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Imaginatik CEO publishes groundbreaking business book

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BOSTON – May 29, 2018 – Imaginatik today announced the publication of a groundbreaking new business book, Topple – The End of the Firm-Based Strategy and Rise of New Models for Explosive Growth. The business logic of the past decades no longer applies,” commented Imaginatik CEO Ralph Welborn. “It About Imaginatik.

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Cosmetic vs. Strategic Innovation

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Many companies, however, have taken a more aggressive approach to creating an innovation competency. Leadership at these companies recognize that the business ecosystems they are familiar with are in flux and will likely stay that way. Many of these companies allocate as much as 10-20% of their overheads to the practice of innovating.

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Why Some Innovation Leaders Last – and Others Don’t

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A year or two ago, Imaginatik calculated the average job tenure of the Chief Innovation Officer at less than two years. Probe the leadership climate. I remember participating in transportation-industry client’s boardroom meeting, as they worked to outline their corporate innovation strategy.

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Why Innovation Maturity Matters

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For many companies, the desire to be more innovative is driven by a strategic issue – flat-lined growth, competitive threats, industry upheaval, etc. Over the past decade, I’ve watched the vast majority of innovation programs, and corporate innovation leaders, quietly disappear within 2-3 years of inception (often much sooner).

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Slaying the Two-Track Innovation Agenda

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Many corporate innovation efforts suffer from a subtle defect: two competing innovation agendas that fight for control. Yet a two-track innovation agenda is among the most reliable killers of well-intentioned innovation programs. In most cases, the problem is never detected, and no one is to blame.