Computing staff, Computing, Monday 28 June 2010 at 17:25:00
Key staff should be placed where they can advance a core business line
Businesses will struggle to be innovative if all their forward-looking people He argues that these people will be looking to enable better IT through ?Sooner or later, investment in the IT department's innovation team will look Gardner gives eight other barriers to innovation: ? Where there is no money ? companies that do not spend money rarely achieve ? The company boss is a laggard and does not like new things. ? Everything is controlled by the finance director ? most interesting things ? The organisation is laser focused on the core business, meaning innovation ? The company is riding high on established product and service lines and ? Audit and governance functions are overpowerful ? if your organisation is ? The organisation needs to have recovered from a near-death experience, ? Finally, if your CEO is risk averse ? s/he will require so much reassurance
are stuck in the IT department, said the DWP?s chief technology officer James
Gardner in his
blog
last week.
innovation, but that enablement of a support function (IT) will see far less
return on investment than the enablement of a core business line which uses IT.
less attractive than other available opportunities,? he said.
very much innovation.
do not pay off in the short term.
would be considered a distraction ? ?Retreat to the core is a classic strategy
of an organisation that is disconnecting itself from change, for whatever
reason,? he says.
innovation is not seen as necessary.
full of security people, audit people and governance people with the power to
call the shots, you should consider whether to bother with innovation.
meaning there is an entrenched belief among management in the power of change.
as to the value of any "go" decision that time is wasted and will put the team
off persuading them.
Full story at http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2265610/innovators-business
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