We have a new essay published in Deloitte Insights, How industries evolve: Interactions, not institutions, drive disruptive change, a collaboration with Damien Crough from prefabAUS. This essay builds on the observation in The real landscape of technology-enabled opportunity. that disruption is typically the result of the accumulation of many minor innovations, rather than being driven by some significant disruptive innovation, by showing how industries evolve when the verbs change (how organisations in the industry interact) rather than the nouns (disruption of the organisations themselves).
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Strategy and the art of the possible
We have a new essay published by Deloitte Insights, Strategy
and the art of the possible. This essay is the result of us pulling together a few threads that we’d been exploring in other areas. The most recent of these was Negotiating the digital-ready organisation, where we explored the idea of thinking about the digital workplace in terms of three interrelated ecosystems: the human, place and digital. One could view this essay as the intersection of that ecosystems view with idea of the extended mind that has been popping up in quite a bit of our other work—such as being one of the underlying themes in our recent series on creativity in business.
What is the future of IT in business?
I’ve come to the realisation that there are no good forums for folk trying to understand what new operational models and opportunities the current technological […]
Continue readingInnovation [2010-08-02]
Another week and another collection of interesting ideas from around the internet. As always, thoughts and/or comments are greatly appreciated. These CIOs go way beyond […]
Continue readingWhat I like about jet engines
Rolls-Royce{{1}} (the engineering company, not the car manufacturer) is an interesting firm. From near disaster in the 70s, when the company was on the brink […]
Continue readingPeople don’t like change. (Or do they?)
I seem to be having a lot of conversations at the moment around whether people (you, me and everyone else) like and embrace change, or […]
Continue readingThe IT department we have today is not the IT department we’ll need tomorrow
The IT departments many of us work in today (either as an employee or consultant) are often the result of thirty or more years of […]
Continue readingConsulting doesn’t work any more. We need to reinvent it.
What does it mean to be in consulting these days? The consulting model that’s evolved over the last 30 – 50 years seems to be […]
Continue readingTime for a new covenant between business and IT
Garther have suggested that by 2012, 20% of companies will own no IT assets. At the same time we have Forrester predicting a boom in […]
Continue readingThe changing role of Government
Is Government 2.0 (whichever definition you choose) the ultimate aim of government? Government for the people and by the people. Or are we missing the […]
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