Collaboration ain’t what it used to be at Intuit.
Intuit Collaboratory, an effort by the financial services and technology provider to work with other ventures, appears to have gone fallow. The site at www.intuitcollaboratory.com hasn’t been updated in months, and doesn’t look like it will be updated anytime soon. A ping to its “Submit Your Ideas” invitation yielded this message:
At this time we don’t have any current challenges. When we have current challenges this is where you would submit your ideas. Please check back with us soon.
This is in sharp contrast to Capital One Labs, Cap One’s partnership and innovation channel which boasts four — count ’em, four — APIs to tie into Cap One products and data. Capital One Labs is accepting partnership requests and lists 14 job openings, including Data Scientist. For which we will decidedly not be applying.
J.J. – you are right that the Collaboratory site hasn’t been updated. We have now taken the site down (and have meant to before now.) The directed or centralized approach to open innovation that Collaboratory represents is just not as relevant to where we are currently in our innovation journey.
Open innovation is alive and well at Intuit. We highly value the collaborating we do with universities, technology partners, suppliers, customers, visionaries and others who challenge us to be our best. What we’ve learned along our journey is that our various teams have made open innovation a more integral part of how they work. And they have expressed that the results are more effective when they lead the projects. With this open innovation leadership taking place across the organization, we no longer needed the more centralized or directed approach of the Collaboratory site.
We can share more insights with you if you’d like. We have some of the latest news about our culture of innovation and some of the current things we have in the works (many of which reflect our strong innovation ecosystem) highlighted on the Intuit Network.
Hugh Molotsi, VP, Technology Innovation, Intuit
Hugh, thanks for your reply. We look forward to learning more at your convenience.
JJ