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Innovation Fertility

Imaginatik

It is the creative use of the collected data, not just the ideas themselves, which raises the game – which we refer to as ‘innovation fertility’. There are many ways to use ideation and innovation initiatives to assess your organization’s innovation fertility. Identifying systemic biases. Mapping innovation’s ‘social graph’.

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The Innovation 'Function'

Imaginatik

There is a perception of serendipitous, Zen enlightenment related to ideation that is often accompanied by a thorough dismissal of “process,” as if they are mutually exclusive. Attempts to harness or direct that creative energy are not only futile, but actually impede the process. Any organization can be innovative.

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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

Imaginatik

Here are five classic reasons innovation efforts fail in the modern enterprise: 1. 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.

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Three Flavours of Open Innovation: breaking down institutional boundaries through the X-Factor, Speed Dating, and iOT

Imaginatik

The X-Factor Model is typically used within a single organization to encourage and foster contributing, creative behaviours. Used externally, and hence ‘open’, is many times motivated to enhance and imbue brand identity with progressiveness, creativity and transparency. The former seeks ‘a winner’; the latter seeks ‘couples’.