By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol
AR: Being data-driven has unique advantages for optimization. Does it have any advantage for boosting innovation?
JB: Organizations must be able to balance optimization and innovation. Too much optimization and you won’t be able to deal with disruptions in the market, but innovation without optimization is nothing but a crap shoot. Big data analytics can be an important tool for understanding this balance, when used to facilitate an inherently iterative approach as part of an agile enterprise architecture.
AR: What are your recommendations on dealing with the optimization vs. innovation trade-off?
JB: To facilitate innovation, free people from traditional management hierarchies and let them self-organize. Give them broad goals and the tools they need to be successful, and get out of their way.
Read the entire interview at http://www.kdnuggets.com/2015/02/interview-jason-bloomberg-intellyx-innovation.html.
