I would be worried if every project that was started at Eclipse was a big success, because that would say to me that they're not trying enough things. |
One of the ways that you get innovation is you let all the flowers bloom. |
There are issues of maturity that come into play. It's not easy to define a service that can be used across a broad spectrum of business units. If you knew exactly what it had to do, that situation might obtain that; if you really don't know what the capabilities need to be, if you're learning as you build it, you might need a different kind of governance. Good governance is setting up decision mechanisms and providing the context in which you want a bottom-up creative effort to work. |