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The Innovation 'Function'

Imaginatik

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

Imaginatik

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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The Four Types of Innovation Metrics

Imaginatik

Future success depends on whether the innovation group can demonstrate or “prove” its value to the company. The early metrics focus areas will also be driven by which innovation activities can be measured most readily, and which leaders or functions are most willing to partner with the innovation group. Engagement levels.

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Strengthening the Organization and Accelerating Value – a fresh look at Capability Building

Imaginatik

But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into. Here are a few considerations to get started: Who are the customers we can engage? • When that is lacking, it’s difficult to define and answer the question: “who are the customers we can engage”? What are the people and processes to strengthen?

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Towards a New Language of Value - from the perspective of business ecosystems

Imaginatik

An ecosystem perspective changes the unit of focus, from any one business or even industry to the network of interactions, and actors, in which we are all engaged. The Shell Scenario Group, out of Royal Dutch Shell, has been creating business scenarios for nearly 50 years. The notion of value is no different.

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The Future of Corporate-Startup Collaboration

The Inovo Group

In 2017, the corporate innovation group of a large, multi-national, materials company was evaluating over twenty opportunities that had been submitted as the result of an internal challenge to get people to identify transformational ideas. A future scenario envisions how this could work. Balancing levels of commitment, risk and return.