Innovation Roadmap 2013: Push the Improve Button
Earlier this week the Chief Technology Officer of EMC, John Roese, launched his own version of what used to be called the Innovation Showcase: The 2013 Innovation Roadmap. The Innovation…
Innovation Lineage Threads: A Longitudinal Update
I continue to lead a Data Science project at EMC that focuses on Innovation Analytics. My approach has been to create a set of hypotheses and leverage a task force…
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Data Science and Innovation
Earlier this year I participated in a 5-day Data Science and Big Data Analytics course. I was hoping that by the end of the week I would have a greater sense…
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Idea Contests: An Exhaustive Look
After six years worth of idea submissions by EMC employees, the EMC Innovation Showcase has yielded a fairly robust set of data over which we can run analyses. In recent…
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The Analytic Management Assistant
I've started writing a series of blog posts about my experiences managing innovation and research activities at EMC Labs China. Let's call this "Task X". I've also been running some…
Phase 6 Innovation Analytics: Operationalize
This is the last in a series of posts describing a methodology (EMC's Data Analytics LifeCycle) for using analytics to measure innovation at a multi-national corporation. This lifecycle is taught…
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The Trouble with MTBDWs
Several weeks ago I attended an announcement at MIT CSAIL regarding the new bigdata@CSAIL initiative. Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick was there, along with MIT President Susan Hockfield. Myself and several…
Phase 5 Innovation Analytics: Global Knowledge Flight Patterns
Our team of data scientists have not reached Phase 5 of the Data Analytics LifeCycle for measuring innovation at EMC. We will likely be in Phase 4 (running analytic models)…
Phase 4 Innovation Analytics: Voice Measurement
This series of blog posts has been describing a methodology (EMC's Data Analytics LifeCycle) for using analytics to measure innovation at a multi-national corporation. There are eight different hypotheses that…
Phase 4 Innovation Analytics: Boundary Spanner Validation
In my last post I described the entry into Phase 4 of the Data Analytics Lifecycle. This phase is all about running analytic models against the high-quality data in an…