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How the current patent system actually hurts innovation (and how patent trolls are being fought)

Idea to Value

Originally, patents had a simple purpose: By filing a patent, an inventor or company showed how their new technology worked, in exchange for legal protection for the duration of the patent. billion , predominantly for the approximately $4 billion worth of patents it possessed around smartphone technology. Does this system still work?

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Digital Twins: what it is, how it works, and the advantages of this technology

mjvinnovation

What Digital Twins Technology is and How It Works. Originally, this term was coined by Dr. Michael Grieves in 2002. So, what is this technology? Think: at this stage, the intelligent software analyzes the collected data and, if there is a problem, seeks several possible solutions for each one.

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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. Why be the assembler when you can be the Venture Capitalist behind the next big technology wave? mgriffin_uk . +44 44 (0) 7957 456194.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. He cajoled, pushed, and pulled the company into a client-centric, agile structure able to customize delivery of IBM's software assets, hardware assets, and intellectual property. Directness.

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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

Its HR function has been instrumental in the $100 billion company's metamorphosis from a floundering computer manufacturer in the 1990s to a prosperous software and consulting services company today. For example, I have taken 8,000 HR software applications (largely focused on the HR needs of individual IBM country units) down to under 1,000.

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Sam Palmisano's Transformation of IBM

Harvard Business Review

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). The teams didn't review and discuss; their members made things happen. The CEC was dissolved.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.