Innovation

Taylorism – A Pox upon Agile

This past Thursday my colleague Kirk Knoernschild pointed out a blog post by Alistair Cockburn about Taylorism creeping into the world of agile. Alistair’s post ignited a discussion within Gartner’s IT1 team reflecting on how it applied to our own agile work…

Gamification – a Small Play for Game Dynamics

Gamification, where organizations incorporate game dynamics into applications, is one of the latest trends.  Many view it as a silver bullet to load into marketing websites, innovation tools, worker productivity tools, ERP systems, and social environments. The hope is that these applications…

The Wisdom of the Iron Age

Interesting BBC programme In Our Time this morning about The Dawn of the Iron Age. Why and how did people start making ornaments and tools and weapons from copper and tin and lead? Because the ores were shiny, and it was easy…

The Wisdom of the Tomato

@davidnasser @mingk @leebryant @kaldajani and many others have tweeted the following aphorism. 'Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." Please permit me to quibble with this aphorism. Classifying tomatoes as fruit…

The Wisdom of the Iron Age

Interesting BBC programme In Our Time this morning about The Dawn of the Iron Age. Why and how did people start making ornaments and tools and weapons from copper and tin and lead? Because the ores were shiny, and it was easy…

The Wisdom of the Tomato

@davidnasser @mingk @leebryant @kaldajani and many others have tweeted the following aphorism. 'Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad." Please permit me to quibble with this aphorism. Classifying tomatoes as fruit…

Creeping Business Dependency

People are slowly waking up to the fact that we have created yet another single point of failure into our business ecosystem. It seems that businesses have gradually made themselves dependent on Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and satellite navigation (satnav). So we…

Drifting the Enterprise: Ensuring Solutions for the Enterprise.

Markets and Drifting Most organizations operates within an environment that develops constant changes, that enforce the need for innovation and change within the enterprise. The market usually ensures that the enterprise has to re-structure, re-organize and adapt to the situation at hand.…

Watson: Impressive Finding not Thinking

National Public Radio (NPR) seems to wake my imagination.  This morning they had a story about IBM’s Watson. Watson is IBM’s computer that is squaring off against two Jeopardy champions – the shows air for the next 3 days. I wonder how…

Real EA: crossing the chasm?

One of the practical problems of the innovator’s lifestyle is that, by definition, we tend to work a long way away (metaphorically speaking) from the mainstream. It’s true that there are some real advantages to playing the Outsider role – for example,…
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