The process of developing an IDEA (Integrated Data Engineering Application) sounds like such a consummately technical task doesn’t it? Sounds like you might need some client side boffo cranking out an ungodly detailed MS project file that would then mesh with a WorldAPP Statement Of Work eight tomes thick.
Well, yes and no.
I just looked at a video that a colleague of mine, Matt Haney, jabbered over. It’s fascinating stuff. First, it’s on a larger theme that has always entranced me – the subject of how to correctly motivate a workforce.
But there’s more in this pudding than just these raisins.
It also reveals how incentives can become disincentives when the work task shifts from straightforward or mechanical tasks to those that require expansive lateral thinking. (Hat tip here to one of my all times heroes, Edward de Bono, the “father of thinking”.)
In the video, the presenter, Dan Pink, shows how it has been repeatedly proven that the bigger the pecuniary incentive for cognitively challenging tasks, the higher the fail rate. Hmmm…. I hope our CFO, Oleg Matsko, isn’t reading this. This means we should be cranking out IDEAS for our customers with a bunch of lateral thinking mavens from the client’s team matched with a bunch of rag-tag rightbrained geniuses on our side .…AND…if we want it to really work well…the success of the project should largely be uncoupled from its cost.
You can view this interesting lecture at http://bit.ly/F0gJu
Pure genius in data display
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
I love the challenges we are faced with when customers ask us to develop an IDEA (Integrated Data Engineering Application) to solve difficult business process problems. It’s fascinating stuff. The IDEAs come in all shapes and sizes and often end up inside a sexy data drill down presentation layer using our valued partner QlikView.
But there is one particular technology we haven’t tapped into yet and I am chomping at the bit to see it deployed. It was developed by Gapminder.org and the technology has subsequently been bought by Google (no surprise there).
It’s so amazing; I call it “spawning intelligence”.
The technology displays data over time as it dynamically unfolds along two axis. The video I recommend from Hans Rosling shows how this technology can reveal fresh insights into the relationship between child mortality rates and world population growth over decades of historical data.
The intellectual stimulation from witnessing these variables as they morph through time is a new paradigm of learning and provocation that must be classed as a game changer.
Data is only beginning to have its day in the sun. Pundits and pulpits beware. Facts alone, presented at this level of mesmerizing acuity, are going to rule this new millennium.
You can see Rosling strut his stuff here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
But there is one particular technology we haven’t tapped into yet and I am chomping at the bit to see it deployed. It was developed by Gapminder.org and the technology has subsequently been bought by Google (no surprise there).
It’s so amazing; I call it “spawning intelligence”.
The technology displays data over time as it dynamically unfolds along two axis. The video I recommend from Hans Rosling shows how this technology can reveal fresh insights into the relationship between child mortality rates and world population growth over decades of historical data.
The intellectual stimulation from witnessing these variables as they morph through time is a new paradigm of learning and provocation that must be classed as a game changer.
Data is only beginning to have its day in the sun. Pundits and pulpits beware. Facts alone, presented at this level of mesmerizing acuity, are going to rule this new millennium.
You can see Rosling strut his stuff here: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html
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