Keyword Innovation
08
FEB
Adapt or die, be Agile, innovate!
08 FEB 2012 | Posted in IndigoBlue Second Wednesdays, innovation | Author Stan Wade |
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We had a great session today at the Second Wednesday discussion on innovation. It was really valuable to have both IT expertise and innovation professionals to contribute.
I studied innovation formally at Imperial College Business School in 2006 and as part of that worked with Gartner on academic research on innovation in the software industry. At the time I remember being quite disappointed that industry still had some way to go. It seems that we are still struggling to get senior management to ‘play ball’ and let us establish effective innovation programmes, and yet it was universally agreed that to fail to innovate was an unacceptable risk.
12
MAY
Innovation - Excel and PowerPoint on the web
12 MAY 2011 | Posted in incremental delivery, innovation | Author Anthony FlackToday there was an interesting case study on Pfizer in the Financial Times and in FT.com (link: FT Pfizer Case Study for those of you with access). It describes a middle manager who observed that excessive employee time was spent on routine tasks in Excel and PowerPoint as opposed to the specialist tasks for which they are employed, in this case research. Does this sound familiar?
25
NOV
The Beauty of Strategic Vision
25 NOV 2010 | Posted in business strategy, innovation | Author Peter Bird | 1 Comment
Tonight, 25th November 2010, the BBC starts a short series on the beauty of diagrams presented by Marcus du Sautoy OBE, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford.
02
SEP
Institutions as Mobilising Networks
02 SEP 2010 | Posted in innovation, IT, knowledge, membership organisation, online communities, social media, website | Author Alex McLachlanThe book I'm reading at the moment is "The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age". The book links to a number of themes I'm interested in, particularly developing knowledge content and user generated content (and also a number of the drivers identified in the recent NCVO future of membership report).
12
NOV
IT, the Business and Innovation
12 NOV 2009 | Posted in business strategy, business transformation, business value, CIO, innovation, investment, IT | Author Alex McLachlan
Many organisations struggle over the best place for IT within the organisation and extracting the best business value from investment.
In his recent book, fruITion: Creating the Ultimate Corporate Strategy for Information Technology, respected CIO commentator Chris Potts sets out his views in a very easy to read fashion. His main themes are that having IT as a separate department has failed to deliver business benefits from investment, that IT should be (largely) integrated into the business units and that initiatives should be treated as business change projects rather than IT projects.