Today, the topic is about redefining innovation – Hint: You’re not starting from Ground Zero. Welcome to IAM Talking, a periodic podcast interview series, with your host, Dan Keldsen, Chief Innovation Officer at Information Architected, Inc. (IAI). Today IAM Talking with Ken Tencer, the CEO of Spyder Works Inc. and co-author of the book “The […]
This article was originally posted on CMSWire – see the original for early comments. It’s 2011 — and mobile devices are flying off the shelves faster than ever before. It’s time for the real mobile revolution! Except… Let’s Face It… You Aren’t Ready for This. I don’t mean YOU. I mean your organization, and your […]
Editor’s Note: This post is a featured guest post by one of our IAI University Partners, Dr. Ellen Domb from the PQR Group. Stop the Innovation Wars is the attention-getting title of a Harvard Business Review article published last year, attempting to generate controversy in the business world. The article is written by Vijay Govindarajan […]
Editor’s Note: This post is a featured guest post by one of our IAI University Partners, Patti Anklam of Net Work. In the concluding chapter of my book, Net Work, I focused on “The Leader’s Net Work.” From reading about and talking to leaders of networks, I arrived at the following set of prescriptions: Network […]
A Quick Cloud Prod What exactly is the mental/cultural/political barrier for adoption of cloud computing and SaaS-based solutions? It should no longer be technical barriers – nor cost – nor reliability – so what’s the disconnect? Think about it… Most companies do not own and manage (without third party suppliers/partners – the “analog” to cloud […]
It was recently recommended to me that I pick up a copy of “Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years” published in 2008 by Paul B. Carroll and Chunka Mui. Fascinating book so far – as usual, bought the book wirelessly while I was having […]
Recently, Robin Bew, Chief Economist in the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research division of The Economist magazine, posted the results of an EIU survey of large businesses. With such a complex system as the world economy, I always have my doubts as to how useful research like this is, but an interesting statistic called […]
6 Years Ago… When I started covering the software solution providing side of the Innovation Management coin 6 years ago – it was a lonely world as an Innovation Analyst and Consultant. The software tools were so new, and with so little competition, that there was essentially no market there. And with no market = […]
Vancouver-based ThoughtFarmer recently announced ThoughtFarmer 4.0 – one highlight I’d like to call attention to is their “Desktop Connector” application/feature. Enterprise 2.0 is not just about browser-based interactions, and wholly executed content creation/lifecycles within the browser… More than the Web The rise of wikis and similar web-based tools that make up the Enterprise 2.0 toolset have largely […]
A quick post as we head into the Holiday Season… whether for work or for play, perhaps it’s time to move onto the tablet revolution for your content consumption. Take for example… Taking Digital Content to an Extreme Once you’ve begun to make the journey into digital content, or electronic content, do you start to […]
