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Disciplined InnovationM van der LeekVersion 1.0August 2011Submitted December 2010, Mini-Dissertation towards MSc Technology ManagementProf Leon Pretorius (Supervisor)
Agenda Introduction and Ice-breaker 		(5mins) Expectations of and hopes for innovation	(5-10mins) Challenges and barriers to innovation	(5-10mins) Presentation and interactive dialogue on innovation	(30-40mins) Conclusion and closing on innovation	(5-10mins) Time Allocation (25-30 slides)		(1hr – 1hr15mins) 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 2 Introduction: In the search to find the winning formula, managing innovation is based on hard work and reliable data, not entirely on the practice, recognizing necessary but sufficient conditions and context. A set of propositions potentially lay the foundation for a review of the existing basis for measuring performance and success in delivering towards shareholder expectations in today’s knowledge era – however, how does existing concepts, methods, approaches, models, practices and theoretical constructs support investment decision-making for achieving maximum shareholder value and sustained business success, recognizing your specific business context, whether starting up, growing, mature or in turn-around.
To find answers, we raise questions and set the scene … An unstructuredmanagement approach does not properly filter ICT proposals effectively enoughto ensure sustained systems performance and high ROIs To verify if a more structured approach translate an improvement in the likelihood of performance and overall shareholder value What are the current innovation constructs, criteria and performance indicators or measures Existing innovation constructs, criteria, indicators and measures offer insight into the economic viability, and is NOT representative of key IT initiatives and issues related to fast-moving high-tech environments   19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 3 Problem Statement A Objective Construct B New Proposition
19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 4 Technology is more complex to manage Technology evolutions are moving through shorter cycles 		Economic cycles are putting major pressure on available resources 				Skills shortage are adding to your frustrations 		Ever-changing Business strategies and imperatives are constantlymovinggoal-posts 			Technology acquisition is proving to be more complex All-round, demands on management remain very high
19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 5 The more things change, the more they stay the same Tough economic times raise shareholder demands where investments must follow returns. Modern businesses have to display good governance and practice which requires structure that is interwoven in their decision-making fibre. ICT Managers are always searching for practical guidelines on ICT investment decision-making. Some believe that innovation through disciplinedefforts can have far reaching benefits. The need to find appropriate concepts, models, methods, approaches and theories are greater than ever. Is ‘discipline’ relevant in fast-moving high-tech ICT businesses?
‘Disciplined Innovation’ is structured and is supported by formalized investment decision-making 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 6 Disciplined Innovation  Purposeful Structured Emergent Unstructured Quantitative Formal Qualitative Informal Source: Innovation Approach Investment Decision-making Matrix Quadrants (Author, 2010) Does structure and formality offer better results?
Relevance then is a matter of results  19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 7 S1: Value creation is an incremental process which requires review of quantitative business benefits at each stage of the innovation life cycle on all business contexts. S2: There is correlation between innovation behaviour and financial performance confirming success or failure can be managed through a diligent process of evaluation. S3: Disciplined innovation result in the efficient and effective utilisation of resources and is critical to sustainable business development. Is it obvious? Is there a correlation? Is there a winning formula? Does discipline constitute successful innovation?
… and find a trail of evidence to conclude on the matter 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 8 Literature reviews reveal a plethora of  innovation and decision-making methods, concepts, theoretical constructs and more, inherited from a previous era. A mini-survey captures high level insights into organisational behavior related to innovation to unravel correlations. Using the ‘lens’ to position  and profile concepts and the first step towards developing a tool that recognize context and tolerances for disciplined innovation.
What have the guru’s and legends created to support innovation 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 9 TRIZ and  TOC. Total Factor  Productivity. Trade-off Studies. Five Disciplines  of Innovation ™  Business Cost-Benefit Analysis.  Seven areas for Innovation Opportunity.  Function based Value Analysis.  Technology Market Strategy.  Subjective  Decision-making. Concepts Theories Value Factor Analysis.  Systems Engineering and Analysis.  Multi-dimensional Feasibility Analysis. Methods Constructs Product Innovation Scorecard. Capital Investment Decision-making.  Integrated Innovation Management. Models Approaches Innovation Metrics – Measurement to Insight. Information Economics.  Rational Actor Model. Multi-criteria Analysis. Incremental Processes in unstable environments.  Innovate on Purpose™  Quantitative Decision Making. Creative Thinking in the Decision and Management Sciences.  Consensus Based Decision-making in high uncertain environments.  Development Decision-making for optimum thinking and best practice. Quantitative IT Portfolio Management.
