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The Innovation 'Function'

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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. Creatives and designers are part of that ecosystem, as are engineers and marketing execs… but innovation is not the exclusive domain of anyone.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

HR & freelancers platforms TopCoder – competition-based software crowdsourcing Spudaroo – crowdsourcing copywriting Clickworker – small online task solving Amazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost crowdsourcing 05.

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

HR & freelancers platforms TopCoder – competition-based software crowdsourcing Spudaroo – crowdsourcing copywriting Clickworker – small online task solving Amazon Mechanical Turk – low-cost crowdsourcing 05.

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Why Innovation Maturity Matters

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For many companies, the desire to be more innovative is driven by a strategic issue – flat-lined growth, competitive threats, industry upheaval, etc. Although senior executive alignment is critical, there is no way to design the best on-the-ground processes and governance structures without first undertaking quite a bit of trial-and-error.

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Open Innovation: 2 approaches towards value creation

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The new business models are ecosystem-based – a fancy way of describing that what underlies each of the growth leaders – and new business model – is a new way to engage customers, one’s competitive environment with new capabilities to capture new sources of value in new ways. Take this back to open innovation.

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Beneath the Jargon: where "transformation" meets innovation

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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. Transformation, at its core, reflects changes in the economic, technology and behavioral logics of an industry. Transformation: 1.

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

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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.