Roundtable Recap: April 26 – How to Partner with the Incubator-In-A-Box

During this week’s roundtable, we started off with a segment on our Incubator-In-A-Box (IIAB) program for which we’re seeing very significant interest right now. Below are a few links we shared with the audience today for further exploration. IIAB is our core partnership platform.

Incubator-In-A-Box for Internal Innovation and Intrapreneurship
Corporate Innovation Discussion with Paolo Juvara, Oracle
Incubator-In-A-Box for Platform Vendors
Incubator-In-A-Box for Governments
Delaware Economic Development Office (DEDO) Partners With 1Mby1M
Economic Development Discussion with Ken Anderson, Delaware Economic Development Office
Incubator-In-A-Box for Accelerators
Scholarships to 1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Awarded to NetApp Startups

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: This happens quite often that an idea that comes through the program is well fleshed out but doesn’t always find an implementation path. But that’s okay as far as we are concerned because the learning that people go through in fleshing out and being ready to present is the primary goal of the program.

In terms of setting expectations, we try very hard not to set expectations that every project is going to find a path of implementation. With a company the size of Oracle, not every project is going to find an implementation path. >>>

Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What about engagement? What are your thoughts? Why is the program so popular?

Every time we run an edition of the program, there is tremendous engagement and lots of applications. There is a preparation time of six to eight weeks when we want people from Oracle to come attend the public roundtables. There is a tremendous number of people who keep coming to these. What do you think is at the heart of that?

Paolo Juvara: I think the program is very unique. This is a mini-MBA. There are not that many learning opportunities within Oracle to learn those skills. These are skills that people are very interested in. The popularity of entrepreneurship, in general, certainly helps. I also want to say that your reputation also helps. A person of your caliber helps. It’s very appealing for people. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Susan Hoffman in my team who’s doing a fantastic job in promoting the program in the company.

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely. The duo of Susan Hoffman and Maureen Kelly has really made a massive impact on the success of this program. The execution team is incredibly important. I’ve seen lots of execution teams not succeed in pulling off something that’s scalable and high-impact. Let’s talk about some of the ideas that are coming out of the program. What are some of the ideas that you like? What conclusions can we draw from those?

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395th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Paolo Juvara, Oracle, On Corporate Innovation

Paolo Juvara is Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab. Oracle has been a partner of 1Mby1M since 2013 and has built its internal innovation program on the 1Mby1M Incubator-in-a-Box platform. In this session, Paolo and I discuss the secrets of the success of the program. A unique window into corporate innovation thought leadership.

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on how we have evolved the program a bit. When we started, the application process involved people presenting their ideas. At that point, we were asking for people to submit ideas. As we went through the evolution over the years, we have completely morphed the program.

In the application stage, we do not ask for ideas anymore. What we ask to see is why you want to learn what is being taught here. You do have some interest in entrepreneurship. Can you actually learn this online? We change the application process from submitting and evaluating ideas to submitting an equivalent of a 

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Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab

Oracle has been a partner of 1Mby1M since 2013 and has built its internal innovation program on the 1Mby1M Incubator-in-a-Box platform.

In this interview, Sramana Mitra and Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President of Oracle Application Lab, discuss the secrets of the success of the program. A unique window into corporate innovation thought leadership from some of the industry’s pioneering thinkers.

Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paolo Juvara, Group Vice President, Oracle Applications Lab (Part 1)

Oracle has been a partner of 1Mby1M since 2013 and has built its internal innovation program on the 1Mby1M Incubator-in-a-Box platform. In this interview, Sramana Mitra and Paolo Juvara, Group President of Oracle Application Lab, discuss the secrets of the success of the program. A unique window into corporate innovation thought leadership from some of the industry’s pioneering thinkers.

Sramana Mitra: Today, we want to share some of what we have learned, what we have done, and how we think about internal innovation at Oracle. The way we run this program today is twice a year, we have a Oracle One Million by One Million intrepreneurship challenge inside Oracle. >>>

Thought Leaders in Corporate Innovation: Paul Daugherty, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer, Accenture (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: There is an IT gap that is complicated to bridge. I’m originally from India. I track the evolution of the Indian IT industry. A large part of that is in low-end business process outsourcing. I have seen so many applications where you put a piece of software in and 4,000 people are out of their jobs. This is already starting to flow through.

The projections for the number of jobs losses for this year is half a million. If you have a very low IQ person, you can’t expect that person now to be doing things of much higher order. That’s where the re-skilling or retooling is challenging. >>>