Seven areas for Innovation Opportunity – promoting a purposeful (process) 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 10 Drucker argues that innovative business ideas require the purposeful evaluation and assessment through a repeatable process or method, specifically, insisting on consistency including clear focus on seven areas of opportunity. According to Drucker, successful innovation result from a conscious purposeful search for innovation opportunities, found only in limited situations – four exist within but three outside the company. The opportunity areas are:- Unexpected occurrences; Incongruities; Process needs; Industry and Market changes; Demographic changes; Changes in perception; New knowledge; Drucker has recorded classic examples on how innovations have emerged in successful commercialisation. The purposeful, systematic innovation process begins with the analysis of sources of , however, he maintains that it is difficult to foretell whether a given innovation will end up as big business or modest achievement. Source: Drucker, Peter F. 2002. The Discipline of Innovation, Best of Harvard Business Review, Reference R0208F,  August 2002.
Value Factor Analysis – a disciplined (process) approach is promoted 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 11 ‘Successful innovation is the result of disciplined, continuous process with an unrelenting focus on creating the highest customer value’ – SRI International In their approach no direct quantitative measures are emphasises and include the following steps:- Recognise opportunities; Develop compelling value propositions; Establish a disciplined process to allow the emergence of, the assessment, and enhancement of existing product and services ideas; Include collaboration and conversation with the entire market network and your value chain; Remove barriers to commercialisation; and Implement a plan to sustain innovation efforts. SRI offers the Value Factor Analysis as a structured approach to determine value and differentiators of product and service ideas to offer insight into building and quantifying value propositions for compelling business plans.  Source: SRI International, The SRI Value Creation Partnership Program, The Discipline of Innovation Workshop. SRI Program Flyer, 2006
Rational analysis – towards a quantitative (decision-making) approach 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 12 The Rational Actor model (Allison 1971) suggests that strategic success depends on careful analysis and planning before action is taken. In his book on "groupthink," Janis (1982) argues that extensive consideration of goals and a wide range of alternatives is a prerequisite to sound decision making. These studies focus on crisis and time-constrained decision making, one might conclude that "rational" processes are appropriate for high velocity environments. This early study recognize the directing of company resources towards effecting greater returns resting with top management through a process of decision-making, based primarily on rational analysis or made piecemeal, adaptively, and in small increments, rather than comprehensively and in large, purposeful chunks. Their findings conclude that in high velocity environments, :- the more analytic the strategic decision making process,  the more comprehensive the search for strategic alternatives,  the clearer and more explicitly articulated the institutional goal, the better the performance of the firm - but, in high velocity environments, political behaviour is associated with poor performance. The overall lessons are a series of apparent paradoxes: Plan carefully and analytically, but move quickly and boldly. CEOs should be decisive, but also delegate. Choose and articulate an overall strategy quickly, but put it in place only as it becomes necessary – viability of the rational model is seen as contingent upon a stable environment and a bureaucratic organization.  Source: Bourgeois III, L.J., and Eisenhardt K.M. 1988. Strategic Decision Processes in High Velocity Environments: Four Cases in the Microcomputer Industry. INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 7 (Jul., 1988), pp. 816-835
Systems Engineering – a structured (decision-making and process) systems approach is promoted 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 13 According to Blanchard and Fabrycky, when evaluating past experiences regarding the development of technical systems, most of the problems noted could be contributed to not applying a disciplined top-down ‘systems approach’. Less effort applied early on or upstream in the systems development or innovation life cycle process, consistently leads to poor results down-stream, highlighting the effect of the absence of a complete and methodical manner.  Some of the benefits associated with the application of concepts and principles of a disciplined approach can be best described as follows 1:- Reduction in cost of systems design and development, production and/or implementation, systems operations and maintenance and support, retirement and final decommissioning and disposal.  Reduction in system acquisition time (or the time it takes from the initial identification of customer need to the delivery of the system).  More visibility and a reduction in the risks associated with the design decision-making process.  A large percentage of the total cost for many systems is a direct result of the downstream activities associated with the operations and support of systems, with the commitment of investments based on engineering and management decisions made upstream - To address economic issues, one must look at total cost in the context of the overall life cycle, and particularly during the early stages of advanced planning and conceptual design. Source: Blanchard, B.S., and Fabrycky, W.J., 2006. Systems Engineering and Analysis Fourth Edition. Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Commitment upstream and difficulty of change downstream 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 14 Commitment to technology or solution direction Commitment to funds 100% Significant 75% High Commit to costs incurred proportional to value add Commitment Value Add 50% Medium 25% Commit to ease of change Low Conceptual Design Detailed  Design and  Development Build and  Production Operations and End-of-life Idea or Need Innovation Life Cycle Source: Adapted from Systems Engineering and Analysis , Figure 2.12 (Blanchard and Fabrycky, 2006:46)
