On Tuesday this week we are celebrating "Innovation Day" here at Cadence, honoring inventive engineers across the company.
I must admit that most of the time I get so bogged down with the latest customer questions or figuring out how to help people learn about the latest features that I forget about all those folks in R&D whose raison d'etre is to come up with new and better ways of doing things. And there are plenty of them. Sometimes their efforts aren't really obvious to the end user (a new algorithm under the hood, or new ways of helping us develop and support the software), but they still make a big difference.
Innovation doesn't have to flashy. Maybe it's a small idea which could make a big impact. Maybe it turns out to be just too big. Maybe it's finding a new way to make people change their old behaviors.
Whatever the size or scope of the ideas, we need innovative thinkers at all levels in the world today to solve problems and make our lives better. I'm very glad Cadence has chosen to set aside a day to recognize our own very talented engineers.
Stacy Whtieman