Sarquol Limited

I was reading an article recently that suggested there are basically 4 types of innovation that a company might seek to undertake:

1. Product innovation, whereby a new product or service is brought to market or a current one improved;
2. Process innovation, whereby processes and procedures are modified to make them more efficient
3. Positioning innovation, whereby a product or service stays fundamentally the same but is sold to a different market or as a different proposition
4. Paradigm innovation, whereby an innovation is effectively disruptive and facilitates some form of fundamental change

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I recently needed to consider the state of a System Architecture and consider the changes likely to be needed over time. Thus, I was trying to produce a “Roadmap” for the architecture into the future. The challenge was that the future is uncertain. Some items can be planned for, and others are dependent on the way the business and technological environments develop. These developments can be considered to be the product of various “forces” playing out in the environment of the system. How then can you address this complexity? Continue reading ‘Future Scenarios in Architecture…’ »

I was recently talking to a client was concerned about the development processes used within their organisation. This is a challenge that has been tackled by many organisations and one which the Software Engineering Institute looked at years ago and produced their Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to help with.  I stated that I would find and send them a summary article to help. The challenge really started at that point. Continue reading ‘A quick look at CMMi’ »