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Eric Acton

Head of Innovation Ecosystems at R² Data Labs | Rolls-Royce

Charlotte, United States

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Available For: Advising
Travels From: CLT

Eric Acton	Points
Academic	0
Author	4
Influencer	2
Speaker	0
Entrepreneur	0
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R² Data Labs | Rolls-Royce

Head of Innovation Ecosystems

www.r2datalabs.com

Company Type: Enterprise

Minimum Project Size: Undisclosed

Average Hourly Rate: Undisclosed

Number of Employees: Undisclosed

Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

Agile

AI 30.01

Business Strategy

Change Management

Culture

Customer Loyalty

Design Thinking

Digital Disruption

Digital Transformation 30.05

Ecosystems 30.06

Emerging Technology

Entrepreneurship 30.06

FinTech

Innovation 30.13

IoT

Leadership

Lean Startup

Open Innovation

Startups

Industry Experience

Publications & Experience

4 Article/Blogs

Digital Transformation is not all about Technology — it’s about Change
LinkedIn
March 18, 2020

I was recently interviewed by CIO Review magazine. Here is a copy that appeared both online and in print. Enjoy!

Could you elaborate on the challenges that the organizations will need to address related to Digital transformation?

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Ecosystems

Pragmatism in Creating a Corporate Innovation Culture
LinkedIn
February 27, 2017

Eric Acton’s career has spanned a diversity of entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial roles. He leads teams of enterprise entrepreneurs who focus primarily on banking, finance and healthcare innovations. We talked with Eric about the importance of pragmatism; why personality is important to his innovation teams; how his experiences as an entrepreneur prepared him for enterprise innovation.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Entrepreneurship

Random forests, grey fog and learning by doing
LinkedIn
December 14, 2016

As I reflect on a wonderful afternoon of presentations from the 3rd year of the MIT A-Lab analytics seminar, I thought I’d chronicle this fun and exciting interaction with MIT post grad students, professors and client data.

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Tags: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Analytics

Artificial Intelligence: Teachers and Students
LinkedIn
November 21, 2016

There has been a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence lately; bots, self-driving cars, machine learning, siri, cortana, alexa, etc. The term was coined in the 1950s and quickly became popularly thought of as machines simulating a human’s ability to think and learn.

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Tags: AI, Digital Transformation, Innovation