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Innovation
• Introducing something new
• Solve a problem
• Radical or incremental
– Continuous improvementculture
Why
• Take advantage of new ideas and new technologies
• Competitive advantage - Effectiveness
– Does IT Matter – Nicholas Carr
Some other reasons why
• Do my stuff now
• Frustration with perceived slowness
• Fear of being left behind
• It sounds good
IS gets told
• No compromise on scope
– We want it never to break– We need it to work for everyone– We want minimal admin
• Stop changing stuff
• Boys and toys
• And be agile and innovative
Product management
Global
Local
Customised
Software vendor – core
team
Software vendor – local
team
Customers
IDEAS
Global
Local
Customised
IS
IS/College
Schools
IDEAS
How can we be more agile
Re- Use – learn from others
– Use other people’s stuff• In house• Open source• Package
• Small is beautiful
• Mythical man month
• Encourage people
– to do– to tell
Discovery and Sharing
Balance between doing and bringing others aboard
– Strategies• IT Strategy and Information Architecture
– Planning Processes– Standards
• everyone wants ‘their standards’• code libraries
– Documentation • Don’t need a lot if it is small• Project web site• SOA Registry
– Events
What Tech Apps Uses
• SOA – WS*
• Code – Java and Cold Fusion
• RDBMS – Oracle, MySQL SQLserver
• Web/App server – Apache and Tomcat
• Authentication – SSL/EASE (Michigan Cosign)
– Avoid IP based restrictions
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