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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. The figure was based solely on some quick-and-dirty web research.

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Fresh Air From Students' Open Eyes at ExxonMobil

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Antigravity and Hovering Technology for Transportation. Tobacco Free World by 2040. Nano for Cancer Cure. The People are the Cities (people as nodes in smart city networks). Manufacturing Comes Alive (biological inputs). Floating Cities…(on water as a response to climate change/flooding). Orbital Solar Power. Household Waste Taxation.

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What’s New In Corporate Innovation 11 January 2018

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UberEats is an example of how the company is thinking of its technology and customer base as leverage to expand beyond transportation. It has also long been a firm interested in moving the larger ecosystem. This type of “ecosystem thinking” is smart innovation strategy that corporates would do well to emulate.

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

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Thus, for insurance and transportation firms, Uber’s early successes in 2011 – 2012 could have yielded important insights about the future of transportation, urban living, and the sharing economy. Narrative shaping takes raw insights, blows them up, and builds coherent views of what they portend for your innovation efforts.

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What’s New In Corporate Innovation

Imaginatik

Imaginatik’s take: The rise of mobile-connected big data is kicking into hyperdrive. Important applications are coming online that may change society in areas ranging from healthcare, to transportation, to finance, and beyond. In this case, a direct-monitoring startup is besting the CDC at its own game.