Innovation, timing, a good idea and luck are all ingredients of success in the technology industry, according to keynote speakers at the Wharton Business Technology Conference titled, “Enterprise Agility: Lead with Speed.” Former Microsoft executive Rob Glaser, who went on to found RealNetworks, the streaming media company, and Glenn A. Britt, CEO of Time Warner Cable, both said strong technology businesses are built on firm technical footings, but shaped by business forces that are not always predictable. “Any successful entrepreneur who says luck did not play a role is either lying or lacks self-awareness,” said Glaser during the conference’s luncheon keynote. Glaser joined Microsoft in 1983 right out of college when Microsoft’s workforce consisted of only 250 employees. He had run a small game venture while a student at Yale and was interested in learning how entrepreneurial firms scale up. He rose within Microsoft to become vice president of multimedia and consumer systems.…