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Maybe having a research group is not such a good idea. In effect you're saying that THIS group of people will work on new ideas and THAT group of people not. Yet anyone can work on new ideas, since anyone can have new ideas.

What I've seen happen is that the 'not-invented-here' mentality sets in, the research group are defensive against ideas coming in from other parts of a company, because they have to justify their budget.

Plus nobody invents in a vacuum, it's the bouncing of ideas that causes new ideas to form. The people at the sharp end of day to day work that have the maximum exposure to fresh thinking.

It gets worse when you see how these Research departments are run in practise, for example managers will subdivide the research into smaller boxes. Research/Audio, Research/Video... etc.

They then recruit "Out of the box thinkers to dream up radical new ideas, needed for role in Research, to work on Video projects, in particularly to invent radical ways to speed up integer FFT transforms on image comparison using Bayers Theorem Version 2.1....." Basically out of the box thinkers needed for very small box.

I can't believe that the few ideas Microsoft presents at TechSnack represents the total ideas in the 50,000+ people Microsoft has.
Posted by: Nigel Johnstone   Posted on: 03/02/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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More inovations from the village idiots!  DonnieBoy | 03/01/06
So how many patents do you have "idiot"?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/02/06
Lots of companies have patents..  Patrick Jones | 03/02/06
okay, how many innovations have you contributed?  balsover | 03/02/06
Ideas on display at Microsoft's TechFest  Loverock Davidson | 03/01/06
Message has been deleted.  itanalyst | 03/02/06
Are you going to keep copying and pasting  Loverock Davidson | 03/02/06
Are You Going To Keep Puckering Up On Every Microsloth Article?  itanalyst | 03/02/06
Nothing wrong with giving credit  Loverock Davidson | 03/02/06
KISS MY ASS ZDNET  itanalyst | 03/02/06
What's wrong? Can express yourself like a man?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/02/06
Sure, How's This?  itanalyst | 03/02/06
Tolerating children is so hard...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/02/06
HAHAHAHA  mactolinux | 03/02/06
You are such an idiot  marksashton | 03/02/06
You Sir, Are The Idiot  itanalyst | 03/02/06
You have to take pity on the cognitive disadvantaged.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/02/06
Much Like You No_Ax  itanalyst | 03/02/06
Gee, I can manage to express my thoughts...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 03/02/06
That's funny, I would have never guessed that they had that much  balsover | 03/02/06
Examples?  Patrick Jones | 03/02/06
R&D  Loverock Davidson | 03/02/06
Been there..  Patrick Jones | 03/02/06
your missing it  proprietary | 03/03/06
Research Groups Bad Bad Bad  Nigel Johnstone | 03/02/06
You misunderstand  marksashton | 03/02/06
I think the point is still valid  Nigel Johnstone | 03/02/06
TechSnack?  loginssuck | 03/07/06
People Pitch Their Ideas...Then Microsoft Steals Them  itanalyst | 03/02/06
FYI, that video was created by Microsoft  marksashton | 03/02/06
Software answers How  Anton Philidor | 03/02/06
Anyone remember the "AUTO****"?  Feldwebel Wolfenstool | 03/02/06
There is one for the iPod  Patrick Jones | 03/02/06
Oops..  Patrick Jones | 03/02/06
Regina Lynn  Bill4 | 03/02/06
Here is an indea: put together secure and reliable s/w ....nt  michael_t | 03/02/06

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