10 Articles match "2005","Process"

26 Articles match "2005","Process"

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• How do you do innovation?
  
  It is easy to see how you could get a new idea out of it – whether that is a product or process innovation. 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?” Of course there is one obvious answer: 20% personal projects, its the 3M example – and now Google. Some of these projects eventually make it to full products, like Post-it pads and Google News.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, October 24, 2005
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• Flexibility, design and process
  
  The same is true in development processes. Often a company cries, “We need a flexible development process” because. But I wonder how many of the organizations that say this actually do vary their process? The actual project process is left vague and ill defined “for flexibility.” m not saying we need to document our process - heaven forbid! Nor am I saying that we need to call in process experts to advice us on how to do the project. What I’m saying is we need some kind of process base line we can talk about, some reference point. Less is more.)
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, May 19, 2005
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• The final sustainable edge
  
  The authors advocate the creation of “process networks” and “process orchestrators.” In a process network a variety of different companies come together to produce a product. design, manufacture, end-customers) and one company takes the lead in organizing all of these - the process orchestrator. Likewise, they see the rise of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) as a building block for their “process networks.” I’ve finished reading “The Only Sustainable Edge” by Johns Hagel and Seely Brown. See 20 August , and 18 August.) can agree with that central argument.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, September 4, 2005
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• Default == The Fault?
  
  Document it clearly and force it as step of the configuration process. 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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• Pop goes another great business opportunity
  
  I’ve mentioned before that I’m in the process of moving house. So yesterday’s Financial Times (10 September 2005) was very interesting. The thing that really caught my eye was a story entitled Investors get chance to profit in property. bank and an estate agent are planning to offer an investment product that will track the housing index. At the moment, for the individual, the only way to get exposure to the property market is by buying property but that is not always what we want to do - it is expensive, time consuming and may not fit with our life style. Once again I passed.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, September 11, 2005
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• Another month, another book -The Living Company
  
  On the face of this might appear to slow down decision-making process that is not the case. Because making a decision is only half the story, what is the key is made in the acting upon by involving more people in the decision-making process we ensure that action happens sooner. Sitting on planes is boring, one of few advantages is that gives you a chance to read, and so it is that idea to read yet another book. This time the book is “The Living Company” by Arie de Geus - 1997, Nicholas Bealey Publishing. Hopefully I'll explore these parallels further in future patterns that are
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, October 20, 2005
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• Going to speak
  
  My logic here is, just about any computer on the market today is good enough for your needs, most people are word processing, spread sheeting, surfing the net, and e-mailing. Since I know a thing or two about computers I often get asked by friends and family “what computer should I buy?” My answer is simple, “how much money have you to spend? Buy a computer that much money and plan to replace it in three years time.” If you doing anything more complicated, e.g. gaming or software development, you probably know more about what computer you should have than I do.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Sunday, October 9, 2005
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