All Technology articles – Page 5
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ArticleWhy Toyota Set up New $1 Billion Research Group as a ‘Skunkworks’
The new institute has four initial mandates, including helping the carmaker explore possible products opportunities in “indoor mobility.” CEO Gill Pratt explains…
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Why Tools Giant Stanley Formed a Joint Venture to Tackle IoT
Two execs at Stanley Black and Decker and View Technologies explain a long-term bet on the growth of big data and IoT, and a proposition designed to work in the near-term.
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Google Exec: Foster 10x Thinking or be Doomed to Incrementalism
According to Google's Todd Rowe, leaders need to understand that fostering only incremental changes and improvements will doom a company to fall behind...
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Dell’s Chief Innovation Officer on Innovation Portfolios & Training
Dell's Jim Stikeleather opened a recent Brightidea innovation gathering in Austin with a talk about the importance of fostering divergent thinking...
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Why Google Does ‘Beer & Demos’ Every Friday
Craig Nevill-Manning of Google talks about why the company encourages engineers to show off raw prototypes every week over beer. Find out more here…
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Former Microsoft, PayPal Execs on Connecting with Startups
What's the right approach for big companies that want to plug into the startup world? Invest? Acquire? Be a customer? Get insights here...
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Sustaining, Disruptive, Blue Sky: How Microsoft Invests in Research
On a Field Study visit to Microsoft Research, Peter Lee showed one of those slides that had everyone in the group suddenly reaching for their phones to snap a picture.
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Insights from PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel
In this audio excerpt, Peter Thiel discusses how internal politics can tilt decision-making in large companies towards conventional ideas and away from what is truly disruptive.
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Five Lessons from the App-Driven Economy
As startups deliver services like transportation, home cleaning, and errand-running with the click of an app, here's how the playing field is changing.
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How EMC Reignited Its Innovation Program
EMC executive Calvin Smith realized that the innovation team needed to enhance its capability to craft business plans and prototypes — and eventually hand market-tested products...
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Why Adobe Gives Employees a Red Box with $1,000 Inside
Nearly 1,000 employees of Adobe Systems have participated in the company's Kickbox Innovation Workshop, where they learn how to develop ideas and collect feedback...
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Google Execs Share Slides on Innovation, Culture & Hiring
Slides from Google executives. Among their insights: “Most companies today are run to minimize risk, not maximize freedom and speed.”
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Google Execs Explain How the Company Spurs Innovation
Google executives offer an inside look at how the company hires, why reasonable goals are not good enough, and how internal projects gain or lose momentum.
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How Constant Contact Blends Lean Startup & Design Thinking
Andy Miller, Chief Innovation Architect at the digital marketing company, shares slides and a video that offer a look at Constant Contact's approach to developing new offerings.
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How Autodesk “Looks to the Edge” for Emerging Trends
Autodesk’s Jon Pittman talks about 3D printing, synthetic biology, programmable matter, and other trends he’s tracking. Pittman also shares the software giant’s new IdEx program…
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Advice from Dell’s VC Group
After getting out of the venture capital game a decade ago, Dell recently jumped back in with both feet. Jim Lussier explains how the tech company’s approach is different…
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Inside Xerox’s ‘Dreaming Sessions’ With Customers
Xerox felt R&D needed to be better-connected to customers. The result was the “Dreaming Session,” which brings researchers together with Xerox’s customers…
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Why Big Corps Can’t ‘Act like Startups’
Just act more like a startup! Break the rules! Easier said than done, writes Julia Austin, the former VP of Innovation at VMWare…
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Why Dyn Celebrates Big Projects like Big-Budget Movies
A fast-growing New Hampshire tech services company borrows an idea from Amazon to create movie-style posters that mark product upgrades and new offerings.
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Inside iRobot’s “Business-Sriven” Strategy
Colin Angle says his most important jobs is protecting products that have left the safe confines of the R&D lab but haven't yet grown into significant businesses.
