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Article: Playing the technology adoption game; Minnesota companies don't hug the bleeding-edge, but many aren't far from the front of the curve when it comes to taking a look a new technology. CIOs who explore innovation must balance the risks of failure and internal turf wars with the promise of major advances if the new technology works.(TECH@WORK)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- January 27, 1999
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Bill Sanders doesn't consider himself a wanton chaser of wild geese.
But Honeywell's vice president of information systems was off the beaten path in 1992 when he bought into the vision of Larry Ellison, the prescient CEO of Oracle Corp. who foresaw the Internet's role in database management.
What captured Sanders' attention, he said, was not so much Oracle's predictions, but how its vision for the Internet, still nascent, matched "more or less" that of Honeywell, the Minneapolis-based manufacturer of controls and aerospace systems.
"Oracle couldn't articulate the vision very well at the time, but the case was so compelling," Sanders said. "We ...