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Phil McKinney

Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.

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.

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Ghost Research: The Hidden Risk Inside Every R&D Organization

The scientific record gets corrected. The decisions built on it don't.

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Innovation Laundering

Big Tech is calling it AI innovation. The filings tell a different story.

AI Laundering

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.

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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.

PayPal Spends $3 Billion on R&D. Almost None of It Is Research.

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.

The R&D Metric Mark Hurd and HP Got Wrong

You Knew Before I Did

I built a brand for twenty years. Then I searched for it.

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They're Everywhere

And we finally have a word for them.

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How To Build a Decision System That Protects Your Thinking

The best decision-makers aren't smarter. They control when, where, and how they decide. Here's the system that makes that possible.

How To Build a Decision System That Protects Your Thinking

Elliott Is Inside HPE. We All Know What Happens Next.

The hidden ways activist investors destroy innovation, and what CEOs, Boards, and shareholders can do about it.

Elliott Investment Management is inside HP. What will happen to R&D and the innovation coming from HPE?