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Reverse Innovation. Uniting a Network of Global Intrapreneurs. Steve Todd Software Engineer EMC Distinguished Engineer. Agenda. Introduction Company, Technologies, Software Career Use Case: Innovation in a Large Corporation RAID, Customers, Collaboration Global Implementation
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Reverse Innovation Uniting a Network of Global Intrapreneurs Steve Todd Software Engineer EMC Distinguished Engineer
Agenda • Introduction • Company, Technologies, Software Career • Use Case: Innovation in a Large Corporation • RAID, Customers, Collaboration • Global Implementation • COEs, Expertise, $12 billion • Global (Reverse) Innovation • Customers, Collaboration, Personal Search Use Case
EMC: Centrality of Information Applications, Secure Transfer, Storage
EMC: Software Portfolio Information Centrality, Acquisition, Internal Developed
Celerra NX3e (App-aware services And Componentization) My Career: Software Intrapreneur
Expert RAID RAID Technology Parallelize Disk Access, Update Parity Information (in case of failure)
Customer Data Correctness Customers Require Correctness Math Must be Perfect
Write “5” to disk 1 • Disk 1 Healthy • Disk 1 Rebuilding • Disk 1 Failure • Disk “N” Failure • Read • “1” • Write • “5” • Read • “10” • Write • “14” State Machine Software Many Temporal and Constant Failure Permutations How to be certain it is always correct?
Innovation Pattern Search for an Adjacent Technologist and Collaborate Common (and easy) in a large corporation
Adjacent Adjacent Adjacent Test Engineering Test Engineering Test Engineering • Verify • Corrupt Data • Power Off Test Engineering Collaboration Hundreds of Temporal and Constant Failures Disk Array Qualifier (DAQ)
Customer Data Integrity DAQ Adjacent Technology Expert RAID Test Framework The DAQ Venn Diagram Venn Diagram Innovation Customer Problem + Expertise + Adjacent Technology
Idea to Product: CLARiiON Disk Array Data Correctness = $12 Billion+ Banks, Hospital, Governments
Pushing the Implementation Centers of Excellence (COE) Build CLARiiON U.S.A.Innovates
Customer New Requirements Global Customer Reach? Separation from Growing Markets
Global Push And Pull Global Software Practice: Customer + Expertise + Collaboration
Proven Software Expertise Global employees must improve their Customer knowledge and technology collaboration
Strategy for Global Innovation • Stimulate Idea Generation • Based on Customer Needs • Stimulate Global Collaboration • Based on COE Needs
Find the Global Intrapreneurs Yearly Global Idea Contest Yearly Customer “Themes”
Pull In Intrapreneurial Help Global Collaboration to Build Ideas
Example: Beijing Customer (China) Search Of Personal Data iMecho Expert Personal Search Utah