Evolving Beyond ‘Garage’ Model of Innovation

Evolving Beyond ‘Garage’ Model of Innovation

Lenovo today announced plans to establish a new Innovation Center that will enable customers, business partners, solution providers and independent software vendors to collaborate on new personal computing solutions to address today’s toughest client IT challenges.

North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley praised the investment. “The Innovation Center will attract business leaders from around the world and bring extraordinary resources to our state,” Easley said. “This will grow our technology sector and help us maintain our top-ranked business climate and remain competitive in the global marketplace.”

Intel, IBM, LANDesk, Microsoft, and Symantec are founding partners in the Innovation Center. The facility will be located in Research Triangle Park. N.C., and will be staffed by engineers, programmers, product developers, and sales and marketing professionals from these companies to collaborate in multi-day developmental projects with customers from throughout the world. The center will create an incubation environment for the design, creation, validation, proof of concept, and deployment of new personal computing solutions.

“Lenovo and its partners will use this center to make innovation relevant to our customers,” said Deepak Advani, senior vice president, Lenovo. “It will create a hands-on facility dedicated to eliminating customer pain points, a place where professionals from numerous companies come together and focus on core business processes. Together, our companies offer a vast portfolio of expertise, hardware and software solutions, education, and services. The center will focus those resources on resolving specific customer problems.”

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