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RE: Managing Innovation

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Managing Innovation
• From: "Chris Wilper" <cwilper@c...>
• Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:27:31 -0400
• Thread-index: AcOG15jUx0ge4yukSkucT+2Yx8vYOAAiN3sA
• Thread-topic: Managing Innovation

> Can an innovative environment produce a trusted computing system?

If the constraints are accepted beforehand, sure. 
Great innovation happens under (and often in response to)
the most constrained conditions.

Related: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20030908.html
(third heading down, "[Misconception:] Usability Kills Creativity")

> Can we 'do the simplest thing that will possibly work' 
> and still produce a secure system.

Unlike usability, considering *trust* issues as you set out to design
will usually preclude the simplest thing from being done.
Where we often get into trouble is throwing such all-encompassing
constraints onto an already-built system.  No matter how low your
"iteration cost", if you've inadvertantly carved security out of 
the final product, you're not going to pump out a secure version
next week.  Too much would have been ignored by that point.

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Bullard, Claude L (Len) [mailto:clbullar@i...]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 6:18 PM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject:  Managing Innovation


A little thought experiment, a bit lighter than 
the complexity thread, but also, a bit related 
in that the management of uncertainty comes into 
play.  

Read this:

http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3687&t=innovation

Then answer the question:

Can an innovative environment produce a trusted computing system?
In short, the market demands innovation AND security.  Can we 
'do the simplest thing that will possibly work' and still produce 
a secure system.

len

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