William commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
Wowser. Well done! Wd love to hear more. Do you think it would be possible to crowdsource with a group that included clients/customers as well as DWP colleagues? Can you share any further insights for...
View ArticleCairbre Sugrue commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
this does sound interesting. Just out of curiousity were all of the attendees internal staff? At my last place a colleague of mine ran something similar with NESTA (http://bit.ly/openalchemy)....
View Articlejose luis campanello commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
James, is it posible for you to make the final strategy document available to everybody on the net (open sourcing it, perhaps?). Cheers, José Luis
View ArticleThomas commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
I'd be interest to know what "level" this was happening. Obviously you weren't planning the departmental email servers. But did you go down to how individual bits of business process were going to be...
View ArticlePeter Evans-Greenwood commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
Brilliant! And congratulations! I'm a huge fan of leveraging a collaborative approach to IT strategy: ideally an approach that includes the people who will be the end users (even customers and partners...
View ArticleDave Birch commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
I'm very, very interested in this James, as you know, but I still can't quite picture what sort of decisions that you are talking about. You said that they were high-level decision about IT strategy...
View ArticleRob commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
James. A good model that obviously scales up well. Setting out the problem then asking the group to solve it is a nice approach. Tomorrow I'm hosting a small event that will ask for ideas that people...
View ArticleStephen commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
Well done James, You will get the 80%, consensus and buy-in, and as you say you will have thwarted the corporate challenge of making decisions. The next bit is the hard part, e.g. the other 20%. The...
View ArticleThomas commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
An old friend is going, so I might have been tempted. Although, working in gold investment, I'd be contractually obligated to just foam at mouth about big government and inflation :-) But the tickets...
View ArticleChris Barry commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
Very cool concept. Curious - what did you use for voting buttons - sms text ,e-mail, website, actual voting buttons / terminals like you see in game shows, mobile phone call, twitter?
View ArticleJames Gardner commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
We used little credit card sized devices connected wirelessly to a server. It meant we could collect and display results in real time.
View Articlejagardner commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
The attendees were only internal staff. There was some debate about broadening the event, but we decided in the end to keep it internal in case it didn't work. Next time, I am sure we will give wider...
View Articlejagardner commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
It was at a pretty high level. We didn't go into little bits of business process - it was more general stuff, like how can we handle citizen service generically, rather than doing silos for every new...
View Articlejagardner commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
Oh, good, am glad you finally got the book. I had terrible trouble getting the review copies out. You won't find crowd sourced strategy development in the book... other kinds are there, of course. The...
View Articlejagardner commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
I would Love to do that. But I doubt very much it is something that will be possible in the immediate short term... we do an annual business plan, though, and it will certainly feature as part of...
View Articlejagardner commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
So how did your event go... care to tell us the outcomes? I know everyone would be interested.
View Articlejagardner commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
Peter, Thankyou! Actually, your observations are exactly what we've experienced too. The fact seems to be that because everyone has already been part of all the decisions, you don't seem to have to...
View Articlejagardner commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
I'd delighted to have the chat with you... and am sure that your ideas would be very interesting. I've emailed you my details.
View Articlejagardner commented on 'How to crowd source an IT strategy'
Stephen, We do not underestimate the challenges of delivery. But, frankly, that's a question of influence more than anything else. Can we sell the decisions we've made to the people who have the power...
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