Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 5)

SM: How does your approach differ from what other companies have done in the past? PB: Companies have traditionally funded academic work in the past. In those scenarios the professors would set their own research agendas. Professors would pitch to HP or IBM what they wanted to do. Our variation is that we do not

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Catching Up On Readings: Burger King Goes High-Tech

Narayanan Raman continues with his CIO interviews, but this week he moves away from consulting and talks with Paj Pawal at Burger King. Click on the full article to read this and all of the week’s posts.

Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 4)

SM: It is my perspective that the big missed opportunity so far in IT is personalization. Nobody has cracked personalization. PB: We have a big project in HP Labs on personalization. Today’s personalization is at a Web page level. If you go to Amazon and buy some books, they will recommend other books. If you

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CIO Priorities: Burger King

By Guest Author Narayanan Raman In the previous three articles, I talked to CIOs of IT consulting and IT services organizations. In this article, I shift gears and speak with Raj Rawal, SVP and CIO of Burger King (BK), the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world. Raj’s challenges, although similar to those

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Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 3)

SM: Can you give me a sense of the process you use to choose the areas of your research? PB: I can tell you a bit about the new way that we are running HP Labs. My vision and decision was to focus on 20 to 30 big-bet projects that would really make a difference

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November 13 Brainstorming With The Indian Media on Entrepreneurship Development

It was perfectly worthwhile to wake up at 3:30 a.m. and head to Cisco’s telepresence room in Santa Clara this morning at the crack of dawn. What followed was an animated discussion with friends – old and new – in the Indian media. For me, above and beyond everything else, it was great fun brainstorming

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Wireless Carrier Roundup

There has been a buzz of activity in the wireless market with several Android phones being launched, including the Droid by Motorola on Verizon. Since the launch of the iPhone, AT&T has been increasing its subscriber base and Verizon has managed to keep up with the competition. However, Sprint and T-Mobile are finding it hard

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Forbes Column 2009: India’s Next Celebrities

This is what I intend to discuss with the Indian media today, read my Zero In column for this week: India’s Next Celebrities. I have to wake up at 3:30 a.m. tomorrow and go to Cisco’s Telepresence center in Santa Clara to meet with the Indian media in five Indian cities: Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon, Chennai,

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