Innovation Clinic
The software industry is experiencing a phase of dramatic growth and change through advances in communications, technologies and the globalisation of markets. What are the challenges and strategies to ensure that the UK remains ‘the place to be’ for investment and entrepreneurial ideas.
The culture in the UK seems to drive against the entrepreneur (mentality) but this is changing with Web 2.0 etc. and this is changing globally.
This is not entirely a question about increased VC investment which is a drop in the ocean when compared to public capital investment.
What does innovation mean to an organisation and what are organisations doing or what should they be doing to encourage innovation both within their organisations and externally?
Notes
The Innovation squeeze
IT is not able to innovate within the Enterprise.
IT does not necessarily know how to innovate within the Enterprise
Innovation is suppressed by processes and constraints placed upon IT
The business innovates and then imposes this on IT as requirements to deliver faster and cheaper.
Too much time is spent on fixing what is wrong with IT
All this squeezes innovation out of IT and out of the organisation to SMEs
SMEs have more freedom to innovate but the conditions in the UK do not make this easy either.
Taxation is to prohibitive to innovate
This then forces innovation out of the country along with the innovators themselves to other countries with better climates etc.
