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Videos you can watch anywhere: Experts on a variety of topics

21 December 2011 | Editor

PARC Forum is our invited expert speaker series -- and public platform -- for exchanging insights and building relationships with leading experts in a variety of areas. An amazing variety of speakers including Nobel Prize laureates, CEOs, industry-leading thought leaders and other personalities have spoken in the series since 1977. You can watch recent videos on our website at www.parc.com/forum and on our Slideshare channel (in HTML5 and mobile viewable on iPads, iPhones, Android devices).

To tweak or not to tweak… that is (not!) the question

15 November 2011 | Editor

Forbes has some interesting commentary on Steve Jobs and whether Malcolm Gladwell (yes, him again) is wrong in calling Steve a "tweaker" and therefore less of a visionary or "true" inventor. Obviously, we believe there's more to all of this. Given our experiences, here are some of our thoughts...

PARC Innovations Update (2011 #6)

9 November 2011 | Editor

[e-newsletter archive ~October-December 2011] Things, The Economist video, and a bit of a sneak peek

PARC Innovations Update (2011 #5)

22 September 2011 | Editor

[e-newsletter archive ~August-September 2011] expert videos, Mobilize, LEDs, opportunity discovery

What we’re reading

22 August 2011 | Editor

[August/ summer 2011] People are our greatest asset. And PARC is often asked for expertise about its various domains -- spanning physical, computational, social, and life sciences -- as well as a "trend-setter's" perspective on what's next. But what are WE paying attention to or learning about? Well, here's a "flash-sampling" of what our folks happen to be reading just now -- books, magazines, blogs -- and why...

PARC Innovations Update (2011 #4)

26 July 2011 | Editor

[e-newsletter archive ~May-June-July 2011] on moving from idea to execution

PARC Innovations Update (2011 #3)

21 June 2011 | Editor

[e-newsletter archive ~April-May 2011] the context issue: devices and content everywhere

The cartoon says it all (well, kinda)

27 May 2011 | Editor

In which we suggest a little weekend reading & roundup of links. And then, the title of this post will make sense.

From creation myth to the reality of innovation today

13 May 2011 | Editor

On the surface, Malcolm Gladwell’s latest article for The New Yorker, "Creation Myth: Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation", is a story about the mouse and how inventions travel – and evolve – across time and place. But examined more deeply, the article is really about the factors that determine whether you end up with an invention or an innovation. The story of PARC – and for that matter, any other innovative company – is indeed a mix of hopeful inventions, world-changing innovations, and missed opportunities, as Gladwell observes. But there's more – in contrast to his thesis that there’s a clean split between invention and innovation, and that companies are structurally limited in their innovation opportunities – we believe that there is now a framework that allows companies to innovate beyond their comfort zones and existing infrastructures. It's called open innovation.

PARC Innovations Update (2011 #2)

16 March 2011 | Editor

[e-newsletter archive ~February-March 2011] expert speaker series videos; IEEE Technical Achievement award; resources