The Meaning of Innovation
Technology giant IBM is on the move again. They are celebrating 100 years of history with an amazing new promotional video.
The full clip is below. It’s fourteen minutes long but brilliantly executed (direct link):
There’s no question that IBM is an innovative company. They just built a computer that defeated the best human players of the game show Jeopardy!. Their systems are in every country on the planet. The video puts one aspect of IBM’s philosophy front-and-center, a quote from founder Thomas J. Watson:
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think.
At Slaughter Development, our role is to help you be innovative with workflow. Our job is to help you think about the patterns, sequences, and structures of front-office work so that you can be more productive, more efficient, more effective and more satisfied. We haven’t been around a hundred years (yet!) but we believe we are doing what we can to support Thomas J. Watson’s vision. We are finding solutions to the problems of work by being willing to think.
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