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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Core Edges - Latest Comments in Innovators in corporate IT = the new VCs ?</title><link>http://macroprinciples.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 18:25:32 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: Innovators in corporate IT = the new VCs ?</title><link>http://www.macroprinciples.com/2008/05/innovators-in-corporate-it-the-new-vcs/#comment-560463</link><description>Yes. I would agree. We at BrightIdea have seen similarities between VCs and Innovation Officers at corporations. A lot of our customers are using BrightIdea to collect ideas, rank them, and allow users to collaborate on the ideas eventually turning them into reality. The job of the Innovation Officer is to facilitate ideation and innovation throughout that process. As a technology vendor, we cannot succeed without that human element.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Paul&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:ptran@brightidea.com" rel="nofollow"&gt;ptran@brightidea.com&lt;/a&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Paul Tran</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 18:25:32 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>