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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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Do we have clear methods for exploring new opportunity spaces, ideation and scaling our innovations? What we’ve found is a lot of companies begin with crowdsourcing and ideation, and quickly find that is not enough to fill significant growth gaps. Curious how Imaginatik can embed innovation into your organization?

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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. 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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Cosmetic vs. Strategic Innovation

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This happens when business leaders convert innovation efforts back into more familiar territories like operational excellence, cost reduction, market expansion, etc. Buying ideation software without dedicating the resources necessary to ensure its successful launch, adoption, and repeatability.

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5 Ways to Fail at Innovation

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Empower the people with passion, energy, and incentive to carry the torch – rather than perfunctory involvement of the regular folks in Marketing or Engineering. Having “the usual people” working on an innovation project is a surefire way for it to fall into committee and go nowhere. Fail to account for scale-up.

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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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We have seen a good deal of exploratory work in ‘open innovation’ that has either been a brand enhancing marketing effort, on the one hand and exploiting pools of cheaply available capital (at the moment) that are feverishly searching for an asset to invest in. Let’s explore some of these.

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Why Risk Innovation?

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There are new markets, and cultures to explore and a diverse set of perspectives to bring into the company. Innovation takes a deep commitment of time, people, money, and perhaps most importantly patience to ask the right questions, ideate, build, and scale.