HP's Open Innovation Strategy: Leveraging Academic Labs
HP Labs seek technology from around the world for next-generation smart printers, optical chips, wireless nano sensors, and more.When Rich Friedrich of HP Labs looks into the future, he sees desks used...
View ArticleGetting More Value from Cell-Phone Data
Technologies for analyzing mundane smart-phone data trails could prove a boon to business, researchers say.Last month, attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, pulled out their...
View ArticleExtracting Business Ideas from IT Logs
Software finds hidden business insights in Web and phone logs, e-mail, and network traffic.Many companies don’t realize it, but their IT infrastructure is constantly, automatically gathering a...
View ArticleHealth-Care Industry Mines Networking Data
Researchers are tapping computational social-analysis tools to sell drugs and promote health.Pharmaceutical marketers go to great lengths to find the doctors who aren’t prescribing their drugs—and to...
View ArticleFinding Business Insights in Text
Software that scans documents and online posts can uncover correlations or reveal what customers really think.Looked at from one angle, the social Web is a fizzing arena of human expression and...
View ArticleQ&A: The Experimenter
Gary Loveman, an economist who became CEO of Caesars Entertainment, demands that his employees operate the business by analyzing data rather than leaning on hunches.Gary Loveman, the CEO of Caesars...
View ArticleHarvesting Business Ideas from Inside and Out
Medtronic taps social networking and crowdsourcing to find innovation in unexpected places.Medtronic, the world’s largest medical-device maker, has created devices to stimulate the brain and the heart,...
View ArticleSpotting Influencers in Big Companies
Northwestern startup mines data and uses surveys to help companies identify their key people.In 2009, Zachary Johnson, a junior at Northwestern University, decided to promote the pop music of a friend...
View ArticleTapping the Innovative Masses
The creative power of technology users awaits mining by companies, says Eric von Hippel.Where does most product innovation come from? You might look for it in the R&D units of consumer-product...
View ArticleThe 12-Digit Number the Tech Industry Needs to Watch
Apple’s ridiculously large pile of cash is begging to be put to a use other than getting Wall Street off the company’s back.No company is in a better position to reshape electronics and Internet media...
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