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Planbox Acquires Imaginatik Creating an Agile Innovation Powerhouse

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Planbox, the pioneering provider of AI-Powered Agile Innovation Management software, and Imaginatik, the #1 ranked leader in Corporate Innovation Management according to Forrester Research, will join forces to seize on the innovation boom. Imaginatik has an incredibly talented team and product with a lot of potential.

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Analytics: The Business Value Beyond New Ideas

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Innovation programs need something that will smooth the spike and valley pattern of success. As an example, Imaginatik has several footwear manufacturers who have embraced IoT and are pursuing possible secondary markets, such as healthcare, for the behavioural data harvested from shoes during use (a.k.a. telemetry).

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The False Promise of “Free” Innovation Software

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Catalyze ACTION through providing portfolio and program review and reporting capabilities. The success of innovation software rests on all four of these 4 purposes. The challenge is having rigor into how to assess and prioritize them, aligned with what we want to innovate around. ASSESS ideas. Help PRIORITIZE what to do.

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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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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. Value Delivery – Years 3-5.

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Towards a New Language of Value - from the perspective of business ecosystems

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And what are the currency bundles – e.g., the different types of value – being created through the innovation programs? In short, what *are* the execution implications of our program in the ecosystem in which we are embedded?

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Crowdsourcing Innovation Valuation: an off-label use of innovation management technologies

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Because crowdsourcing accommodates a very large amount of success/failure scenarios to estimate when the innovation program reaches commercial viability. Crowdsourcing technology can be particularly useful if your innovation programs have: • A complex ecosystem of innovation development partners (not internal departments).