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 […]
In my last post I talked about the lack of innovation within most organisations and how a combination of our education system and organisational culture have created this ‘Kill the Chicken’ environment. Comfort is the enemy of innovation. Whatever other elements might come into play, why would you move from a status quo of low-risk […]
Information Technology is a strange beast. We struggle to define it, scope it, design it, implement it and operate it. We know that it’s capable of transforming our organisations yet all too often have to be content when it doesn’t. We put up with terrible systems which force staff to perform contortions to serve the […]
In the last post, I explored the need for a strategy and roadmap to guide the migration from Google’s deprecated products. In this one, I’ll discuss a methodology which could be used to structure a spatial strategy. At Spatial.IQ this methodology is at the heart of our consultancy and is called LINQ. No matter how […]
The Google / Esri announcement has caused a lot of discussion at LINQ aided by really useful feedback from readers of the first blog post. As the biggest upheaval in the spatial community in a decade or more, it deserves some attention. In this post, I want to take a look at some of the […]