Slides for a talk on "The Strategic Developer" given by Paul Walk at UKOLN’s IWMW 2011 event held at the University of Reading on 25-26 July 2011. See http://iwmw.ukoln.ac.uk/iwmw2011/talks/walk/

1. Strategic innovation in a local context

2. nearly the end of the workshop for this year, and you must be a little tired....

4. technical innovation

5. is local IT expertise a sunk cost or an investment ?

8. “ successful companies innovate in a down market ”

9. “ Established companies sometimes perceive disruptive innovation to be risky. But success is possible. In fact, the greater risk comes from assuming that business as usual will allow companies to achieve their strategic aims ....” Scott Anthony, Can Established Companies Disrupt? http://blogs.hbr.org/anthony/2008/12/can_established_companies_disr.html http://blogs.hbr.org/anthony/2008/12/can_established_companies_disr.html

10. innovation happens in a local context

12. is this possible without a local capacity to do technical innovation? given limited resources, how do we make the most of what local technical expertise we do have?

16. barn-raising

17. events! engaging developers with open source software developing for the mobile web dev8D pair programming reading list hackday Open Repositories developer challenges developing phone based applications agile prototyping techniques workflow tools OER hackday eBook/ePub Hackday

19. building capacity

24. strategic developer

25. case of the missing career path

26. a strategic role

28. finally...

29. web managers and developers, sitting in a tree....?

30. integration....

31. ...means the Web

36. the mobile campus

37. your local developer might just be a super-hero - get to know them just in case!

38. thank you http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/ [email_address] and thanks to Marieke and Brian!