Technology Innovation

Learning by Doing with Labs

August 9, 2011

Print PDF Every summer, I spend a week camping with my kids’ Boy Scout troop. This year, we had the opportunity to camp, hike and fish in the Colorado Rockies near Pike’s Peak. A by-product of a week away from constant email, phone calls and meetings is time to think. A few summers ago, one of these thoughts was how to apply first aid lessons to better project management. This summer’s camp was alongside the ...

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3 Keys for the Mobile Enterprise

May 9, 2011

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Print PDF Guest post by Dan Eckert An agile organization is a mobile organization. And, given today’s technologies, there’s no reason why your company shouldn’t be both. Today’s alignment of smart handhelds, information clouds, and social networking innovation can finally take the power of IT to the edge of your enterprise where it belongs. Making the most of this alignment is where success is achieved or lost. So what does technology leadership need to know ...

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Medical Technology Innovation

January 31, 2011

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Print PDF Is your company planting seeds in countries that have the most fertile ground for innovation? That’s an important question for CIOs who are thinking strategically about technology’s impact on the business. In a global business ecosystem, a nimble competitor can leapfrog you with an unanticipated technology advance. Or you can tap into these ideas first. But if your innovation portfolio doesn’t extend outside the U.S., you’re probably missing something. I’ve written before about ...

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5 Innovations for 2011

January 1, 2011

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Print PDF “The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” said Alan Kay, one of the earliest pioneers of object-oriented programming, personal computing, and graphical user interfaces, back in 1971 as quoted in SmallTalk.org. That’s sage advice for the CIO trying to determine where technology is headed, and what it means for the company. Seventy percent of the senior business and IT executives in PwC’s Diamond Advisory Services’ 2010 Digital IQ study ...

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5 Reasons Consumer Innovations Outpace the Enterprise

October 19, 2010

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Print PDF With all of the killer apps and data, social systems, creative visualization and different devices out there in the consumer space, why we aren’t making more and faster progress in adopting some of them in the companies where we work? If I can use Wolfram Alpha on my iPhone to ask a question why can’t I get the same kinds of information on my phone to support my business decision making? I had ...

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Business Innovation or IT Innovation?

October 5, 2010

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Print PDF Business Innovation or IT Innovation – Video Blog Transcript In the most recent issue of Sloan Management Review, Sloan introduced a new study they are doing along with IBM called the New Intelligent Enterprise. In the study, they surveyed 3000 executives and asked them for their top priority over the next two years. They didn’t answer cost, or growth, or risk, or agility – they said “to achieve competitive differentiation through innovation.” Contrast ...

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CIO’s Explore Twitter for Business – Webinar Recap

September 24, 2010

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Print PDF The CIOs of Sony Pictures and Clorox weren’t sold on Twitter at first, as they explained during the webcast yesterday, “CIOs Reveal Why They Tweet”. Ralph Loura, the CIO of Clorox, made a promise to himself that he would stick with it for a month to see what he got out of it. David Buckholtz, Divisional CIO for Sony Pictures, had established hundreds of LinkedIn connections before sending one tweet. It was using ...

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iPads and Airplanes

September 8, 2010

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Print PDF On the plane this morning with 3 hours on my hands, I decided to pay for another 30-day pass on GoGo and fired up the iPad. As I continue to experiment with the iPad for day to day business tasks, I’m constantly finding great reasons to use it more. This morning, I was admiring the great Calendar app that reminds me of an old appointment book. It’s way better than iCal on the ...

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Can You Outsource Innovation?

August 13, 2010

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Print PDF I’m writing this as I finish up a great week of vacation on the Baltic Sea with my wife and some friends. While our main destination was St. Petersburg, Russia, an unexpected surprise was our visit to Tallinn, Estonia. As you can see in the photo above, Tallinn has many old churches and a well-preserved walled old town. What you can’t see in the photo is the energy and positive outlook in its ...

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iPad’s Killer App for the Enterprise

May 27, 2010

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Print PDF I have been using the iPad daily for about 6 weeks and love it. It is a great media computer for video (abc.com and netflix are fantastic), newspapers and books (my Kindle books have new life with the superb graphics). The browsing experience is great and of course the games are plentiful (Scrabble and Jumbline are recent favorites). What is not clear is how (notice I don’t say “if”) the iPad will infiltrate ...

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