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Imaginatik Releases Innovation Central Spring 2018 to Drive Front-Line Engagement

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New mobile experience makes ideation easy for employees across the enterprise. Featuring a significantly enhanced mobile experience, the Spring 2018 release, enables today’s enterprises to bring innovation practices to the front-lines of the organization by providing direct on-the-go access to ideation activities.

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The Innovation 'Function'

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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. In that vision of the “innovation funnel” the idea is at the end… the goal. It’s just one tactic in an organization’s innovation program, but it’s a good one!

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Cosmetic vs. Strategic Innovation

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Some examples of innovation "toe-dipping" include: Establishing a small team that has "innovation" grafted on top of their existing duties. Hiring someone to lead innovation efforts who is ultimately under-resourced and does not have the clout to get buy-in from the organization.

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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

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Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Innovation programs thrive on processes and metrics that don’t mesh easily with the core. For corporate innovators, risk lies around every corner.

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

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Both functions have historically received requirements from ‘the business’ that, in turn, need to be implemented, rendering them a reactive internal function that struggles to prove their value-add to the enterprise. Aside from x-Factor and Speed-Dating flavours, there is an IOT (internet of things) flavour.