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Innovation Under The Radar

Himanshu Sharma — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 07:00:00 +0000

If you’re taking on somebody, and they’re the leader, and you are absolutely visible to them, and they see you coming at them, you better be very good at dodging. Because once that battleship is turned around and it’s aimed at you, all those guns are aimed at you, too.

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A Master Inventor at Work

Himanshu Sharma — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:00:00 +0000

Some people might take the view that innovations happen by accident. I would argue against that. I would say that, in fact, most innovation happens in response to a particular problem that you need to solve. My name is Andy Stanford-Clark; I’m one of IBM’s Master Inventors. Centers of innovation like IBM at Hursley put a lot of focus on encouraging people to try out new ideas. I have a scheme with my team where we have a “90-10 rule,” where 90 percent of our time is booked to development and 10 percent of the time, i.e., half a day per week, is for back burner projects, for people to investigate things that are of interest to them, and quite often, from those kinds of ideas, new products and services and solutions grow.

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Blogging Means Business

Himanshu Sharma — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:00:00 +0000

IBM executives Harriet Pearson and Willy Chiu discuss the power of building communities in the marketplace.

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