Imaginatik

JULY 14, 2016

We believe innovation is a journey of learning over time. As organizations learn and grow, they naturally mature in their understanding and execution of innovation. A great place to begin is by thinking about the connection between innovation and strategy. Ask yourself these questions: Why are we engaging in innovation?

Ideation 100

Ideation Crowdsourcing Innovation Engagement 100

Imaginatik

AUGUST 13, 2015

Engagement programs are a valuable path to change that dynamic. At Imaginatik, we have developed eight sustainable strategic processes to achieve engaging in ideas and taking them beyond idea to action. Still, is this the most suitable engagement program for your innovation outcomes?

Engagement 100

Engagement Crowdsourcing Tools Project 100

Imaginatik

MAY 29, 2018

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. The business logic of the past decades no longer applies,” commented Imaginatik CEO Ralph Welborn. “It About Imaginatik.

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Competition Roadmap Strategy Strategy 20

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Communities of practice or innovation have been around for some 30 years and we, at Imaginatik, were pioneers in using them. For all these years, we have successfully helped many companies benefit from collective intelligence, keeping participants engaged, creating specific tools for managing their communities, and systems of analysis.

Engagement 100

Engagement Innovation Programs Analysis Tools 100

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Communities of practice or innovation have been around for some 30 years and we, at Imaginatik, were pioneers in using them. For all these years, we have successfully helped many companies benefit from collective intelligence, keeping participants engaged, creating specific tools for managing their communities, and systems of analysis.

Engagement 100

Engagement Innovation Programs Analysis Tools 100

Imaginatik

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Pretty faithful to its origins, Hackathons are equally, in the innovation ecosystem, a rapid team alignment tool in an ideas marathon to build new stuff. When is the best time for a developers' sprint in your company? At Imaginatik, we’ve been helping clients with hackathons for more than five years. Do you want to try?

Web Development 100

Web Development Web Developers Video Tools 100

Imaginatik

DECEMBER 18, 2017

What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017. Hello folks, and welcome to our first edition of “What’s New in Corporate Innovation.” Everyone’s talking about innovation these days – a profusion of content ranging from social posts on Medium and LinkedIn to the hallowed pages of HBR and the Economist – and everything in between.

Trends 140

Trends Innovation Internet of things Guidelines 140

Imaginatik

APRIL 7, 2017

This condition of covert expertise is no longer being tolerated by both corporates, who are never ceasing to find ways of monetising assets, nor independent domain experts, aggressively seeking a piece of ‘upside’ to their innovative ideas rather than remaining content with being a sunk cost to ‘the suits’.

Software Review 100

Software Review Open Innovation Innovation Industry 100

Imaginatik

JUNE 19, 2015

Now, corporations are lining up to use them as a means of developing ideas and driving engagement around innovation programs. In fact, several audience members from our recent 8 programs of engagement webinar expressed hesitation about hackathons. Sound too intimidating for your company?

Tips 100

Tips CTO Ideation Innovation Programs 100

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

This week, I was talking with one of our clients about additional ways to leverage our innovation software. I soon learned they had been offered an innovation platform from a competitor for three years, for free. The success of innovation software rests on all four of these 4 purposes. ASSESS ideas. Help PRIORITIZE what to do.

Software Review 178

Software Review Software Innovation Programs Innovation 178

Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Open Innovation has been around for years. Open Innovation (OI) is no different. It is a concept (powered by underlying technology and methods) with a pragmatic objective: engage different types of stakeholders beyond one’s organizational walls in ways that provides mutual value to all involved.

Open Innovation 100

Open Innovation Innovation Engagement Competition 100

Imaginatik

JANUARY 30, 2017

But there are other powerful benefits, such as: increased staff buy-in for new initiatives, and higher productivity and morale of a more engaged workforce. Though they often deliver some success, organizations often struggle to take the challenge beyond the initial project, and into a complete innovation program.

Management 100

Management Innovation Programs Engagement Crowdsourcing 100

Imaginatik

DECEMBER 2, 2018

For those ossified companies out there, the world will surely pass them by from a pure talent and growth perspective. If you factor in the fact that large enterprises are being consistently challenged to innovate and develop new growth capabilities for their business models, products, services, customer engagement models, etc.,

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Policies Guidelines System Strategy 113

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Rests on new foundations of value (capabilities & assets – the know-how, know-what and know-why underlying what a company does and how it does so). How you engage your markets and customers (re-imagine ‘em). Enter, stage center, innovation. And here it starts to get interesting. Otherwise, why bother?

Meeting 100

Meeting Innovation Competition Big Data 100

Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

Innovation metrics are hard. Casual observers typically assume that innovation, as a “fuzzy” art, can’t be measured at all. This is an unfortunate belief, because it unduly complicates innovation’s crucial role in driving firm-wide value. Innovation is new to the business and ambiguous. Innovation is inherently unknown.

Innovation Programs 100

Innovation Programs Innovation Trends Leadership 100

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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. The Impact of Digital Transformation on People.

Trends 100

Trends Innovation Processes Marketing Company 100

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups are now widely recognised as invaluable sources of innovation, fueling growth and providing pioneering business solutions”. These platforms will provide a distinct set of startup collaboration services, and the interfaces to access them, to both large companies and startups. Aline Santos, Unilever EVP for Global Marketing.

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Collaboration Technical Review Software Review Trends 40

Imaginatik

OCTOBER 7, 2016

He recognized that the “same old, same old” methods of engaging with his customers were changing. He wanted to start with a re-think of his 3-5 year strategic vision which framed the company’s intent of how they engaged with customers, stakeholders and markets. Well, that got my attention.

Competition 124

Competition Technology Engagement Industry 124

Imaginatik

AUGUST 10, 2016

Mark, CEO of a Fortune 50 company, was fielding questions from Wall Street regarding the amount of investment he was putting into different types of innovation, particularly what his company calls “WoW-based Innovation” – e.g., breakthrough innovation designed to create net new lines of business greater than $500 million / year.

Examples 0

Examples Course Innovation Programs Project 0

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. Shell360 is a globally recognized ‘open innovation’ effort in this vein with winners lauded in the mass media and often, deservedly so.

Open Innovation 100

Open Innovation Ideation Innovation Internet of things 100

Imaginatik

MAY 12, 2015

Working with a wide variety of innovation teams, companies, and innovators we hear: We want to “ democratize” innovation. We want to engage employees in innovation. While these are nice sentiments, something seems to be getting lost along the way to building a true innovation competence.

Engagement 100

Engagement Crowdsourcing Creative Thinking Innovation 100