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One of my favorite blogs is by JP Rangaswami, an MD at BT, and former CIO of Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He writes the following about large organizations, which really rings true with my experience as employee and consultant to many such firms:
"We stress the importance of human resources, human talent, human capital...teamwork and collaboration...penness and transparency…the importance of trust…And then, mysteriously, we somehow manage to create an environment where we jealously guard information; where we seek to create and extend power as a result of this jealous guarding...."
That really nails it as far as I am concerned. Some organizations are starting to rethink this structure. This is why I like working with Mashups—they can allow you to create the type of collaborative environment that you want—no longer constrained by silos, technical barriers, or even organizational boundaries. Other considerations have us down in the weeds, as you can imagine, because this is a new way of thinking—a new paradigm for service delivery. Yet the ideas behind how we can open up our information to use for creating new markets, new ways of getting things done, and new ways to interact know few boundaries. The convergence of open innovation with technology advancements is a very exciting arena.
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