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Innovation and Large Enterprise- Part III: Brand new innovation and new product lines
In the last two blogs, we explored various aspects of innovation and the large enterprise. This is a critical discussion as we need to deliberately and actively increase the rate of innovation by large enterprises, and a passion of mine where I spend most of my days, in large enterprises around the globe. The 3rd…
Innovation and Large Enterprise – Part II: Acquisition and Investment based innovation
In Part I of the Innovation and large enterprise series, we discussed the fact that innovation is not just innovating the next biggest thing, rather it can often be based on existing products and creating new innovative offerings based on the existing business. Think of the thousands of apps Blackberry would have had, if the…
Innovation and Large Enterprises – Part I: Innovation based on existing product lines
Part I: Innovation based on existing product lines Innovation in large enterprises (companies) is a very difficult task. Large enterprises have become successful because they do what they do very well. This means they are focused and have a strong ‘delivery mindset.’ Employees at large enterprises, particularly those involved in building, operating, servicing and selling…
Apple vs. Samsung Verdict: Will It Impede Innovation?
Since the verdict in the Apple vs. Samsung case was announced, there has been no shortage of articles written about the possible impact this will have on innovation. Below are several of those articles followed by comments about each of them. Technology Review: Apple/Samsung: The Verdict on Innovation With over 60% of 700 Million or…
CIO Must Become Chief Innovation Officer
The IT landscape in large enterprises has changed radically in the last 5 years. Where the challenge previously was to develop the best IT platform for a company and to find ways to store data in traditional databases such as Oracle, today the ‘I’ in Information has changed to ‘Innovation’ in the CIO’s title. The…
Invest in Start-Ups for Innovation?
I want to focus in on Jason Yotopolous’s following point in this Venture Beat article: SAP gives startups millions of dollars worth of software: At a recent SAP innovation conference, Jason Yotopolous, the executive vice president of global research and business incubation at SAP, hinted at the company’s reasoning. “We are building startups within SAP,”…