<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://example.com/DTDs/Podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>Symphony Services Podcast Series</title><link>http://www.symphonyservices.com</link><copyright>Copyright 2007.</copyright><itunes:keywords>innovation, offshore software product development, product engineering, commerical-grade software, Vitality Index</itunes:keywords><description>Innovation is the fundamental source of sustaining or breakthrough value, the kind of value you can quantify in the form of new revenue and more profit culminating in increased valuations. Dr. Jerry Smith – CTO, Symphony Services talks about innovation, R&amp;D performance and the role of global product development and engineering.</description><itunes:explicit>True</itunes:explicit><itunes:category text="Technology"></itunes:category><itunes:owner><itunes:name>Symphony Services</itunes:name><itunes:email>vhegde@symphonysv.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><item><link>http://progressive.playstream.com/symphony/progressive/innovation_jerry_100306.mp3</link><enclosure url="http://progressive.playstream.com/symphony/progressive/innovation_jerry_100306.mp3"/><title>Innovation and Product Engineering</title><itunes:author>Symphony Services</itunes:author><itunes:duration>23 min</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>True</itunes:explicit><itunes:keywords>innovation, offshore software product development, product engineering, commercial-grade software</itunes:keywords><description>Innovation is the fundamental source of sustaining or breakthrough value, the kind of value you can quantify in the form of new revenue and more profit culminating in increased valuations. Dr. Jerry Smith – CTO, Symphony Services talks about innovation, R&amp;D performance and the role of global product development and engineering.</description><itunes:category text="Technology"></itunes:category><pubdate>Tue, November 07, 2006 23:39:34  -0500</pubdate><guid>f419aaaf-d9ca-4255-aec8-328d4ffc9b5e</guid></item><item><link>http://progressive.playstream.com/symphony/progressive/vitality_index.m4a</link><enclosure url="http://progressive.playstream.com/symphony/progressive/vitality_index.m4a"/><title>The Vitality Index (VI)</title><itunes:author>Symphony Services</itunes:author><itunes:duration>22:57</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>True</itunes:explicit><itunes:keywords>Symphony Services, Podcast, Innovation, Vitality Index, Product Engineering, Commercial Software Development, Outsourced Product Development</itunes:keywords><description>Measuring the impact that innovation programs have on organizational value is extremely important. Traditional measures are ineffective and a new measurement approach is needed, one that correlates activity to value.</description><itunes:category text="Technology"></itunes:category><pubdate>Wed, January 24, 2007 2:17:47   +0000</pubdate><guid>cbfa27bb-e384-48ad-9bff-8e9c5908570b</guid></item><item><link>http://progressive.playstream.com/symphony/progressive/managed_innovation.m4a</link><enclosure url="http://progressive.playstream.com/symphony/progressive/managed_innovation.m4a"/><title>Managed Innovation</title><itunes:author>Symphony Services</itunes:author><itunes:duration>26:03</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>True</itunes:explicit><itunes:keywords>Symphony Services, Podcast, Innovation, Vitality Index, Managed Innovation, Jerry Smith,  Product Engineering, Commercial Software Development, Outsourced Product Development</itunes:keywords><description>Innovation just doesn’t happen, it is a managed process. We are going to take a look at the process of innovation, from critical characteristics to toolboxes.</description><itunes:category text="Technology"></itunes:category><pubdate>Tue, March 13, 2007 2:46:51   +0000</pubdate><guid>92f35dbd-a9a6-4707-9a67-9f0e738a847e</guid></item></channel></rss>