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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. 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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What’s New in Corporate Innovation – Dec 18, 2017

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Imaginatik’s take: Continuous reinvention comes from within. According to Natalie Drucker, Mark Collin, and Nima Monterazi, designing a master plan for a thriving digital enterprise years in advance is simply not feasible. Imaginatik’s take: The Digital Cities of the (near?) Ralph Welborn Imaginatik CEO ). “75%

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Innovating Through Vertical Expert Networks

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Over the past couple of years, Imaginatik has both seen and fostered something we call Vertical Expert Networks. The food industry has a vast array of highly specialized areas such as dairy/creamer/stabilizers or meat/beef/coloration and even areas for odour design.

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Open Innovation: 2 approaches towards value creation

Imaginatik

It is a concept (powered by underlying technology and methods) with a pragmatic objective: engage different types of stakeholders beyond one’s organizational walls in ways that provides mutual value to all involved. Open Innovation is designed to engage folks “out in the world” in a way that adds value to everyone involved.

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Practical Sustainability – making it, well, practical

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First, it requires the design and use of a new social scorecard, or in the parlance of some, a shared value framework. both greater societal benefit… and… economic value – hence the importance of designing, and deploying, a new social scorecard. Its focus: analyze the social and economic impact of clean vs dirty energy.

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Redefining HR – Supporting the “Future of Work”

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Current enterprise structures and their HR systems and policies were designed to support a business setting that no longer exists. If you factor in the fact that large enterprises are being consistently challenged to innovate and develop new growth capabilities for their business models, products, services, customer engagement models, etc.,

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Beneath the Jargon: where "transformation" meets innovation

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The implications of this question are profound, as they are compelling and wonderfully pragmatic - impacting: Your products and services (re-design ‘em), Your value and supply chain (re-configure ‘em), Your capabilities and assets – know-whats, know-hows and know-whys (re-think ‘em), and. Otherwise, why bother?

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