Innovation

Finally! Relevant Applications for YouTube and Twitter in the Enterprise!

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ July 11, 2008 ⋅ One comment

If you are involved with manufacturing these days, you’ve no doubt heard about Lean Manufacturing. I’ll not go deep into this area here, but one fascinating (for me) aspect is the thread (in some quarters) that ERP and computer systems are the enemy of Lean. On the whole, I don’t disagree – process improvement, kanbans, [...]

Opportunistic Insights from the RSS Stream

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ June 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve written about using RSS for internal as well as external information sources. This past week, I found a couple of interesting tidbits in my feed reader (behind the firewall) … Eyes on the Skies: It’s that time of year again; oil price volatility will continue if any big storms create problems for refineries in [...]

Stretching Your User Interface Design Muscles

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

A follow up to my previous post on innovation in user interface design: If you want to keep up with cutting edge thinking on technology – in a very approachable, effective format – ReadWriteWeb is a must for your feed reader. I’m constantly amazed by the number of solid articles they generate every week. Here’s [...]

Three Dimensions of the Conversation – Millennials and Web 2.0

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Catching up on some old links – all related to the impact of Web 2.0, and especially the incoming Millennials, on the workplace. At internetnews, Kuchinskas has laid out a pretty good summary of concerns about the philosophy of information sharing on the public Internet – this doesn’t translate well to many corporate environments (see [...]

Branching Out: Writing for the FEI Blog

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Yet another interesting way that the Internet has broadened my connections and collaborations … After connecting over LinkedIn and exchanging common interests via e-mail and blog post, the fine folks over at The Front End of Innovation blog asked me to do some posting there as well. They have a different posting style – shorter, [...]

The Innovation Generation – Communication Styles

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ April 1, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ve seen many articles in recent weeks about the tech-savvy Millennials and their impact on future work. I concede, even welcome the changes that business will need to introduce in response to these new expectations, but I don’t see the massive change that some writers seem to think is inevitable. The world will not change [...]

BigDog: Impressive Robotics

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ March 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I don’t often post YouTube videos, but this one elicited a “wow” … I’ve only dabbled in AI-type programming, but I can appreciate the amount of computation that’s going on in real time here. The Big Dog recovers nicely from a hard shove at about 0:40, but that’s nothing compared to scrabbling on the ice [...]

Innovation That Matters – Substance Over Style

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ January 12, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

This the time of year when organizations (companies, departments, and teams) review their performance from the previous year. Breathless presentations are made to upper management and/or the Board of Directors, in late December or early January. Typically, the IT department will go through their projects and talk about how many significant chunks of work got [...]

Integrated Supply Chain Benefits Go Beyond the Internal Stuff

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 12, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

I met Lora Cecere this evening, well-known AMR analyst for Supply Chain – a good conversation about the deeper potential for supply chain integration technology. The topic: are there bigger benefits here? Is it really only limited to optimization of your own supply chain? Don’t get trapped into thinking that the business benefit of supply [...]

Search as the Killer KM App, and Good Writers will Rule the World

By Jim MacLennan ⋅ November 5, 2006 ⋅ 2 comments

I’ve been involved in a series of projects where good ol’ Knowledge Management (KM), that buzzword from the 90′s, is wandering it’s way back into our conscious thought. Did scope creep blow the project schedule? No, it was the death-march through the Requirements Phase Since we’re automating processes that were never documented, we have to [...]

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