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• How do you do innovation?
  
  Of course there is one obvious answer: 20% personal projects, its the 3M example – and now Google. There is a lot of hot air spoken about innovation. Indeed, there is probably more talk about innovation than there is actual innovation itself. started to get all excited about innovation on Friday, when one of my managers said: “Allan, do you know anything we can do to improve innovation?” Some of these projects eventually make it to full products, like Post-it pads and Google News. But are there other things you can do? Most innovation is bottom-up. No, you can’t timetable it. It seems.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 24, 2005
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• Default == The Fault?
  
  Of course I’m all for the creation of great configuration tools! I've used this construct in many of my talks. Usually i refer to the "Default namespace" within an XML instance document and XPath queries problem. am more and more convinced this is a general, and very underestimated, problem. So, what's the issue? you might ask. Defaults are there for productivity and help with 'the initial learning curve'. But I'm starting to believe most 'defaults' are causing more harm than good. They'll just use "the default". Noticed the use of "system" and "toolkit" in the previous paragraph?
  XML from the Coffee Shop - Thursday, September 8, 2005
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• Why work?
  
  Of course, this has its problems and he does discuss some, but these are discussed from the corporate side I was left wondering what of the individual who does not get hired by such an enlightened company, is such a person condemned to work for "inferior" companies from the rest of their working life? Of course, sometimes in a downsizing company there may no longer be the opportunities for individuals to grow. Interestingly, these ideas of growth and, shall we say, weeding out, sitting well with my blog entry of 12 October 2005 - Productivity & IT - US trumps Europe.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, October 23, 2005
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• What’s the story behind the story?
  
  I read in yesterday’s Financial Times (21 May 2005, London edition) that convenience grocery stores are growing their sales faster than overall grocery market, 5% growth as opposed to 4.2% Of course I could just accept that this is Acton and move a couple of miles down the road to Chiswick! growth for the whole market. The piece also mentions that over the whole year convenience stores are expected to grow 25% more than supermarkets. Full story here , subscription required.) What I wonder are the forces behind this growth? read (the FT again?) or heard (BBC radio 4?)
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, May 22, 2005
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• Blog at 2 months, the National Theatre and food
  
  It hasn’t helped that during these last two months I’ve had to do final preparation for EuroPLoP (preparing my paper, shepherding), being shepherded for VikingPLoP, finalising my chapter in the PLoPD5 book (due at the end of 2005 or start of 2006 I’m told), co-ordinating work on the ACCU website and holding down a full time job! The main courses are stock items (beef, duck, salmon fish cakes) but are prepared well, simple but tasty. I’ve been writing this blog now for nearly 2 months. It doesn’t feel like it but I have. It still feels new. We went to the Terrace Cafe last night.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, July 24, 2005
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• Its the people, stupid
  
  I read in the Financial Times yesterday that Warwick University are revamping their MBA course to increase the element of soft skills. There may be some greater underlying course, e.g. An MBA course may fill your head full of new ideas, and tools such as IRR, NPV, Real Options, Four Forces, Cash Cows and other such ideas but this isn’t the stuff a manager needs day to day. As an aside, is it just me that thinks the FT and it’s sibling the Economist are obsessed by MBAs? maybe this isn’t surprising as they are both owned by Pearson publishing. Anyway, back to my subject.).
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, May 31, 2005
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• Drawing innovation to a close
  
  Of course as I pointed out there is a danger in creating an R&D department. of course. It's been about two weeks now since I started this series of blog entries on the subject of innovation. have given the subject a lot of the thought both online and offline. What is interesting is that I came across nothing on a par with 3M’s "20% personal projects time" rule, that is. I've not managed to come up with any more specific actions you can take. But not quite there are two more things. One of which I have mentioned in passing already. Another way to get innovation is to buy it.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Friday, November 4, 2005
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