http://atownley.org Andrew's way of looking at the world Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:10:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://atownley.org/2010/07/how-tribal-leadership-can-help-build-innovation-cultures/ 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 ... http://atownley.org/2009/08/not-quite-just-in-time-enterprise-architecture/ 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 ... http://atownley.org/2009/06/innovation-through-laziness/ On Thursday, I attended my first Dublin Chamber of Commerce networking event. After the hour-and-a-half of 5 min "speed networking" sessions and selected 60 second pitches, I was trying to decide whether to leave when I overheard an interesting discussion on organizational change between Lorcán Ó hUallacháin (@onlybrilliant) and ... http://atownley.org/2009/06/the-heckler-what-you-can-learn-from-your-critics/ Which is exactly what my 2½ year old son said the first time he saw me log in to Twitter. I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical at first. I created my account about a year ago when I was doing some research on Enterprise ... http://atownley.org/2009/05/tweet-tweet-thats-a-bird-thats-a-bird/ Anne Thomas Manes's blog post on Monday, SOA is Dead; Long Live Services is actually quite a good piece. It's certainly sparked a lot of discussion on the SOA mailing list. What really astounds me is how many of the commentors – some of whom should know better – completely ... http://atownley.org/2009/01/the-death-of-soa/ Despite all of the crap going on in the world right now, I have to say that I'm cautiously optimistic about 2009 from both a personal and business perspective. 2008 turned out to be a bit of a roller-coaster, and a bunch of things took more than full-time attention. ... http://atownley.org/2009/01/thinking-about-2009/ ...You! No, really... In the ongoing battle with the Irish Revenue's Revenue OnLine System (ROS) and Linux, we finally have a winner. That's right, dear readers, the winner is John Q. Public, because you can finally natively access ROS using Linux and Firefox!. [much rejoicing ensues] Once you've dealt with migrating your certificate ... http://atownley.org/2009/01/and-after-3-rounds-the-winner-is/ I've been meaning to write this post for a few weeks now, but I've just been too busy. Now that I'm finally starting to get a bit more caught up (and after I thought about it again today when using Windows XP on VMWare to access ROS) I figured ... http://atownley.org/2008/05/ros-kos-64-bit-linux/ The question regarding "meaningful" or "human friendly" URIs comes up a lot if you're trying to design a Website or Web-accessible information architecture (including a Web service). This subject came up again recently on the SOA mailing list (I didn't see the beginning of the thread, but this is ... http://atownley.org/2008/04/uri-opacity-revisited/