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Tag: Innovation

  • Dealing with “shiny objects”: tips for using both sides of your brain

    The Ambidextrous Organization, and how YOU can deal with it. Dealing with “shiny objects”: tips for using both sides of your brain

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  • The Plight Of The Intrapreneur, Or How To Be An Innovator From Within

    How big is the Intrapreneur market? The Plight Of The Intrapreneur, Or How To Be An Innovator From Within. How useful is Lean Analytics for intrapreneurs, is it worth buying?

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  • John Hagel about Innovation at the Edge

    Very thoughtful Interview with John Hagel, done by Stowe Boyd. This is my favorite quote: [About innovation] The design of the workplace, the information have been configured around the process as the center of the action. Our view is the only place to start — having being involved in organizational change for thirty years now,…

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  • Addiction to Familiar Systems

    Addiction to Familiar Systems: The fear of making the “wrong” choice actually makes the familiar, mastered PHP more attractive. I guess that also depends if you’re more a stable or volatile type.

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  • Stables and Volatiles

    Stables and Volatiles: I believe a healthy company that wants to continue to grow and invent needs to equally invest in both their Stables and their Volatiles. Your Stables are there to remind you about reality and to define process whereby large groups of people can be coordinated to actually get work done. Your Stables…

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  • The cult of innovation

    The cult of innovation: IT is currently gripped by a Cult of Innovation: novelty is king; development/improvement a headlong rush into the future; only the bleeding edge survives. We ought to know better. Innovation can be change for change’s sake, especially when staff are tasked with “Be innovative”. Added via Pocket.

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  • Invest in Legacy, Invest in the Mainframe

    Don’t discard the mainframe just yet… it’s hard to come by unbiased opinions in this question, but – are there any major banks running the backbone of their operations on non-mainframe systems? Mainframe shops that invest in getting current with operating systems and software can run mainframes at lower cost than those that don’t. Investing…

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  • Nexus Q: On the importance of failing fast

    I’ve been thinking about failure culture and innovation quite a bit recently. Here’s another good example: Google’s cancellation of the Nexus Q launch was a surprise to me, even though I expected its introduction to be an utter disaster. The surprise […] was that even a company like Google […] would do the same with…

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