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Imaginatik CEO publishes groundbreaking business book

Imaginatik

BOSTON – May 29, 2018 – Imaginatik today announced the publication of a groundbreaking new business book, Topple – The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth. A changed competitive environment creates new rules and steps to take — as useful for start-ups as for mid-market firms and global brands.

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

I've been leading innovation work for close to 20 years, writing about it on this blog and in my book (Relentless Innovation). Market evidence will tell you that most of new product innovations fail in the first year. I think a re-introduction is in order. I have to admit, I was skeptical at first.

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What’s New In Corporate Innovation 11 January 2018

Imaginatik

This article demonstrates how the Jet.com acquisition has given Walmart access to a whole new, upmarket clientele – including the $600bn annual millennial consumer market – and also strengthened their e-commerce operation. Much of their investment has gone into digitization to keep pace – improved online booking, etc.

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Beneath the Jargon: where "transformation" meets innovation

Imaginatik

It was pervasive; it was flung about in workshops and articles, books and business meetings, from Cape Town to Cairo, Seoul to Singapore, in different industries, in different sizes of firms. How you engage your markets and customers (re-imagine ‘em). Take a ‘hot’ business word of today: transformation. Otherwise, why bother?

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Practical Sustainability – making it, well, practical

Imaginatik

Clearly, there are many ways to skin the cat of sustainability – with, I believe, Naomi Klein’s recent book, This Changes Everything , extremely compelling and provocative in terms of the topic being both important and urgent. This is a question of material importance.

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Why Risk Innovation?

Imaginatik

Google has been a standard bearer for innovation since its founding in 1998 to bring the world Google Maps, Google Books, Gmail, amongst many other products that ostensibly have little to do with its original service as a search engine. There are new markets, and cultures to explore and a diverse set of perspectives to bring into the company.

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Go Slow to Go Fast: Clarifying the Definition of "Business Ecosystems" and Why Doing So Matters

Imaginatik

He wanted to start with a re-think of his 3-5 year strategic vision which framed the company’s intent of how they engaged with customers, stakeholders and markets. Executives responsible for public relations and marketing tend to define value in terms of brand equity and customer satisfaction. Well, that got my attention.