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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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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

I'm ready to dive back in, to write about innovation, to lead innovation projects and to build up an innovation competency in the firms where people want to get good work done. 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.

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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

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.

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Strengthening the Organization and Accelerating Value – a fresh look at Capability Building

Imaginatik

We strongly believe every established company must focus on new capabilities because of two key trends: • Company structures, and therefore customers and areas of competition, are evolving. Are different types of projects treated differently? Changes in companies. .

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