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Tag Archives | Innovation
Why Some Innovation Leaders Last – and Others Don’t
A year or two ago, Imaginatik calculated the average job tenure of the Chief Innovation Officer at less than two years. The figure was based solely on some quick-and-dirty web…
Cosmetic vs. Strategic Innovation
The word Innovation looms large in the word cloud of the American business lexicon. It is routinely found in vision statements, motivational posters, corporate lobbies and, more recently, on business…
Towards a New Language of Value – from the perspective of business ecosystems
Mark, CEO of a Fortune 50 company, was fielding questions from Wall Street regarding the amount of investment he was putting into different types of innovation, particularly what his company…
Practical Sustainability – making it, well, practical
Last week, I met with the CTO and head of innovation of one of the largest electric utilities in the United States – very smart, provocative in terms of his…
Why Risk Innovation?
Have you ever heard of Google Video, Google Lively, Google Notebook, Google Answers or Google Wave? Do you use Google+? One of the axioms spoken time and time again by…
Crowdsourcing Innovation Valuation: an off-label use of innovation management technologies
Many people will read this title and immediately ask, how can you come up with a viable valuation from a bunch of people sticking their fingers in the air? Well,…
5 Ways to Fail at Innovation
Most innovators are optimists. There’s no such thing as a bad idea – only an unfinished one. Every setback is an opportunity in disguise. Even failure itself has become a…
All Ideas Are Equal… huh?
It doesn’t matter how many ideas you have: all ideas have the same likely value. Sounds counter-intuitive… but take a look at the graph below. Rob Spencer, the data scientist…
The Path to Innovation Maturity
We believe innovation is a journey of learning over time. As organizations learn and grow, they naturally mature in their understanding and execution of innovation. A great place to begin…
