Tag: innovation
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Link: Inside Synchrony Financial’s Innovation Lab
“One thing that was great to see was that cross-functional barriers went away” once the new lab was set in motion, Arghirescu said. “Innovation became an entity.” People in the lab were given the authority to make decisions. A commitment was made to agile development. Original source: Inside Synchrony Financial’s Innovation Lab
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Link: Putting the transformation into digital
“Too many people are claiming that there is digital transformation happening – when really it is just automating legacy processes. It’s improvement for sure. Less time for customers, less money for providers – but it’s not ‘transformation’, a word possibly even more abused than innovation.” Original source: Putting the transformation into digital
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Link: Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World
“If you’ve ever had to plan a long project — getting to the end state can seem so difficult and impossible. The work that takes to get there is painful and fraught with peril and compromises. We think the path to success looks like a nice, neat flowchart. We think change comes from the top down, or…
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Link: Don’t dream big when taking on industrial or enterprise IoT
Stacey says that, even with IoT projects, starting small is good to prove long term ROI. She also describes the problem with doing transformational ROI when the work might just be doing improvements, like adding in more safety to industrial things. This doesn’t measure the creation of a new business ahead of time, innovation, which…
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Link: Considering “Digital Transformation”
“That’s why agile methodologies such as DevOps are so important, not in themselves (yes, that would be putting the cart before the horse again) but because they give businesses an approach to innovate at high speed.” Original source: Considering “Digital Transformation”
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When regulations actually help innovation
“In the drone industry, it seems counterintuitive, but we actually want regulation. And not having regulations is putting a halt to the growth of this industry,” says West. As ever: don’t make blanket assumptions about complex systems, here: all the regulations put in place by the federal government. Link
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The research reported in this book … shows that in the cases of well-managed firms… . good management was the most powerful reason they failed to stay atop their industries. Precisely because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort…
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Yes. I’d stop. I’d make things for myself, for my friends at home instead. The bar needs to be high. I don’t think that will happen. We are at the beginning of a remarkable time, when a remarkable number of products will be developed. When you think about technology and what it has enabled us…
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Dell IR: we’re going to go hang with the nerds now
One of the more significant changes is that our financial results will be restricted to current institutional debt investors, prospective institutional debt investors and debt research analysts. The financials will only be disclosed under non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Given the restrictions on our financial disclosure, we will not be discussing our financial results with broad audiences…
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A surplus of innovation
Adrian Cockcroft, who runs all things cloud for Netflix, called it “technical indigestion.” His group is releasing an open source project a week – including new monitoring tools that came out this week. “We’re driving a lot of innovation but we’re giving people indigestion. There’s only so many blog posts you can read in a…
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Things analysts forecasts won’t tell you
“These old technologies are holding us back. They’re anchors on where we want to go,” he said. “We find the things that have outlived their useful purpose. Our competitors are afraid to remove them. We try to find better solutions – our customers have given us a lot of trust. In general, it’s a good…
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“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”
“It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.” – Steve Jobs
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