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Thought Leadership Red Light, Green Light: How to Navigate Success for Incubation Opportunities
November 29, 2024 | By Doug Williams, SmartOrg, Inc.
Doug Williams, Associate Director of Innovation at SmartOrg, highlights the challenges of navigating uncertainty during the incubation phase of innovation. He emphasizes prioritizing learning over avoiding risk, leveraging tools like ranges of assumptions and targeted experiments to de-risk opportunities.
Thought Leadership Developing a New Corporate Innovation Model to Commercialize Decarbonization Technologies
November 29, 2024 | By Satish Rao, Newlab
Satish Rao, Chief Science Officer at Newlab, outlines a new corporate innovation model to scale decarbonization technologies and meet ambitious 2030 sustainability goals. He emphasizes aligning innovation teams with clear mandates, integrating decision-making with CFO oversight, and evolving value chains through collaboration.
Article Perplexity Launches AI-Powered Shopping Tools
November 26, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
On November 18th, startup Perplexity released a shopping tool for its Pro-level subscribers called "Buy With Pro." And a week later, they released their mobile app to make the shopping experience integrated with the camera, a feature they call "Snap to Shop." Similar to Google’s Lens, you take a picture...
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call December 13th: The Future of Corporate-Startup Partnerships
In this webinar, Chris Hillock of Dell Technologies Capital will discuss the shifting dynamics between corporates and startups, with a focus on how these partnerships are adapting to new challenges, emerging technologies, and evolving market demands.
Article How SAP Created a ‘Safe Zone’ for Experiments
November 19, 2024 | By Claus von Riegen
The software giant SAP employs more than 100,000 people globally, and employees are able to test-drive new product ideas with customers, almost like startup founders. Head of Strategy Claus von Riegen explains how it works.
Article CarMax CTO: Advice on Setting Product Teams Up for Success
November 15, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
Shamim Mohammad is Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Technology Officer at CarMax. We spoke with Mohammad about leveraging AI to deliver reliable results, successfully structuring technical teams for innovation, and more.
Article Slack Report: AI Investment Continues as Worker Enthusiasm Wanes
November 14, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
A new report from Slack finds that while AI investment and urgency continues, worker enthusiasm and adoption is slowing. Why?
On Demand Webcast Accelerating Venture Creation with AI
November 12, 2024
How can startups and large companies build new ventures better and faster using AI tools? In this webcast replay, Dave Blakely of Mach49 demonstrates how to accelerate customer research with synthetic personas identify customer pain-points and pain hypotheses with AI support; and visualize solutions using AI tools. He was joined...
Article The White House Says All Agencies Should Have a Chief AI Officer. Should You?
November 8, 2024 | By Scott Cohen
Last week, the White House published a memorandum on advancing US leadership in artificial intelligence. We unpack what it means for the country — and for corporations.
Article McKinsey Report: 18 New Arenas for Competition, from Streaming to Space
November 5, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
Arenas, as opposed to industrial sectors, are where the biggest bets are being made in R&D and the locus of much new value creation. Here's our summary of a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute.
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call November 21st: Test Assumptions with AI to Invest Less in Bad Ideas
Why do bad ideas get funded? The answer is usually in how you tested them. In this webinar, leaders from Disruptive Edge and Aucctus will share the systematic testing process used to help brands like Walmart test their assumptions and launch winning ideas.
Article Book Excerpt: 50 Proven Innovation Methodologies and Techniques
November 4, 2024 | By Gijs van Wulfen
Using a proven methodology creates confidence and trust among those who work with it, while also lowering the barrier of risk aversion, Gijs van Wulfen writes in a new book.
Article What Electric Forklifts Can Teach Us About EV Adoption
November 1, 2024 | By Michael Gaylen, Concentric
In the last three decades, operations leaders and facility managers worldwide have made significant progress in making the switch from traditionally-powered forklifts to electric. This period of change has provided useful lessons we can apply to understanding the evolution of the electric vehicle space, writes Michael Gaylen of Concentric.
Article Accenture Report: 5 Key Trends for 2025 as People Seek a Healthier Relationship with Tech
October 31, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
A new Accenture Song report identifies five key trends for 2025 as people seek a healthier relationship with technology.
Article BCG Report: AI Leader Companies are Already Reaping Tangible Results
October 30, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
A new report from BCG finds that companies moving forward quickly with AI are seeing 50 percent greater revenue growth and 60 percent higher total shareholder returns.
Article Shaping Product Experience with AI at Extreme Networks
October 29, 2024 | By Scott Cohen
Carla Guzzetti, SVP of Product Experience and Innovation at Extreme Networks, discusses how AI-driven innovation and customer-centric design are shaping the future of networking. She describes AI as a key enable of product experience and explains how her team is leveraging AI for improving workflow efficiency, addressing IT staffing shortages,...
Article Perplexity Gets Sued by NewsCorp
October 28, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
In the GenAI era, tech companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, and Runway are coming under fire for doing almost the exact same thing Google does when it "crawls" websites to allow users to find content on them.
Article My Advice: Connecting Innovation to Profitable Growth
October 18, 2024 | By Alexis Rolloff, Government Employees Health Association (GEHA)
To drive profitable growth, innovation must align with business outcomes, says Alexis Rolloff, Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at GEHA. Many programs fall into "innovation theater," but success lies in using the right KPIs, avoiding common pitfalls, and fostering a supportive ecosystem.
Article Book Excerpt: What Makes Change Agents and Leaders Successful
October 15, 2024 | By Brian Solis
Driving true digital transformation requires empowering change agents —individuals within organizations who spot opportunities for disruption and take action, even without formal authority. Read more from author Brian Solis' new book, "Mindshift."
Thought Leadership Encouraging Innovation in a Multi-Generational Workforce
October 15, 2024 | By Tracy Keele, KPMG
As your organization strives for greater innovation, you may be wondering: How do generational differences affect a culture and people’s willingness and ability to think and behave in new ways? What should leaders know and understand about each generation to encourage more creativity, more breaking through the status quo?