The Internet - The first Worldwide Tool of Unification ("The End of History")

" ... Now I give you something that few think about: What do you think the Internet is all about, historically? Citizens of all the countries on Earth can talk to one another without electronic borders. The young people of those nations can all see each other, talk to each other, and express opinions. No matter what the country does to suppress it, they're doing it anyway. They are putting together a network of consciousness, of oneness, a multicultural consciousness. It's here to stay. It's part of the new energy. The young people know it and are leading the way.... "

" ... I gave you a prophecy more than 10 years ago. I told you there would come a day when everyone could talk to everyone and, therefore, there could be no conspiracy. For conspiracy depends on separation and secrecy - something hiding in the dark that only a few know about. Seen the news lately? What is happening? Could it be that there is a new paradigm happening that seems to go against history?... " Read More …. "The End of History"- Nov 20, 2010 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll)

"Recalibration of Free Choice"– Mar 3, 2012 (Kryon Channelling by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: (Old) Souls, Midpoint on 21-12-2012, Shift of Human Consciousness, Black & White vs. Color, 1 - Spirituality (Religions) shifting, Loose a Pope “soon”, 2 - Humans will change react to drama, 3 - Civilizations/Population on Earth, 4 - Alternate energy sources (Geothermal, Tidal (Paddle wheels), Wind), 5 – Financials Institutes/concepts will change (Integrity – Ethical) , 6 - News/Media/TV to change, 7 – Big Pharmaceutical company will collapse “soon”, (Keep people sick), (Integrity – Ethical) 8 – Wars will be over on Earth, Global Unity, … etc.) - (Text version)

“…5 - Integrity That May Surprise…

Have you seen innovation and invention in the past decade that required thinking out of the box of an old reality? Indeed, you have. I can't tell you what's coming, because you haven't thought of it yet! But the potentials of it are looming large. Let me give you an example, Let us say that 20 years ago, you predicted that there would be something called the Internet on a device you don't really have yet using technology that you can't imagine. You will have full libraries, buildings filled with books, in your hand - a worldwide encyclopedia of everything knowable, with the ability to look it up instantly! Not only that, but that look-up service isn't going to cost a penny! You can call friends and see them on a video screen, and it won't cost a penny! No matter how long you use this service and to what depth you use it, the service itself will be free.

Now, anyone listening to you back then would perhaps have said, "Even if we can believe the technological part, which we think is impossible, everything costs something. There has to be a charge for it! Otherwise, how would they stay in business?" The answer is this: With new invention comes new paradigms of business. You don't know what you don't know, so don't decide in advance what you think is coming based on an old energy world. ..."
(Subjects: Who/What is Kryon ?, Egypt Uprising, Iran/Persia Uprising, Peace in Middle East without Israel actively involved, Muhammad, "Conceptual" Youth Revolution, "Conceptual" Managed Business, Internet, Social Media, News Media, Google, Bankers, Global Unity,..... etc.)


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Monday, November 17, 2008

The CIO as innovation czar

Shifting roles bring new challenges in innovation and enterprise integration.

By Kathleen Melymuka, Computerworld    

November 17, 2008 (Computerworld) Many CEOs today are asking CIOs to play a bigger role in innovation and enterprise integration. In this month's Harvard Business Review, James I. Cash Jr., retired senior associate dean at Harvard Business School, and co-authors Michael J. Earl and Robert Morison discuss how that shift is playing out in 24 major corporations. Cash, temporarily sidelined by oral surgery, explained these new IT roles to Kathleen Melymuka via e-mail.

 

Why is the CIO's role shifting? The change is based more on the capabilities of specific individuals than something inherent in an IT organization in a large company. For broad-based individuals that have used their time as CIO to demonstrate an ability to think and act systemically and in an integrative manner across the entire enterprise, companies have asked them to take on additional responsibility. The primary drivers of this trend are the need for the enterprise to pursue growth and innovation initiatives in addition to the intense focus on productivity/efficiency/compliance during the first half of the decade. 

You write that two key groups leverage technology. The first is a distributed innovation group (DIG). What is that? This group only gets established if the company has committed to a belief that the source of creativity is more likely to occur outside the company boundaries than inside. This group is established to facilitate collecting, evaluating, monitoring and, in some cases, providing initial funding for the idea. 

How does it work? DIG scouts for new ideas and untapped potential in current technologies, scans the external environment for emerging technology, facilitates participation in idea forums, acts as a center of expertise for support of innovation and creativity, communicates and publicizes promising ideas, and provides initial funding and scarce specialized skills that may be required for the early evaluation/testing of the idea. DIG does not act like a dedicated R&D group, have exclusive responsibility for all phases of the innovation process, or sit in an office developing policy and anointing winners in the fine tradition of many staff functions. 

The second team is the enterprise integration group (EIG). What is that? A group responsible for transforming the corporation into an efficient participant in an industry ecosystem, primarily as a result of an external and internal business process redesign. An "outside-in" perspective on this work distinguishes this group from pure process improvement work. The key measures for this work focus on breakthrough business integration projects that radically improve the organization's performance in the eyes of customers or key suppliers. This may lead to a change in the traditional business model. 

What does the EIG do? It's responsible for enterprisewide business process management and improvement. [It] manages the corporate portfolio of integration initiatives, serves as center of excellence for skills required in process improvement and is responsible for new ideas on future-oriented enterprise architecture. It frequently has a major education and training responsibility. 

What can it accomplish? Gary Reiner's Corporate Initiatives Group at GE was responsible for companywide implementation of Six Sigma and Lean, which eventually provided the foundation for outside-in projects that reduced lead-time for customer financing decisions from 63 days to "same-day" [financing]. 

What can a CIO do in his own company? Collect data and examples of how these changes have benefited other companies and sell the idea to your executive suite. Do not accept responsibility for managing the cultural change required; that belongs to the CEO or COO. (Exception: If you become the COO, then it's your Align Centerresponsibility.) But quickly accept the responsibility to implement these groups in support of the new approach to growth and innovation.

 

IT's Role

A look at IT's role in facilitating innovation and enterprise integration. 

In the DIG

  • Providing tools that facilitate communication, collaboration, monitoring
  • Providing platforms for collecting and testing ideas
  • Assessing emerging technologies that relate to the ideas
  • Providing cost- and risk-effective prototyping capability
  • Facilitating rapid implementation of significant innovations

In the EIG

  • Supporting cross-organizational systems implementations
  • Providing expertise in information management to facilitate integration
  • Providing program and project management
  • Providing specialized relationship management in a multi-organizational context 

 

This version of this interview originally appeared in Computerworld's print edition.

 

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