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Innovation at a Global Company

September 6, 2007

Arvind KrishnaVice President, Database Servers & WW IM Development IBM

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CanadaToronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Victoria Staines

Hursley

Haifa China Yamato

Taiwan

Paris

Beaverton Seattle

Menlo Park Burlingame Cupertino

San Francisco SVL/San Jose Agoura Hills El Segundo Costa MesaLas Vegas

Rochester, MN Boulder Denver

Lenexa, KA Tucson Phoenix Austin Dallas

Portsmouth,NHLowel

Lexington,MAWestborough

Westford Bedford

CambridgePoughkeepsie

Somers NY, NY

Dublin

Boeblingen

India Bangalore

PuneHyderabadGurgaon

Cairo Rome

Gold CoastSydney Canberra

Fairfax Raleigh2Charlotte

Lexington, KYAtlanta

Boca Raton Perth

Poland

Map shows major development locations and Software Group development population – as of October 2006

The IBM Software Group team

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Project Teams Span the Globe

What are the issues?Major Issues: leadership, common technical approaches,

education, sense of ownership …Minor Issues: time zones, communication, language …

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Collaboration Is KeyGeography is no longer the sole connection

Arizona State University Carnegie Mellon University Columbia University Cornell University Duke University Florida International University Florida State University Georgia Tech Harvard University Imperial College - London Indiana University - Bloomington MIT Miami University Northwestern University Pennsylvania State University Polytechnic University Princeton University Rice University Stanford University Syracuse University Technische Universitat Dresden Tokyo Institute of Technology

University of California - Berkeley University of California - Irvine University of California - Los Angeles University of California - San Diego University of California - Santa Barbara University of California - Santa Cruz University of Cambridge University of Canterbury University of Florida University of Georgia University of Helsinki University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign University of Manchester University of Maryland University of Miami University of Michigan University of North Carolina University of Pennsylvania University of Texas - Austin University of Toronto University of Washington University of Waterloo University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Past success

Many ideas have come to life earlier because of the collaboration (from Watson, Almaden, Zurich, Tokyo, … at IBM) with universities Relational database RISC (and other processor architectures) RAID SiGe Semiconductor process technologies System Reliability

…

Many of which have gone on to make the research ubiquitous, researchers famous, and revenue for the corporation.

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But, how does this collaboration go on?

Are students getting the right training to work and succeed in this global collaborative workplace?Many students got the experience of working in small, physically

co-located teams at university; identical to the workplace of the 1960s and 1980s.

Are universities able to sustain collaboration with a globally dispersed corporate team?Corporations may develop a single innovation with teams that

span the USA, Canada, Germany, India, China and Japan. Different parts of the innovation get developed in different locations. How does a university collaborate?(Very different from the early database days when most of the IBM work was centered in either Silicon Valley with a little work in Poughkeepsie – easy to pick the leaders and work with them.)