Being less academic by being more academic: I was impressed by the new labs director – Prith Banerjee. One of his key points was that HP research would have to engage a lot more deeply in peer review through scientific and research journals. This idea makes so much sense- rather than a board at HP trying to work out whether an idea is really advancing the state of the art, the world will let HP know. This is open source/co-innovation thinking, and absolutely the right thinking to do.
I have regularly hammered IBM for having no “consumer” touch points. I came away from Bristol realising that HP has plenty, and its helping the company better understand Everything As A Service.
Source: “James Governor’s Monkships”:
Interesting how HP research works, tightly connected to the academic world (of which I don’t have the best idea). From my experience I’d say things get pushed forward more quickly in the enterprise world rather than when they’re in the academic one.
HP’s view of Everything As A Service and how they apply it to their business is also interesting.