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followup on 20% time

July 9, 2008 – 8:06 am

A while ago I blogged about companies providing time to their employees to innovate. Google do it, Atlassian are trialling it and being public about it. Here are some updates from the Atlassian blog on the trial so far.
Cheers.

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (0)

twenty percent time

March 16, 2008 – 9:37 am

It’s always good to look at successful organisations and try to learn from some of their practices/experience. Some time ago we looked at Google and their ‘20% time’ for engineers. Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20% of their time free to work on what they are really passionate about. As […]

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on Innovation

October 26, 2007 – 8:01 am

An interesting article on incubators, proof of concepts, innovation and ‘laying eggs’ on the ‘process of innovation’ blog has me thinking about innovating, incubating etc. I have had a couple of conversations with Mike (author of the article) recently in relation to what incubators etc are all about. Mike uses the analogy of the […]

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