Having spent the last 7 weeks immersed in the world of Information Supply Chains I’ve come to the conclusion that I’ve been looking at IT challenges in the wrong way. I now find it incredible how easily the conversation about IT’s role in digital transformation seems to focus on the “technology” and not the “information”. […]
On Monday 16th November, we launched our Private Release of LINQ to our Early Adopters. This group is made up of organisations that we have been talking to for many months, bringing them on the LINQ journey with us. Part of being an Early Adopter is getting direct access to the LINQ team in support […]
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 […]