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Imaginatik Announces New Full-Service Innovation Contract

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Boston, MA – Imaginatik, the innovation company, is pleased to announce that it has signed a new contract for its full-service innovation offering with a large US-based investment management company. ” About Imaginatik. Imaginatik’s mission is to help these companies build sustainable innovation competencies.

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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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Allocate a significant amount of human and financial resources to developing and maintaining a permanent, rigorous, measurable innovation competency. At Imaginatik we are fortunate to work with a number of clients that have world-class innovation programs. They also know that most great ideas are not lighting strikes.

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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. I remember participating in transportation-industry client’s boardroom meeting, as they worked to outline their corporate innovation strategy. Here’s a few tips to guide your route selection.

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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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Learning to be Innovative – Future Building’s Crucial Role in Driving Innovation Impact

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They thought they needed a new growth strategy. Analytical thinking alone does not produce innovation. An obvious example is a clue from 2011 – the public launch of Uber’s ride-sharing program in San Francisco. However, you don’t need to have full-time innovation scouts to get going.

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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. And their innovation strategies were sound.