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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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Hackathons – 3 tips for getting started quickly

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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. It’s official: hackathons aren’t just for developers and entrepreneurs anymore.

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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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The Four Types of Innovation Metrics

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Very few innovation programs have the luxury of waiting multiple years before delivering quantifiable results. Measuring innovation requires partners. Demonstrating the effects of a strong innovation program typically depend on active involvement from other units and functions in the company. Incremental revenues.

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

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Though they often deliver some success, organizations often struggle to take the challenge beyond the initial project, and into a complete innovation program. As a result, participants don’t stay engaged, momentum is lost, virtual ideation often fizzles out, and innovation ultimately dies on the vine.