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Loading ...The intrapraneurial factor
I was speaking with Professor Moren Levesque from the University of Waterloo yesterday, who specializes in issues around entrepreneurship. She identified a trend that is beginning to affect enterprises that is related to her area of study, one which CIOs would be wise to consider.
Increasingly, attitudes among younger employees within large organizations are of an entrepreneurial nature. Having been immersed in technology their entire lives, their minds move at a pace consistent with that of the digital age…in other words, lightning fast. As a result, they are apt to be a tad more restless than their parents were, eager to put thier ideas for new products and services into practice, and not afraid to bolt somewhere else if their current employer isn’t giving them the opportunity to do so.
In order to retain such staffers and not see their investment in them go to waste, executives, including CIOs, must be willing to give them perhaps more latitude and freedom that typically accorded younger employees. If not, management should not be surprised to see a few resignation slips on their desks.
This adjustment will perhaps not be easy, but it looks like offering this kind of latitude is one aspect of an IT employment landscape being turned on its head.
Posted on August 30th, 2007 by Greg Enright and filed under Innovation | 3 Comments »
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(3 votes, average: 9.33 out of 10) Loading ...“Don’t worry be crappy”
- By Joaquim P. Menezes -
“Don’t worry, be happy,” sang Bobby McFerrin.
A key guiding principle of the would-be-innovator should be: “Don’t worry, be crappy,” according to venture capitalist, success coach and Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki.
He delivered the keynote at a recent event I attended in Orlando. Fla.
At first blush that seemed pretty weird advice from a success coach – until Kawasaki clarified what he meant.
This is not an invitation to create crap, he said. “I’m saying create revolutionary things that jump curves that may have elements of crappiness. There’s a big difference.
“The reason, he said, is that if you wait to dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t’ – if you wait for “the perfect world where everything is cheap, completely debugged, the engineers say all the features are in there” - you will never ship.
He cited the example of the Mac 128K that Apple shipped in 1984.
“It was a great computer, but had elements of crappiness to it. For example, thanks to my contribution, there was no software. There was also hard disk, no slots, no colour, no chips – piece of crap. But it was a revolutionary piece of crap.” Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on July 18th, 2007 by Joaquim Menezes and filed under Apple, Best Practices, Innovation, Social media, Web 2.0 | No Comments »
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(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10) Loading ...A wiki for your thoughts
- By Joaquim P. Menezes -
With their proven effectiveness in building brand, enhancing communications and even boosting revenue, why isn’t use of Web 2.0 tools – such as blogs and wikis – becoming more pervasive among enteprises?
The answer to that was provided by a recent study by The Nemertes Research Group.
Only 37 per cent of enterprises surveyed by Nemertes were using wikis.
Those that weren’t cited three key challenges to adoption: management, security and compliance.
CIOs also expressed concern about the way wikis are introduced into organizations – outside the control – and sometimes even the knowledge – of IT.
Okay, so there are undoubtedly risks to deploying social media tools. So what should enterprises do? Should they: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on July 17th, 2007 by Joaquim Menezes and filed under Best Practices, Innovation, Social media, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
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