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DIGITAL DISRUPTION IS HERE AND IT IS POWERFUL

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InnoGapp works alongside our customers to ensure their ideas become a reality. We accomplish this with a heavy focus on fostering the right culture, implementing processesthat produce results, and right-sizing teams to execute.

The InnoGapp team utilizes Lean & Design Thinking, to help our customers take customer problems and effectively translate those into viable solutions ensuring they are useful, measured, and tested.

Future-proof your company by ensuring you have a process, culture, and a right-sized team tuned for driving innovation.

InnoGapp specializes in Innovation Management, Application Development, and Staffing , to ensure our customers have everything they need to shepherd the innovation process from ideation, validation, and implementation.

innovation management

Business leaders are realizing that we live in a new disruptive economy where digital disruption and technological advances have changed the competitive landscape. These new tools are equipping new competitors with the means to disrupt existing markets allowing them to close the competitive gap like never before.

To address these increasing threats, business owners, and executives know they must continue to innovate. The problem is that driving continuous and disruptive innovation can be challenging, especially if you do not have the culture and processes to manage it.

This is where Innovation Management comes in

Innovation Management is the process of working with your teams to:

custom software development

To assist our customers in speeding the process of Innovation, InnoGapp offers custom application development services to help our customers quickly move new ideas forward.

The team utilized

Design & Lean Thinking

to ensure the end product meets

customer needs

Whether a Proof of Concept or a sophisticated blockchain implementation, the InnoGapp team has the experience necessary to make your ideas a reality.

Accelerate innovation by augmenting your team’s ability to:

staff augmentation

Having the right sized team is critical to the success of your project and company. InnoGapp helps companies build right-sized teams through augmenting your existing team or helping you build a team from the ground up.

Whether you need a Full-Stack developer, SIP expert, DevOps engineer or some other need, InnoGapp can help you augment your existing team with the right resources.

Accelerate your team’s productivity by augmenting it with the below talent:

How we’re different:

innovation talks

Are you interested in learning more about how to drive innovation or motivate your teams? The founder of InnoGapp, Joe Baird, offers a series of talks that are designed to help you look at the challenge of innovation through a few different lenses.

Over Joe’s technology career, Joe has had the opportunity to see the right and wrong way to do innovation. From technology consulting, high-tech start-ups, and multiple executive positions, Joe has a large breadth of experience to draw from.

Joe has over 20 years of public speaking experience from small intimate corporate teams, investor and technology conferences, ask the expert panels, to presenting to 1,400 attendees from the world’s largest telecom providers. Joe ties together the perfect blend of research data, visual aids, personal experience, and humor to keep the audience engaged and entertained.

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ABOUT

InnoGapp works with our customers to future-proof their organizations by ensuring they have a seamless process to take their ideas and make them a reality. We specialized in Innovation Management, a process that helps shepherd the innovation process from ideation, validation, and implementation

The InnoGapp team utilizes Design Thinking to help our customers take customer problems and effectively translate those into viable solutions. To accelerate innovation, we offer software development services designed to quickly build proof of concepts, prototypes, and MVP’s to ensure our customer’s ideas quickly get off the ground.

Let us help to ensure your ideas become a reality.

Joe Baird

Founder

Before I get into my career and the experiences that have shaped my views. Let me tell you where my greatest passion lies, my family.

I am married to Anna, my beautiful bride of 23 years. She is without a doubt my best friend and greatest advocate. Early in our marriage, she gave up her career as a chemical engineer to stay home with our children. She has graciously ridden the roller coaster which has been my career. Without her support and encouragement, there is no way I would be where I am today.

Together we have six wonderful boys. They are truly a blessing from the Lord, as they are a daily testament to learning to live a sacrificial life.

My 23-year technology career is broken up into four phases:

IT Consulting | Tech Start-ups | BroadSoft | InnoGapp

I graduated from Texas A&M in 1996 and began my career, specifically in the field of IT Consulting. IT Consulting was great. It afforded me the opportunity to see a number of different environments- the good and the bad. The last seven years of my IT consulting career were spent co-founding and growing a new company with my partners. This was a great learning experience for my next career phase, Technology Start-ups.

IT Consulting

(13 years)

Through an unusual set of circumstances, I was thrust into taking over a struggling cloud voice and video conferencing startup.

It was four years of exciting times (that is code for high stress). We raised two rounds of funding and built a global cloud voice and video conferencing platform for portable conferencing devices. However, the venture turned out unsuccessful due to a number of obstacles.

Next, I took over a four-month-old ISV startup focused on WebRTC and Video Conferencing technology. We focused the company on building and integrating voice and video communications into existing telecommunication and conferencing platforms. After a very successful first year, the company was acquired by BroadSoft, the global leader in cloud communications.

Technology Startups

(5 years)

After the acquisition by BroadSoft (now Cisco Systems), I joined as the VP of Cloud Video, charged with building a cloud-based video conferencing platform. After six months, I convinced the founders, based on my previous experience, that this was not a good business model for them to pursue. Yes, that was awkward!

After almost talking myself and the team out of a job, I asked my boss, the CTO, to create an internal innovation team. He liked the idea and charged me with building a team to develop new ideas to compliment BroadSoft’s products and services.

I took on the title of VP of BroadSoft Labs. My team and I spent the next four years building a myriad of proof-of-concepts and products around WebRTC, contextual intelligence, NLP, transcription, personal assistants, cloud APIs, and other bleeding edge technologies.

(4.5 years)

In 2016, we had an idea come out of the lab that the executive team and customers especially loved. This idea became BroadSoft Hub. Hub is a cloud service that allows the integration of 3rd party cloud services into BroadSoft’s Unified Communication clients and services to provide contextual intelligence to business communications. Today, this is what really differentiates BroadSoft’s UC products and services from its competitors.

Its popularity and demand created a problem. There was no internal team with the knowledge and experience to hand the service off to, so I was asked to take on a second role (VP of BroadSoft Hub) and launch the service.

Over the next year, I grew my team and successfully launched a global service utilizing the Google Cloud.

My passion for InnoGapp came from a series of talks I began to give in 2015 at BroadSoft’s global customer summits. Although I had given numerous technical talks for BroadSoft, this was the first talk where I began to discuss the “how” of innovation and the culture that drove my team.

Over the series of talks, I experienced something I had never experienced before, impassioned personal sidebars. I continued to hear things like, “I wish my boss was here to hear that” and “I wish we could implement that”.

I realized this topic really struck a chord with people. So, over the subsequent years, I began a journey to understand the topic better to grow myself and my team’s performance. My passion for driving innovation and my love for software are the key elements for why I founded InnoGapp.

(Sept 2018)

CONTACT

texasbaird@innogapp.com

281.380.8493