Innovative Deadlines

Innovative Deadlines

The Innovation Showcase at EMC World 2008 has added an interesting dynamic to the innovation process at EMC. In many advanced development groups I have seen during my career, innovation,…
The Idea Behind The Idea

The Idea Behind The Idea

Everybody has ideas at work. It may be a process idea. If may be an organizational idea.  For me, it tends to be a product idea. It's been my experience ...
Post-Vacation Blogging

Post-Vacation Blogging

Last week was school vacation week in Massachusetts. Most of the public schools give kids the week off, and many EMC employees in the NorthEast took the week off as…
Expert System

Expert System

I'm returning to the Information Playground theme. There's been a flurry of acquisitions made recently by EMC. This equates to increasing the size of the geodesic dome that myself and ...
Six Degrees of Joe Tucci

Six Degrees of Joe Tucci

As of right now I'm six management hops away from Joe Tucci.  There are five levels of management in between myself and the leader of EMC. Let's say that the…
Get Your Job Done

Get Your Job Done

I recently wrote a post about EMC's Innovation Conference last October. The centerpiece of the event was an Innovation Contest.  It was smart fun with global talent. Different speakers were ...
The Contest

The Contest

You might have heard that EMC held an internal innovation contest back in October of 2007. It was a first for EMC. I was involved. If you want to know…
Information Playground

Information Playground

If it's not clear from my posts already, I get the chance at EMC to work on a variety of cool technologies and products.  There seems to be no end…