Order of magnitude upstream commitment  19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 15 100% Detailed design and development 75% Percentage of life cycle cost committed System analysis, evaluation of alternatives (trade-offs), systems definition, etc. 50% Market analysis, feasibility study, operations requirements, maintenance concepts, etc. 25% Conceptual Design Detailed  Design and  Development Build and  Production Operations and End-of-life Idea or Need Innovation Life Cycle Source: Adapted from Systems Engineering and Analysis , Figure 2.12 (Blanchard and Fabrycky, 2006:46)
Dealing with risk and uncertainty with confidence 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 16 Reducing levels of uncertainty through the phases of the life cycle 100% Significant 75% High Increasing levels of confidence Risk and Uncertainty Confidence and Benefit 50% Medium Interim points or gates for critical review 25% Low Conceptual Design Detailed  Design and  Development Build and  Production Operations and End-of-life Idea or Need Innovation Life Cycle Source: Adapted from Systems Engineering and Analysis , Figure 2.12 (Blanchard and Fabrycky, 2006:46)
Subjective decision-making – promoting a natural (decision-making and process) approach 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 17 According to Brugha (1998), management sciences have always exhibited a bias against quantitative techniques i.e. linear programming, cost-benefit analysis, etc. sighting a decline in the use of quantitative techniques not offering new paradigms to significantly assist in the decision-making process. These complex techniques started to avoid involvement of management and would be executed at the operations research level with optimum and best results presented for management approval.  With subjective decision-making the phases correspond to levels of a development process:- Management scientists have tended to ignore the possible contribution of structure of qualitative decision-making because they thought that each decision-maker‘s qualitative thought processes were unique and, so, did not follow rules which could be described and lead to the development of normative processes. The intention is to consider patterns of thinking which reflect people‘s best practice i.e. optimal thinking. With objective decision-making the activities and phases are parts of an adjustment process. A system is proposed for analysing qualitative decision-making and towards the creation of four general kinds of activity: proposition, perception, pull and push, which are shown to be phases in a cycle.  Source: Brugha, M. Cathal, (1996). The structure of qualitative decision-making. Department of Management Information Systems, University College Dublin, Graduate School of Business, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland © 1998 Elsevier Science
Respondents are unable to explicitly connect disciplined innovation to measureable improvements in performance Technology and Business: The distributed results for understanding the impact on the organisation’s IT landscape following outcome of innovation efforts show that 44% have at least started an innovation initiative. These all encompassing and broad initiatives include establishing standardisation, consolidation, and rationalisation across the organisation’s heterogeneous IT landscape, systems renewals and the ability to leverage existing platforms through the implementation of modern architecture patterns such as SOA.  IT investments and budget distribution remains largely focused on operational spending with average 50.6% of budgets allocated. An average of 31.6%  of total IT budgets are being allocated to IT projects that are aimed at growing the business and the balance average of a fairly high 20.3% towards projects of a transformational nature.  Innovation: With the aim of maintaining or sustaining business growth and development, respondents were asked to classify both the organisations position towards IT investment as well as the approach. Results show an even distribution when rated against the industry, but distribution show that they prefer a more gradual evolutionary path regarding their IT strategies, almost typical of large global organisations in tough economic times.  Decision-making:  Organisations in general following a diligent process to manage their innovation efforts specifically related to IT investment and portfolio management.  Respondents are unanimous that quantifiable concepts, models, methods and theoretical constructs are being applied when decision-making is required on allocating investment towards IT activities. In contrast, consistently, 62.5% agree that no proper evidence can be presented why decisions are made regarding investments that effect the organisation as a whole.  19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 18 With the majority of the respondents indicating that they follow both quantitative and qualitative decision practices and that they follow some kind of process, the results remain inconclusive that disciplined innovation offer commercial benefits or measurable improvement in performance.
Supporting evidence exist but in practice it’s not clear1 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 19 1 It is practically difficult to derive a strong correlation between innovation behavior in today’s high velocity environment and performance for a number of reasons i.e. innovation is strategic hence confidential and managers don’t always have a simple measure to support correlation. A survey seems inadequate to offer conclusive results – an approach involving case studies will offer better insight but would require more time and resources to complete.
