How to Innovate through Standardisation...

Andrew White is a Gartner Blogger. In the article I excerpt below he refers to the work of Andrew McAfee. That reminded me to go and take a look at McAfee's blog, which I hadn't checked since the end of 2008. McAfee is one of the main thinkers behind the concept of Enterprise 2.0 and a professor at Harvard who contributes on the subject of Enterprise 2.0 to MITSloan Management Review and the Harvard Business Review.
Below is an extract from Andrew White's blog post:

New Research Published – How to Innovate through Standardization…

"The authors believe this acceleration in competition is a result of companies’ standardization and digitization of business processes, which makes those processes easier to replicate widely through the use of enterprise IT.

"The ‘trick’ is not that standardized processes lead to innovation – that is not the point of the research. The point is that business leaders have figured out how to use IT as a platform in order to simplify and speed up the deployment of innovative/unique business processes across the entire enterprise. So the real message behind the research is, “how to leverage one’s innovation more quickly”."
Many Gartner consultants post articles to the company's blogsite. They don't give you the company's latest research for free but the blog articles give a good sense of recent

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