Imaginatik

AUGUST 13, 2015

Engagement programs are a valuable path to change that dynamic. At Imaginatik, we have developed eight sustainable strategic processes to achieve engaging in ideas and taking them beyond idea to action. Still, is this the most suitable engagement program for your innovation outcomes?

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Imaginatik

JULY 14, 2016

Ask yourself these questions: Why are we engaging in innovation? Are we engaging external thought leaders, partners, academics, etc. Curious how Imaginatik can embed innovation into your organization? See why Forrester Research ranked Imaginatik the 2016 leader of Innovation Management Solutions. Like this post?

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

You and your partner will be engaging with each other at a deeper level than a simple vendor/customer relationship, and that means you won’t just share goals and objectives but common values, too. Don’t hold back that deeper bond with too much red tape.

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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Here's a question one of the participants asked us about our programs of engagement during our latest webinar: Do I have to choose a different program depending on the size of my company? There are just two crucial questions regarding how to structure your innovation activities through programs of engagement: What do I want to accomplish?

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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.

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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.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

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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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Thought should also be given on how to challenge your team and focus the Hackathon considering the kind of engagement that is being sought and the type of teamwork atmosphere that these events generate. At Imaginatik, we’ve been helping clients with hackathons for more than five years. Do you want to try?

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Innovation Excellence

MAY 3, 2017

Join David Boghossian, Imaginatik General Manager, in a live webinar discussion of the Innovation Automation Revolution: Exploding Data, Powerful Sense-making, and Ubiquitous Engagement.

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Imaginatik’s take: Continuous reinvention comes from within. According to the New Statesman, the future lies in using employee and customer engagement to create a citizen-centric CaaP (city as a platform). Ralph Welborn Imaginatik CEO ). “75% Within the individual and then from within the business.

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Imaginatik

JUNE 19, 2015

Now, corporations are lining up to use them as a means of developing ideas and driving engagement around innovation programs. In fact, several audience members from our recent 8 programs of engagement webinar expressed hesitation about hackathons. At Imaginatik, we’ve been helping clients with hackathons for more than five years.

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Imaginatik

APRIL 7, 2017

Over the past couple of years, Imaginatik has both seen and fostered something we call Vertical Expert Networks. At the risk of adding to a global acronym footprint, I’ll use the term VEN. These VENs are a specialized form of the topic of ‘open innovation’ that we’ve described in previous blogs.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 30, 2017

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. As a result, participants don’t stay engaged, momentum is lost, virtual ideation often fizzles out, and innovation ultimately dies on the vine. Engagement – Years 1-3.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

It is a concept (powered by underlying technology and methods) with a pragmatic objective: engage different types of stakeholders beyond one’s organizational walls in ways that provides mutual value to all involved. Open Innovation is designed to engage folks “out in the world” in a way that adds value to everyone involved.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

But then they thought about what they need the platform to do, namely: COLLECT ideas, through engaging employees and other stakeholders. I soon learned they had been offered an innovation platform from a competitor for three years, for free. They were tempted to take the offer of “free.” ASSESS ideas. Help PRIORITIZE what to do.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 3, 2016

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.

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 2, 2018

If you factor in the fact that large enterprises are being consistently challenged to innovate and develop new growth capabilities for their business models, products, services, customer engagement models, etc., you must ask whether their internal systems are positioned to enable (and catapult) their innovation agendas.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

For example: Engage employees using on-line platforms and methods. For the sustainability leaders, consumer trends and expectations show that it's important to build sustainability into products in order to achieve a fundamentally different or better product.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

How you engage your markets and customers (re-imagine ‘em). will go on a series of innovation journeys to anticipate and respond to the implications on their products & services, value & supply chains, capabilities & assets, and new ways to engage their markets & customers. Otherwise, why bother?

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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”? As you look at your market, how would you map out where your customers are today and where they are headed in the next 5 -10 years?

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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 7, 2016

He recognized that the “same old, same old” methods of engaging with his customers were changing. He wanted to start with a re-think of his 3-5 year strategic vision which framed the company’s intent of how they engaged with customers, stakeholders and markets. Well, that got my attention.

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 10, 2018

[ii] The State of Startup/Corporate Collaboration, 2016 ; joint research study by Imaginatik and MaStartupChallenge; 2016. iv] Unlocking Innovation Through Startup Engagement ; Best Practices from Leading Global Corporations ; report by 500 Startups; 2017. [v] vi] Why Corporations Need to Collaborate With Startups? 2; Winter 2015.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

Engagement levels. In the early days, it’s also important to gain a handle on innovation’s productivity levels – primarily as an internal barometer for the health of the program’s balance of activities. Typically, these metrics track throughput across each stage of the ideas to innovation cycle. Projects launched. HR-oriented measures.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 10, 2016

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. It only logically follows that many of the key terms – or questions – examined through a traditional lens expand when we look at them from an ecosystem-centric one.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

By sponsoring a medium that engages and fosters a broad ecosystem that is drawn to the variety of business issues presented can render these functions as true brokers of change. The term ‘broker’ is apt in that an ideation platform used as this medium is really the exchange between talent liquidity and problem liquidity.

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Imaginatik

MAY 12, 2015

We want to engage employees in innovation. We believe there’s another way – a better way – and it starts by ensuring your focus is on Driving Innovation through employee engagement. So if the approach in the past has focused on engagement & crowdsourcing, what would it mean to Drive Innovation along with employee engagement?

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