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Collaborative Innovation Awards 2017 – (Finally) Giving Corporate Innovators Their Due

Imaginatik

Next week, Imaginatik and the Center for Innovation Collaboration Leadership at Suffolk University will jointly launch the Collaborative Innovation Awards 2017 – the inaugural year of what we expect will become an annual awards program! This effort has been a long time in coming. And few, if any, of them get the credit they deserve.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

HR & freelancers platforms TopCoder – competition-based software crowdsourcing Spudaroo – crowdsourcing copywriting Clickworker – small online task solving Amazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost crowdsourcing 05.

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Why Innovation Maturity Matters

Imaginatik

For many companies, the desire to be more innovative is driven by a strategic issue – flat-lined growth, competitive threats, industry upheaval, etc. Although senior executive alignment is critical, there is no way to design the best on-the-ground processes and governance structures without first undertaking quite a bit of trial-and-error.