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Topic: Research and Development plus Risk and Determinism Posted: 26.Jun.2018 at 04:00 |
Our team is part of Autodesk's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO). At Autodesk, the role of OCTO is to explore stories of the future and make them come true. OCTO's charter is to explore, distill, and apply what's next for Autodesk and explain why it matters. Our job is to stay one or two time horizons ahead of the company and create or prevent strategic surprise. Autodesk's Innovation Continuum is our way to demonstrate the critical value of experimentation. The continuum shows us that every innovation in human history passes through five very distinct phases in the course of its evolution. When considering our innovation efforts, it is important for us to consider where technology is in this innovation lifecycle.
Exploration, distillation, and applying what's next are often based on Research & Development (R&D), so R&D has a place on this continuum. R&D efforts are typically conducted during the Impossible phase with the goal of advancing the technology towards being Required; however, at Autodesk, we also look at our OCTO R&D efforts with an additional lens. The money that gets invested in the leading edge of the continuum can be seen as risk capital. It's OCTO's job to take on risk on behalf of the rest of the company and bring technology along the continuum into the wider, more deterministic, organization. In doing this, OCTO is investigating what lies beyond our traditional tools. In an age where infinite computing is the new baseline, our old model of manually pushing our wills through our fingertips, and into our design tools isn't going to be enough. Until now, if you couldn't draw it, you couldn't fully imagine it, and you certainly couldn't make it in the real world. But in this new era, we're going to have to let go of our old tools. And at OCTO, we're exploring how we can. Among other things, we're exploring several areas which promise to take us into this new era:
So Autodesk is working to advance technologies that will serve our customers but do so in a way that limits the amount of resources we expend in doing so. If a technology is not suitable for our customers, it's best that we fail soon and fail small when making this assessment. OCTO gives Autodesk the ability to do both. For technologies that are suitable, we pass the torch to the product development teams that move them along the continuum. Pragmatism is alive in the lab. Go to the original post... |
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