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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…
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…
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Back To Babson
One year ago this month I visited Babson and gave a lecture to a Corporate Entrepreneurship class. I told the class that I had a lot of experience converting ideas…
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The Road to Pullman
Isilon's continued hiring surge in the Great Northwest brought me someplace new last week: Pullman, Washington. If you don't know where Pullman is, it's right next to Moscow. As in…
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The West Coast Combo
At the end of July I visited with the CIO of the San Francisco Giants, Bill Schlough. When I walked into his office, I couldn't help but notice a framed…
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AMPed At UC Berkeley
I visited UC Berkeley last week to hear about their AMP Lab for the very first time. For me it was more than just another visit. When I first started…
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Brazilian Big Data Research Round-up
One of the more interesting ways to discuss Big Data is from the research angle. Chuck pointed out several weeks ago that analytics is not the only theme. As he…
The Flip Side of the COIN
One of the more interesting challenges working at EMC is the amount of global university research and innovation that occurs at facilities around the world: Russia, Ireland/Europe, Israel, Egypt, China,…
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Alaskan Silos
One of the more common IT themes in the last few years has been the "cleaning up" of IT silos that have sprung up across an organization (the MD Anderson…
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Health Information Management
Medical imaging and document management in hospitals both represent challenging use cases for cloud deployments. Why? Traditionally there have been two reasons: Their information systems are highly regulated. Their legacy…