Steve Todd, Author at Information Playground

The Seven Habits of Effective Intrapreneurs

As an inventor I have witnessed a fairly distinctive pattern of intrapreneurship within my own multi-national corporation (EMC). The employees that are the most successful at advancing their ideas through…

Steve Todd January 9, 2012

Innovation Analytics

Irish Cocoon

Several weeks ago I published a post called "Irish Butterfly". In that post I described how EMC's Innovation Showcase idea repository was mathematically analyzed and visually displayed. I shared how…

Steve Todd December 15, 2011

Innovation Analytics

Wordy Innovation

My company (EMC) just announced the award winning ideas that emerged from our yearly Innovation Showcase. Global employees submitted 1,590 ideas in the June to August timeframe. In August, teams…

Steve Todd December 12, 2011

Career Innovation

Innovation Watershed: How My Career Changed

wa·ter·shed [waw-ter-shed, wot-er-shed] an important point of division or transition between two phases, conditions, etc. How far has EMC's Innovation Conference come in five years? Judging by the lineup…

Steve Todd November 30, 20111

Innovation Analytics

Irish Butterfly

In recent posts I have been describing the use of analytics within EMC to identify cliques of innovators. These innovators generated a high number of idea submissions as part of…

Steve Todd November 29, 2011

Innovation Analytics

The Bigger the Clique

I'm writing a series of posts about the use of analytics to improve the innovation capacity of my company (EMC). My team is running a yearly Innovation Conference and Showcase…

Steve Todd November 21, 2011

Global Innovation Innovation Innovation Analytics

Who are These People?

In my corporation (EMC) we are currently running a global idea conference (the annual Innovation Showcase) that has generated 1,590 unique ideas. I've written several posts about our use of…

Steve Todd November 16, 20112

Innovation Analytics

Global Cooperation via Competition

One of the unique aspects of the global idea contest that EMC runs each year is the fact that it is a competition fostering global collaboration. In 2011, hundreds of…

Steve Todd November 1, 2011

Innovation Analytics

World Analytics

In a recent post I described the use of analytics to uncover insights into how my corporatioin (EMC) sponsors organic innovation around the globe. For this post I'd like to…

Steve Todd October 26, 2011

Innovation Analytics

EMC Innovation Conference: Retrospective Analytics

One of the benefits of running an Innovation Conference at a high-tech company (EMC) is that my team and I get free access to top technologies and top technologists. We’ve…

Steve Todd October 17, 2011

The Seven Habits of Effective Intrapreneurs

Irish Cocoon

Wordy Innovation

Innovation Watershed: How My Career Changed

Irish Butterfly

The Bigger the Clique

Who are These People?

Global Cooperation via Competition

World Analytics

EMC Innovation Conference: Retrospective Analytics

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