buy Lurasidone 40mg The days of building something really innovative on your own are long gone. Edison – the prototypical inventor – had a huge lab and many assistants. Steve Jobs led teams of innovators. I have been arguing for a while, in corporate environments and my blog, that no sane company should reward individual contribution/results and settle […]
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Innovation Teams and Innovation Culture
In a sense, life is simpler in a startup — you have an idea, you select a team, you get some money to start, build the product, launch, and try to make money from customers that love your product. If you fail at any of those steps, you learn and start over. The innovation culture […]
Fintech Thoughts
Many years ago, I was working for a large Canadian bank, managing two very different development teams — one using C++ to build a derivatives trading system, and one of Cobol programmers maintaining the bank General Ledger application. While the culture clash was obvious to any observer, nothing reflected it better than the big poster […]
Moving Forward, Fully Armed
I have been interviewed by IT Vision Moscow in December 2012 — this is the edited translation Sberbank Technology Research Center has been functioning for more than a year. Mircea Mihaescu, Director of the Center, is telling us about the results and plans for future. IТ-Vision : What does Sberbank Technology Research Center do […]
Where do brilliant ideas come from ?
There is a saying in the startup/technology innovation community that states that most overnight successes take at least 15 years of hard work. And yet, it all starts with an idea, and a lot of effort is put into the creative process of generating ideas. Since it takes so much time and effort from idea […]
Sberbank 2.0
I have been interviewed recently by Tatiana Naumova for a Russian investment magazine. Since the interview will be published in Russian translation, I am including here the (slightly edited) English transcript. 4 main directions for innovation in Sberbank this year – in our interview with the Director of Technology Research Center Dr. Mircea Mihaescu. Author […]