We also cannot ignore the impact of other changes such as Open Source with firms such as Alfresco, Sun and other developing this market space further. Thanks for the reference to TRIZ. James Dyson Cyclone innovation is a good engineering example of moving an invention from one industry to another but as Dyson discovered it can be very difficult to convince an existing industry of the benefits of a new technology and to fundamentally change.

I’m going to be attending the Boston Enterprise2.0 conference and hope to see you there as I know one of your colleagues is presenting. Thanks for the positive feedback and defiantly keep in touch.

Cheers

Nick

As you say, the Chasm model (or Roger’s Diffusions of Innovation) is not without it’s problems, among them, that many “normal” people haven’t heard of it (although it’s been nearly 20 years – come on folks!), and that it presumes that there is only one path to winning in the solutions game… but it’s still a useful barometer in trying to figure out where people are spending their time, money, attention, etc. in the high-tech world.

It’s most definitely not voodoo management “theory” – as companies such as Documentum, and now the ex-Documentum crew at Alfresco have clearly ridden that model to great success.

Lovely quote to end your commentary, always worth a tie-in to Einstein! Although as someone who has stumbled onto TRIZ (the “theory of inventive problem solving” – now over 60 years old) in the last few years, while we can’t necessarily use the same thinking that WE (ourselves or our own companies/organizations) have used in the past to get us to the future, there might be value in looking around the corner at success in your own industry or across industries to see how other ideas might applied to your problems.

Glad I stumbled onto your site – looks like there is much more of interest here, and I look forward to reading (and commenting) much more in future! Seems that we have quite a bit of overlapping interest.

Cheers,
Dan