Large companies need to build on small ideas: Microsoft's Jeff Ramos

In a Q&A, the partner-director of the global tech firm talks of Microsoft's Garage initiative in helping its workforce think beyond daily job routines

For Microsoft Garage partner director Jeff Ramos, innovation is a capability one has to have even in doing small things that may eventually serve a larger purpose. Through the Garage initiative, Microsoft is trying to build muscle and capability in small ideas besides encouraging its workforce to think beyond daily job routines, he says.

Ramos tells B Dasararth Reddy that Microsoft's first Garage in India at Hyderabad campus was set out to produce wonderful things as it helps the employees to give shape to their innovative ideas using state-of-the-art equipment and tools made available to them. Excerpts of the interview:

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