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Why Most Organizations Aren't Funding Innovation
Without a clear definition, innovation investment is meaningless.
The AI Hardware Bet
Model quality is a commodity. Apple, OpenAI, and HP are betting the next AI war will be won on devices, not models.
R&D Spending Is the Most Misleading Number in Business
The government collects the real R&D split from every public company. It's locked away by federal law. Here's how to estimate it anyway.
Ghost Research: The Hidden Risk Inside Every R&D Organization
The scientific record gets corrected. The decisions built on it don't.
Innovation Laundering
Big Tech is calling it AI innovation. The filings tell a different story.
The Innovation Metric Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard Used
HP used this R&D benchmark for decades and still managed to forget it. Most companies never found it.
PayPal Spends $3 Billion on R&D. Almost None of It Is Research.
Enrique Lores just inherited a research gap a decade in the making. Here's what it will take to fix it.
The R&D Metric Mark Hurd and HP Got Wrong
How one flawed benchmark drove years of R&D decisions and quietly drained HP's innovation pipeline.
You Knew Before I Did
I built a brand for twenty years. Then I searched for it.
They're Everywhere
And we finally have a word for them.
