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Innovators in corporate IT = the new VCs ?

I’m delighted to take a new posi­tion within Schlum­berger: I’m coor­di­nat­ing our cor­po­rate IT Inno­va­tion efforts, with an empha­sis on knowl­edge man­age­ment (stop laugh­ing, this is not your father’s KM, I’ll look at the most inno­v­a­tive stuff here). Also relo­cat­ing to Paris from Lon­don. We struc­ture this activ­ity in a pretty stan­dard way, and I won’t go into the details …

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Spontaneous Activity: what type are you ?

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The effects of being remarkable in Academia

The thing that’s gonna decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets built, is: is it remark­able ? And remark­able is a very cool word, because we think it just means neat. But it also means: worth mak­ing a remark about. And that is the essence of where idea dif­fu­sion is going. (From Seth Godin’s TED video, more quotes …

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