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Imaginatik Releases Innovation Central Spring 2018 to Drive Front-Line Engagement

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New mobile experience makes ideation easy for employees across the enterprise. Featuring a significantly enhanced mobile experience, the Spring 2018 release, enables today’s enterprises to bring innovation practices to the front-lines of the organization by providing direct on-the-go access to ideation activities. About Imaginatik.

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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. 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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Hackathons – 3 tips for getting started quickly

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Now, corporations are lining up to use them as a means of developing ideas and driving engagement around innovation programs. In fact, several audience members from our recent 8 programs of engagement webinar expressed hesitation about hackathons. At Imaginatik, we’ve been helping clients with hackathons for more than five years.

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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. In the early days, it’s also important to gain a handle on innovation’s productivity levels – primarily as an internal barometer for the health of the program’s balance of activities. Projects launched. HR-oriented measures. Functional metrics.

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Three Flavours of Open Innovation: breaking down institutional boundaries through the X-Factor, Speed Dating, and iOT

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By sponsoring a medium that engages and fosters a broad ecosystem that is drawn to the variety of business issues presented can render these functions as true brokers of change. The term ‘broker’ is apt in that an ideation platform used as this medium is really the exchange between talent liquidity and problem liquidity.