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Imaginatik CEO publishes groundbreaking business book

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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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Why Some Innovation Leaders Last – and Others Don’t

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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. Probe the leadership climate.

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Cosmetic vs. Strategic Innovation

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Allocate a significant amount of human and financial resources to developing and maintaining a permanent, rigorous, measurable innovation competency. At Imaginatik we are fortunate to work with a number of clients that have world-class innovation programs. They also know that most great ideas are not lighting strikes.

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Analytics: The Business Value Beyond New Ideas

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Many of us innovation practitioners have found that the business topic of innovation is increasingly devolving into a search for that one magic idea that will change your enterprise, sort of like a more mature version of Pokemon-Go. Innovation programs need something that will smooth the spike and valley pattern of success.

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Slaying the Two-Track Innovation Agenda

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Many corporate innovation efforts suffer from a subtle defect: two competing innovation agendas that fight for control. Yet a two-track innovation agenda is among the most reliable killers of well-intentioned innovation programs. But the bigger changes they needed never materialized.

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Towards a New Language of Value - from the perspective of business ecosystems

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New sources of value, and distinctive market impact results from seeing – and executing – on what few have - in response to changing circumstances, shifts in technology and business affordances… and asking new (types of) questions. In short, what *are* the execution implications of our program in the ecosystem in which we are embedded?

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Crossing the Chasm: Overcoming hurdles to scaling innovation

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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. This is especially true in highly regulated industries. We call this “crossing the chasm.”.