Innovation

The Nexus and IT Jobs – It’s Hip to be Square

Last week our “2013 Professional Effectiveness Planning Guide: Coming to Terms With the Nexus of Forces” was published on Gartner.com. It discusses the Nexus of Forces — social, mobile, cloud and information — and the profound implications for IT. The nexus forces…

The Rise and Rise of BYOD

Amazon Kindle V Apple iPad As the festive and gift season approaches, our favourite consumer technology vendors are gearing up to release a range of new gadgets and consumer devices such as laptops, smartphones and tablets. Apple's iPad, iPhone and iPod for…

Summer School (Week 31, 2012)

I have been fortunate to participate in the Enterprise Architecture summer school that took place in week 31 in year 2012 at the IT University of Copenhagen. There where a lot of interesting presenters, academics and practitioners. One of the more notable…

Career Survival Skills for Gearheads

The Gartner for Technical Professionals (GTP) research team is fond of gearheads. You know, the technical professionals who get things done within organizations, the ones who find the answers. For the past 5 years the Professional Effectiveness team has been doing gearheads…

Management Information for Managing Innovation

Management information is not particular difficult to produce, it is difficult to make use of. Management information can be produced in quite a few ways and supported by quite a few methods, but too much management information will eventually clutter the line…

IRM EA/BPM Conference Delivers

Last week I presented a keynote (“The Strategy to Execution Process”) at the London IRM EA/BPM conference. There were so many good ideas and new perspectives that after three days I thought my head would explode.   A melting pot of ideas –…

Not All Innovation Is BIG Innovation

A comment to last week’s post, “You call that innovation?” got me thinking about why most companies do so little innovating. Mark wrote:   On point 7 – Doing things that can’t be done. This is the realm of great innovation. This…

You Call That Innovating?

Last week I was on a panel discussing innovation trends in technology for the board of directors of an information technology intensive company. They don’t make technology, but their primary product is a digital based service. One of the panel members and…

Daoism and Rocket Science

Who is to say whether a scientific or technical discovery is accidental or planned? Historians of science often point out that there was some luck involved in Fleming's "accidental" discovery of penicillin. But Fleming and his assistants were already actively searching for…

Daoism and Rocket Science

Who is to say whether a scientific or technical discovery is accidental or planned? Historians of science often point out that there was some luck involved in Fleming's "accidental" discovery of penicillin. But Fleming and his assistants were already actively searching for…
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