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• Planning should not require a Gantt chart

  2010/09/03 in Business-Technology, IT Strategy

  There’s a standard slide in my bag of tricks which finds it’s way into a surprising number of presentations. It’s a simple slide, one allowing me to explore the idea of planning as a spectrum of possible methodologies rather than treating planning as an either-or choice: either be bottom-up reactive, or requiring us to engage [...]

• Innovation [25-08-2010]

  2010/08/25 in Innovation, Mailing List

  Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. The 50 worst inventions [Times] Times has a go at naming their top 50 inventions that didn’t quite work out as intended. And the winner is… [The Economist] Offering a cash prize to encourage innovation [...]

• Basketball as an innovation metaphore

  2010/08/19 in Innovation

  I just realised that the approach to basket ball described by The no-stars all star, from the NY Times, is a nice model for innovation (whatever that is). I’ve been struggling for a while to understand how to define innovation other than retrospectively (isn’t hindsight a wonderful thing). We can pin down invention, customer need, [...]

• Think “in the market,” not “go to market”

  2010/08/18 in Business-Technology

  A friend of mine[1] made an astute comment the other day. We need to think about “in the market” models, rather than “go to market” models. I think this nicely captures the shift we’re seeing in the market; businesses are moving away from offering products which (hopefully) will sell, and adopting models founded on successful [...]

• I’ve already told you more than 125% of what I know

  2010/08/06 in Business-Technology

  Bob Sutton has an interesting post on the limits of expertise: I have already told you more than 125% of what I know. As he points out: I think that those of us who are alleged to have expertise in certain topics can easily fall into this trap as we try to be helpful to others, [...]