Carol L. Stimmel
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“Evolving Innovation Ecosystems: A Guide to Open Idea Transformation in the Age of Future Tech” (2017)
While emerging technologies create massive opportunity, especially for investors and companies that seek more adaptable forms of economic growth than currently available, value is held inert by traditional approaches, patents, and other closed systems. Yet, open data, content, and information may be the key to mass innovation for future technologies, although they bring difficult challenges to private-industry models that depend on the established ideas of intellectual property. It is from this foundational observation that OpenXFORM (a blending of the words Open and the engineering abbreviation for Transformation) was developed and is explored and described in this book. The intent of the model design is to synthesize an approach to the process of innovation, inspired by natural systems and human-centric design processes. OpenXFORM describes how an open system of innovation can adapt to the unregulated world of information, data, and content; can decompose its own information to release to the open world; and can discover ways to find the points of synergy among the studied and tested methodologies that put human relationships first. This book presents an explicit innovation process that shows how to move from a breakthrough idea through a process that encourages innovative thinkers to test their assumptions, validate hypotheses, and tune and tweak their ideas, not only to drive solutions for users but also to meet the strategic goals of their companies. The anatomy of innovation through OpenXFORM contains the process for moving ideas from a flight of fancy to an explicit concept that is ready to produce.True innovation requires abandoning fear. The fear of being wrong. The fear of giving up control. The fear of being uncomfortable in front of shareholders, Board members, and employees. That's not something most leadership is prepared to do. But that's exactly what's required. And that's exactly why massive industries continue to get disrupted. In Evolving Innovative Ecosystems, Carol lays out a detailed view into both the psychology and process required to escape that fear, understand the pain that drives true innovation, and create a leadership that embraces the primal energy that true innovation unleashes.--David Mandell, Founder and CEO, Pivot DeskThe OpenXFORM model incorporates natural systems and human-centric design processes for achieving meaningful innovation in future tech. The framework anticipates organizational success while valuing individual dignity and worker satisfaction. OpenXFORM can serve as a framework for progress in design, engineering, business, manufacturing, entrepreneurship. This model is flexible and could easily be adopted by noncommercial organizations seeking to effect change: government agencies, educational institutions, and nonprofits.--Sarah McCleskey, Head of Resource and Collection Services, Hofstra University LibraryCarol Stimmel faces head-on that innovation is often hands-on dirty work. Ideas are nice but solutions matter. This book includes a route map from idea to solution. Not an etched-in-stone path. Innovation isn't just cool. It's required of a world that produces enough food to feed all its inhabitants but has no idea how to get the food to those who are starving. It's required of a world where decreasing the digital divide implies energy consumption on a scale never imagined. Those and other challenges will not be met by extrapolating the past. Here is a route planner to the future.--Bob Lockhart, Vice President of Cybersecurity, Technology, and Research at Utilities Technology Council
“Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking” (2015)
The term "smart city" defines the new urban environment, one that is designed for performance through information and communication technologies. Given that the majority of people across the world will live in urban environments within the next few decades, it's not surprising that massive effort and investment is being placed into efforts to develop strategies and plans for achieving "smart" urban growth. Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking explains the technology and a methodology known as design thinking for building smart cities. Information and communications technologies form the backbone of smart cities. A comprehensive and robust data analytics program enables the right choices to be made in building these cities. Design thinking helps to create smart cities that are both livable and able to evolve. This book examines all of these components in the context of smart city development and shows how to use them in an integrated manner. Using the principles of design thinking to reframe the problems of the smart city and capture the real needs of people living in a highly efficient urban environment, the book helps city planners and technologists through the following: Presentation of the relevant technologies required for coordinated, efficient cities Exploration of the latent needs of community stakeholders in a culturally appropriate context Discussion of the tested approaches to ideation, design, prototyping, and building or retrofitting smart cities Proposal of a model for a viable smart city project The smart city vision that we can create an optimized society through technology is hypothetical at best and reflects the failed repetition through the ages of equating scientific progress with positive social change. Up until now, despite our best hopes and efforts, technology has yet to bring an end to scarcity or suffering. Technical innovation, instead, can and should be directed in the service of our shared cultural values, especially within the rapidly growing urban milieu. In Building Smart Cities: Analytics, ICT, and Design Thinking, the author discusses the need to focus on creating human-centered approaches to our cities that integrate our human needs and technology to meet our economic, environmental, and existential needs. The book shows how this approach can lead to innovative, livable urban environments that are realizable, practical, and economically and environmentally sustainable.
“Big Data Analytics Strategies for the Smart Grid” (2014)
By implementing a comprehensive data analytics program, utility companies can meet the continually evolving challenges of modern grids that are operationally efficient, while reconciling the demands of greenhouse gas legislation and establishing a meaningful return on investment from smart grid deployments.Readable and accessible, Big Data Analytics Strategies for the Smart Grid addresses the needs of applying big data technologies and approaches, including Big Data cybersecurity, to the critical infrastructure that makes up the electrical utility grid. It supplies industry stakeholders with an in-depth understanding of the engineering, business, and customer domains within the power delivery market.The book explores the unique needs of electrical utility grids, including operational technology, IT, storage, processing, and how to transform grid assets for the benefit of both the utility business and energy consumers. It not only provides specific examples that illustrate how analytics work and how they are best applied, but also describes how to avoid potential problems and pitfalls.Discussing security and data privacy, it explores the role of the utility in protecting their customers’ right to privacy while still engaging in forward-looking business practices. The book includes discussions of: SAS for asset management tools The AutoGrid approach to commercial analytics Space-Time Insight’s work at the California ISO (CAISO) This book is an ideal resource for mid- to upper-level utility executives who need to understand the business value of smart grid data analytics. It explains critical concepts in a manner that will better position executives to make the right decisions about building their analytics programs.At the same time, the book provides sufficient technical depth that it is useful for data analytics professionals who need to better understand the nuances of the engineering and business challenges unique to the utilities industry.
“The Manager Pool: Patterns for Radical Leadership (Software Patterns Series)” (2001)
The Manager Pool captures corporate software development folklore and "in-the-trenches" experience -- and neatly packages it in patterns that managers will find accessible, insightful, and actionable. It offers practical solutions to the most widespread moral, ethical, and behavioral challenges of software development. It addresses the issues that regularly sink projects and break people; issues that are not addressed by the vast pile of methodology books now in the marketplace. Following the classic "design patterns" format, each management pattern is introduced clearly and simply, along with a discussion of the forces, context, and issues impacting it -- and proven solutions. The book begins with psychological patterns describing the "states-of-mind" of developers and their managers, and offering insight into behavior that might otherwise be incomprehensible. It introduces strategic patterns such as "Get a Guru" and "Secret Stash," which offer potential large-scale solutions; as well as tactical patterns such as "Enough Rope" and "Cargo Cult," designed to solve immediate problems. For all project managers, technical managers, developers, and anyone concerned with the human aspects of software development.
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