Innovation Strategy
#TheGrubbCast Episode 2: Talking with Viptela’s Khalid Raza About Software Defined Wide Area Networking
Cisco’s Innovation Strategy In this episode of #TheGrubbCast, I set the stage by talking about Cisco’s Five-Way Strategy for innovation – Build, Buy, Partner, Invest, Co-Develop. Build refers to Cisco’s 19,000+ engineers and $6.3B investment in Research & Development – but of course no on…
Building the Right Innovation Maturity Model for your Business
In the first blog of this series, we discussed the important role that an innovation maturity model (IMM) plays in creating a strategic, repeatable framework for innovation excellence. In this second installment, we will look at the process of creating an effective IMM, drawing on Cisco’s own IMM as…
It’s Time to Rewind Your Innovation Strategy
During the final days of 2016, the news that Coca-Cola shut down its Founders program caught many by surprise. It shouldn’t shock experienced trailblazers though as we embark on our innovation journeys into 2017. Transformation, after all, is a journey and not a destination. As articulated quite eff…
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