The intranet has created ways for individuals to share their passions and expertise, for teams to learn from each other, for offices to feel better connected, and for the company to
build on common themes and directions.
Other companies with world - class R&D groups
built radical innovations only to see their company fumble the future and others reap the rewards (think of Xerox and the personal computer, Fairchild and integrated circuits, Kodak and digital photography, etc.)
Common themes in these failures were, 1) without a direct connection to the customer advanced R&D groups
built products without understanding user needs, and 2) the core of the company was so focused
on execution of current products that it couldn't see that the future didn't look like the past.
«Organized labor
built this middle class in the first place in this country and it is up to organized labor to rebuild it again and that's what we re doing in New York and that is the
common theme on all these initiatives,» Cuomo said.