Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

Recent conversations with a new Imaginatik client, from late 2017, have stuck with me these past few months. The resulting changes in ecosystem dynamics could erode their margins, depress the stock price, and perhaps put them out of business. Throwing around world-changing ideas is super fun – but that’s the easy part.

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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Working for more than two decades helping companies develop sustainable practices of innovation, Imaginatik has profound experience in achieving successful results through engaging programs. We use eight different tools for different purposes , both to achieve breakthrough innovations or incremental innovation.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Many of us innovation practitioners have found that the business topic of innovation is increasingly devolving into a search for that one magic idea that will change your enterprise, sort of like a more mature version of Pokemon-Go. This ratio of ideas to return on investment leaves many innovation practitioners with a business case problem.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 25, 2016

At Imaginatik we are fortunate to work with a number of clients that have world-class innovation programs. Most industry-changing ideas, in fact, have been formed and reformed - built on over time by diverse, cross-functional teams. So, how do you make innovation a strategic pillar?

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This article discusses the need to put the citizens, rather than the technology, at the core of the requisite changes. However, much like ‘innovating from the core’ within an enterprise, in order for cities to access the best data to drive positive change, they need to be people focused or ‘citizen-centric’.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 30, 2016

A year or two ago, Imaginatik calculated the average job tenure of the Chief Innovation Officer at less than two years. But if true, two years is a very short period of time to effect meaningful change – and a substantially shorter average tenure than many other senior corporate roles. create the story) and b) create evangelists (i.e.,

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Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 17, 2017

One thing has changed in the past 10 years: innovation has evolved from being “ a ” core driver to now being “ the ” core driver. CEOs also see the necessity for, and perhaps the inevitability of large-scale, transformative change in just about every facet of their companies. 50% are currently attempting to change their culture.

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Imaginatik

MAY 19, 2015

Floating Cities…(on water as a response to climate change/flooding). Major Changes in World Economic System Challenges Political Order. Manufacturing Comes Alive (biological inputs). Orbital Solar Power. Household Waste Taxation. Landfills Obsolete. Robots Help Elderly in Nursing Homes.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 15, 2018

As the demarcation between the physical and online retail markets evaporates with changes in consumer (shopping) habits, they are combining Walmart’s market leading, physical infrastructure and exploration into new technologies with Jet.com’s premium brand portfolio and highly customer centric focus.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 25, 2018

As we head on in to the 2 nd month of the year, this post highlights recent articles on hot topics that are shaping and changing the future not only of innovation and the tech space, but of our lives. Digital transformation is a global phenomenon and a universal disruption, changing every industry and every sector.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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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Imaginatik

AUGUST 3, 2016

Clearly, there are many ways to skin the cat of sustainability – with, I believe, Naomi Klein’s recent book, This Changes Everything , extremely compelling and provocative in terms of the topic being both important and urgent. How could it not? The logic of this question further takes you down another profound path with material implications.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 10, 2018

That will change. It is an active process that changes over time. These trends, among others, will affect how the Corporate-Startup environment changes over the next decades. The processes, methods and tools the corporations and startups use will also change. State of the Corporate-Startup Environment.

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Yet despite a new CEO and broad support for change, no new business model took hold, and the experiment was deemed a failure. But the bigger changes they needed never materialized. To sidestep the more wrenching changes, many leaders try to instill innovation practices at a safe distance from their core operations.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 7, 2018

The world of corporate innovation changes quickly. Imaginatik’s take: The rise of mobile-connected big data is kicking into hyperdrive. Important applications are coming online that may change society in areas ranging from healthcare, to transportation, to finance, and beyond. Hello everyone!

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Digital transformation – ‘everything’ is changing and will become automated to the greatest extent, driving new customer expectations and experiences. Changes in companies. With companies changing, what will be the impact to each of us as individuals? The Impact of Digital Transformation on People.

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Imaginatik

APRIL 12, 2018

But with May 25th and the implementation of General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, set to unify regulation across the continent, Tech giants across the globe have been working tirelessly to introduce new measures and adapt products to protect their customers and comply with regulations that are changing the way the internet works for everyone.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 10, 2016

New sources of value, and distinctive market impact results from seeing – and executing – on what few have - in response to changing circumstances, shifts in technology and business affordances… and asking new (types of) questions. But, influence it we can. Again, we don’t know what the future will look like. We do know two things, however.

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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 7, 2016

He recognized that the “same old, same old” methods of engaging with his customers were changing. Reminds me of the sage saying, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”). The impact of my interruption?

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

These new models – and their resulting 4x – require insight into where value is being created and destroyed in the ecosystems in which you, and your customers are engaged – and taking advantage of the opportunities that these changes create. Take this back to open innovation.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Do you truly have the desire to change the status quo at your company? . • Do your idea/s address something that is in alignment with your business strategy? with your stakeholders? • Is there an opportunity to create an additional revenue stream? Do you have the resources to pursue that? •

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Imaginatik

JULY 12, 2016

As a response, Imaginatik recently published a webinar recording that explores key ‘scale-up’ issues inside the corporation, including: Why the mere adoption of Lean Startup and Business Model Canvas is not sufficient. The best way to address climate and culture change over the long term.

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Blockbuster lost out to DVR, On-Demand, streaming services amongst other new technologies that changed the way we consume movies and television. Blackberry was the leader in advanced phone technology before it was eventually trounced by the iPhone and Android.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

For example, innovation is also leveraged to drive culture change – but how is that really being measured and monitored? Demonstrating the effects of a strong innovation program typically depend on active involvement from other units and functions in the company.

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

It will be different: technologies change, new competitors arise, regulations shift, customer expectations evolve, and so on. Clearly, we can never know what the future will look like. However, we can, and do, know two things: First, whatever we think the future will look like, it won’t. that give rise to them.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

On the other hand, if these functions were to focus on curating business problems and issues rather than passively gathering internally focused requirements, the prospects may change. The term ‘broker’ is apt in that an ideation platform used as this medium is really the exchange between talent liquidity and problem liquidity.

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Imaginatik

MAY 3, 2018

This follow-on article explores their research and investigations into the bias that affects even cutting-edge AI thinking and how such prejudices as race and gender can be eradicated, or at least reduced, through changes to thinking and programming.

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

The traditional approaches to estimation however are deemed too narrow – both in terms of anticipating a wider range of changing and upsetting market condition scenarios as well as supporting new measures of value other than financial.

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