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Measuring Silos Across the Organization – the Silo Index (Si) – breaking down silos to boost innovation

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Do your employees collaborate across the organization? We know that a lack of collaboration can lead to misaligned priorities, lack of information flow and poorly coordinated decisions. We know that a lack of collaboration can lead to misaligned priorities, lack of information flow and poorly coordinated decisions.

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On the Path to Innovation Maturity

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Do we have clear methods for exploring new opportunity spaces, ideation and scaling our innovations? What we’ve found is a lot of companies begin with crowdsourcing and ideation, and quickly find that is not enough to fill significant growth gaps. Curious how Imaginatik can embed innovation into your organization?

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Innovation Fertility

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There are many ways to use ideation and innovation initiatives to assess your organization’s innovation fertility. A well-known, ‘mature’ industry client utilized the Imaginatik ‘head-to-head’ analytics tool to reveal a key cultural impediment to their innovation capabilities. Assessing cultural tolerance for new thinking.

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Hackathons – 3 tips for getting started quickly

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And yet…despite the buzz, many corporate leaders instinctively feel that organizing hackathons might not work for them, either because hackthons would be too time-consuming, and/or would create a distraction from other innovation and ideation efforts. At Imaginatik, we’ve been helping clients with hackathons for more than five years.

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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

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Recognize that best practices of innovation are different from how you’re used to working, and force your team to learn the real tricks of the trade – Discovery, Lean Startup, Ideation, Creative facilitation, Design Thinking, etc. Collaborate with some of the best startups. Collaborate with some of the best startups.

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Fresh Air From Students' Open Eyes at ExxonMobil

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I had the pleasure of organizing a special future oriented ideation session for ExxonMobil with students of the Foresight program of the University of Houston College of Technology. Those students did a great job challenging the team of ExxonMobil by simply sharing their vision of the future.

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Why Risk Innovation?

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Innovation takes a deep commitment of time, people, money, and perhaps most importantly patience to ask the right questions, ideate, build, and scale. Interested in amplifying your innovation efforts through corporate-startup collaboration? Download our free State of Startup/Corporate Collaboration 2016 report today.