Imaginatik

AUGUST 26, 2015

It is a well-defined program and yet, for those involved in the innovation ecosystem, assimilating them with other engagement programs is a common mistake. A quick example: At Imaginatik, we have recently helped The World Bank develop new tools on climate change as part of their Open Data initiative. What are the differences?

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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Working for more than two decades helping companies develop sustainable practices of innovation, Imaginatik has profound experience in achieving successful results through engaging programs. We use eight different tools for different purposes , both to achieve breakthrough innovations or incremental innovation.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 25, 2016

The word Innovation looms large in the word cloud of the American business lexicon. There is no doubt that many businesses and business leaders have recognized the importance of innovation as an organizational competency. Many companies, however, have taken a more aggressive approach to creating an innovation competency.

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Imaginatik

DECEMBER 18, 2017

What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017. Hello folks, and welcome to our first edition of “What’s New in Corporate Innovation.” Everyone’s talking about innovation these days – a profusion of content ranging from social posts on Medium and LinkedIn to the hallowed pages of HBR and the Economist – and everything in between.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 30, 2016

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. fierce debate ensues). •

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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. However, in complex innovation efforts, large operational problems may surface only after a certain scale is reached.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

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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Imaginatik

JANUARY 15, 2018

A very Happy New Year to you all as we continue with our second edition of “What’s new in Corporate Innovation”. Corporate innovators should take note of how Jet.com and Wal-Mart are not, in fact, attempting a “me too” competition on Amazon’s terms.

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Imaginatik

JANUARY 25, 2018

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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Values Centered Innovation

MARCH 17, 2017

Part 1 of 3: Innovation is the core driver to meet critical business needs. In a 2007 McKinsey Quarterly article on “Leadership and Innovation,” the authors made it quite clear that “Innovation is a core driver of growth, performance and valuation.” Enable innovation throughout the entire organization.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 7, 2018

The world of corporate innovation changes quickly. Imaginatik’s take: The rise of mobile-connected big data is kicking into hyperdrive. Important applications are coming online that may change society in areas ranging from healthcare, to transportation, to finance, and beyond. Hello everyone!

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

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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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

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. So why risk innovation? Play offense not defense. Big companies have great advantages.

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

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. And their innovation strategies were sound. The Best-Laid Plans.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Is innovation embedded into every thread of your company? Or is innovation still something that is truly yet to be realized? To get started, ask yourself some questions to determine where your company is with respect to establishing an innovation strategy and what commitment exists to executing your strategy. •

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Imaginatik

JULY 29, 2016

Well, in terms of innovation valuation, you can and you should. Investors are requiring enterprises to be more transparent about their commitment to ongoing innovation in their capital expenditures in order to attract longer-term investment. Here is where crowdsourcing comes in. More things can go wrong. There is no track record.

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Imaginatik

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Open Innovation has been around for years. Open Innovation (OI) is no different. So, why invest in Open Innovation? From this perspective, Open Innovation's focus is to harness insight from many others in service to a specific challenge and/or opportunity that a particular organization wants to focus on.

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Imaginatik

MARCH 23, 2017

Innovation metrics are hard. Casual observers typically assume that innovation, as a “fuzzy” art, can’t be measured at all. This is an unfortunate belief, because it unduly complicates innovation’s crucial role in driving firm-wide value. Innovation is new to the business and ambiguous. Innovation is inherently unknown.

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Imaginatik

MAY 3, 2018

This follow-on article explores their research and investigations into the bias that affects even cutting-edge AI thinking and how such prejudices as race and gender can be eradicated, or at least reduced, through changes to thinking and programming.

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A great deal of activity has been happening under the topic of ‘open innovation’, however we have found very different initiatives launched by our clients that challenge a common definition of the term. Shell360 is a globally recognized ‘open innovation’ effort in this vein with winners lauded in the mass media and often, deservedly so.

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Imaginatik

APRIL 12, 2018

But with May 25th and the implementation of General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR, set to unify regulation across the continent, Tech giants across the globe have been working tirelessly to introduce new measures and adapt products to protect their customers and comply with regulations that are changing the way the internet works for everyone.

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Imaginatik

MAY 19, 2015

Floating Cities…(on water as a response to climate change/flooding). Major Changes in World Economic System Challenges Political Order. If you are looking for assistance in organizing or running an innovation event , we would love to talk to you, we could be just the right partner for you. Orbital Solar Power.

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Imaginatik

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

So, you just presented to your leadership team on the innovation portfolio and how it was going to contribute to value to the company. So, essentially, figuring how to measure one’s innovation portfolio boils down to how to frame expectations and projections around what we think the future will look like. Got it, love it, now go”!

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Imaginatik

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Embedding an effective innovation program in your company requires a fresh look at capabilities. We find that very few – if any – large companies are truly set up to enable innovation to do battle with how the business landscape is evolving. Changes in companies. Are you using this information to drive innovative ideas?

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The Inovo Group

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups are now widely recognised as invaluable sources of innovation, fueling growth and providing pioneering business solutions”. They had recognized that many innovative initiatives fail in the early stage of development due to, among other things, a lack of secure funding. That will change. Highlights.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 3, 2016

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 post was originally posted on Linkedin by Ralph Welborn. How could it not? Think about it.

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Imaginatik

AUGUST 10, 2016

Mark, CEO of a Fortune 50 company, was fielding questions from Wall Street regarding the amount of investment he was putting into different types of innovation, particularly what his company calls “WoW-based Innovation” – e.g., breakthrough innovation designed to create net new lines of business greater than $500 million / year.

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Imaginatik

OCTOBER 7, 2016

He recognized that the “same old, same old” methods of engaging with his customers were changing. Reminds me of the sage saying, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”). The impact of my interruption? Business ecosystems are methods to orchestrate capabilities from diverse organizations to capture new sources of value.

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