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Imaginatik CEO publishes groundbreaking business book

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BOSTON – May 29, 2018 – Imaginatik today announced the publication of a groundbreaking new business book, Topple – The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth. A changed competitive environment creates new rules and steps to take — as useful for start-ups as for mid-market firms and global brands. “The

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Cosmetic vs. Strategic Innovation

Imaginatik

This happens when business leaders convert innovation efforts back into more familiar territories like operational excellence, cost reduction, market expansion, etc. Many companies, however, have taken a more aggressive approach to creating an innovation competency. So, how do you make innovation a strategic pillar?

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What’s New In Corporate Innovation 11 January 2018

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This article demonstrates how the Jet.com acquisition has given Walmart access to a whole new, upmarket clientele – including the $600bn annual millennial consumer market – and also strengthened their e-commerce operation. Whether this is enough to avoid falling margins and diminished market share remains to be seen.

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Strengthening the Organization and Accelerating Value – a fresh look at Capability Building

Imaginatik

Embedding an effective innovation program in your company requires a fresh look at capabilities. We find that very few – if any – large companies are truly set up to enable innovation to do battle with how the business landscape is evolving. Changes in companies. How will that bring new players into the market?

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Part 1: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

One thing has changed in the past 10 years: innovation has evolved from being “ a ” core driver to now being “ the ” core driver. Develop stronger marketing and branding. CEOs also see the necessity for, and perhaps the inevitability of large-scale, transformative change in just about every facet of their companies.

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Beneath the Jargon: where "transformation" meets innovation

Imaginatik

Transformation, at its core, reflects changes in the economic, technology and behavioral logics of an industry. Changes in these logics mean that the ‘same old, same old’ ways of doing business no longer works with the blunt reality that lots of businesses are optimized for a competitive world that no longer exists.

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Slaying the Two-Track Innovation Agenda

Imaginatik

Two real-world cases are instructive: An international food-service company created a VP Global Innovation position to refresh their food products, packaging, and market approach. Yet nearly two years later, there was still nothing launched in market. On the surface, both of the example companies did everything right.