Short clip: Innovation without borders

September 8, 2006, 11:45am PDT | Length: 00:01:18
Lars Rabbe says Yahoo's worldwide presence creates many opportunities for innovation.

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Short clip: Innovation without borders

Host: Now one of the areas of innovation is organizational management. And you're in so many countries do you find that innovation across the globe is different depending on what location?

Guest: I actually believe that being in many locations is a great way of creating additional innovation. We have seen a lot of ideas come out of other markets where we may have thought about things back here but never thought that they would apply to our market and then we see them blossom in other markets. I'll give you one example. The Yahoo Answers that was launched recently was originally developed in the Far East and became wildly successful there. And the team in Taiwan developed this originally and worked on a number of angles of the product and really shook down the product from a usability point of view. And then we took it back here and applied it to the U.S. market and subsequently rolled it out significantly internationally and it probably wouldn't have happened without the market conditions in the Taiwan market originally that they could launch this and make it successful in that particular market. There are many other examples of this where a product is born in one market and because of market conditions they become very successful and we can then take that experience and apply it elsewhere.

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