Why We Need Our Own Definition Of Innovation

Within the hallowed halls of Columbia University and the vibrant workspaces of PropTech Place, there is frequent data about innovation.  “What does it mean for an organization to be truly innovative or embrace open innovation?”  “Who gets to be the judge of an organization’s level of innovation”?  “Can a company be innovative in certain ways, like technology deployment, and stuck in the past in others?”

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WeWork Has Infiltrated PropTech Place, There Is Nothing We Can Do About It, And What It Means For The Industry

When we launched PropTech Place last month, we knew that for a complex office operation to run efficiently in 2019, we needed to deploy multiple technology platforms.  Of course, we have technology to control the temperature, play music, make coffee, filter water, and other tasks.  However, at the core of our “office stack”, our “system of record” to use parlance often thrown around in PropTech was (and still is) Managed By Q.

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Why we wrote PropTech 101

As partners and as individuals, we’ve invested in startups, helped startup CEOs access cash and new customers, consulted industry CEOs on open innovation and investments, managed tens of millions of dollar of strategic investment capital, taught university classes, developed proprietary research, built/run accelerator programs, spoken on panels, created workspaces and showrooms, and inked ground-breaking partnerships with international associations and institutions.

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