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Imaginatik CEO publishes groundbreaking business book

Imaginatik

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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Tournaments: Collaboration for a Rapid Outcome

Imaginatik

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. Apps for Climate Competition ” intended on bringing together the best ideas from all kinds of collaborators: Scientists, developers, social organizations. We will be delighted to help.

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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! This effort has been a long time in coming. And few, if any, of them get the credit they deserve.

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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. At Imaginatik, we refer to these different values as “currencies” when we are modeling the “value” of a project or a portfolio of innovation projects.

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My innovation journey (so far)

Jeffrey Phillips

We felt that to remain competitive, larger companies needed to recapture the sense of wonder and adventure that working in the "front end" of innovation would create. My friend, who founded OVO Innovation with me in 2004, was really passionate about the idea of reviving innovation in corporations.

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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

Imaginatik

For many companies, the desire to be more innovative is driven by a strategic issue – flat-lined growth, competitive threats, industry upheaval, etc. This may seem sensible…and it is. But this is very different from being an organization that understands, across the board, how to innovate together.