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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Innovation, maturity model, and Enterprise Architecture

According to Gartner, the innovation maturity model is structured into five maturity levels:

  • Reactive
  • Active
  • Defined
  • Performing
  • Persuasive
For the organizations to progress, Gartner further breaks down the levels of innovation into further 6 categories:
  • Strategy and Intent : Enterprises show their intent by having their leaders come up with various strategic plans that focus towards innovation.
  • Processes and Practices : having a formal set of process enables the leaders of the organization to facilitate innovative ideas, in other ways, having a more organized, quantitative way of creating scenarios for innovation.
  • Culture and People : Understanding the social behavior is very important, especially during innovation, and when the organization diverse culture is an influential factor.
  • Organization and Infrastructure : Important to support and help facilitate the innovators within the organization.
  • Partnerships : Having partnerships with the outside organizations that promote the idea of innovation is very critical for the success of the organization.
  • Open Innovation : 
I agree with the Gartner article, that while applying these maturity models, enterprise architects should keep in mind the following;
- mature management should constantly work on improving there processes to come up with innovation all the time
- Enterprises and their parent companies should make every effort to determine if innovation is is managed locally versus centrally.



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