All five things articles

Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Getting Real Business Value from AI
November 13, 2025 | By Stephanie Creech, Ezassi
Stephanie Creech of Ezassi highlights five principles for turning AI into real business value: grounding data, enabling autonomy, orchestrating tools, ensuring transparency, and focusing on measurable impact. She shows how Ezassi’s RAG + Agentic AI systems move organizations from experimentation to scalable results. This article is part of the Pointers...
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most for Delivering Innovation Impact
November 13, 2025 | By Michelle Martino, Qmarkets
Michelle Martino of Markets identifies five essentials for innovation impact: clear outcomes, strong alliances, leveraged assets, scalable processes, and purpose-built platforms. She shows how organizations can move beyond “innovation theatre” to achieve measurable, strategic results. This article is part of the Pointers 2025 edition, The Five Things That Matter Most.
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Building an Innovation Engine
November 13, 2025 | By Chris Townsend, Wellspring
Chris Townsend of Wellspring highlights five essentials for a scalable innovation engine: visibility, strategic focus, governance, speed, and rigor. Leading organizations treat innovation as a disciplined growth strategy, turning ideas into measurable results through clear structure and confident execution. This article shows how operational focus transforms creativity into lasting business...
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Getting Real Business Value from AI
November 13, 2025 | By Parker Lee, Territory, Inc.
Parker Lee of Territory identifies five essentials for turning AI pilots into business value: clear strategy, empowered people, scalable processes, living data, and business-defined success. It is part of the Pointers 2025 edition, The Five Things That Matter Most.
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most when Venture Building
November 13, 2025 | By Molly Cross, Alloy Partners
Molly Cross of Alloy Partners outlines five essentials for corporations building startups —governance, talent, incentives, corporate advantage, and metrics. She shows how clear structure, entrepreneurial teams, and flexible funding drive aligned yet independent growth, turning corporate strengths into lasting innovation and measurable impact. This article is part of the Pointers...
Thought Leadership AI in Practice: The 5 Most Effective Ways AI is Accelerating Corporate Innovation
November 13, 2025 | By Vincent Atallah, Aucctus AI
Vincent Atallah of Aucctus outlines five ways AI accelerates corporate innovation —aligning ideas with strategy, validating concepts, identifying risks, testing efficiently, and systematizing workflows. He shows how AI brings speed, structure, and confidence to innovation. This article is part of the Pointers 2025 edition, The Five Things That Matter Most.
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Modern R&D
November 13, 2025 | By Dr. Tassilo Henike, ITONICS
Dr. Tassilo Henike of ITONICS highlights five ways to modernize R&D for competitive advantage: adopting agile steering, using venture-style funding, embedding AI as a collaborative partner, running parallel experiments, and prioritizing near-term, high-impact initiatives. He shows how leading organizations move from rigid workflows to flexible, data-driven, and innovation-focused research.
Thought Leadership The 5 Things that Matter Most About Working with Your CSM to Unlock Platform Value
November 13, 2025 | By Hanna Zöller, innosabi
Hanna Zöller of innosabi highlights five ways to unlock true value from innovation platforms: building relationships, anticipating needs, aligning tools with processes, fostering community, and maintaining consistent communication. She shows how effective CSM partnerships turn software adoption into measurable innovation outcomes.
Thought Leadership 5 Things that Matter Most About Helping Employees Feel Empowered, Not Overpowered, by AI
November 13, 2025 | By Dr. Oana-Maria Pop, HYPE Innovation
Although AI is mostly taking over the boring stuff, it still leaves many of us wondering: what’s our role in the grand innovation management scheme? Oana-Maria Pop of HYPE Innovation has thoughts...
Thought Leadership 5 Things that Matter Most About New Business Investment Decision Making
November 9, 2025 | By Jim Bodio, BRI Associates
Jim Bodio of BRI Associates outlines five essentials for smarter business investment decisions: clear criteria, focused strategy, right-sized analysis, disciplined decision hygiene, and actionable outcomes. He shows how structure and evidence help companies take smarter risks and act decisively.