How to Manage the Technologists - Little Innovation Book

The latest chapter is now available at the Little Innovation Book. The latest material covers the priorities of CIOs, and why IT organisations are so resistant to change. It also explains a few strategies innovators can use to help get things started when technology organisations are involved.

Comments

[Phil Ayres]

I like it! Avoiding change seems to be a really time consuming activity for some people in IT it seems. Of course it can be justified through the governance issues you talk about, but it also seems to be a matter of being too close to the problems as well - the old 'can't see the wood for the trees' issue.

Sometimes it just takes an outsider, with careful attention to organisation culture and developing buy-in from stakeholders, to show that innovation is not such a bad thing.

I worked on a system for DWP maybe 9 years ago as one of my insights into the type of organisations you lead technology in. It was both ahead of commercial companies in some ways and behind them in others. It seems that you probably have an interesting challenge on your hands in your current role!

Phil Ayres
Blog: http://blog.consected.com
Company: http://www.consected.com

[James Gardner]

I suppose all organisations have interesting challenges in their own ways. But I agree the DWP is ahead in some ways, and behind in others.