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Rent if You Can, Buy if You Can’t, and Build if You Must: Navigating Technology Investment
“Rent if you can, buy if you can’t, and build if you must” is a heuristic that simplifies the decision-making process for technology investment. By understanding the nuances of each option, businesses can make informed choices that align with their strategic goals, ensuring they remain competitive and agile in a digital-first world.
What is innovation accounting and how does it help manage innovation?
‘Innovation Accounting’ is a loose term for the idea that organisations need new metrics to manage innovation, the dominant competitive force driving value today. After building a few government as a service platforms the only thing I’ve seen reliably produce valuable innovation is intentional and consistent experimentation. Increasingly many teams are practicing some form of … Read more
Innovation Options: A tool for governments to help structure Investments into Innovation
Innovation is a key driver of economic growth and social progress, and governments around the world are increasingly looking for new ways to encourage innovation and investment. One emerging tool that is gaining attention is innovation options, a financial instrument that provides a financial incentive for private sector partners to invest in new technologies or … Read more
What are sense making frameworks and why are they important to e-Government strategy?
Different people have different perspectives. We need a way to bring all the different perspectives together. To do this we need to establish a set of common sense making frameworks to build a common understanding of what is going on.
What is a software factory?
The software factory approach can be applied to delivering Government as a Service (GaaS) web applications by streamlining the development process, automating manual processes and reducing the need for manual coding. Automated development tools and integrated development environments (IDE) can be used to create high-quality web applications that are cost-effective, reliable and securely protected from external threats. The software factory approach can also be used to ensure standardization of code and ensure development teams adhere to best practices. Automated tests and continuous integration can also be used to speed up the deployment process and reduce time-to-market.
Why mental models are important?
Mental models help to explain why we think the way we do and how our beliefs influence our decisions. Mental models provide a framework for understanding the world and evaluating data, allowing leaders to make better decisions.
Why do we combine mental models?
Combining different models is often an effective approach to examining the same problem from an alternate perspective, which might prove to be the key to creating a better solutions.
What are mental models?
The quality of our thinking is largely determined by the models we possess in our minds and how relevant they are in a given situation. Possessing more tools or models increases the chances of us perceiving reality accurately. It is evident that having a wider variety of approaches is beneficial to making better decisions. Mental models are systems that help us to think.
How to prioritise solutions based on an impact vs effort matrix?
In the real world resources (i.e. time, money, personnel etc.) are limited. Therefore you need a way to prioritise what solutions get implemented. An impact effort matrix is a decision making framework that is used to determine which solutions should be tackled first.