All Technology articles – Page 5
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ArticleSiemens on Finding the Best Startups & Sparking Collaborations
Through the Frontier Partner Program, startups enter a low-commitment relationship in exchange for free Siemens software and mentorship.
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Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak on Ignoring the Rules
Innovation Leader editor Scott Kirsner sat down for a wide-ranging on-stage interview with Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple and a Silicon Valley legend...
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After an Acquisition: SAP Ariba CEO on How to Sustain Innovation
Even when acquirers pay billions, too often they squash the culture that made the company so appealing in the first place. Find out how to sustain innovation after an acquisition.
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Google VP Talks Getting Resources & Confronting the Future
Execs are too complacent when confronting seismic industry shifts, says Ivy Ross, who leads Google’s wearable computing project. “Why…stay at a hotel, versus in an Airbnb room?”
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Intuit Executive On Rolling Out Lean Startup for Maximum Impact
If you’ve been debating whether to roll out lean startup methodology in your organization, Bennett Blank of Intuit has a question: What are you waiting for?
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Using Lean Startup to Prioritize New Ideas at Ericsson
“We have way more ideas than we can possibly implement,” says Ken Durand, the head of Ericsson’s Atlanta Idea Factory. Durand shares how his team learned to prioritize.
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How Adobe’s Legal Group Met the Challenges of Innovation
How do you create legal guidelines for employee innovation that allow people try new things, but keep a company out of hot water? Donna Kolnes of Adobe explains.
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Lessons on Running Cisco’s First Company-Wide Idea Challenge
Cisco's Alex Goryachev discussed the company's recent Innovate Everywhere Challenge, including how he got thousands of employees to participate.
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Head of Innovation Lab at ADP on Recruiting & Hand-Offs
Roberto Masiero, Vice President and Head of ADP’s New Jersey Innovation Lab, offers lessons and recommendations for companies looking to start their own labs.
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EMC Exec on ‘Incubation Readiness’ and Incentivizing Employees
In this live call, Calvin Smith of EMC Corp., the data storage and cloud giant, discusses creating a central fund for innovation; incrimental versus radical innovation; and more.
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Qualcomm on Building an Internal Startup-Venture Capital Ecosystem
Plenty of innovation programs struggle to produce tangible impact in areas that matter to senior leadership. Navrina Singh of Qualcomm explains how they’ve been doing it…
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How Collaborations Drive Intel Labs' IoT Strategy
Martin Curley of Intel Labs Europe shares how an “Open Innovation 2.0” approach is helping Intel work with customers to prototype and deploy IoT technologies.
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Why 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.
