Imaginatik

MARCH 1, 2018

Recent conversations with a new Imaginatik client, from late 2017, have stuck with me these past few months. It highlights the importance of a new concept that every corporate innovation leader needs to internalize: the Path-to-Value for each innovation. Executives are hoping for big things from the innovation group.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Some of this devolution is due to the emergence of ever-simpler software tools in the innovation area that ‘game-ify’ the experience and seek to solicit as many participants as they can entice, hoping that its primary goal of uncovering the great ‘idea’ can just be conjured by ‘fun.’. One answer can be seen in other industries: telemetry.

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Imaginatik

JULY 12, 2016

But the imperative of any innovation program is in its ability to scale and realize its financial promise. It is critical in any development process that innovation ‘show stoppers’ are recognized and nurtured quickly. To put it simply, everyone has good ideas -- and some have great ideas. We call this “crossing the chasm.”.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

“The challenge is having rigor into how to assess and prioritize them, aligned with what we want to innovate around. Without that, frankly, what good is a platform, or any innovation program?”. The key to every high-impact innovation program is the use of some type of management platform.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 13, 2017

[This blog post was reproduced from an original paper on Future Building. Download the paper now: The Art of the Possible – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact ]. An obvious example is a clue from 2011 – the public launch of Uber’s ride-sharing program in San Francisco.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

We have seen within our own clientele highly successful ‘inner brands’ for innovation, distinct from the parent, customer facing ‘outer brand’. Thirdly, open innovation efforts need to shift focus from ‘what’ innovation can be conjured from an innovation program, to ‘who’ is in my ecosystem.

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