Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paul Daugherty, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer, Accenture (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: From an innovation process point of view, how do you look at this? Is the actual technology mostly coming from the startups and you’re folding them into the particular vertical practice area or horizontal practice area? Paul Daugherty: There are different tiers of innovation that we see. We work with the big platform

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paul Daugherty, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer, Accenture (Part 3)

Paul Daugherty: We also have another component of Accenture Ventures, which we call Open Innovation. It’s our program for working with all the entrepreneurs, accelerators, and incubators that we can find. We have a team that focuses specifically on open innovation. We currently have over 3,000 startups that we’ve met with. We’ve curated and understand

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paul Daugherty, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer, Accenture (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: There’re a lot of things you said there that are worth double-clicking down on. Let me start pulling some of it out and explore further. One thing you said is that we are in a continuously evolving industry and we have to practice continuous innovation. One of the ways you do that is

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Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI

By Guest Author Paul Daugherty and H James Wilson Human+Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI is a new book by Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson that discusses how AI gives businesses the power to reimagine and transform their processes. Here is an excerpt from the book, reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. 

Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paul Daugherty, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer, Accenture (Part 1)

Accenture is deeply entrenched in innovation as technology moves at a breakneck pace, and their clients all need to stay apace. Read how Paul and his organization structures continuous innovation. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about how you are thinking about corporate innovation at Accenture from a broad framework point of view. Paul Daugherty:

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Paul Daugherty

Paul Daugherty is the Chief Technology & Innovation Officer of Accenture. He is the co-author of the book Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI. His co-author H. James Wilson is Managing Director of Information Technology and Business Research at Accenture Research. You can follow them on @ PaulDaugh and @HJamesWilson. Human+Machine: Reimagining

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