“We seem to have developed the perfect system for burning money and achieving nothing” – Anonymous. This is a true story. An organisation with a large number of traditional IT systems wanted to assess the opportunity to use new Software as a Service (SaaS) applications to advance new initiatives. SaaS was the way to go; […]
Kaizen – Good Change Kaizen means ‘Good Change’ in Japanese (Kai = Change; Zen = Good) and has come to mean the practice of continuous improvement within an organisation. Kaizen originated in Japan post second-World War and came to international attention through its application in Japanese car manufacturing in the 1980s and has subsequently been […]
Yesterday was one of the most significant days I have had in the past 3 years. It passed with the single click of my mouse button. No fireworks, no shouts of celebration; actually a little bit of an anti-climax as I reflect back. Yesterday Spatial.IQ Ltd. was put to rest and LINQ Ltd. was born. Spatial.IQ […]
If innovation happens at all within an organisation, it is frequently a fluke or part of a skunkworks project. Commentators like Steve Blank suggest that while Skunkworks projects epitomise innovation by exception; to survive, organisations need innovation by design. In my previous posts (‘Kill the Chicken’ and ‘Kill the Chicken 2’ ) I spent some time […]