Do we suffer from the innovators dilemma

Finally I got to have a listen - Love it!

I love the idea of a tiny team of 5 data scientists.  There was a time when i was all the box office, all the DBA, all of the reporting for a team of 40 

There are a couple of things that I'm skeptical about.  I don't think that value to innovation is an S curve as much as a series of S curves.  And to that point I think that Waterfall production models have performed poorly against Agile ones.  For example I see TNEW v7 as a great product that has a variety of jump on - High value- points depending on the business.  We all wanted it as soon as it was released but only when the features we needed were released was it ready for us and us it.  These features are the midpoint high value sections.  I can see another one with Hosted Payments/Banana pay and another with CYOS Packages.  So it disrupts itself with each new feature some more than others.  Maybe I'm pushing the metaphor

For us "data scientists" (dirty word sorry) AI, Machine Learning, Analytics etc are all disruptive buy making us more or less agile compared to the market.  But I think here the biggest barrier to innovation here is attitude.  Being unable to make small changes to adopt the larger ones.  Our business practices change constantly here and we need to project manage and plan them at that constant rate.  We never sit still on process if it means better and faster and more accurate and ... more happy.  

That's why i'm a bit  about innovators dilemma.  Screw one big S curve. Get your data, make a decision, Do the change, evaluate the results - rinse and repeat.

Hope that's not too off topic and not too obnoxious.
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Yeah, our friends out in corporate America and corporations around the world, don't typically understand about small "teams".  However, it is my hope that the network and initiatives like analytic Coffee will allow us as even though we are solo practitioners in our own organizations to be able to deliver well beyond expected capabilities by leveraging each others strengths.

I don't see your comments off-topic at all. 

My questions or vision about this are a little less narrow.  I'm thinking about what is happening to the traditional cultural sector, museums, theaters, and all of the rest.  The competition or the changes are not coming from within this community.  Or even from within the traditional experienced community by which I would mean to add things like sports, amusement parks.  I see some of the larges challenges for our organization coming from the likes of Google, Amazon, Alibaba, Netflix, Game makers.  All are going after human attention.  And they are all disrupters the traditional place arts and culture play in society buy garnering more and more attention. To the point that there is less and less time for traditional arts and culture.  So from my point of view we as an industry are the incumbents who are well-tuned for our current audience.    How can we, how should we innovate?

I find it interesting how we all come at the topic from such different angles! Yes, the "tiny" team was hilarious to me as well. I agree with Heath about a series of S curves as opposed to one. The example of TNEW7 and when and how people are willing to jump on is an interesting take on how we as a community are or are not agile.

I believe that in our industry, we are both open to innovation and scared as hell of it. As non-profit arts organizations, something that many haven't cracked yet is how to run like a business. I think that that is the true "innovators dilemma" in our sector. When you aren't used to running like a business, it's harder to adopt and see the worth in things like Analytics and BI.

I do see the challenges presented by these big corporations like Netflix, and I also wonder how we stay relevant. All of these big disrupters help isolate people and keep them on their devices instead of interacting with others. I think about watching a movie on your couch versus seeing it in the theater. It's not just about the bigger screen and better sound quality. It's about laughing with a stranger that's sitting next to me about a preview that we thought was hilarious. It's about connecting with a person, even just for a moment. And I think that that's what our industry is all about. Human connection and experience, not just human attention. How do we refocus our audience on the joy of coming together to experience something?

Madeline Dummerth (Past Member) & Heath Wilder if I could give you each more than one +1 on your last replies, I would.

I note that Andrew Recinos has also been discussing and thinking about this topic over on his blog. 

Madeline Dummerth (Past Member) & Heath Wilder if I could give you each more than one +1 on your last replies, I would.

I note that Andrew Recinos has also been discussing and thinking about this topic over on his blog.