Is Oracle an Innovative Company?

April 29, 2006 on 5:05 pm | by Marian Crkon | In Worth Noting | 2 Comments | Print Print | Email Email

Business Week published an interesting special report on The World’s Most Innovative Companies. I was really disappointed not see Oracle on the Top 100 list. That begs a question: is Oracle, especially its application business, an innovative company?

What I found really interesting in the article were some best practice ideas from the best innovators:

  • Bring them together Face-to-face teams reduce late-stage conflicts and speed up development times.
  • Think traits as well as numbers When evaluating managers, subjective metrics, such as risk tolerance or “imagination and courage” can be a better way.
  • Make a seat at the table Pick non-traditional participants for your senior management sessions.
  • Preserve oral traditions Hand down tales of company’s long innovation tradition.
  • Get involved on the ground A culture of innovation starts from the top.

And even more fascinating was a poll among the respondents on the Enemies of Innovation. Do any of these apply to Oracle? You be the judge.

  • Lengthy development times
  • Lack of coordination
  • Risk-averse culture
  • Limited customer insight
  • Poor idea selection
  • Inadequate measurement tools
  • Dearth of ideas
  • Marketing or communication failures

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  1. If you compare Oracle against SAP i would say Oracle is innovative buying sleepycat ,working with open source ,realising the software business model is chaging and adapting to it.
    ERP is not a sexy beast ,if oracle can pull of what they are planning you will have time saying Larry is a legend?

    Comment by Gavin — May 17, 2006 #

  2. Compared against MS, Apple and Google Oracle is far behind them.
    I would say that Oracle has demonstrated it´s power as law suite champions and companies buyers.

    Comment by Carlos — March 1, 2011 #

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