Gardeviance

You can tell quite a bit about a person from their perfect job. So I thought I'd write down mine.

Some people enjoy creating the latest thing, some people enjoy building and planning cities. What I enjoy is finding existing opportunities and deciding what to do about them.

So this is my perfect job. As far as I'm aware, it doesn't exist yet.

Title : Chief Coloniser

Primary Roles :

• Enable the organisation to identify and adapt to innovative activities both internally and in the marketplace and maximise the opportunity for the organisation. Identify successful process, product and service innovation, evaluate the change and where appropriate promote and adopt these measures for the organisation.

• Enable the organisation to identify and adapt to commodity activities both internally and in the marketplace and maximise the opportunity for the organisation. Identify successful process, product and service commoditisation, evaluate the change and where appropriate promote and adopt these measures for the organisation.

• Use innovation and commoditisation as tools to disrupt and destabilise competitors whether through the use of standards, open sourcing or other tactics.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Maximise the organisational opportunity whilst minimising the impact of the transition of activities (products, processes or services) from innovation to commodity.

• Manage the transition of activities through first mover and transitional stages of their life-cycle (see figure 1 below).

Works with :

• Chief Innovation Officer (Pioneer)

• Chief Planning Officer (Town Planner)

Additional info :

Find more info at my blog on this concept.

Figure 1 - Stages of an activity's life-cycle

Figure 2 - Roles in an activity's life-cycle