RE: Enterpriseleadership.org’s Historic Interview with Howard Schmidt, the White House’s New Cybersecurity Coordinator

shazlovely — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:48:20 GMT

Hard to believe that anyone (especially one who travels for a living), didn’t know that when your passport runs out of pages…..you get more pages..period. Any Embassy or Consulate will (usually) do it while you wait abroad. You never get a new cissp passport until your old one expires, is lost or damaged. Or was the article just that more interesting with your particular slant?

RE: Where does innovation exist in your organization? Do you have a separate IT innovation group?

iswive — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:39:05 GMT

1. As a consultant, I have worked with many Japanese and American companies. Some companies, as you pointed out, have the built-in culture of encouraging everyone to "own" their areas of expertise, and share their innovative ideas both up and down stream of the organization. It also helps to have rewards and employee recognition programs in place to encourage everyone to be thinking about innovative ideas. Engineers and managers are not the only ones that can contribute to innovation. For example, accounting team can contribute by thinking creatively how to reduce the number of days outstanding for their receivables by re-engineering their billing practice. Innovation, I believe, is better delivered and realized from the bottom up, rather than top down. You cannot mandate innovation. The people dealing with the production, service, quality, etc, on daily basis are the ones that opt to come up with simpler, but more innovative approaches. The company top management, however, can infuse the culture of innovation by making it a priority. To get back to Elizabeth's original questions - where does it reside? I believe it should reside at all levels, and should not be the bastion of separate "innovation group." Where does it rank? I believe it should be high, or very high in any organizations. In the days of hyper competitiveness, no entities can stand still - you must innovate to grow, or even survive. The history is full of examples that reward innovations and punish those who do not. Posted 1 day ago | Reply Privately 1. T. J. Saotome Board Director at Audubon Society of Rhode Island See all T. J.’s activity » Stop following Follow T. J.

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RE: Enterpriseleadership.org’s Historic Interview with Howard Schmidt, the White House’s New Cybersecurity Coordinator

RE: Where does innovation exist in your organization? Do you have a separate IT innovation group?