Current Innovation measures are inadequate and outdated1 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 20 1 Industrial era decision practices do not necessarily fit modern knowledge era innovation efforts and require a review of the performance measures especially due to the overall uncertain nature of ICT investments. 2 These concepts are not clearly defined and is being used in the general sense related to potential but specific characteristics and nature  in a pure descriptive manner
Creating a profile associated with the AdizesBusiness Phases 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 21 A B C Considering your specific business phase i.e. start-up, Stable, or Turn-around, there may be a profile of innovation and decision-making constructs suited to your context1:- Profile A-A: SMME or/and Large Enterprise or Corporate in Turn-around; Profile B-B: Large Enterprise or Corporate with complex heterogeneous environments; Profile C-C: Business Unit Level with experienced people and traditional processes; Profile D-D: Start-up and Early Stage Development within a niche market and low or proven technology space; 3. 16. 4. Purposeful Structured 2. 21. 26. 5. 19. 30. 25. 20. 10. 24. D 8. 6. 14. 13. 15. A 22. 11. 17. 9. 23. 7. 1. Emergent Unstructured 28. 31. 29. 12. 27. 1This construct is based on generalisation and formulating patterns from the limited number of case study material and insight from the innovation behaviour and performance survey across local corporate industry predominantly perceived through the eyes of middle and senior management in IT. Quantitative Formal Qualitative Informal B C D Sources: Adoption Profiles (Author, 2010); AdizesInstitute, 2006. Understanding the corporate life cycle, website: http://www.adizes.com/corporate_lifecycle.html accessed August 2010
To find answers, we raise questions and set the scene … An unstructuredmanagement approach does not properly filter ICT proposals effectively enoughto ensure sustained systems performance and high ROIs To verify if a more structured approach translate an improvement in the likelihood of performance and overall shareholder value What are the current innovation constructs, criteria and performance indicators or measures Existing innovation constructs, criteria, indicators and measures offer insight into the economic viability, and is NOT representative of key IT initiatives and issues related to fast-moving high-tech environments   19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 22 Problem Statement A Objective Construct B New Proposition
The survey show ICT organizations innovate with associated structure (process and decion-making), but inconsistently H1: IT investment decision-making is context sensitive and requires more consideration of the nature of knowledge era type dynamics and innovation efforts, specifically the application and relevance of decision and management sciences developed from the industrial era. H2: Concepts, models, methods and theoretical constructs comprising modern management science are inadequate to deal with the management of innovation efforts within the new knowledge era H3: Performance measures created for linear environments are being applied loosely to non-linear problems and are no longer relevant to ICT investments as it is creating expectations that are not properly founded. 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 23 From the survey it is also evident that most organisations struggle to maintain predictable and sustainable results from their innovation efforts and that they regularly apply both quantitative and qualitative decision-making practices to create value through either a purposeful and or emergent process.
Aiming for higher orders of probability and predictability 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 24 Linear vs non-linear knowledge era characteristics Discard industrial age formulated IT measuresrelated to efforts with high levels of uncertainty Proposing to identify and derive more appropriate IT measures In the mean time, ‘Innovate by Numbers’
Measuring indirect benefit of the investment in IT 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 25 Source: Lucas, H.C. Jr., 1999. Information Technology and the Productivity Paradox: Assessing the Value of Investing in IT. Oxford University Press, New York Oxford. 1999.
‘Innovate by Numbers’ – closing with some experience on the topic Budget for Innovation i.e. make it part of you daily routine and create a portfolio, start with the end in mind – how, what, why, who, when … make it part of the business fabric – but it has to be economical and justifiable and  above all, identify the problem first Monitor spending and work within sound business cases i.e. know your numbers and apply diligent thinking at least, whatever you measure must be measurable or ‘SMART’, demarcate and scope  At the same time, track progress through a process of elimination and (re)prioritisation i.e. adopt a process that works for your business context, remember at each stage, step or phase, you have a different ‘market’ or audience to convince, no matter what the speed of the business – discipline is required Remember to structure for innovation i.e. start with your capital investment decision-makers to enable federated agility but control led centrally, someone is accountable for setting and achieving the numbers, there must be some authority Do not forget the shareholders, even if you are driving political agendas i.e. someone will have to answer to them and offer traceability and a level of transparency of operations Make decisions on reliable verifiable data, remember, ‘garbage in, garbage out’ i.e. trust your gut but the devil is in the details, identify and recognize the ‘animal’ you are dealing with and act accordingly 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 26 Innovation is not magic, it takes work and discipline …
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19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 30 Mobyl offer anintegrated process of strategically aligned business systems architecting and realisation Our core competency is our integrated approach to technology commercialisation:- We establish a renewed focus on the value of strategy through a process of contextualisation and positioning We enable the realisation of architected (established technology boundaries) solutions through a design process and overseeing implementation or integration We ensure an established (win-win) relationship between business and IT through a process of conflict resolution and negotiation

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Disciplined Innovation

  • 1. Disciplined InnovationM van der LeekVersion 1.0August 2011Submitted December 2010, Mini-Dissertation towards MSc Technology ManagementProf Leon Pretorius (Supervisor)
  • 2. Agenda Introduction and Ice-breaker (5mins) Expectations of and hopes for innovation (5-10mins) Challenges and barriers to innovation (5-10mins) Presentation and interactive dialogue on innovation (30-40mins) Conclusion and closing on innovation (5-10mins) Time Allocation (25-30 slides) (1hr – 1hr15mins) 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 2 Introduction: In the search to find the winning formula, managing innovation is based on hard work and reliable data, not entirely on the practice, recognizing necessary but sufficient conditions and context. A set of propositions potentially lay the foundation for a review of the existing basis for measuring performance and success in delivering towards shareholder expectations in today’s knowledge era – however, how does existing concepts, methods, approaches, models, practices and theoretical constructs support investment decision-making for achieving maximum shareholder value and sustained business success, recognizing your specific business context, whether starting up, growing, mature or in turn-around.
