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At the SAP Sapphire conference this week, correspondent Curtis Michelson sat down with Dr. Walter Sun, the software company's Global Head of , to talk about hackathons, agents, and "prompt optimization."

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Check out our exclusive excerpt from the new book "Innovation is Ugly," by marketing and innovation exec Tina Lambert. Should you throw out your funnel, and replace it with a calendar?

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Coming up Wed @ 10 AM ET: Join us to hear how ICL, one of the leading global manufacturers of speciality minerals and fertilizers, has moved beyond traditional innovation frameworks to generate:

5000+ ideas
1000+ projects
+$250 million in annual operating income
+$1 billion in forecasted ROI

May 21st: How ICL is Constantly Reinventing Innovation Management to Drive Incredible Results - InnoLead Learn about digital co-workers in a live webcast with NotedSource and Carnegie Mellon University

Just published: Our series on the things that consultants and advisors don't always say to their clients.

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We get a two-years-in progress report on the Pentagon's OnRamp Hub Program from Acting Director Cassie Muffley.

How the US Dept. of Defense is Making Open Innovation Work - InnoLead The OnRamp program at the US Military’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) got started in 2023 as an effort to lower the barriers for non-traditional technology companies that wanted to work with the Department of Defense (DoD) — but weren’t already suppliers. We talk with Cassie Muffley, Acting Di...

Data from our most recent webcast, with Kofi Gyasi of NotedSource and Dr. Anand Rao of Carnegie Mellon.

If you believe your company's adoption of has been suboptimal, why?

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Do you know the difference between a stakeholder, hateholder, and fakeholder? Bill Shander explains in this excerpt from his new book, "Stakeholder Whispering."

Book Excerpt: Secrets of Stakeholder Whispering "Stakeholder Whispering requires identifying your stakeholders," writes Bill Shander. "But it is also about making sure your stakeholders identify and recognize (and prioritize) their stakeholders." Read the excerpt...

We look at some of the recent announcements / internal memos from Duolingo, Shopify, Microsoft, McKinsey & Company, and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and discuss how they will impact the world of consulting, contracting work, and corporate innovation.

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Are you finding the best vendors and providers for your projects? We can help — just reach out for matchmaking support.

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"My very first [AI] use cases were all around investments," says Andrew Chin, Chief AI Officer at AllianceBernstein. "How can we improve the decision-making on the investment side?"

More about how he's setting strategy at the global investment management firm here

AllianceBernstein’s CAIO is Shaping the Future of Investment Management with AI - InnoLead We spoke with Chief AI Officer Andrew Chin recently about how his company has been using AI, what results he has seen with the technology and what areas of opportunity he wants to explore as he uses AI to transform employees’ workflow in the years ahead.