80 likes | 198 Vues
James Johns Director of Strategy, Civil Government HP Enterprise Services. Academic Impact A business perspective. Hewlett-Packard…. The world’s largest technology company by revenue Ships 1million printers per week, 48million PCs per year Operates in more than 170 countries
E N D
James Johns Director of Strategy, Civil Government HP Enterprise Services Academic ImpactA business perspective
Hewlett-Packard… • The world’s largest technology company by revenue • Ships 1million printers per week, 48million PCs per year • Operates in more than 170 countries • Employs 300,000 people, more than 16,000 in the UK • Supports 20,000 additional jobs in the UK through its distribution channel • Has more than $100bn annual revenues • Is the largest supplier of IT services to the UK Public Sector • Spends $3.5bn pa on R&D • Has one of its five global research laboratories in Bristol • Works in partnership with many UK universities
Our work helps a range of public sector organisations to develop & implement policy
There are many reasons why academic relationships are important to us AddCapability • Access to expertise we couldn’t hope to replicate in-house • In support of our own research efforts • “Because they will use it for something we haven’t thought of, and it will break.” • Influencing what’s taught and how EnableCollaboration • To provide peer groups for our own researchers and subject matter experts • To allow us to work as part of the wider research community • Through our own Innovation Research Programme EnhanceCredibility • Through academic independence • Facilitating contact with individuals and organisations who might otherwise prove hard to reach • Underlining our status as an innovative company and a good corporate citizen
Some examples of our current and recent academic partnerships • Five-year research-based partnership from 2005 to 2010 • Centred on 5 themes, including public policy & productivity • Seminar programme to disseminate & discuss findings • HP-funded, full-time research centre in the School of Management • Aimed at developing expertise in Programme and Project Management • Long-standing relationship, exact nature has varied over the years • Current focus is a teaching partnership - HP-branded degree in Enterprise Computing combining internships, professional qualifications • Unique (?) example of a technology company sponsoring contemporary history department • Rolling sponsorship programme combining MA bursaries, academic funding and a high-profile seminar programme
What makes a successful partnership from our perspective? • “Bottom-up” rather than “Top-down” • Good quality, relevant and practical research and teaching • Mutually beneficial (not necessarily symmetrical) • Focussed on competitive differentiation and adding value • Trusting, strong personal relationships • Academic Independence is not the elephant in the room (but we’re all grown-ups, aren’t we?)
Further Information Contact Details James Johnsjames.johns@hp.com 07790 493971 Web Links LSE innovation research partnership http://www2.lse.ac.uk/researchAndExpertise/units/innovationResearch/Home.aspx Cranfield International Centre for Programme Management http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/p13518/Research/Research-Centres/ICPM-Home/About-ICPM University of the West of England Teaching Partnership http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/uwenews/news.aspx?id=1835 Queen Mary Mile End Group http://www.meg.qmul.ac.uk