Technology innovation
management needs a fine balance
between full freedom to think-out-of-box solutions for the problem
on-hand versus tight micro-management, which is an instant killer
of creative thinking for innovative minds. Providing full freedom
to work on technology solutions in an unconstrained manner can result
in the disasters of either not making any progress or investing way
more resources to arrive at the solution. Strict
micromanagement of technical professionals can produce a solution, which might
at best be marginally better than what is already in the marketplace. Thus
for managing technology innovation create realistically achievable
intermediate milestones for the team and then provide full freedom to work
on any solution as long as those intermediate goals are focused and
achieved.
As an example, if a team is tasked to provide a new mobile application for some unmet need, the choice of implementation technology and realization of all feature set can be divided in a series of deliverables. First milestone can be a proof-of-concept [POC] development with minimum viable features set within some stipulated time frame. The team gets full freedom for technology choices and even process steps as long as expected POC is delivered within agreed upon timeline.
As an example, if a team is tasked to provide a new mobile application for some unmet need, the choice of implementation technology and realization of all feature set can be divided in a series of deliverables. First milestone can be a proof-of-concept [POC] development with minimum viable features set within some stipulated time frame. The team gets full freedom for technology choices and even process steps as long as expected POC is delivered within agreed upon timeline.
President, Visintech, Inc. USA
Credit: Mishaal Kazmi
Credit: Mishaal Kazmi
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