Infrastructure intensive organisations that rely heavily on their infrastructure to achieve organisational objectives need to seriously review their Asset Management strategies.  Not only do they need to optimise the utilisation of the investment in and maintenance of assets, but there are also compliance issues, such as International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) from a financial reporting [...]

SystemicLogic has been running the annual innovation study since 2007 and the 2010 study is almost complete. Whilst finalising this year’s feedback we have included a retrospective of the previous years’ studies and looking back over time at the trends reveals some interesting findings. Back in 2007 the world was a very different place – [...]

SMS Fri, 30 Jul, 2010 13h12 Log 22697: SEVERITY 1. Sever NW1A gone down. DR not implemented. Diagnosis of disk and space commencing. Update in 20 minutes. SMS Fri, 30 Jul, 2010 13h42 Log 22697.Hard disk failure found on NW1A. Disk to be replaced. Data restore to time of failure to commence. ETC 1.5 hours. [...]

I’ve had some push-back on my views about socially driven innovations and that in turn means a push back on open innovation. When “The Process Innovation Imperative” was written (leading up to 2002), the 4th Generation of R&D was in full swing. The focus was on using learning theories and knowledge based approaches to drive [...]

We start off our careers with the same level of intelligence, education and commitment – however the higher up in a company you look the lower the percentage of women. Many companies are adopting socially progressive HR policies that aren’t inadvertently biased against women. These changes come at a price and despite the BBEEE business [...]

Many new books have recently been published focusing on industrial models, open innovation, mass collaboration, crowdsourcing, etc that present real world views on the topic of innovation. I do however have one concern; I think we forget about the services companies and their role in open innovation. R&D is not seen in the same light [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Whilst on my travels abroad I received a call from my wife who was concerned about a strange noise emanating from the front of the car. She said that it made a Ka Thling Ka Thling noise whilst driving. Concerned about her safety, as she drives quite a bit in her sales career, I told [...]