LinkedIn’s Innovation Engine - Light Engineering Deveployment
Every company needs to be able to generate a constant stream of innovations if they expect to generate above average profits.
The trick is creating an organizational structure that generates that constant stream of innovation. Google’s got their 20% of each engineers’ time. LinkedIn has taken a different approach. They have created a Light Engineering Development team. The L.E.D. team builds apps really quickly using Ruby on Rails. And, they have managed to perfect the process of turning those 1-week turn-around apps into huge, highly scaled applications.
Dennis Howlett over at ZD/Net has just written an article about how LinkedIn used this process to build a Rails app that scaled to 1 Billion page views a month.
We’ve also released a video over at Joyent:
so you can create a super scalable app but cant post a link to joyent properly?
The tenure of this message and the site is true - innovation is about people not just process.
I find it staggering that most of the resources on the web seem to focus on R&D tools and technology innovation - where as the real innovation come d from people.
In her Book (The Innovation equation) Dr J Byrd talks about innovation as being derived from Creativity and risk taking - where this is as much about organizational culture as it is skill.
I have used these techniques and believe thay add real value quickley and cost effectively - see her site http://www.creatrix.com for more information
great site
Mike
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikemorrisonrapidbi
I agree that innovation is about people. the problem is that we are all trained to believe that human knowledge is intangible and can only exist in the wall street / corporate construct. this is highly convenient for them because they need you to sit quietly in a cubical for the absolute lowest amount of money that will get you there.
Few however realize that knowledge can become tangible inside socal networks - that is, outside corporations, wall street, or even government. The factors of production for an innovation economy are social capital, creative capital, and intellectual capital.
The Ingenesist Project has specified 3 web applications which if developed and applied to social networks will allow knowledge to become tangible in Social Networks.
This changes everything. The solution is right under our noses and the implications are vast.
http://www.ingenesist.com
LOL to say Joyent and you guys committing a bunch of high performance stuff but the video posted on Joyent doesn’t contain even proper voices.
Did you guys really check the video before posting it.
Good Luck
Great article. I just discoverd this blog while I was doing some innovation research. I wish the website was still active.