Call for Action: Innovation Researchers Required – Assistance Provided

Categories: Innovation Insights
Are you doing any interesting research in Innovation? Have you already started doing research, or are you just getting started? I would love to hear from you and learn more about what you are doing, and maybe I and my company, Imaginatik, might be able to help in some way.
There are three specific [...]

Naked Emperor – Part 4: The fish rots from the head

Categories: Innovation InsightsOne day, not so long ago, a Chief Innovation Officer looked around her vast organization and smiled at the difference she had made over the past three years. Innovation had become a strategic initiative, one with tangible results yielding millions of dollars of net benefit, and a more engaged, enthusiastic workforce to boot.
The [...]

Naked Emperor Part 3: CEO hands over to IT department, IT dept hands over to…

Categories: Innovation Insights
In a land not too far away, the CEO of a major travel reservation company read a book on innovation and decidedthat his company too needed to innovate. He spoke to his council of wise men (and a couple of women) and decided that the firm needed a strong computer system to collect [...]

Boost your Innovation Success rate: do NOT do an RFP

Categories: Innovation Insights
I recently spent some time going through all our old prospects, especially those where we had ‘failed’ to win their business. I was inspired by a chance discussion with a new contact from December, a global firm. They wanted to start planning a large implementation, but the project team, stacked with senior people, [...]