Comments on: Closing the Innovation Gap: Inteview with Judy Estrin, Author and IT Entrepreneur http://whyitnow.org/closing-the-innovation-gap-inteview-with-judy-estrin-author-and-it-entrepreneur.htm Where IT and Creative Job Opportunities, Education and Government Intersect Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:12:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Jeri Hastava http://whyitnow.org/closing-the-innovation-gap-inteview-with-judy-estrin-author-and-it-entrepreneur.htm/comment-page-1#comment-192 Jeri Hastava Thu, 27 May 2010 19:20:40 +0000 http://whyitnow.org/?p=709#comment-192 Judy's comments on the changing nature of IT and the need for IT departments to be willing to adapt and embrace innovation is spot on. IT is a discipline and no longer restricted to hardware and software in the traditional sense, but instead it stands at the intersection of problems to solve, needs to meet and innovation. It isn't about devices or platforms any longer, it's about the future. Sadly, her remarks about our educational system drilling the core values (questioning, risk taking, openness, patience and trust) that drive innovation out of our children also seems spot on. To paraphrase, the erosion of these value seems to be behind the short-sightedness of recent decades. We're reaping the benefits of the innovative thinking of the 50s, 60s, and 70s without planting any seeds for the future. When you consider the guiding principals of innovation Judy has outlined; leadership, education, culture, policy and funding, it isn't difficult to come up with examples of how the absence of these principles has led us to the table we now must eat from. The Wall Street debacle being only one. Great interview! Judy’s comments on the changing nature of IT and the need for IT departments to be willing to adapt and embrace innovation is spot on. IT is a discipline and no longer restricted to hardware and software in the traditional sense, but instead it stands at the intersection of problems to solve, needs to meet and innovation. It isn’t about devices or platforms any longer, it’s about the future.

Sadly, her remarks about our educational system drilling the core values (questioning, risk taking, openness, patience and trust) that drive innovation out of our children also seems spot on. To paraphrase, the erosion of these value seems to be behind the short-sightedness of recent decades. We’re reaping the benefits of the innovative thinking of the 50s, 60s, and 70s without planting any seeds for the future.

When you consider the guiding principals of innovation Judy has outlined; leadership, education, culture, policy and funding, it isn’t difficult to come up with examples of how the absence of these principles has led us to the table we now must eat from. The Wall Street debacle being only one.

Great interview!

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