where can i buy isotretinoin in the uk My conversation with Dimitrios Salampasis, an open innovation researcher (@dsalampasis) What does open innovation mean for the financial industry? For a corporation, adopting open innovation means understanding that there are a lot of ideas in the ways of doing things, processes, technologies that will not necessarily come from the company. For large corporations, and most banks […]
Category: Technology Management
Magical Thinking?
Many things in life are quite difficult to understand, a long list that is getting shorter through scientific advances. But after thousands of years of living in a complex world that we mostly did/do not understand, we have developed various coping mechanisms, magical thinking being one of them. From Wikipedia, magical thinking “is the attribution […]
Startup Boards
I have been a board member of many startups, and one thing I know for sure is that almost each board has a different view of its role and how to achieve it. Of course there are books and courses and blogs and all that. And everyone’s experience is different and most times not applicable […]
The future will hit you on the forehead for a tough wake up call.
Many people are aware that things change around us. New technology is a major factor of change, but also society, constantly renewed and constantly influenced, is changing in mostly unpredictable ways. Many people are afraid they will be caught unprepared — the business community comes to mind first (almost the opposite of city government officials […]
Out of the Sandbox
The “sandbox” is an appropriate metaphor describing the protective cocoon of R&D; teams. We all know the mythical state of “almost done” where projects age gracefully. However, when a project is finally “done”, it has to face the music… how do you move it to “production”? When “ready to deploy”, there are several ways to […]
Focus on deliverables and a thick skin
Once an organization makes the decision “to be innovative”, and actually does something about it, it can quickly end up in some dead ends/traps. A first common trap is to mistakenly believe that innovation = ideas, usually seeded and promoted by clueless media (of all kinds..) We even have a small thriving niche market for […]
Internal Innovation Teams
In a well-known book The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen explained the perils internal innovation faces from various entrenched interests. In a nutshell, a well-run organization is not designed to innovate, but rather to optimize existing processes and products. The solution may be to create an independent group charged with spearheading innovation – a separate department, […]
Social Media Conference Moscow
For the past two days I have attended the Social Media Conference in Moscow. 15 presenters talked about Russian companies early experimentation with using social media for business, with one American presenter talking about the US experience with social media in politics and government affairs. It was interesting to see that the concepts are applicable […]
Technology for 2011
I started investigating new technology directions for Sberbank, and have been talking to many partners and vendors about how we can work together on innovative technology projects. I found myself explaining the “horizon” concept several times, so I’ve decided to post it while it’s still fresh in my mind… We are going through a major […]
At it again… in Moscow, at Sberbank
I am starting a new initiative, setting up a Technology Research Center at Sberbank Russia. The story is very similar to what I have been doing for the past 15 years – start from scratch, build a new technology team, adapt everything that I’ve learned (I hope…) to both the organization and the cultural environment […]