Today we are obsessed with productivity and it’s close cousin efficiency. Being a productivity expert is a booming business, indeed, some of my best friends are productivity experts. Every business I have ever worked with is obsessed with improving efficiency and productivity, doing more in the same or less time. I’m not immune from the pursuit of efficiency and have […]
Innovation is one of those words whose time has come. It seems that every organisation in the world wants to be more innovative and more often than not technology is right in the middle of the innovation discussion. For an idea that is so widely desired I reckon there is a remarkable lack of agreement on what innovation actually means. This was brought […]
“Thanks to Moore’s Law the S-Curves in technology are frighteningly short.” The S-Curve, or more correctly the Sigmoid curve is a mathematical model that gets its name from its shape that approximates a stylised S. The model has been used by many people as a way of depicting the natural life cycle of just about everything. The curve has three […]
Over the past six months or so I have had the privilege of judging several industry awards programmes including the CIO 100 in New Zealand, the CIO 50 in Australia and the NZ Hi-Tech awards. I judge awards for several reasons. It’s a good way to give back, you learn a lot about what others in the industry are thinking […]
Innovation is a hot topic around the globe at the moment and given the tight connection between technology and innovation today it is something I am intensely interested in. So it was with great interest that I read the following article and the full report from a few weeks back. First things first, congratulations to Chris Paykel and James Hurman […]
What makes a great CIO? What do CIOs do anyway? These two questions and variations of them seem to get asked regularly at conferences and on social networks such as LinkedIn. The latest round of these questions has inspired me to write this blog. This is my take on what makes a great CIO. At a high level I believe a […]
Recently I have had the opportunity to attend a number of presentations on innovation. As I listened my mind wandered (as it often does) and I began to wonder what does the IS hierarchy of needs tell us about innovation? The answer came quickly. The hierarchy of needs tells us that different types of innovation are needed to meet the […]