Pathway to Innovation

Pathway to Innovation from NetApp

Pathway to Innovation

1. 1. Paving the way Using the right technology Taking to market A toolbox for bottom-up experimentation Culture of innovation Collaboration platforms Innovation days Fast data collection Incentives and support Exposure and testing A wide net for ideas Data and the cloud: the IT innovator’s enablers Cost-effective Fast experimentation scenarios The right organisation to take innovations to market Ensuring smooth transitions Corporate input v isolation The barrier to success is often not the lack of creative ideas, but rather the enterprise’s ability to execute and bring them to market. Support Investment Integration Your future Creativity Agility Innovation Sponsored by Speed Resilience Agility “Insulation becomes isolation when project leaders don’t have a good plan for transitioning a new product or service to the market or scaling it up to meet customers’ needs.” Dr Robert Wolcott Co-founder and executive director of Kellogg Innovation Network, Northwestern University Online databases and internal platforms can track the success of different innovation projects over time. “You can get really good feedback and data very quickly. Innovation doesn’t have to mean months or years.” Cheryl Ainoa Senior vice president of platform development, Intuit Cloud computing and more agile data management give companies greater room to fail gracefully and to push forward innovation initiatives quickly in a well-informed way. Combined with leadership and organisational support, they can help IT teams foster creativity, agility and innovation. IT-led innovation poses a whole new set of technical challenges, including collecting and managing data from various and disparate sources. Now, the emergence of cloud-based, third-party software and services that cut costs and improve efficiency offer parallel opportunities that can ultimately have a transformative impact on a company’s process of innovation. For Intel, integration of multiple data sources resulted in revenue optimisation of $264m in 2014. Private Hybrid Public Pathway to IT innovation Data fabric