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Change and innovation are topics that have been prominent on this blog over the last year. In fact, Greger Wikstrand and I have traded a total of twenty-six posts (twenty-seven counting this one) on the subject. Greger’s last post, “Successful digitization requires focus on the entire customer experience – not just a neat app” […]
This week’s episode of Tom Cagley’s Software Process and Measurement (SPaMCast) podcast, number 415, features Tom’s essay on recognizing risk and risk tolerance, Kim Pries on change models, a Form Follows Function installment based on my post “All Aboard the Innovation Band Wagon?”, and Jon Quigley on requirements management. Innovation is the topic of our […]
Agility is the ability to change direction quickly.
The paradox of agility is that it is that the slower you are moving the faster you can change direction.
Just going really fast, in the belief that speed is agility, can lead to a nasty, sudden stop.
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Agility is the ability to change direction quickly.The paradox of agility is that it is that the slower you are moving the faster you can change direction.Just going really fast, in the belief that speed is agility, can lead to a nasty, sudden stop.Pho…
I saw this graphic on Linked-In a while back and saved a copy to remind me that innovation is a mistake-filled endeavor. No mistake is bad, if you learn from it.
In innovation circles we often hear the phrase "Fail Fast" as if it were a goal to get through the failure quickly so that you can get to the achievement that’s waiting just around the corner. But I prefer to use the term "Learn
I saw this graphic on Linked-In a while back and saved a copy to remind me that innovation is a mistake-filled endeavor. No mistake is bad, if you learn from it.In innovation circles we often hear the phrase “Fail Fast” as if it were a goal to get thro…
It seems like everyone wants to be an innovator nowadays. Being “digital” is in – never mind what it means, you’ve just got to be “digital”. Being innovative, however, is more than being buzzword-compliant. Being innovative, particularly in a digital sense, means solving problems (for customers, not yourself) in a new way with technology. […]
This one’s a follow-up to a recent post, ‘Technology-adoption, Wardley-maps and Bimodal-IT‘, which adds the theme of time-horizons for strategy. The starting-point was a kind Tweet-comment by Ralph-Christian Ohr about that post of mine: RT @ralph_ohr Great post by @tetradian…
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the Internet of Things, from both a personal perspective and as it applies to EA. In fact, I wrote about it in my “From the Editor” column in the most recent Architecture and…
What’s the difference between technology-adoption, technology-evolution and lifecycle-management? That’s a question that’s come up recently for me, in part as a follow-up to my recent post ‘Technology-adoption, Wardley-maps and Bimodal-IT‘. The key point here is that, to explain the underlying…
By now, most people in enterprise-architecture will know Gartner’s beloved ‘Bimodal IT’ as ‘the gift that goes on giving’ – giving of wry laughter, that is, as the Gartner consultants seemingly each queue up, one after another, to make ever-more-futile…
What is the best time to plant a tree?A popular answer to this question is that the best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago, and the second-best time is now.This is often claimed to be an ancient Chinese proverb. Or an African proverb. It is unli…