Banner

Archive for July, 2010

Open Source – The Technology Climate Change

Icon Written by edwin.matodzi on July 27, 2010 – 1:10 am

Harnessing the power of open-source software in your organisation can reset the economics of information technology. Many CXOs (CIO, COO, CFO, CEO, etc) may not think that they’re using open-source software in their enterprises. But the truth is, most businesses today are already running open-source software somewhere within the organisation — and in many of [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Some Ramblings on Crowdsouring

Icon Written by jayvanzyl on July 20, 2010 – 2:51 am

I have spoken quite a bit about innovation related communities and ecologies over the last months. One component that is needed to make innovations successful is the ability to try and predict the future. Some predictions are described as scenarios and others can come from communities where the whole world participates in submitting predictions. The [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

The Circle of Life

Icon Written by niel.wiid on July 12, 2010 – 8:04 am

Development of a sound strategy is only half the battle as too many strategies fail when it comes to execution.  In complex organisations it is very often difficult to understand the relationship between strategy and execution, more often than not due to poor communication.  Having a clearly defined business architecture will also assist with the [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Banking Innovation Study: Obsessively removing humans from the system

Icon Written by rory.moore on July 6, 2010 – 2:13 am

SystemicLogic is in the process of finalizing the 2010 Innovation Study. Although there is still some way to go, the initial analysis has revealed some very surprising findings. Every year in our survey we ask our respondents who the most innovative bank is and who the most hated bank is. We then ask to them [...]

Tags: , , , , ,