© 2007 IBM Corporation Innovation, Publication and Awards - Innovation that matters for your career...

© 2007 IBM Corporation

Innovation, Publication and Awards -Innovation that matters for your career and your bank account.

Nathan HarringtonIT Specialist

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Innovation, Publication and Awards | November 2007 © 2007 IBM Corporation

This presentation will cover:

Areas with established award processes for innovation: - ThinkPlace - developerWorks - Patent Application System

What you can get for innovation in these areas: - Monetary awards - Recognition by management - Recognition by your peers, access to interesting hardware

Examples of innovation in all three areas.

Hardware acquisition methods for novel projects.

Starting points for creating your own innovative projects.

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Examples of what you can get (in 12 months):Monetary Awards:

- ThinkPlace – 1 project, 2 awards, 6.6% of yearly salary - developerWorks – 9 articles, 2 external podcasts, 10% of yearly salary - Patent Application System – 1 patent, 2% of yearly salary

Internal Awards, Management Recognition:

- ThinkPlace – 1 Bravo, 1 IBM ThinkPlace Innovator Award (you get a pretty neat plaque too) - developerWorks – Each article is an Bravo external authoring/publishing award

Peer Recognition: - developerWorks – contacts made in Dubai, the Netherlands, diverse areas of the U.S.

Industry Recognition:

- front page on the main technology websites, with hundreds of thousands of hits

- featured in newscientist.com, cio.com and gizmodo.com

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Earning the awards:

Monetary Awards:

- ThinkPlace – awards are based on demonstrated business value. Create an implementation of a ThinkPlace idea and generate documentable business value with the implementation. Your ThinkPlace catalyst will take notice and begin the award process. Promote your idea externally to ThinkPlace and achieve wider business recognition. Award can be paid for by ThinkPlace or any outside unit that deems it high business value.

- developerWorks – standard award process is part of every article published. No need to “apply” for the award. Can be paid by your organization or the developerWorks organization.

- Patent Application System – standard award process is part of every submittal, use the existing WPTS database to document your ideas and track your points.

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Focus on your areas of deep technical knowledge and experience:

developerWorks examples:

- Xdmx how-to article, describing the install process across disparate hardware through experience

- Photo and Video mosaics using Perl – relatively simple code to do something novel

Focus on developing new areas of technical expertise:

ThinkPlace example:

- Resource Locator – required research and development of structured text search algorithms

developerWorks example:

- Real time visual effects – required research of video4linux architecture and fast C programming

Examples of how to innovate:

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How to acquire what you need to innovate:

Keep it simple – it's much easier to focus on creating innovation with what you have then trying to acquire new items.

Sources for hardware to use:

RESO – find upcoming moves – people throw away interesting items

Surplus Hardware Asset Listing

Development and Test labs

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Write the article by yourself, write it with your peers -

ClearQuest->CRM synchronization solutionhttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/4678.html

Describe the most efficient ways to create regular expression type queries for db2 searches.

How does your organization implement a change control system using CMVC, Rational and DB2 queries?

Automated build processes and rational project tracking.

Comparing and merging UML models in IBM Rational Software Architect, Part 5: Model management with IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational Software Architect Version 7 and laterhttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/07/0703_letkeman/index.html

Getting started examples for this audience (developerWorks)

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Getting started examples for this audience (developerWorks)

Customizing layoutshttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/07/1113_johnson/index.html

Build and deploy tracking records in IBM Rational ClearQuest, Part 2http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/lp/demos/summary/builddtrcq2.html

Designing a release management strategy with IBM Rational ClearQuest and ClearCase UCMhttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/07/0724_schrag/index.html

Power Architecture directions: Brand-new brand for Power Architecture technologyhttp://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-directions-rebrand/

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Getting started examples for this audience (ThinkPlace)

Example ThinkPlace idea: Create a people mapping tool for the Enteprise Directory. To give managers the capability of determining where their employees are located.

Document business justification and benefit: Meetings are frequently scheduled across time zones and business units for groups and individuals word wide. Using the enterprise directory location information and business data for the various units within IBM, a tool that allowed for easier visualization of meeting time conflicts and planning data would make scheduling meetings and monitoring projects easier.

Create a working prototype using red-filled areas for many employees and green for less populated. Create test cases and usage scenarios to document the actual cost savings to IBM.

Work with your Innovation Catalyst to bring attention to your project.

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Getting started examples for this audience (Patents)

Consider patenting systems:

Create a taxonomy for your business intelligence objects for automated tracking and classification of critical business functions.

Develop and indexing method for tracking hardware components across business units and diverse geographic areas.

Design a method and system for characterizing logistical hardware movements based on external business events such as increased demand, in certain areas or tax restrictions on high depreciation items.

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Getting started examples for this audience (Reuse)

To extract the most value from your work, try and include ThinkPlace, Patents and developerWorks into your award pipeline.

For example, create an idea in ThinkPlace, develop a patentable system for delivering the required information described in the ThinkPlace idea. Use the same idea and patentable algorithms or processes in a developerWorks article describing how to use the IBM technology for the customers benefit.

Other examples for many of the technologies and products in use at EBI can be found at developerWorks. Try queries on google like:crm site:www-128.ibm.comchange management site:www-128.ibm.comrational site:www-128.ibm.comapplication services site:www-128.ibm.com

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