Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

Recent conversations with a new Imaginatik client, from late 2017, have stuck with me these past few months. Like many companies, Acme Corporation has a new (ish) corporate-level innovation program. If this notion is not already in your vernacular, it needs to be. To understand why, we’ll dig into the story from this client.

Innovation 188

Innovation Innovation Programs Artificial Inteligence Software 188

Imaginatik

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In this piece, McKinsey consultants summarize the findings from a research study into corporate adoption of IoT technologies. Simple use cases seem to be a fixation for most companies, which means that the IoT is not yet being used to its full potential. Imaginatik’s take: Continuous reinvention comes from within.

Trends 140

Trends Innovation Internet of things Guidelines 140

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

JUNE 19, 2015

At Imaginatik, we’ve been helping clients with hackathons for more than five years. Our experience is that hackathons are actually quite simple, and your company can start organizing them without much difficulty – even if you have no previous experience. Sound too intimidating for your company?

Tips 100

Tips CTO Ideation Innovation Programs 100

Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 17, 2017

Implement disruptive technologies. CEOs also see the necessity for, and perhaps the inevitability of large-scale, transformative change in just about every facet of their companies. Using technology to drive change in the way organizations interact with customers. Technology/R&D? The leaders in Product Development?

Conference 40

Conference Disruption Innovation Survey 40

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.

Innovation 100

Innovation Marketing Strategy Strategy 100

Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

The part that may put the most stress on powerful industry leaders is failure but companies that truly innovate may fail more than they succeed, dumping valuable resources into projects and products that either never see the light of day or that are quite transient. Big companies have great advantages. So why risk innovation?

Innovation 100

Innovation Technical Review Industry Ideation 100

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 10, 2018

New software technologies and tools will make it possible to create Startup Collaboration Platforms that enable the relationships to become more automated, structured and efficient. These platforms will provide a distinct set of startup collaboration services, and the interfaces to access them, to both large companies and startups.

Collaboration 40

Collaboration Technical Review Software Review Trends 40

Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Like any concept or technology, a time-lag exists between when it emerges, gets used by early adopters, and becomes usable by many. Increasingly lessons are learned, and technologies and methods are developed contributing to the increasing attention, and usage, of Open Innovation globally. Open Innovation has been around for years.

Open Innovation 100

Open Innovation Innovation Engagement Competition 100

Imaginatik

MARCH 7, 2018

kinsahealth.com , a new app-based technology, is able to gather enormous amounts of data in real-time, delivering far more accurate results than even the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, until now the US benchmark for health management data. This technology also opens-up a whole new world to the physically disabled.

Innovation 100

Innovation Data Big Data Analysis 100

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Transformation, at its core, reflects changes in the economic, technology and behavioral logics of an industry. 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). And here it starts to get interesting. Enter, stage center, innovation.

Meeting 100

Meeting Innovation Competition Big Data 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

Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Not too long ago, executives at a F500 consumer goods company were facing a daunting prospect. Their mission is to identify and catalogue emergent trends across the ecosystem, as well as formulating viewpoints about what those trends may mean for their company or industry. They thought they needed a new growth strategy.

Learning 100

Learning Innovation Trends Innovation Programs 100

Imaginatik

APRIL 12, 2018

The reality is that current BCI technologies require a Masters Degrees in Neurological Engineering just to operate them. While this represents impressive progress, it hasn’t come without a price or obstacles. Success breeds expectations, and with it the thirst for more. Ultimately a case of 2 neuron generated clicks forward, and 1 back.

Technical Review 113

Technical Review Data Innovation Culture 113

Imaginatik

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The CEO was sponsoring a workshop on the future of payments – its dizzying array of emerging new standards and technologies as well as the dark horse disruptive potential of blockchain technologies. A little over a year ago , I was in a board meeting of a large consumer-based financial services firm.

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

MARCH 23, 2017

For the vast majority of companies, innovation is either an occasional or newfound discipline. Demonstrating the effects of a strong innovation program typically depend on active involvement from other units and functions in the company. Technologies. There are four reasons why. Innovation is new to the business and ambiguous.

Innovation Programs 100

Innovation Programs Innovation Trends Leadership 100

Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

So, you just presented to your leadership team on the innovation portfolio and how it was going to contribute to value to the company. It will be different: technologies change, new competitors arise, regulations shift, customer expectations evolve, and so on. Got it, love it, now go”! that give rise to them.

Innovation 100

Innovation Leadership Exercises Examples 100

Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Increasingly we find that companies want to go beyond idea collection to rigorously vet these ideas against barriers to implementation, in order to develop the most robust ideas quickly. The company was stuck with a big budget number but left many revenue questions unanswered. And recently, the bar has been raised.

Crowdsourcing 100

Crowdsourcing Technical Review Technology Innovation Management 100

Imaginatik

JULY 12, 2016

In many product development processes, companies tend to create incremental improvements within the fairly well known scope of their current production and distribution scale. In many cases, it’s the only way to achieve a scale that justifies the often-substantial investments in the development of technical prototypes and operations.

Innovation 100

Innovation LEAN Innovation Programs Culture 100

Imaginatik

MAY 3, 2018

Could Blockchain Technology Help Avoid Another Cambridge Analytica? Which means society may be stuck on the same track we’re already on, despite the promise of blockchain technology. Advanced Social Technologies And The Future Of Collaboration. to sell their products and services. Only time will tell….

Artificial Inteligence 100

Artificial Inteligence Data Technology Collaboration 100

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Financial services companies and FinTech start-ups provide the most high profile example. No, it does not seek ideas from things like the real IOT technology, but it uses the ideation process and tools as a remote sensor and improvement mechanism to provide process innovation.

Open Innovation 100

Open Innovation Ideation Innovation Internet of things 100