Innovation-centric Organizations - New Tools, New Imperatives, new Paths

As data science, AI and ML evolve - As organizations can find viable partners that can enable them to leverage VR, CGI, Gaming and other *intelligent* Visualization mechanisms with all the computing innovations, here are some likely scenarios, perhaps already in play:

Virtual and Simulated Stores, Customer Traffic, Logistics, Transportation, weather and other abnormalities.

Use of Digital Modeling to validate and verify new ideas, avoid grand people-facing fiascos.

Smarter, versatile, collaborating *engineering and delivery* teams - Generating value at higher velocity

Increased migration to hands-off-Ops Clouds, reduced costs of lodging and boarding in the Cloud. Repurposing of in-house Network and Ops teams.

Bringing Innovation to the Core of the Organization. In all aspects, all facets, all services ! Reinventing the Organizations, departments and work groups as self-sustaining and collaborating Innovation driven Eco Systems.

Accepting and embracing Change as a Fact of Life, as a Constant. No more infighting over changes. No more resistance to change. No more fear of change. No more firing on failures. No more reluctance in trying new ideas.

Letting Innovation, new ideas - radical or mild, revisions of perceptions flow in all directions in the organization freely. Learning from Japanese finally - Innovation can come from anywhere, any person. Accept it, respect it and reward it. Remove all impediments that stop the flow of ideas.

Externalization of and deeper engagement with *outsider* expertise, support groups for leveraging Clouds, Data architecture, security, governance. Partnering with rather than outsourcing to the best while managing costs. Rise of super-focused Expert small coalitions of professionals.

C-suite are becoming *active* partners, facilitators and fervent protectors of the fields that generate Innovation within the organization.

C-Suite Revamp was needed critically, more so now in a very big way. This is a necessity and a certainty as organizations become more cognizant and dependent on data-centric innovations.

And it is best to not try to over-integrate the organization !

Sales and Production and HR and IT and Procurement will *always* remain *separate* units. They will *NOT* share ideas, data, processes, flaws.

So let us get past the meaningless and impossible goal of an *holistic* and *integrated* organization. I find myself disagreeing with Organization experts telling your that your 10 billion company can operate as a *WHOLE* unit as one.

It just seems biologically impossible for all to be interacting with all freely in one organization. There is a reason why we have a very specialized Liver and a very specialized Heart and they don't talk to each other.

Instead - Let them flourish, don't over pressure to open up and share.

But - let them know clearly that Innovation will reign supreme. They have to be open to ideas of others. They have the freedom to generate new ideas too. 3M is an expert at this, so was HP at one point in time.