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Just noticed and interesting op-ed piece in the NyTimes by an ex-MSFTee entitled “Microsoft’s Creative Destruction“. A good read which points out how hard it was to compete against the cash cows of Office and Windows within Microsoft.
And yet it is failing, even as it reports record earnings. As the fellow who tried (and largely [...]

Learnings document Outline-Proof of
concept
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Table of Contents
Introduction
What Went Well
What did we struggle with?
Architecture
Technology Issues
Business/People Issues
What could we do better?
Next steps
Deployment considerations
Cost Estimates
Conclusion
Appendix

Hey folks, Mike here after a long pause in which both Andy and I have settled into new jobs.
The great news is that I should be in a position to run a Proof of Concept project early in the new year. With a spot of luck it may involve some very interesting and leading edge [...]

I recently tripped over the phrase ‘motor of innovation’ while reading up on a rather quirky research papers. It got me thinking about how we could describe the motor of innovation in a broader sense.
Qualitative stigmergy, which is the true motor of innovation, can be seen as the basis of symbolic consciousness in the brain. [...]

Diagram done, post coming soon:
About a year ago, Andy used a whiteboard diagram and the phrase ‘decorate the sliders with various settings’ to bring a measure of balance to a rather tense and divided group of people.  The notion of using a visualisation of sliders (think of volume sliders you see on amplifiers) to gain [...]

When Andy and I were bouncing ideas for this blog around, there was a strong sense of wanting to kindle flames of creativity. The backdrop to our thinking is discussed in THIS earlier post - against a tone of dissatisfaction against the industrialisation of everything.
While digging around our ‘draft posts’ folder I ran across [...]

Tom’s latest definition of Proof of Concept (PoC) is a ripper:
A proof of concept ignites innovation by exploring unproven ideas and new techniques in a managed creative, low cost, time effective way.
Mike Seyfang