  • 3. To find answers, we raise questions and set the scene … An unstructuredmanagement approach does not properly filter ICT proposals effectively enoughto ensure sustained systems performance and high ROIs To verify if a more structured approach translate an improvement in the likelihood of performance and overall shareholder value What are the current innovation constructs, criteria and performance indicators or measures Existing innovation constructs, criteria, indicators and measures offer insight into the economic viability, and is NOT representative of key IT initiatives and issues related to fast-moving high-tech environments 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 3 Problem Statement A Objective Construct B New Proposition
  • 4. 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 4 Technology is more complex to manage Technology evolutions are moving through shorter cycles Economic cycles are putting major pressure on available resources Skills shortage are adding to your frustrations Ever-changing Business strategies and imperatives are constantlymovinggoal-posts Technology acquisition is proving to be more complex All-round, demands on management remain very high
  • 5. 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 5 The more things change, the more they stay the same Tough economic times raise shareholder demands where investments must follow returns. Modern businesses have to display good governance and practice which requires structure that is interwoven in their decision-making fibre. ICT Managers are always searching for practical guidelines on ICT investment decision-making. Some believe that innovation through disciplinedefforts can have far reaching benefits. The need to find appropriate concepts, models, methods, approaches and theories are greater than ever. Is ‘discipline’ relevant in fast-moving high-tech ICT businesses?
  • 6. ‘Disciplined Innovation’ is structured and is supported by formalized investment decision-making 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 6 Disciplined Innovation Purposeful Structured Emergent Unstructured Quantitative Formal Qualitative Informal Source: Innovation Approach Investment Decision-making Matrix Quadrants (Author, 2010) Does structure and formality offer better results?
  • 7. Relevance then is a matter of results 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 7 S1: Value creation is an incremental process which requires review of quantitative business benefits at each stage of the innovation life cycle on all business contexts. S2: There is correlation between innovation behaviour and financial performance confirming success or failure can be managed through a diligent process of evaluation. S3: Disciplined innovation result in the efficient and effective utilisation of resources and is critical to sustainable business development. Is it obvious? Is there a correlation? Is there a winning formula? Does discipline constitute successful innovation?
  • 8. … and find a trail of evidence to conclude on the matter 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 8 Literature reviews reveal a plethora of innovation and decision-making methods, concepts, theoretical constructs and more, inherited from a previous era. A mini-survey captures high level insights into organisational behavior related to innovation to unravel correlations. Using the ‘lens’ to position and profile concepts and the first step towards developing a tool that recognize context and tolerances for disciplined innovation.
  • 9. What have the guru’s and legends created to support innovation 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 9 TRIZ and TOC. Total Factor Productivity. Trade-off Studies. Five Disciplines of Innovation ™ Business Cost-Benefit Analysis. Seven areas for Innovation Opportunity. Function based Value Analysis. Technology Market Strategy. Subjective Decision-making. Concepts Theories Value Factor Analysis. Systems Engineering and Analysis. Multi-dimensional Feasibility Analysis. Methods Constructs Product Innovation Scorecard. Capital Investment Decision-making. Integrated Innovation Management. Models Approaches Innovation Metrics – Measurement to Insight. Information Economics. Rational Actor Model. Multi-criteria Analysis. Incremental Processes in unstable environments. Innovate on Purpose™ Quantitative Decision Making. Creative Thinking in the Decision and Management Sciences. Consensus Based Decision-making in high uncertain environments. Development Decision-making for optimum thinking and best practice. Quantitative IT Portfolio Management.
