Imaginatik, from Planbox

Imaginatik, developed by Planbox, is an innovation management platform designed to foster a culture of innovation and collaboration within organizations. According to the vendor, this software solution enables businesses of various sizes to capture, evaluate, and implement ideas from different stakeholders. Innovation managers, R&D teams, product managers, strategy and business development professionals, as well as manufacturing and industrial companies, are among the intended users of Imaginatik.

Key Features

Tech Scouting: According to the vendor, the platform allows users to identify insights, key trends, and emerging technologies. It also enables continuous monitoring of the market for new technologies and competitive threats through a network of experts and partners.

Corporate Venturing: The vendor claims that Imaginatik helps users target the right partnership and investment opportunities by identifying potential collaboration opportunities with startups and other organizations. It also facilitates the evaluation and prioritization of investment opportunities based on strategic alignment and potential return on investment.

Continuous Improvement: The vendor states that the platform fosters a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging employees to submit suggestions for incremental improvements. It also streamlines the evaluation and implementation of improvement ideas to enhance core products, services, or processes.

Breakthrough Innovation: According to the vendor, Imaginatik helps users solve the right problems that lead to breakthrough opportunities. It aims to foster a culture of innovation and creativity within the organization by facilitating ideation, collaboration, and evaluation of high-impact ideas.

Open Innovation: The vendor claims that the platform enables users to collaborate with employees, customers, partners, startups, and academia to generate innovative ideas and solutions. It leverages crowdsourcing and co-creation to drive innovation and engage a diverse ecosystem.

Employee Engagement: According to the vendor, Imaginatik helps create a culture of transparency and solution-oriented collaboration by encouraging employees to contribute their ideas and feedback. It also recognizes and rewards employees for their innovative contributions, aiming to foster employee engagement.

Discovery Central: The vendor states that the platform allows users to imagine different futures and explore the right problems to solve. It facilitates the prioritization of opportunities through head-to-head comparison and evaluation. Additionally, it helps identify and analyze emerging trends and market insights to drive innovation.

Innovation Central: According to the vendor, the platform enables users to manage the full lifecycle of innovation activities. It supports the capture and evaluation of ideas through challenge launch, ideation, and collaboration. The online Business Model Canvas is provided for strategic planning and evaluation.

Agile Central: The vendor claims that Imaginatik helps users manage projects and agile work within the innovation pipeline. It facilitates tracking deliverables, planning experiments, and developing proof of concepts to foster agile methodologies and iterative development.

Portfolio Central: According to the vendor, the platform empowers teams to pitch and validate a commercialization strategy. It generates reports and dashboards for portfolio evaluation and monitors the progress and success of innovation projects to ensure effective portfolio management.