A quote

"What sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense."

—Napoleon Bonaparte

There's no authoritative source for this quote. Since Fulton was commissioned to …

Check out "End User 2.0: When Employees Have All The Answers" in InformationWeek. This is about adoption of non-approved technology. Think iPad.

This shows what innovation looks like when it happens.

1. There's no process for innovation.
2. There's no "permission to fail". Folks just fail or succeed without anyone's support …

Computerworld, July 26, 2010 cover story was "Sustaining Innovation". The magazine was chock-full of thoughts on innovation.

Much of it was good, but some of it is just appeasement to management types who are focused on cost and schedule.

"Establish processes and ownership. Organizations should have a process for taking …

From a Blog that's inside a company's firewall, so this had to be heavily edited.

"The instant ON is a relief. The full page touch screen works just like on the iPhone - only better. Web pages look great.. Photographs and Movies are fabulous. The screen resolution is fantastic. Sharing pictures …

Eight Things Business Hates About IT. Plus eight things IT hates about business.

I suppose.

While there are 8 things identified, they seem to boil down to 2 things to fix: Replace bureaucratic with Agile; replace Keep The Lights On Management with any other way of budgeting.

While Agility is …

Good stuff in ComputerWorld: Partnerships can Go Too Far.

"Consider vendor innovation. As companies become large and entrenched, they typically become more risk-averse and less creative, often rejecting ideas that challenge conventional wisdom."

This is really only half the story.

Here's the article, "The New Focus Group: The Collective ".

The point is that simplistic Return on Investment misses the point. The point is that marketing models aren't simple linear relationships between promotional dollars and sales.

I was all excited about the value of innovation and the source of innovation .

The …

Here's the analysis.

"60 cents of every IT dollar goes to maintaining existing systems". "This increased 'run the business' spending has consumed budget resources that were originally earmarked for more strategic and transformational investment," writes Gartner analyst Jed Rubin.

So, what happens with the "innovation" portion of the budget?

In …

Some reading:

1. Flexible Software is Error-Enabling Software , by Sean McGrath. If users can make changes, they can make mistakes. Why would you allow users to make changes? It's their process, it's their data. But, everyone in IT is absolutely sure that end users a lying gypsies. After all, if you …

See GoDaddy Silences Police Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com . As of 3/12/08, GoDaddy won't comment.

So far, they didn't produce a takedown notice, or even notify the owner. So I guess this means GoDaddy is not a good choice for hosting or Domain Name registration. The good news is …