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Collaborative Innovation Awards 2017 – (Finally) Giving Corporate Innovators Their Due

Imaginatik

Next week, Imaginatik and the Center for Innovation Collaboration Leadership at Suffolk University will jointly launch the Collaborative Innovation Awards 2017 – the inaugural year of what we expect will become an annual awards program! The importance of collaboration. Collaboration. Crowd participation.

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Tournaments: Collaboration for a Rapid Outcome

Imaginatik

Encouraging collaboration between participants with different skills. They are also useful to boost internal collaboration, contributing to inject organizations with more dynamism, and to seek external inputs. Tournaments are community driven. Achieving results for a challenge in a very short period of time -approximately one month.

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Measuring Silos Across the Organization – the Silo Index (Si) – breaking down silos to boost innovation

Imaginatik

Do your employees collaborate across the organization? We know that a lack of collaboration can lead to misaligned priorities, lack of information flow and poorly coordinated decisions. We know that a lack of collaboration can lead to misaligned priorities, lack of information flow and poorly coordinated decisions.

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Effective partnerships drive innovation

Imaginatik

Most companies want to use this current of change to drive innovation. For many, acquisition seems the only path to take through these disruptive forces of change. New companies enter the ecosystem every day, bringing with them new technologies and business models, any one of which could transform an entire industry from the ground up.

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The Future of Corporate-Startup Collaboration

The Inovo Group

Collaboration can no longer be viewed as an optional extra, it’s a strategic imperative. The collaboration between large corporations and startups is more important today than ever, and the trend will continue. Both types of entities are realizing the advantages that can come from collaborating with their counterpart.

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What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017

Imaginatik

This article discusses the need to put the citizens, rather than the technology, at the core of the requisite changes. However, much like ‘innovating from the core’ within an enterprise, in order for cities to access the best data to drive positive change, they need to be people focused or ‘citizen-centric’.

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Why Some Innovation Leaders Last – and Others Don’t

Imaginatik

A year or two ago, Imaginatik calculated the average job tenure of the Chief Innovation Officer at less than two years. But if true, two years is a very short period of time to effect meaningful change – and a substantially shorter average tenure than many other senior corporate roles. create the story) and b) create evangelists (i.e.,