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Roland Gesthuizen

Can IT Help Lead Innovation? - Input Output - 0 views

  • innovation efforts inherently involve risk. In addition, innovation depends on creativity, which relies on thinking and acting differently
  • progress in these areas has stalled because of IT. The initiatives are blocked at every turn: It's not our priority; this project has too many security risks; we don't have the manpower
  • in companies where technology is not the end product, the IT department is more likely to be a barrier to innovation than to drive it
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  • IT — like HR and legal — is often dedicated to compliance, which is a fixed process. This is another condition to which innovation responds poorly
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    Make innovation a priority. It won't "just happen." Despite the plethora of hurdles, IT is crucial to innovation. "I believe that IT departments can be the best program managers for innovation," says DeSai. "Especially when IT departments are in partnership with marketing, they can create powerful platforms to gain deeper understanding of current and future needs of the customers."
Roland Gesthuizen

Dan Bricklin (VisiCalc) - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Dan is an entrepreneur, programmer, and author. He created the first electronic spreadsheet application in 1979 and has been innovating ever since. Dan's talk is a fast moving flurry of images from the early days, growth, and acquisition of VisiCalc and his company, Software Arts, and his experiences - both good and bad - as an entrepreneur 30 years later. "
Roland Gesthuizen

My talk on Data Liberation at Ignite Sydney | pipka.org - 0 views

  • Transparency in the first instance is about raw data. You need access to the raw materials to make new and interesting things
  • Open data and raw data also gives us new opportunities to innovation
  • iterative, collaborate government. That’s what Gov 2.0 is about. Transparency, Participation and a Citizen Focus in how we do things
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    "I'm here to speak to you about the legend of data liberation. It's an important story, it's a story about society, about people, about geeks, and it's a story about government."
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