Joël Gardet's blog

Welcome to 2012 and might this year bring you even more fulfillment, success, prosperity, happiness and health! What do Digital Strategists talk about during lunch time on the first working day of the year? Future trends, of course. And here are two topics among the ones on which there was consensus:

At the information age, Business agility, the ability of a business to adapt rapidly and cost efficiently in response to changes in the business environment, can only be achieved in organization that can adapt their technical solutions or create new ones fast enough. Technical Agility is therefore a mandatory step toward Business Agility. Technical Agility suggests the usage of Agile methodologies in projects, the leverage of Open standards and ready-made technical components to rapidly assemble solutions.

I reviewed in this post the latest trends in innovation. Those suggest that the innovation process is much more than just a vertical one, internal to an organization. Recent successes and failures tend to prove this theory. As an example, Google has just announced  more "Spring cleaning" of projects; among the victims: Friend Connect, Google Gears, Google Wave, Knol, and others.

Latest researches have shown that innovation is much more than vertical process, internal to an organization. Innovation is often created outside of the boundaries of a firm. Several new types of innovation emerge to consensus: Open Innovation (OI), User Innovation (UI) and Cumulative Innovation (CI).