Visualization of Research Activities at EMC

In Innovation Excellence:  Using visualization to understand and improve categories of research activities.   This might have been very useful in our enterprise.  Points to an approach I had not hear of:

" ... EMC has dozens of university research partnerships worldwide. How do we dynamically visualize the current areas of exploration that are occurring across the globe at any given point in time? How can we determine which strategic research areas have strong coverage and which areas may have no coverage at all? These questions are currently answered through our use of the functionality provided within the Stanford Topic Modeling Toolbox. .... '

The Garage Group

Jason Hauer of  The Garage Group sends along an update of their work, which seems to be flourishing.   In particular a very impressive list of companies they are working with, including P&G, Kantar, TNS, Cincinnati Children's and Jergens.    Have met with their folks and they are impressive.    See their services and capabilities.   And a slide share on their approaches to Business Model Innovation. 

They write:  " ... We work with teams to crystallize  their innovation strategy, uncover  insights and convert them, along with trends and cross-industry  analogs, to generate ideas. We  facilitate turning ideas into holistic  business model prototypes that can  be piloted and scaled. In addition,  we create and lead training  programs and modules on the skills  and behaviors that ensure  innovation can happen sustainably  throughout an organization. Across everything we do, we  leverage principles and practices  from the world’s most innovative  companies and successful  entrepreneurs -- we combine focus,  planning and measurement with  relentless customer focus, smart  risk taking and experimentation ... "