Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Does innovation have a data signature?

"success is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration" (Thomas Edison)


Bottom Line: Effort and Innovation might not be correlated.

Findings:  The above provided chart was generated from the audit log in a cloud-based software prototyping tool.  As a result of new found reporting ability, three weeks of my project are now available for analysis.

Analysis:  I subjectively determined that three screens were the most innovative deliverables of our project.  Subsequently, I correlated these innovative pages against audit log "action" on that page. For this analysis, "action" is inclusive of all activity types (create, review, modify, delete).


Innovation 1 - Tagging Requirements (About 1,000 Actions)


Innovation 2 - Split Screen (About 100 actions)

Innovation 3 - Responsive Design (not on radar)

Further Analysis is needed:
  1. I plan to explore the correlation between innovation and collaboration.  Specifically, I am curious if the "Innovative" pages were all worked on in silos or a result of collaboration
  2. I plan to discover existing/validated metrics for objectively determining innovation.