“We seem to have developed the perfect system for burning money and achieving nothing” – Anonymous. This is a true story. An organisation with a large number of traditional IT systems wanted to assess the opportunity to use new Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to advance new initiatives. SaaS was the way to go; […]
Kaizen – Good Change Kaizen means ‘Good Change’ in Japanese (Kai = Change; Zen = Good) and has come to mean the practice of continuous improvement within an organisation. Kaizen originated in Japan post second-World War and came to international attention through its application in Japanese car manufacturing in the 1980s and has subsequently been […]
Yesterday was one of the most significant days I have had in the past 3 years. It passed with the single click of my mouse button. No fireworks, no shouts of celebration; actually a little bit of an anti-climax as I reflect back. Yesterday Spatial.IQ Ltd. was put to rest and LINQ Ltd. was born. Spatial.IQ […]
If innovation happens at all within an organisation, it is frequently a fluke or part of a skunkworks project. Commentators like Steve Blank suggest that while Skunkworks projects epitomise innovation by exception; to survive, organisations need innovation by design. In my previous posts (‘Kill the Chicken’ and ‘Kill the Chicken 2’ ) I spent some time […]
In my last post I talked about the lack of innovation within most organisations and how a combination of our education system and organisational culture have created this ‘Kill the Chicken’ environment. Comfort is the enemy of innovation. Whatever other elements might come into play, why would you move from a status quo of low-risk […]
You’ll often see organisations state ‘innovation’ as one of their core values. This is easy to spot because it is typically written in large letters in a bold font on a poster on the wall under the heading ‘Our Values’. Despite such value statements and indeed a sincere wish to promote innovation, most organisations, particularly […]
Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to work in and with many different organisations; often in a trouble-shooting role. Typically by the time we arrive, things are a mess with symptoms including: a failure to recognise what is really going on within the organisation and events affecting it from outside; unclear and confused thinking at a […]