Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Many of us innovation practitioners have found that the business topic of innovation is increasingly devolving into a search for that one magic idea that will change your enterprise, sort of like a more mature version of Pokemon-Go. This ratio of ideas to return on investment leaves many innovation practitioners with a business case problem.

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Imaginatik

MAY 5, 2015

To help innovation leaders and forward-thinking companies do better, Imaginatik has launched the 2015 Global Innovation Survey. This research initiative, a follow-up from a similar study in 2013, is aimed at defining the state of innovation in the enterprise in 2015.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As a 2016 Imaginatik/MassChallenge report on the state of startup/corporate collaboration puts it: “Lengthy up-front negotiations over IP concerns, access to talent, and expected time commitments may protect against exposure, but almost always lead to gridlock and failure.” Don’t hold back that deeper bond with too much red tape.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

Recent conversations with a new Imaginatik client, from late 2017, have stuck with me these past few months. They carry vastly different levels of (un)certainty and (un)predictability, and they typically must liaise with different enterprise stakeholders. If this notion is not already in your vernacular, it needs to be.

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 18, 2017

According to Natalie Drucker, Mark Collin, and Nima Monterazi, designing a master plan for a thriving digital enterprise years in advance is simply not feasible. Imaginatik’s take: The Digital Cities of the (near?) Ralph Welborn Imaginatik CEO ). “75% Building an Ecosystem for Innovation ( New Statesman ).

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Trends Innovation Internet of things Guidelines 140

Imaginatik

MARCH 16, 2017

These are the basics of building a tangible innovation portfolio that delivers results.The Return on Innovation Investment for the Enterprise: At least $50 Million. Yes, I know that these steps might individually be complex, but once you develop a method and process (one might call this governance) it’s actually quite simple.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Leadership Learning 100

Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

A well-known, ‘mature’ industry client utilized the Imaginatik ‘head-to-head’ analytics tool to reveal a key cultural impediment to their innovation capabilities. It is an invaluable window into the living, breathing enterprise culture of collaboration (or lack thereof). Assessing cultural tolerance for new thinking.

Innovation 100

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 25, 2016

At Imaginatik we are fortunate to work with a number of clients that have world-class innovation programs. So, how do you make innovation a strategic pillar? Allocate a significant amount of human and financial resources to developing and maintaining a permanent, rigorous, measurable innovation competency.

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 2, 2018

I’ve had a number of conversations over the past couple months focusing on the role of HR and how it might help large enterprises redefine the “future of work.”. Current enterprise structures and their HR systems and policies were designed to support a business setting that no longer exists.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Here are five classic reasons innovation efforts fail in the modern enterprise: 1. For corporate innovators, risk lies around every corner. For a moment, let’s adopt a pessimist mindset. Move straight to “solution” mode.

Underperforming Technical Team 100

Underperforming Technical Team Innovation Programs Innovation LEAN 100

The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Global Analysis of Venture Funding , KPMG Enterprise. ii] The State of Startup/Corporate Collaboration, 2016 ; joint research study by Imaginatik and MaStartupChallenge; 2016. This scenario may not be so far-fetched after all. [i] i] Venture Pulse, Q2’18. Data provided by PitchBook, July 12, 2018. [ii]

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

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. Instead of chipped toasters, the remote sensor is the human.

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Open Innovation Ideation Innovation Internet of things 100

Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Investors are requiring enterprises to be more transparent about their commitment to ongoing innovation in their capital expenditures in order to attract longer-term investment. The question then arises, how can an enterprise provide greater investor confidence from a range of speculative innovation investments with greater certainty ?

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