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On the Path to Innovation Maturity

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Ask yourself these questions: Why are we engaging in innovation? Are we engaging external thought leaders, partners, academics, etc. Do we have clear methods for exploring new opportunity spaces, ideation and scaling our innovations? Curious how Imaginatik can embed innovation into your organization? Like this post?

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The Innovation 'Function'

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There is a perception of serendipitous, Zen enlightenment related to ideation that is often accompanied by a thorough dismissal of “process,” as if they are mutually exclusive. Crowdsourcing ideas from people who haven’t been told, “you can’t do that!” In that vision of the “innovation funnel” the idea is at the end… the goal.

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Beyond Flavor of the Month: Managing Idea Challenges as a Repeatable Program

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But there are other powerful benefits, such as: increased staff buy-in for new initiatives, and higher productivity and morale of a more engaged workforce. As a result, participants don’t stay engaged, momentum is lost, virtual ideation often fizzles out, and innovation ultimately dies on the vine. Engagement – Years 1-3.

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The Four Types of Innovation Metrics

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These measures look at overall volume of the pipeline: Ideation volume. Engagement levels. Many programs begin simply, by crowdsourcing ideas and executing on projects. Typically, these metrics track throughput across each stage of the ideas to innovation cycle. Projects launched. HR-oriented measures. Functional metrics.

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Driving Innovation through Employee Engagement - Shift your Focus

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We want to engage employees in innovation. Because people readily understand suggestions, incremental ideas and crowdsourcing, this tends to be the main focus when starting up innovation. We believe there’s another way – a better way – and it starts by ensuring your focus is on Driving Innovation through employee engagement.