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Interested in Incremental Innovation? Let's Start with Concrete Engagement Programs

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Working for more than two decades helping companies develop sustainable practices of innovation, Imaginatik has profound experience in achieving successful results through engaging programs. Ask here for more information about our engagement programs.

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The Innovation 'Function'

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At Imaginatik, we call this the “fluff and magic” vision of innovation where value can only be created by anointed innovation/design Shamans toiling in exposed brick and beam lab/temples. At Imaginatik, we refer to these different values as “currencies” when we are modeling the “value” of a project or a portfolio of innovation projects.

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Innovating Through Vertical Expert Networks

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Over the past couple of years, Imaginatik has both seen and fostered something we call Vertical Expert Networks. Imaginatik’s graphic analytics provides this type of knowledge domain coverage maps. At the risk of adding to a global acronym footprint, I’ll use the term VEN.

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The False Promise of “Free” Innovation Software

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But then they thought about what they need the platform to do, namely: COLLECT ideas, through engaging employees and other stakeholders. Getting ideas is easy,” their group CIO said to me. I soon learned they had been offered an innovation platform from a competitor for three years, for free. ASSESS ideas. Help PRIORITIZE what to do.

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Beyond Flavor of the Month: Managing Idea Challenges as a Repeatable Program

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An Idea Challenge is a structured process to collect new ideas from large groups of people – employees, customers, partners, or other stakeholders. 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. Engagement – Years 1-3.

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Leveraging Innovation Methods to Drive Strategic Initiatives

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I recently had an opportunity to meet with a group of sustainability leaders who wanted to effectively combine Sustainability and Innovation. For example: Engage employees using on-line platforms and methods. That's actually a very powerful way to drive your strategy & develop an innovation capability at the same time.

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Practical Sustainability – making it, well, practical

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The ‘elephant in the room’ around sustainability involves recognizing that more of the same old, same old, no longer works and alignment around a new social scorecard that acknowledges that new ways of engaging in the market *can* - in service to creating (are you ready?) This is a question of material importance. How could it not?

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