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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.

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The Innovation 'Function'

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Innovation” is often discussed in terms of the “idea” as the product and the formation of that idea as somehow unique and ineffable …. 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.

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Cosmetic vs. Strategic Innovation

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The word Innovation looms large in the word cloud of the American business lexicon. There is no doubt that many businesses and business leaders have recognized the importance of innovation as an organizational competency. Many companies, however, have taken a more aggressive approach to creating an innovation competency.

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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. It’s official: hackathons aren’t just for developers and entrepreneurs anymore.

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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

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Most innovators are optimists. Yet, within corporations, innovation programs are fragile things. Large portions of the organization view the innovation team as a foreign entity. Innovation programs thrive on processes and metrics that don’t mesh easily with the core. Even failure itself has become a virtue.

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The Four Types of Innovation Metrics

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Innovation metrics are hard. Casual observers typically assume that innovation, as a “fuzzy” art, can’t be measured at all. This is an unfortunate belief, because it unduly complicates innovation’s crucial role in driving firm-wide value. Innovation is new to the business and ambiguous. Innovation is inherently unknown.

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

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Though they often deliver some success, organizations often struggle to take the challenge beyond the initial project, and into a complete innovation program. As a result, participants don’t stay engaged, momentum is lost, virtual ideation often fizzles out, and innovation ultimately dies on the vine.