  • 10. Seven areas for Innovation Opportunity – promoting a purposeful (process) 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 10 Drucker argues that innovative business ideas require the purposeful evaluation and assessment through a repeatable process or method, specifically, insisting on consistency including clear focus on seven areas of opportunity. According to Drucker, successful innovation result from a conscious purposeful search for innovation opportunities, found only in limited situations – four exist within but three outside the company. The opportunity areas are:- Unexpected occurrences; Incongruities; Process needs; Industry and Market changes; Demographic changes; Changes in perception; New knowledge; Drucker has recorded classic examples on how innovations have emerged in successful commercialisation. The purposeful, systematic innovation process begins with the analysis of sources of , however, he maintains that it is difficult to foretell whether a given innovation will end up as big business or modest achievement. Source: Drucker, Peter F. 2002. The Discipline of Innovation, Best of Harvard Business Review, Reference R0208F, August 2002.
  • 11. Value Factor Analysis – a disciplined (process) approach is promoted 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 11 ‘Successful innovation is the result of disciplined, continuous process with an unrelenting focus on creating the highest customer value’ – SRI International In their approach no direct quantitative measures are emphasises and include the following steps:- Recognise opportunities; Develop compelling value propositions; Establish a disciplined process to allow the emergence of, the assessment, and enhancement of existing product and services ideas; Include collaboration and conversation with the entire market network and your value chain; Remove barriers to commercialisation; and Implement a plan to sustain innovation efforts. SRI offers the Value Factor Analysis as a structured approach to determine value and differentiators of product and service ideas to offer insight into building and quantifying value propositions for compelling business plans. Source: SRI International, The SRI Value Creation Partnership Program, The Discipline of Innovation Workshop. SRI Program Flyer, 2006
  • 12. Rational analysis – towards a quantitative (decision-making) approach 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 12 The Rational Actor model (Allison 1971) suggests that strategic success depends on careful analysis and planning before action is taken. In his book on "groupthink," Janis (1982) argues that extensive consideration of goals and a wide range of alternatives is a prerequisite to sound decision making. These studies focus on crisis and time-constrained decision making, one might conclude that "rational" processes are appropriate for high velocity environments. This early study recognize the directing of company resources towards effecting greater returns resting with top management through a process of decision-making, based primarily on rational analysis or made piecemeal, adaptively, and in small increments, rather than comprehensively and in large, purposeful chunks. Their findings conclude that in high velocity environments, :- the more analytic the strategic decision making process, the more comprehensive the search for strategic alternatives, the clearer and more explicitly articulated the institutional goal, the better the performance of the firm - but, in high velocity environments, political behaviour is associated with poor performance. The overall lessons are a series of apparent paradoxes: Plan carefully and analytically, but move quickly and boldly. CEOs should be decisive, but also delegate. Choose and articulate an overall strategy quickly, but put it in place only as it becomes necessary – viability of the rational model is seen as contingent upon a stable environment and a bureaucratic organization. Source: Bourgeois III, L.J., and Eisenhardt K.M. 1988. Strategic Decision Processes in High Velocity Environments: Four Cases in the Microcomputer Industry. INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 7 (Jul., 1988), pp. 816-835
  • 13. Systems Engineering – a structured (decision-making and process) systems approach is promoted 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 13 According to Blanchard and Fabrycky, when evaluating past experiences regarding the development of technical systems, most of the problems noted could be contributed to not applying a disciplined top-down ‘systems approach’. Less effort applied early on or upstream in the systems development or innovation life cycle process, consistently leads to poor results down-stream, highlighting the effect of the absence of a complete and methodical manner. Some of the benefits associated with the application of concepts and principles of a disciplined approach can be best described as follows 1:- Reduction in cost of systems design and development, production and/or implementation, systems operations and maintenance and support, retirement and final decommissioning and disposal. Reduction in system acquisition time (or the time it takes from the initial identification of customer need to the delivery of the system). More visibility and a reduction in the risks associated with the design decision-making process. A large percentage of the total cost for many systems is a direct result of the downstream activities associated with the operations and support of systems, with the commitment of investments based on engineering and management decisions made upstream - To address economic issues, one must look at total cost in the context of the overall life cycle, and particularly during the early stages of advanced planning and conceptual design. Source: Blanchard, B.S., and Fabrycky, W.J., 2006. Systems Engineering and Analysis Fourth Edition. Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial and Systems Engineering.
