{"id":47,"date":"2006-07-18T11:16:25","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T03:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=47"},"modified":"2006-11-03T11:37:31","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T03:37:31","slug":"when-a-corporation-gets-serious-about-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"When a corporation gets serious about innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They do things like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How to make Samsung more innovative? One key initiative is the VIP Center.   <\/p>\n<p>The center, at Suwon, Samsung&#8217;s main manufacturing site, 20 miles from Seoul, is open 24 hours a day. Housed in a five-story former dormitory, it has 20 project rooms, 38 bedrooms for those who need to spend the night, a kitchen, a gym, traditional baths, and Ping-Pong and pool tables. Last year some 2,000 employees cycled through.<\/p>\n<p>The VIP Center specialist guide teams in discussions exploring ideas and concepts from entirely different industries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.businessweek.com\/ss\/06\/06\/samsung\/image\/bp230761.jpg\" alt=\"Samsung at work\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/06_27\/b3991052.htm?campaign_id=search\">full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They do things like this&#8230; How to make Samsung more innovative? One key initiative is the VIP Center. The center, at Suwon, Samsung&#8217;s main manufacturing site, 20 miles from Seoul, is open 24 hours a day. Housed in a five-story former dormitory, it has 20 project rooms, 38 bedrooms for those who need to spend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}