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  On Demand WebcastFrom Prompts to Profits: How Generative AI is Transforming Innovation

  February 10, 2025

  This webcast replay features Jan Beranek, Founder of FifthRow, and serial entrepreneur Paul Campbell exploring real-world examples of businesses leveraging generative AI to drive creativity, streamline processes, and unlock new opportunities.
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  ArticleBook Excerpt: An Example of an Amazon-Style PRFAQ Doc

  February 10, 2025 | By Marcelo Calbucci

  Used often inside Amazon, "a PRFAQ (Press Release + Frequently Asked Question) is a framework for articulating in writing an innovation, capturing the key facts, assumptions, and hypotheses for strategic decision making," writes Marcelo Calbucci. Here's an example...
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  ArticleStart with the ABCs to Get Better Performance From Your Team

  February 7, 2025 | By Paula Davis, Stress & Resilience Institute

  There are three essential nutrients at the heart of thriving, intrinsic motivation, engagement, and high performance at work, writes Paula Davis in her new book. They are autonomy, belonging, and challenge. Read our exclusive excerpt.
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  ArticleThe Innovation Game: Can You Make Innovation a Lasting Capability?

  February 6, 2025

  If corporate innovation can sometimes feel like a game, it's one set to hard mode. Success requires relationship-building, resource-gathering, and constant learning to make it past the traps and pitfalls you’ll inevitably encounter. Download the large-format discussion document...
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  ArticleMcKinsey Report Finds Employees Moving Faster with AI Than Leaders

  February 3, 2025 | By Steven Melendez

  Among those who said their organizations are moving too slow, the biggest reason for moving was "talent skill gaps," which 46 percent cited. An overview of the January 2025 report is inside...
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  ArticleHow to Use a Reverse Income Statement to Assess Experiments

  February 3, 2025 | By Wim Vandenhouweele

  How to use a simplified version of a Reverse Income Statement to define and value the experiment's key assumption(s). Includes a downloadable spreadsheet example.
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  ResourceCarMax: Inside a Massive Digital Transformation

  January 23, 2025

  This 33-slide PPT and related video tackle the question of innovating over the long-term, with lots of concrete examples, and references to the approaches of Thomas Edison, Clayton Christensen, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, among others.
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  ArticleDeloitte Report: Mistakes and Phantom Value are the Biggest Impediments to AI Adoption

  January 23, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson

  “While the C-suite has been slower to engage in AI implementation," a new report from Deloitte finds, "teams across the company are developing proofs-of-concept and driving AI adoption.” More inside...
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  ResourceBayer: Innovation for the Long-Term Slide Deck and Video

  January 23, 2025

  This 33-slide PPT and related video tackle the question of innovating over the long-term, with lots of concrete examples, and references to the approaches of Thomas Edison, Clayton Christensen, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, among others.
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  ResourceInnovation Stage Gate Playbook and Workshop Deck

  January 23, 2025

  Developed for use at a high-profile media company, this 29-page PDF playbook is "a reference to guide you through a repeatable end to end innovation approach."
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  ArticleThe Top 10 Biggest US Companies: What They’re Doing with AI and GenAI

  January 21, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson

  We’ve assembled this list of the top 10 US-based companies by revenue, focusing on how they’re seeking to leverage AI and generative AI in their businesses. These use cases span both internal operational and external customer-facing initiatives. AI “agents” are emerging as a theme — but they aren’t as dominant as...
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  On Demand WebcastFrom Launch to Legacy: Building Innovation Programs That Endure

  January 20, 2025

  This webcast replay looks at data from the recent InnoLead research initiative "Making Innovation an Enduring Capability," with insights from Ludwig Melik of HYPE Innovation and Gavin McClafferty of Subsea7, a subsea engineering, construction, and services company.
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  VideoMarc Raibert on the Converging Fields of AI and Robotics

  January 15, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  "We want to really figure out what are the big problems that are that are holding robots back. And believe me, robots are held back," Marc Raibert said at Impact 2024. "They're not the success that other technologies are yet." Watch the video...
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  VideoVideo: Former Disney Exec Bob Weis on Innovating Over Decades

  January 15, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  One of the things Weis discusses in this video from Impact 2024 is the relationship between the creative and design teams at Imagineering, and the operators who run Disney's theme parks, hotels, and cruise ships.
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  ArticleLinking Innovation, Corporate VC, and M&A at Allegion

  January 14, 2025 | By Steven Melendez

  Allegion reshaped its innovation ecosystem by emphasizing deep internal engagement—from rapid prototyping in its Pin & Tumbler studio to a part-time corporate venture structure. We speak with Robert Martens, Allegion’s chief innovation and design officer and president of Allegion Ventures, about how this approach fuels successful ventures, keeps employees invested,...
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  ArticleUse InnoLeadGPT to Get Answers to Your Questions

  January 14, 2025

  We've created a chatbot interface to a portion of InnoLead’s content. You can ask it anything related to corporate innovation — and like ChatGPT, you can follow up with instructions on how you'd like it to expand upon or refine its answers.
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  ArticleQuiz: Generative AI Terms and Concepts

  January 9, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson

  This quiz on GenAI will help you quickly self-assess your ability to be conversant with both the technical and business teams in your organization.
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  ArticleHow Uber is Leveraging GenAI for ‘Zero Touch’ and ‘One Touch’ Customer Support

  January 9, 2025 | By Paulina Karpis, B Capital

  As Uber’s Director of Global Content for Community Operations, Hadley Ferguson has spent 12 years shaping the company’s support experience. We talk with Ferguson about leveraging GenAI to transform customer support, fostering team adoption of new technologies, and building successful partnerships with startups to meet the needs of a global...
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  VideoNTT Corp.’s Vito Mabrucco on the Difference Between Invention and Innovation

  January 7, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  Trevor Anulewicz of Launch by NTT DATA and Vito Mabrucco of NTT Corporation were featured mainstage speakers at this past fall's Impact conference in Cambridge. They discussed the importance of differentiating invention from innovation.
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  Research ReportMaking Innovation an Enduring Capability

  January 6, 2025

  This new research initiative looks at how organizations build and invest in innovation capabilities to achieve competitive advantage over the long-term.