The Need for Entrepreneurship in the Multinational Sector

  • Dr. Lorraine Byrne
  • September 2011

Abstract

Dr. Lorraine Byrne Master Technologist, e-Technology Development (eTD) Team, Hewlett Packard

Lorraine is a master technologist with Hewlett Packard Ireland; Imaging and printing business unit focusing on emerging technology development. She joined HP in 1998 as an analytical chemist and since then have held positions as an ink chemist, senior member of technical staff for the failure analysis department and senior technologist and program manager for the local emerging technology team. Her research interests span low power autonomous sensor development for the internet of things, fabrication of circuits on flexible substrates & application of nanomaterials to future sensing and flexible electronics. She has a PhD in Analytical Chemistry and a BSc in Analytical Sciences from DCU.

Slide contents

  • - HP: Changing the Equasion
  • - Key Messages
  • - Technology is...
  • - The rate of change
  • - Macro forces driving ICT innovation
  • - 2020
  • - Aging IT Infrastructure
  • - HP Vision for 2020
  • - The necessity for innovation and entrepreneurship within HP
  • - The challenge for large multinationals today
  • - A lesson in the relevance of innovation
  • - In other words
  • - For today's companies and institutions to be successful in future society
  • - The difference between creativity and innovation
  • - What are the reasons that innovation efforts fail?
  • - The immutable laws of innovation
  • - Innovation process - fire
  • - Idea generation - characteristics of a good idea
  • - Ranking and execution - portfolio management
  • - Ranking - Emerging technologies portfolio process
  • - Portfolio management Funnel process
  • - Remember!
  • - Innovation at HP
  • - Shell
  • - GS1 Canada
  • - Dreamworks
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