By Doug Hall
Innovation is a relentless pursuit for every successful organization, cutting across geographies and industries. And many are driving disruptions by promoting intrepreneur teams too....
By Timothy Chou
As a healthcare professional, you might agree that something has to change in our healthcare system. While we could debate public policy, insurance carriers and the law, I’ll make a case there are significant steps in technology, which could fundamentally change healthcare in the US and the rest of the world....
By Timothy Chou
I was invited to speak at a Generation Investment Management event in San Francisco recently. In particular, I was asked to talk about the organizational and leadership challenges in realizing the commercial and sustainability benefits of data science, analytics and artificial intelligence. What follows is a summary of my comments....
By Doug Hall
After helping create and test over 25,000 innovations with a commercialization valuation of $17 Billion I’ve learned the following 5 things are critical to innovation success:...
By Doug Hall
The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. What’s not understood is how to do it....
By Timothy Chou
Over the past few years I’ve been on a steep learning curve regarding the construction industry, having started out knowing nothing. Four years ago, Helge Jacobsen, VP at United Rentals—the world’s largest construction machine rental company—invited me to be a part of an all-day strategy session....
By Timothy Chou
Last week I did a dinnertime talk in Houston for my friends at Atomiton. We had executives from quite a few companies including Halliburton, McDermott, Southwest Energy, Bechtel, Schlumberger and Chevron. While this is not a transcript of the talk – hopefully this is what they heard. ...
By Sandy Carter
The day began as every other, but as soon as I arrived at work, I received an email: “Happy One Year Anniversary!” I love working at Amazon Web Services because I am on a continuous learning path. I run the group that helps to migrate Enterprise workloads onto the AWS Cloud. I have the opportunity to work with some of our largest customers and partners like VMware, Microsoft, and SAP....
By Mark Mayfield
I’m drawn to buzzwords? Particularly business buzzwords? They sometimes “muddy the water”, but “at the end of the day” these metaphors can help us “get all our ducks in a row”. You might disagree, so let’s talk about this “elephant in the room”....
By Timothy Chou
I’ve taught at Stanford University for more than twenty-five years and it’s a privilege to “warp young minds.” You may not realize it, but not everyone wants to build a better smart phone app, a new way to talk to his or her friends, or another way to buy something. Many students want to do something meaningful—something that might change the real world. But, what might that be?...