  • 14. Commitment upstream and difficulty of change downstream 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 14 Commitment to technology or solution direction Commitment to funds 100% Significant 75% High Commit to costs incurred proportional to value add Commitment Value Add 50% Medium 25% Commit to ease of change Low Conceptual Design Detailed Design and Development Build and Production Operations and End-of-life Idea or Need Innovation Life Cycle Source: Adapted from Systems Engineering and Analysis , Figure 2.12 (Blanchard and Fabrycky, 2006:46)
  • 15. Order of magnitude upstream commitment 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 15 100% Detailed design and development 75% Percentage of life cycle cost committed System analysis, evaluation of alternatives (trade-offs), systems definition, etc. 50% Market analysis, feasibility study, operations requirements, maintenance concepts, etc. 25% Conceptual Design Detailed Design and Development Build and Production Operations and End-of-life Idea or Need Innovation Life Cycle Source: Adapted from Systems Engineering and Analysis , Figure 2.12 (Blanchard and Fabrycky, 2006:46)
  • 16. Dealing with risk and uncertainty with confidence 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 16 Reducing levels of uncertainty through the phases of the life cycle 100% Significant 75% High Increasing levels of confidence Risk and Uncertainty Confidence and Benefit 50% Medium Interim points or gates for critical review 25% Low Conceptual Design Detailed Design and Development Build and Production Operations and End-of-life Idea or Need Innovation Life Cycle Source: Adapted from Systems Engineering and Analysis , Figure 2.12 (Blanchard and Fabrycky, 2006:46)
  • 17. Subjective decision-making – promoting a natural (decision-making and process) approach 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 17 According to Brugha (1998), management sciences have always exhibited a bias against quantitative techniques i.e. linear programming, cost-benefit analysis, etc. sighting a decline in the use of quantitative techniques not offering new paradigms to significantly assist in the decision-making process. These complex techniques started to avoid involvement of management and would be executed at the operations research level with optimum and best results presented for management approval. With subjective decision-making the phases correspond to levels of a development process:- Management scientists have tended to ignore the possible contribution of structure of qualitative decision-making because they thought that each decision-maker‘s qualitative thought processes were unique and, so, did not follow rules which could be described and lead to the development of normative processes. The intention is to consider patterns of thinking which reflect people‘s best practice i.e. optimal thinking. With objective decision-making the activities and phases are parts of an adjustment process. A system is proposed for analysing qualitative decision-making and towards the creation of four general kinds of activity: proposition, perception, pull and push, which are shown to be phases in a cycle. Source: Brugha, M. Cathal, (1996). The structure of qualitative decision-making. Department of Management Information Systems, University College Dublin, Graduate School of Business, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland © 1998 Elsevier Science
  • 18. Respondents are unable to explicitly connect disciplined innovation to measureable improvements in performance Technology and Business: The distributed results for understanding the impact on the organisation’s IT landscape following outcome of innovation efforts show that 44% have at least started an innovation initiative. These all encompassing and broad initiatives include establishing standardisation, consolidation, and rationalisation across the organisation’s heterogeneous IT landscape, systems renewals and the ability to leverage existing platforms through the implementation of modern architecture patterns such as SOA. IT investments and budget distribution remains largely focused on operational spending with average 50.6% of budgets allocated. An average of 31.6% of total IT budgets are being allocated to IT projects that are aimed at growing the business and the balance average of a fairly high 20.3% towards projects of a transformational nature. Innovation: With the aim of maintaining or sustaining business growth and development, respondents were asked to classify both the organisations position towards IT investment as well as the approach. Results show an even distribution when rated against the industry, but distribution show that they prefer a more gradual evolutionary path regarding their IT strategies, almost typical of large global organisations in tough economic times. Decision-making: Organisations in general following a diligent process to manage their innovation efforts specifically related to IT investment and portfolio management. Respondents are unanimous that quantifiable concepts, models, methods and theoretical constructs are being applied when decision-making is required on allocating investment towards IT activities. In contrast, consistently, 62.5% agree that no proper evidence can be presented why decisions are made regarding investments that effect the organisation as a whole. 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 18 With the majority of the respondents indicating that they follow both quantitative and qualitative decision practices and that they follow some kind of process, the results remain inconclusive that disciplined innovation offer commercial benefits or measurable improvement in performance.
  • 19. Supporting evidence exist but in practice it’s not clear1 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 19 1 It is practically difficult to derive a strong correlation between innovation behavior in today’s high velocity environment and performance for a number of reasons i.e. innovation is strategic hence confidential and managers don’t always have a simple measure to support correlation. A survey seems inadequate to offer conclusive results – an approach involving case studies will offer better insight but would require more time and resources to complete.
