Imaginal Transformation Inc. has developed an extensive ecosystem of solutions to support the transformation of other sectors, such as government, industry, banking, agri-business, etc.
The Imaginal Transformation Centre (ITC) is comprised of the physical environment, trained facilitators, researchers and analysts working with leaders to transform a community, a region or a country. An ITC focus is on the transformation of various sectors of society. Here are some of the impacts that an ITC may have on the community it serves.
The ITC’s physical environment unleashes creativity, collaboration and organizational brilliance. It does so by replicating a living space with plants, natural lighting and organic elements that reflects the natural world. There is a reason why people feel uplifted when walking in a forest.
The complexity of our world today requires methods of finding solutions that address this complexity. The Imaginal process enables large group collaboration with enough diversity to find solutions that otherwise would not be found.
The ITC houses researchers and analysts who gather and create knowledge to fuel the innovation process. An Imaginal Workshop is a collaborative process that creates a funnel of ideas from which innovation projects are conceived.
The ITC supports organizational transformation not only by utilizing Imaginal Thinking, but also generating new behaviours that transform the culture.
Developing Imaginal Leaders is best done in the context of Imaginal Workshop experiences. The ability to see and create the future is not a theoretical reality; rather, it becomes a living reality by those who have had the experience.
The ITC’s knowledge systems support the research and the preparation of policy briefs to help inform government with policy changes.
Central to an organization becoming Imaginal is the ability to see probable, plausible, and possible futures, learn from them and creating their preferred future. Most organizations understand the importance of innovation, but very few understand how innovation works and how to create a sustainable innovation capacity in their organization.
The Innovation Platform is a comprehensive system of:
Knowledge creation or discovery processes uses expert analysis, customer feedback, emerging new research, and an ecosystem of thought leaders.
Establishing a strategic focus that directs the entire innovation process. The strategic focus is constantly being revisited throughout the process since you never know when you will discover an opportunity that will change your focus.
The mining of broad opportunities will create the context for the ideation or imaginal workshop experiences. The Imaginal Thinking process creates opportunity zones of 10- 20 years and beyond.
Ideation is a collaborative human process guided by the 7 Step Imaginal Process of seeing, learning and creating the future. Ideation leads to innovation proposals and projects, but also generating new behaviours that transform the culture.
The ITC also supports organizational cultural change by designing and creating new system structures that support and generate new behaviours, thus transforming culture.
Imaginal Transformation Centre (ITC) is a
specialized physical environment that houses a large collaborative workshop space as well as the research center. The personnel of the ITC are trained to facilitate ideation processes and maintaining the ITC.
Innovation projects are the output of the Imaginal Workshop and ideation process. The lifecycle of each innovation project is managed using our digital Innovation Platform. At all times, the Innovation Manager will have a pulse of what is happening in the innovation pipeline.
Why is corporate training a big waste of time and money? For almost two decades, we have been telling corporate leaders that their HR training budget represents the lowest ROI of any budget item. Imaginal's people development system uses our Geenius digital platform with our patented knowledge transfer process of over 90% and more importantly the application of knowledge resulting in performance improvement and behavioural change.
Imaginal’s Ecosystem is designed to support the innovation process by the capture, refinement, dissemination and transfer of knowledge.
Knowledge fuels the innovation process, but not all knowledge is the same. One can research existing knowledge from many different sources, but all you have is the knowledge that has already been created, it is from the past. The Imaginal Thinking process is not only fuelled by what is already known, but by new knowledge that needs to be created.
The Imaginal Knowledge Creation model is comprised of four levels, with the first level being signal research. The next three levels are the creation of new knowledge that fuels the entire innovation process.
Researching strong and weak signals
Trend and impact analysis
Scenarios and opportunities
Ideation and innovation projects
