Find yourself a hard-core engineer, either in your company, or maybe a consultant, and ask not what is good about Windows 8, but what is bad.

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Through ongoing collaboration, socialization, and vetting, the idea develops into a viable solution to address a new market opportunity, re-engineer a core process, solve a problem, or create business value.

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As Ford's investment in electrified vehicles such as Fusion Hybrid increased, so did the size of the Sustainable Mobility Technologies team behind it, said Chuck Gray, Ford chief engineer, Global Core Engineering Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.

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David "Dadi" Perlmutter, the 53-year-old Israeli engineer who ran the Core team, is now in charge of the sprawling microprocessor giant's product development decisions--that is, figuring out which chips will one day replace the Core.

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In March the board named Jacobs to run Qualcomm starting July 1, tacitly acknowledging his strongest asset:His father is Irwin Jacobs, the renowned and brilliant engineer who in 1985 founded Qualcomm, which invented a core wireless transmission scheme.

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