innovation (4)
Ultimate and permanent challenge for people, companies, societies is to innovate (to survive?) This week, a lot of point of view on this topic, re-emphasizing some basic evident ideas: First, innovation in IT is often nowadays coming from "transgressive renegades" . Continuous flow of new emerging technologies allows permanently unsatisfied end-user to invent their way. A good IT department must consider/absorb these innovations, considered as valid prototypes, and to transform ...
Good News: Knowledge Management still alive. In spite of vendors appropriation of KM logo ( just type "Knowledge Management" on Google and you will find 90% of the connected sites are selling something, products, tools, consulting, ....), fundamentals of KM are surviving. Recent contributions: - Relation of KM with semantic web and web2 (with this permanent problem of the balance between "coding the world" and creativity freedom!). See too that nice reaction on this ...
A lot of informations recently published on this theme. What are the "new" issues and opportunities for CIO's ? Let's take a quote from this one Ovum analysts say in their Summit Seven predictions. "Virtualization, service-oriented architecture, management automation and integrated workflow tools will increasingly be coupled with externally provided software-as-a-service (SaaS), utility computing, business process outsourcing and other network-hosted applications and ...
Look at this nice contribution , insisting on the fact processes are first and IT projects are just after. The last sentences about Toyota sounds nice ! but.... all that concerns organization improvement and optimization. What about innovations coming from synergy between: creative new ideas of new services + use of emerging technologies to protect these ideas ...