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The Innovation 'Function'

Imaginatik

At Imaginatik, we call this the “fluff and magic” vision of innovation where value can only be created by anointed innovation/design Shamans toiling in exposed brick and beam lab/temples. An innovation culture matures when all stakeholders take an active and ongoing role in developing positive change. Things happen.

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

Imaginatik

According to Natalie Drucker, Mark Collin, and Nima Monterazi, designing a master plan for a thriving digital enterprise years in advance is simply not feasible. This article discusses the need to put the citizens, rather than the technology, at the core of the requisite changes. Imaginatik’s take: The Digital Cities of the (near?)

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Part 1: Accelerating the impact of Innovation Campaigns

Values Centered Innovation

One thing has changed in the past 10 years: innovation has evolved from being “ a ” core driver to now being “ the ” core driver. CEOs also see the necessity for, and perhaps the inevitability of large-scale, transformative change in just about every facet of their companies. 50% are currently attempting to change their culture.

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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. Its focus: analyze the social and economic impact of clean vs dirty energy. How could it not? Think about it.

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What’s New In Corporate Innovation 26 January 2018

Imaginatik

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. Digital transformation is a global phenomenon and a universal disruption, changing every industry and every sector.

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Slaying the Two-Track Innovation Agenda

Imaginatik

Yet despite a new CEO and broad support for change, no new business model took hold, and the experiment was deemed a failure. The "surface" innovation agenda explicitly defines all the new activities designed to facilitate innovation. But the bigger changes they needed never materialized. The Best-Laid Plans.

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Beneath the Jargon: where "transformation" meets innovation

Imaginatik

Transformation, at its core, reflects changes in the economic, technology and behavioral logics of an industry. Changes in these logics mean that the ‘same old, same old’ ways of doing business no longer works with the blunt reality that lots of businesses are optimized for a competitive world that no longer exists.

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