Posted in Innovation by AST on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Last week’s #innochat (transcript, Bob De Jonge’s framing post) sparked a lively discussion around IP management, issues and barriers for Open Innovation that inevitably led us back to the topic of organizational culture and it’s impact on innovation—open or otherwise. During the course of the discussion (having jumped into the middle) it occurred to me that the root of the comments relating to control of IP at one level were rooted in Tribal Leadership Level 3 - “I’m great…(and you’re not)” thinking by both the organizations and the people responsible for leading those organizations. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in Enterprise IT, Enabling the Enterprise by AST on Saturday, August 8th, 2009
I couldn’t post this comment on Anders’ blog, so I’m doing it here.
I think there’s some good points in here, but I disagree with the “just-in-time” aspect of the conclusions in this post. I haven’t read the authors you mention (you should included references), but have you read Enterprise Architecture as Strategy?
I certainly agree that EA is a strategic discipline, but that’s primarily due to the fact that you can’t make a modern business decision without a technology aspect, and that means you need to ensure that those technology decisions are reinforcing your organization’s focus. I generally use the following picture to discuss these issues:
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Posted in Innovation by AST on Monday, June 29th, 2009
Ok, I admit it: I’m lazy. It isn’t that I don’t like to work or that I don’t like doing many things. It’s just that I don’t like doing things that I don’t actually need to do. Here’s the paradox: if I find myself repetitively stuck doing things I don’t think make sense, I’ll work tirelessly to come up with a way to avoid doing them if I think there’s enough value in it for me in the long term. They may say that “Necessity is the mother of invention,” but I wouldn’t be surprised if Laziness wasn’t the father.
Innovation isn’t just about developing cool new products like the iPhone that sell a million units the first day. Innovation is also taking new ideas and putting them in practice to make a task easier or faster, streamline a process, reduce errors and generally make life a little more convenient for those involved. When this is done often enough, the net effect on the individual is generally positive: you have more time to do other things, including thinking more creatively; you reduce your stress levels; and you’re generally a happier person. For a business, the effects are also quite positive: improved customer service; higher worker productivity; and reduced costs. How do you achieve these goals? It all starts with YOU!
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