sparks better chat, smoother teamwork, and that warm fuzzy feeling of getting your crew together on the same page. Sure, it sounds cliche, but it’s the secret sauce to snagging those big business wins.
Rmukesh Gupta
DECEMBER 30, 2024
In this video, I share some insights on solving tough problems as a leader. The biggest mistake is the temptation to start working on solving the problem as soon as it is identified. What manifests as a problem is usually a symptom of a problem creeping in elsewhere. So, solving that symptom will only lead you to a different problem cropping up elsewhere.
Innovation Excellence
JANUARY 2, 2025
Wow! Exciting news for the new year! My publisher is having a holiday flash sale that will allow you to get the hardcover or the digital version (eBook) of my latest best-selling book Charting Change for 50% off to arm yourself with the very best tools for 2025 change planning!
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AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
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