Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Copy cat

Intel do "Copy Exactly", make each new fab an exact copy of the R+D system, they subsequently replicate incremental improvements across the copies. For Intel, the context in each of the fabs is replicated exactly.

How can the replicate approach become valuable to the outside world; Can replication become a procurement strategy for Innovation?
Rather than work in isolation, look at the early adaptors and copy their innovations, pay them for their intellectual capital and collaborate to add incremental improvement.
Replicate the support services, replicate the business processes because technology and people go hand in hand . How could this strategy map to the IT application portfolio.

Some stuff to read:
New Approaches to Innovation Policy: Some Norwegian Examples

The Non-Technological Side Of Technological Innovation:
State-Of-The-Art And Further Empirical Research

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