"China is the next innovation powerhouse" Six Word Wisdom from George S. Yip

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            [post_content] => With the surge of new computing capabilities afforded to us through cloud computing and data analytics there has been a significant increase in the ability to source, integrate, manage, and deliver data within organisations.

The emergence of a new breed of  technologies means that traditional restrictions on data processing have been overcome and the resulting boost to information capacity means that all organisations can become more agile, flexible, lean and efficient

The term Intelligent Enterprise is being used to describe those that seizing the opportunities presented.  

This has led to a demand for people that can make this “Intelligent Enterprise” a reality.

The bottom line is that without the right skills and capabilities, new technological innovations will not only be of no benefit to firms but may actually become a disadvantage to those that are unprepared to implement them.

Indeed, staffing and skills have been singled out by firms as the top barrier to Agile Data Analytics, with 61% of respondents citing them as a challenge in our recent report for the Cutter Consortium.

So what can organisations do to become Intelligent Enterprises and get the most from big data? We believe they need to develop three main skill bases:

1. Technology support

2. A deep analytical capability

3. A savvy understanding of what big data can deliver

Organisations will increasingly be employing not only Data Miners, Data Scientists, Data Architects, Database Administrators Business Developers and Business Analysts but those individuals that combine skills from those roles such as Project Managers, Data Visulalisers and Programmers Developers.

[caption id="" style="float:center" width="300"] The Intelligent Enterprise - mapping skills and roles[/caption]

At the centre of the skills bases are the Chief Information Officers (CIO) and Chief Data Offers (CDO) that will drive the transformation.

With a skill set that covers all three categories, individuals are ideally placed to successfully lead their organisation into an era of extracting tangible value which is currently hidden in organisational data.  It is from this perspective that we have designed the IMI Diploma in Data Business, which provides knowledge and insight into each to three areas. 

To find out more about how you can develop these skills come to our Information Evening for our Diploma in Data Business and Diploma Cloud Strategy in the Marker Hotel, Dublin 2, at 6pm on Tuesday 10^th September register here.

Tadhg Nagle is joint Programme Director of the UCC IMI Diploma in Data Business and a lecturer and researcher in Information Systems at University College Cork.  With a background in financial services his expertise is in strategic innovation and emerging and disruptive technologies.
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George Yip

17th Sep 2019

George Yip is an author, consultant and manager.

3 critical skills to develop if you want to work for the Intelligent Enterprise

Nathan Furr: Innovative Capital

Business Model Innovation

“China is the next innovation powerhouse” Six Word Wisdom from George S. Yip

China is moving from imitation to innovation.

Professor of Marketing and Strategy, Imperial College Business School. Previously Professor of Strategy and Co-Director, Centre on China Innovation, China Europe International Business School in Shanghai; VP and Director of Research & Innovation, Capgemini Consulting; Dean, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University; faculty at Harvard, UCLA, Cambridge and London business schools. Other books include Strategic Transformation, Managing Global Customers, Asian Advantage and Total Global Strategy. He took his MBA at Harvard and has worked at numerous business schools including those at Harvard, UCLA and Cambridge, as well as working as author, consultant and manager. Most recently he was professor of strategic and international management at the London Business School. He was a keynote speaker at the IMI National Management Conference on 29th September 2016.

IMI: Based on your current work – if you only had 6 words of advice to give a business – what would they be?

GY: China is the next innovation powerhouse

IMI: What does this mean?

GY: China is moving from imitation to innovation. China’s vast, diverse and still-growing market, its legions of low-cost scientists and engineers, and its innovation ecosystem of research institutes, technology parks and universities have created a fertile ground in which Chinese companies are now innovating, not just for China, but for the world. As a result, the country has finally emerged from years of being seen as merely the factory of the world and is now rapidly assuming a new role: innovator to the world.