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 Innovation, transformation & modernization:
How do you lead change?
There is nothing permanent except change. If you want to sound brainy, this quote is from the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, but has been echoed by many. It reminds us of the perpetual lifecycle that organizations, the economy and people go through.
Read full article by Teresa Di Cairano
The New Aesthetics of Work 
Over the past decade, how we work and where we work have undergone dramatic change. Telework has become so commonplace that the unlovely term no longer is used. We are simply working wherever we are: at home, at the café, at the airport, and in the office cafeteria. We are spending less time in cubicles as companies seek to unlock creativity and innovation through open space designs, and rethinking the rationale for being in the office, at all.
Ubiquitous connectivity and mobile devices have become the norm, allowing us – or inducing us – to stay always on, always connected.
Read full article by Stowe Boyd
 Organic Ideas May be Better for You
Much has been written recently about the limitations of brainstorming as a useful technique for creativity and innovation. Brainstorming techniques try to pull ideas out of people’s heads, often by trying to get them to think in non-linear ways leading to more random associations and arguably better - or at least more - ideas. Why the need for more creativity?
Read full article by Teresa Di Cairano
Design we love and why we do 
At a recent shopping excursion with my fifteen year old fashionista daughter, she not only pronounced her unending love for a pair of Jeffrey Campbell shoes but finally declared “I want to marry these shoes!”.
Now, I probably spend too much time trying to persuade my busy customers that they really should separate themselves from their money and attend my next course, or even better our executive on-line innovation programs. And you may even be one of those willing souls that have participated, but I wondered if I could ever get my customers to love any of my products that much.
So what is it that makes us love the design of some products?
Read full article by Teresa Di Cairano
 Changing Roles in Innovation:
From consumer to co-creator
A 1953 Coca Cola vintage TV commercial captured the essence of the role of the consumer as shopper. If you can get past the female stereotyping of this pre Mad Men ad, what is revealed is a perspective of a time when companies looked to people simply as those who consume their products. How is this different now?
Read full article by Teresa Di Cairano
Enterprise Cloud Computing Strategies: 
IT as a utility – Are we there yet?
Cloud Computing promises, over the next several years, to reduce the day-to-day operational costs of information and communications technology, improve financial flexibility, and deliver on-demand, scaleable infrastructure, platform, and applications capabilities. In the long term, it may allow computing to be perceived as a utility like electricity supply.
Well, where are we now?
Read full article by Mick Kahan
 Getting to the Executive Office with IT Portfolio Management
As a change agent, the CIO’s office can play a critical role in enabling strategic enterprise transformation. In a previous article, we noted how Business Architecture can assist in providing a blueprint for current and future business states. With IT Portfolio Management, IT teams can also develop, plan and execute the operational capability to realize that transformation.
Read full article by Teresa Di Cairano
 Mapping the future with Business Architecture:
Agility vs. Innovation
Agility and innovation – what do they really mean? Most will probably agree that information technology is at the very least an accelerator – making it possible to respond faster and faster. Organizations benefit from this by increasing agility and shortening their reaction to changing environments.
The main benefit of IT transformation initiatives – which rest on a backbone of technology innovation - is often targeted at gaining agility through overcoming legacy costs and constraints. But does this necessarily bring with it the kind of game-changing business innovation that creates sustained competitive and strategic innovation?
Read full article by Teresa Di Cairano
IT Portfolio Management –
An essential tool for today’s economic climate
While alignment has been the holy grail of Enterprise and Business architecture,
IT Portfolio Management provides a tangible way to make sure business and IT synergy
actually occurs.
Read full article by Teresa Di Cairano
 What Information Architects can learn from Designers
In the last decade or so, IT professionals have borrowed from the discipline of architecture with the goal of creating more responsive IS services. However, there may be something else to learn from the field
of design.
Leading practices in product design are undergoing a shift from
designer-led approaches to more client/user-centric ones. To get there, design researchers often use ethnographic techniques. Ethno…what? Ethnography is a branch of anthropology that studies the social behavior of people within a culture. So what does ethnography have to do with information technology professionals?
Read full article by By Mick Kahan & Teresa Di Cairano
 Thinking Innovation: Why diverging on the road to the future may be a good thing
Trying to go further with less? Now more than ever, innovation has a critical role to play. The development of new products and services can act as an engine of growth and a remedy for theeffects of the ongoing worldwide economic uncertainties. So what kind of thinking does innovation need?
Read full article on-line by Richard Pachter
 Leveraging Talent Branding for Innovation
Can your team adapt when opportunities and conditions demand it?
In broader terms, does your organization have the ‘right stuff’ to innovate successfully? This should be among the most important questions leaders ask as they assess their organizations’ readiness for the changing demands of operational success today.
Read full article by Bob Duffy
The Chief, the Guru, and the Shaman: Storytelling and Leadership
It has been said that the one thing all great leaders have in common, be they politicians, artists, educators or opinion-makers, is that they are good storytellers. Joseph Campbell once said that a culture’s storytellers are those individuals whose “ears are open to the song of the universe.” According to Campbell, whose work inspired George Lucas to create Star Wars and has influenced generations of authors and filmmakers, our cultural myths and histories permeate everything we do and create as human beings. Why is storytelling becoming fashionable today?
Read full article by Michael Kull. PhD
Deep Knowledge
The idiom “still waters run deep” refers to people who may say little but who often have complex and capable personalities. A more apt metaphor would be hard to find to describe the concept of tacit knowledge and its role in decision-making. Tacit knowledge was described as far back as 1966 by Michael Polanyi who pointed out that much of our most complicated but important knowledge is inexplicable, learned through experience, and difficult to share.
Read full article by Michael Kull. PhD
 When Ideas Become Brands
Business Architecture is essentially about creating and continually refining the business artifacts that allow for appropriate automation of business and technical processes. In terms of the well-known Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture encompasses the top two rows, the Scope (contextual) row, and the Business Model (conceptual) row.
Read full article by Michael Kahan
The Human Capital Renaissance
The invention of the printing press in the 15th Century did more than revolutionize the spread of knowledge. It opened a door to a new way of thinking about science, authorship and the importance of the human mind in the pursuit of knowledge. The internet has been widely cited as the most important development since the printing press, but like the invention of moveable type, the greater value emerged from the congress of minds who were doing the moving.
Read full article by Michael Kull. PhD
 Managing Integration in a Federation Architecture Environment
As government agencies struggle to integrate their information systems horizontally and vertically, having everyone on the same page in terms of the organization’s strategy and enterprise architecture is key. An enterprise architecture is blueprint of how an organization’s systems should interoperate in the fulfillment of the mission and business objectives of the organization.
Read full article by Michael Kull. PhD
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