[Sigia-l] Re: Large Orgs

[Lyle_Kantrovich at cargill.com]

If you're saying large companies can't innovate, then I definitely 
disagree.  See 3M, Dow, Dupont, etc.  

Consider this as well:  There's a difference between invention and 
innovation.  There are also different kinds of innovations - 
breakthrough innovation and incremental innovation.  

"big" innovation shops
NASA 
Nike
HP
Intel

Want to talk patents?
http://www.micropat.com/0/new_century9809.html


I'll concede that smaller firms can be more innovative, especially if 
you're talking about breakthrough innovations, but that doesn't mean 
that all small firms innovate or that big ones can't.


Regards,

Lyle


-----Original Message-----
From: listera at rcn.com [mailto:listera at rcn.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:38 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Re: Large Orgs


"Lyle_Kantrovich at cargill.com" wrote:

> That's fine if you just trying to change a small pond, er, 
organization.
> What if you're trying to change the world?

That's why I earlier gave the example of Microsoft. That company is as
familiar with innovation as I am with mountain parachuting. The vast
majority of its semi interesting apps have been acquired from much 
smaller
companies. They distribute, they dictate proprietary "standards" and 
they
enter into agreements with third parties. These are the things a large 
org
often does best due its scale.

If you want to change the world, as in Warnock/PostScript, Tim
Bray/XML,TBL/WWW, Andreesen/Mosaic, etc. you don't do it in a large org,
even if you then become large(r) to sustain it.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 


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