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The Innovation 'Function'

Imaginatik

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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Hackathons – 3 tips for getting started quickly

Imaginatik

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. What are the technology challenges they’re facing?

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The Four Types of Innovation Metrics

Imaginatik

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

Imaginatik

The term ‘broker’ is apt in that an ideation platform used as this medium is really the exchange between talent liquidity and problem liquidity. No, it does not seek ideas from things like the real IOT technology, but it uses the ideation process and tools as a remote sensor and improvement mechanism to provide process innovation.