Articles on Innovation

I built a SmugMug replacement in five hours with AI tools. When competitors can replicate your product that fast, your value proposition needs rethinking.

AI Agents are part real advancement, part marketing rebrand. Here's how to cut through the hype and find where they actually deliver value.

Multi-agent AI systems are moving beyond chatbots. Here's how orchestrating AI agents can transform operations — and why starting small wins.

The AIC Framework bridges the gap between ideas and execution. Here's how Action, Innovation, and Collaboration drive real business results.

While everyone chases ChatGPT, the real AI revolution is about augmenting human thinking — not automating tasks. Most organizations are missing it.

Jeffrey Philips currently wrote a nice piece titled "Innovate your processes before innovating your products" over on his excellent Innovate on Purpose

Without proper change management, any transformation you undertake is doomed to failure.

This post sponsored by the Enterprise CIO Forum and HP. I just ran across Martin Davis' article titled Who is IT’s Most Important Customer? What role does

What if you build a gamification platform as a rewards platform for IT professionals to share knowledge within IT and outside of IT, do you think it would work?

In 1968, Dick Fosbury won the Olympic Gold Medal for the High Jump. While winning the gold, Fosbury popularized the "Fosbury Flop"....a style of

I've been reading Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath (amazon affiliate link).   If you haven't read the

Rackspace has just announced their open source cloud platform, OpenStack in collaboration with NASA. While the open source world has been a viable area

IT's Three Key Organizational Transformations by Andrew McAfee on Harvard Business Review's Blog Quote: I see companies in all industries using computers

Innovation success is based on enthusiasm by Jeffrey Phillips on Innovate on Purpose Quote from the article: What sustains innovation over time is the

I'm trying out a new approach to my link sharing posts. I'm now using delicious to capture the the articles that I want to share along with my notes. I

I just finished reading Chase Jarvis' post titled "Creativity alone is not enough". In this article, Chase argues that Creativity isn't enough for people

Pick one and own it by Jason Cohen on A Smart Bear The Strategy Trap: Why focusing too much on strategy could be killing your ability to execute by

Did you catch the news earlier this week?   Gene De Libero and I started a new blog titled "CIO Essentials".  Gene and I have known each other for a few

Do you know Hutch Carpenter?  You should.  He write's some awesome stuff over at I'm Not Actually a Geek. Hutch recently wrote a post titled "Apple iPad

Five by Chuck Musciano on The Effective CIO The Splinternet means the end of the Web's golden age by Josh Bernoff on Groundswell Run IT Like a Business,

Short post this week as I'm swamped and haven't had time to work anything up....but I wanted to take a quick second to ask my readers to give me some CIO

I ran across an interesting post today titled "Why you don't need Social Media Consultants" on the Brains on Fire Blog.  The main thesis of the post is:

Last week I wrote about "Turbulence, IT & The New CIO" and discussed the need to embrace agility and speed in order to address the turbulence that we

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. I just completed

The New CIO is a weekly article about the challenges facing today’s CIO as well as what can be done to prepare for future challenges. It as if we're more

“None” is Not a Social Media Strategy by Chris Curran on CIO Dashboard Web 3.0 Is Coming – Are CIOs Ready? bt Dr. Jim Anderson on The Accidental

I was recently reading Dagmar Recklies' article titled What Makes a Good Change Agent? and started thinking about some of the people that I know who are

One of the most visited posts on this blog is titled "The Problem(s) with Linear Thinking".   That one post makes up for a good amount of monthly visitors

You're doing it wrong! I hate when people tell me that. Who are they to tell me how to do something? OK...OK...there are times when 'right' and 'wrong'

Can an organization be built on individuality with a focus on bringing humanity back to business? I think so. The modern day corporation was developed to

I read Seth Godin's post titled "You're Boring" the other day and shrugged my shoulders.  OK Seth...most companies and products ARE boring...what's new?

Image via Wikipedia Tracie and I spent Good Friday at the Dallas Arboretum (jump over to my photoblog - OneFour Photography - for some photos).  The trip

According to a research report released by The Hackett Group, and reported by Financial Week, they don't. The Financial Week article, titled "Customers

For the longest time, I've put off reading "Good to Great" by Jim Collins but finally decided to pick it up. Have you ever realized that your perception

Do you know who Tyler Durden is? (hint: Brad Pitt played him in Fight Club). Lateral Action posted Tyler Durden's 8 Rules of Innovation recently (hat tip

Would you rather have one great big idea or tons of little ideas? Me?  I'm fond of having a lot of little ideas. Why?  Little ideas are easier to

The last book from my 'vacation reading list" is Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking by Tim Hurson. Some of you may remember a brief

I just started reading "Think Better: An Innovator's Guide to Productive Thinking" by Tim Hurson. I just started Chapter 3 and have become amazed that I

Short post today...but powerful (at least I think so). Great post over at Carpe Factum today titled "Are You Botox-ing Your Organization?". Not much I can

Scot Herrick over at CubeRules had a very interesting post today titled "Innovating Like Crazy; Executing Like Crap". Great title and great thoughts in

Articles and books about Innovation are everywhere. Every organization talks about increasing innovation...and they talk...and they talk. Instead of