  • 20. Current Innovation measures are inadequate and outdated1 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 20 1 Industrial era decision practices do not necessarily fit modern knowledge era innovation efforts and require a review of the performance measures especially due to the overall uncertain nature of ICT investments. 2 These concepts are not clearly defined and is being used in the general sense related to potential but specific characteristics and nature in a pure descriptive manner
  • 21. Creating a profile associated with the AdizesBusiness Phases 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 21 A B C Considering your specific business phase i.e. start-up, Stable, or Turn-around, there may be a profile of innovation and decision-making constructs suited to your context1:- Profile A-A: SMME or/and Large Enterprise or Corporate in Turn-around; Profile B-B: Large Enterprise or Corporate with complex heterogeneous environments; Profile C-C: Business Unit Level with experienced people and traditional processes; Profile D-D: Start-up and Early Stage Development within a niche market and low or proven technology space; 3. 16. 4. Purposeful Structured 2. 21. 26. 5. 19. 30. 25. 20. 10. 24. D 8. 6. 14. 13. 15. A 22. 11. 17. 9. 23. 7. 1. Emergent Unstructured 28. 31. 29. 12. 27. 1This construct is based on generalisation and formulating patterns from the limited number of case study material and insight from the innovation behaviour and performance survey across local corporate industry predominantly perceived through the eyes of middle and senior management in IT. Quantitative Formal Qualitative Informal B C D Sources: Adoption Profiles (Author, 2010); AdizesInstitute, 2006. Understanding the corporate life cycle, website: http://www.adizes.com/corporate_lifecycle.html accessed August 2010
  • 22. To find answers, we raise questions and set the scene … An unstructuredmanagement approach does not properly filter ICT proposals effectively enoughto ensure sustained systems performance and high ROIs To verify if a more structured approach translate an improvement in the likelihood of performance and overall shareholder value What are the current innovation constructs, criteria and performance indicators or measures Existing innovation constructs, criteria, indicators and measures offer insight into the economic viability, and is NOT representative of key IT initiatives and issues related to fast-moving high-tech environments 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 22 Problem Statement A Objective Construct B New Proposition
  • 23. The survey show ICT organizations innovate with associated structure (process and decion-making), but inconsistently H1: IT investment decision-making is context sensitive and requires more consideration of the nature of knowledge era type dynamics and innovation efforts, specifically the application and relevance of decision and management sciences developed from the industrial era. H2: Concepts, models, methods and theoretical constructs comprising modern management science are inadequate to deal with the management of innovation efforts within the new knowledge era H3: Performance measures created for linear environments are being applied loosely to non-linear problems and are no longer relevant to ICT investments as it is creating expectations that are not properly founded. 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 23 From the survey it is also evident that most organisations struggle to maintain predictable and sustainable results from their innovation efforts and that they regularly apply both quantitative and qualitative decision-making practices to create value through either a purposeful and or emergent process.
  • 24. Aiming for higher orders of probability and predictability 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 24 Linear vs non-linear knowledge era characteristics Discard industrial age formulated IT measuresrelated to efforts with high levels of uncertainty Proposing to identify and derive more appropriate IT measures In the mean time, ‘Innovate by Numbers’
  • 25. Measuring indirect benefit of the investment in IT 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 25 Source: Lucas, H.C. Jr., 1999. Information Technology and the Productivity Paradox: Assessing the Value of Investing in IT. Oxford University Press, New York Oxford. 1999.
  • 26. ‘Innovate by Numbers’ – closing with some experience on the topic Budget for Innovation i.e. make it part of you daily routine and create a portfolio, start with the end in mind – how, what, why, who, when … make it part of the business fabric – but it has to be economical and justifiable and above all, identify the problem first Monitor spending and work within sound business cases i.e. know your numbers and apply diligent thinking at least, whatever you measure must be measurable or ‘SMART’, demarcate and scope At the same time, track progress through a process of elimination and (re)prioritisation i.e. adopt a process that works for your business context, remember at each stage, step or phase, you have a different ‘market’ or audience to convince, no matter what the speed of the business – discipline is required Remember to structure for innovation i.e. start with your capital investment decision-makers to enable federated agility but control led centrally, someone is accountable for setting and achieving the numbers, there must be some authority Do not forget the shareholders, even if you are driving political agendas i.e. someone will have to answer to them and offer traceability and a level of transparency of operations Make decisions on reliable verifiable data, remember, ‘garbage in, garbage out’ i.e. trust your gut but the devil is in the details, identify and recognize the ‘animal’ you are dealing with and act accordingly 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 26 Innovation is not magic, it takes work and discipline …
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  • 30. 19 August 2011 © Copyright 2011 Page: 30 Mobyl offer anintegrated process of strategically aligned business systems architecting and realisation Our core competency is our integrated approach to technology commercialisation:- We establish a renewed focus on the value of strategy through a process of contextualisation and positioning We enable the realisation of architected (established technology boundaries) solutions through a design process and overseeing implementation or integration We ensure an established (win-win) relationship between business and IT through a process of conflict resolution and negotiation