Tag: innovation
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🗂 Is this the future of retail? We checked out the new high-tech store from Microsoft and Kroger
You use an in-store device or you phone to scan items to buy: > The speed is most visible when a shopper calls up an item on her pre-determined shopping list and is guided to the exact aisle and shelf position of that item. As the shopper gets within range, of say, the jar of…
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Link: Singapore Airlines employees urged to innovate, fail without fear
There needs to be a place where you can fail and there’s no implication to your career. [The innovation lab] is a safety net. Anyone in the company can take a day in a week to work with the team [at the lab] and innovate together and talk through the idea. Original source: Singapore Airlines…
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Link: The State of Agile Software in 2018
The third thing that I want to stress is the importance of getting rid of software projects as a notion. Instead we want to switch to a product-oriented view of the world where instead of projects that you spin up, run for a while and then stop; you instead say, “Let’s focus on things that…
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Link: Cyber Airmen fuel innovation
Any problems discovered in the software can be more easily corrected, a small failure being preferable to correcting the shortfalls of an entire software suite. Changes requested by the customer can sometimes be delivered in just a couple days. Prior to Jigsaw, the tanker mission planners would use whiteboards to plot out their fueling rendezvous.…
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Link: Digital Transformation: Why Culture Is So Key
Culture is the most important factor, way more important than technology, for example. By culture, we mean a set of shared values and beliefs that drive a change in behaviors. This has to be both a top-down and a bottom-up approach. The CEO and the C-level executives must embody the culture and the DNA of…
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Link: Lessons from the UK Government’s Digital Transformation Journey
It’s probably OK: In any organisation that’s been around for a while, ways of doing things build up and often disconnect from the reasons they were put in place. Things are cited as “rules” which are really just norms. We had to get really good at working out the difference, and on pushing back on…
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Link: The Air Force Will Treat Computer Coding Like a Foreign Language
For example, when Defense Innovation Unit went to air operations centers in Middle East, the defense tech expert envisioned software changes that would optimize the way that airmen tracked refueling tankers. Teaming up with a commercial firm in Boston called Pivotal Labs, the new software is saving about $200,000 in fuel every month. It’s usually…
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Two Types of Digital Transformation
There are two types of digital transformation. First, literally. You had an analog process (booking appointments at the barber shop with phone and paper, planning tanker refueling schedules with a white board), and now they’re replaced by pure software. These transformations are often about optimizing an existing business process, gaining huge cost and time efficiencies…
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Link: ‘No longer an experiment’ — DIUx becomes DIU, permanent Pentagon unit
‘“There is no doubt in my mind that DIUx will not only continue to exist, it will actually — it will grow in its influence and its impact on the Department of Defense,” Mattis said in a press conference.’ Original source: ‘No longer an experiment’ — DIUx becomes DIU, permanent Pentagon unit
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Link: Think in Products, Not Projects
“In a high level, projects are local optimization efforts. We get a group of people who create new (or improve existing) functionality for our customers and then we pass that onto a team that has no idea why the change was made and how this change was solutioned/implemented. Very often, the quality is low and…
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Link: Farmers Insurance’s New CIO Sees AI Improving Claims Process
‘Fast, easy interactions are key for customers who have become accustomed to the ease of use and personalization of e-commerce. For example, Mr. Wilson says he won’t buy from a website that doesn’t make it easy to see as many reviews as he can on a product, and to quickly order and check the status…
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Link: Red Hat’s James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat
People always want MSPs is to add higher level services, to become more like public cloud. Also, some arch open source/lock-in talk. Original source: Red Hat’s James Talks About the Importance of Open Source Innovat
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Link: What Your Innovation Process Should Look Like
“Once a list of innovation ideas has been refined by curation, it needs to be prioritized. One of the quickest ways to sort innovation ideas is to use the McKinsey Three Horizons Model. Horizon 1 ideas provide continuous innovation to a company’s existing business model and core capabilities. Horizon 2 ideas extend a company’s existing…
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Link: How to make innovation programs deliver more than coffee cups
‘“a lack of connection between innovation teams and their parent organization. Teams form/and are taught outside of their parent organization because innovation is disconnected from other activities. This meant that when teams went back to their home organization, they found that execution of existing priorities took precedence. They returned speaking a foreign language (What’s a…
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Link: Why software giants are failing
Should have done cloud earlier. There’s another angle: when and how does a product manager call/predict a huge shift like traditional, on-premises software to “cloud”? Original source: Why software giants are failing
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Link: Can IT finally deliver innovation without busting its own budget? Docker’s CEO says yes.
“What we’re seeing at companies like MetLife or Northern Trust is they’re taking their app and infrastructure management cost, and cutting it in half. Let’s say that you can cut 15 million dollars out of your app and infrastructure management cost, which by the way, some of our customers are at. That’s 50 million dollars…
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Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain
“Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a tanker refuelling solution for the USAF with the US Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx); Running on the firm’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform, the software solution was built for under $2m in 90 days and is now being used in operational…
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Link: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for Designers
“Forrester has determined that teams that are applying IBM’s design thinking practice and are adequately staffed with design talent are getting to market twice as fast as without. These teams are also seeing up to a 75% reduction in design and development time.” Original source: A New Study on Design Thinking is Great News for…
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Link: How Insurance Giant Allstate Is Using Cloud Tech to Build New Businesses
“When you’re an 86-year-old company things have done a certain way, there are rules in place because of what someone did 10 years ago,” says Opal Perry, vice president and divisional chief information officer of claims for Allstate. “Now, instead of a 200-person team, you have small six- and eight-person teams working on things. It…
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Link: GDPR Seen Slowing AI Innovation
Given all the Facebook stuff, I think less balancing towards the side of the robots would probably probably be good: ‘A recent study advocating a U.S. strategy for developing machine intelligence also noted the potential barriers to development that include GDPR and other data privacy efforts. The study released by the Center for Strategic and…
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