Citrix Labs
January 11, 2010 by Paul M.. Filed under Research collaboration.
We had an excellent session with the leadership team from Citrix Labs just prior to Christmas, in which we shared technology futures and plans for capitalising on emerging trends over the next five years. Our common goals are to bring together some of the best ideas and the R&D execution to create something new and valuable.
We all know that high value collaborations, in particular when they concern research, are hard to pull off. In my experience the critical success factors include (but are not limited to!) the following:
1. There must be genuine stakeholder support, preferrably at the executive level, for the collaboration.
In this case we can put a big tick in that box: Our executive support comes from the top of both organisations.
2. The overlap and alignment of the technical interests and capabilities of the respective teams must be strong.
At a high, abstract level at least, we can tick this box too – we’ve collectively identified three or four technology areas that will be the bases for candidate projects. Our next task is to sharpen up the capability descriptions and research focus areas into actual research projects. Then we’ll be on our way to creating something meaningful.
I was going to describe here some of the specific technology areas that Citrix is focused on and where the areas of overlap are with our expertise. But then again anyone could work this out for themselves just by looking at the relevant websites. More importantly, my point here is to emphasise the nature of the (intended) collaboration itself and the overall goals. We talk about collaboration all the time here, but it’s rare to actually secure the commitment of a large vendor like Citrix. This is the type of “genuine” industry engagement we’d like to have more of.
Tags: collaboration, NICTA
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