mission
To Innovate by Demand
For our clients, the need to innovate to sustain competitive advantage is business critical. It is UPCO’s mission is to develop IT solutions that support the imperative to Innovate by Demand and to empower IT functions in the practice of Innovation. We combine people performance, pragmatic development practices and a delivery platform that will give you the capability to Innovate by Demand.
To UPCO innovation does not rely upon dreaming up a great idea or instigating a ‘research’ project but on an embedded organisational process that drives innovation as a continuum. No organisation is inherently innovative, but every organisation can build an Innovation Factory that drives innovation for business advantage.
Innovation by Demand is a business proposition. Learn more on how to achieve competitive Time to Response and becoming an Aggressive Innovator.
An Aggressive Innovator:
- Responds to change
- Demonstrates clear business wins in short timescales
- Continually verifies against performance targets
An Aggressive Innovator is an individual, team or organisation that continually strives to create formidable value by going beyond just meeting a requirement to actually creating a change that will drive the performance of the stakeholder.
An Aggressive Innovator recognises that innovation is a constant, not a one off exercise. It is a function of every day and thereby, critically, able to rapidly deliver to changing business need; Time to Response
An Aggressive Innovator believes that for innovation to be a constant you need to fuse people, processes and technology – in practice, not theory.
Time to Response
Traditional metrics have tended to measure the performance of the IT development function in terms of "Time To Market"; but in the current real-time competitive environment, it is the time it takes to react and respond that counts. In this context, engage drives the timescales for the organisations’ "Time to Response", through an open, flexible software framework (supporting a Services Oriented Architecture) and a disciplined development process that embraces change (rather than defends against it).
IT practices perpetuate inefficiency through the rigidity of linear development processes, inflexible change management and complex legacy tools that all combine to constrain. This rigidity strangles innovation and affects business’ ability to compete in a world where change is relentless.
The benchmark for a modern IT function is not how fast it can meet the needs of the business (often referred to as “time to market”) but how well it consistently responds to the changing needs of the business function and helps drive new capabilities (through applications) that support the organisations need to anticipate and react to emerging threats and opportunities.
IT should be seen to aggressively drive the organisation’s ability to compete at a strategic level. We call this “time to response.”
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