What Building a“Jeopardy!”Robot Taught IBM About Innovation - a podcast by HBR Presents / Brian Kenny

It’s a good bet that winning a game show isn’t often on the list of top priorities at large companies. So how was it that building a robot to do just that became a prime focus at IBM? Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih discusses how building Watson, a deep question answering machine, reinvigorated a stalled research and development team, taught IBM a ton about communication and product development, and led to a hotly contested“Jeopardy!”match on the Harvard Business School campus.

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