Imaginatik

JULY 7, 2016

On July 20th, Imaginatik and MassChallenge will release our joint research study on the State of Corporate-Startup Collaboration for 2016. Rather quietly, many companies have built innovation teams that focus on: Developing proactive collaborations with the startup community – with a focus on flexible, informal, and agile partnerships.

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 18, 2017

What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017. Hello folks, and welcome to our first edition of “What’s New in Corporate Innovation.” Everyone’s talking about innovation these days – a profusion of content ranging from social posts on Medium and LinkedIn to the hallowed pages of HBR and the Economist – and everything in between.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Communities of practice or innovation have been around for some 30 years and we, at Imaginatik, were pioneers in using them. Scaling innovation programs. Have you ever been in contact with a community of innovators? Do you want to learn about our programs and success cases. They take time and effort.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Communities of practice or innovation have been around for some 30 years and we, at Imaginatik, were pioneers in using them. Scaling innovation programs. Have you ever been in contact with a community of innovators? Do you want to learn about our programs and success cases. They take time and effort.

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Engagement Innovation Programs Analysis Tools 100

Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. Analytical thinking alone does not produce innovation. These skills are often overlooked or underutilized by innovation and R&D teams. However, you don’t need to have full-time innovation scouts to get going.

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Imaginatik

JUNE 19, 2015

Now, corporations are lining up to use them as a means of developing ideas and driving engagement around innovation programs. At Imaginatik, we’ve been helping clients with hackathons for more than five years. In fact, they’re an excellent place to start building a deeper ideation and innovation rhythm across your organization.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

This week, I was talking with one of our clients about additional ways to leverage our innovation software. I soon learned they had been offered an innovation platform from a competitor for three years, for free. The success of innovation software rests on all four of these 4 purposes. ASSESS ideas.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

Innovation metrics are hard. Casual observers typically assume that innovation, as a “fuzzy” art, can’t be measured at all. This is an unfortunate belief, because it unduly complicates innovation’s crucial role in driving firm-wide value. Innovation is new to the business and ambiguous. Innovation is inherently unknown.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 25, 2018

As we head on in to the 2 nd month of the year, this post highlights recent articles on hot topics that are shaping and changing the future not only of innovation and the tech space, but of our lives. Thus for your corporate innovation plans, stick to the AI and machine learning technologies we already know are on the horizon.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 16, 2017

One of the most common questions I’m asked focuses on innovation value. Specifically, how might I identify a tangible return on my company’s innovation investment and how can I summarily demonstrate that value within my organization ? And demonstrating the value of an innovation function only requires two basic elements : 1.

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Imaginatik

JULY 22, 2016

Most innovators are optimists. 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. Want to harness innovation outside your organization?

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

I recently had an opportunity to meet with a group of sustainability leaders who wanted to effectively combine Sustainability and Innovation. That's actually a very powerful way to drive your strategy & develop an innovation capability at the same time. For example: Engage employees using on-line platforms and methods.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Open Innovation has been around for years. Open Innovation (OI) is no different. So, why invest in Open Innovation? From this perspective, Open Innovation's focus is to harness insight from many others in service to a specific challenge and/or opportunity that a particular organization wants to focus on.

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Imaginatik

MAY 19, 2015

Translating Consciousness into Physical Objects Individualized Learning (using mentorship networks). If you are looking for assistance in organizing or running an innovation event , we would love to talk to you, we could be just the right partner for you. Floating Cities…(on water as a response to climate change/flooding).

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups are now widely recognised as invaluable sources of innovation, fueling growth and providing pioneering business solutions”. They had recognized that many innovative initiatives fail in the early stage of development due to, among other things, a lack of secure funding. Aline Santos, Unilever EVP for Global Marketing.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Embedding an effective innovation program in your company requires a fresh look at capabilities. We find that very few – if any – large companies are truly set up to enable innovation to do battle with how the business landscape is evolving. Where are these issues being considered within the current innovation process? •

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Imaginatik

MAY 3, 2018

Although machine learning is already part of our everyday lives, and new developments are creating an incredibly exciting future, AI is ultimately the result of human programming, and human-generated learning sets. Humans are imperfect, and those imperfections are still permeating the very fabric of AI.

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Imaginatik

MAY 12, 2015

Working with a wide variety of innovation teams, companies, and innovators we hear: We want to “ democratize” innovation. We want to engage employees in innovation. While these are nice sentiments, something seems to be getting lost along the way to building a true innovation competence.

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