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The False Promise of “Free” Innovation Software

Imaginatik

This week, I was talking with one of our clients about additional ways to leverage our innovation software. Catalyze ACTION through providing portfolio and program review and reporting capabilities. The success of innovation software rests on all four of these 4 purposes. They were tempted to take the offer of “free.”

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Analytics: The Business Value Beyond New Ideas

Imaginatik

Some of this devolution is due to the emergence of ever-simpler software tools in the innovation area that ‘game-ify’ the experience and seek to solicit as many participants as they can entice, hoping that its primary goal of uncovering the great ‘idea’ can just be conjured by ‘fun.’. telemetry).

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The Future of Corporate-Startup Collaboration

The Inovo Group

New software technologies and tools will make it possible to create Startup Collaboration Platforms that enable the relationships to become more automated, structured and efficient. They had recognized that many innovative initiatives fail in the early stage of development due to, among other things, a lack of secure funding.