Here is an excellent example of the innovator’s dilemma - the complexities of #socialconsciousness driving better #technologygovernance & #datagovernance in an environment desiring #speed and #agility. It’s a pattern we see all the time! A UK commissioner recently reprimanded NHS Lanarkshire (the national health service operating in a Scottish county) following the unauthorised use of #WhatsApp by 26 staff to share patients’ personal data over 500 times in two years. What’s the story? NHS Lanarkshire made limited use of WhatsApp available to staff as an environmental measure to increase speed and agility in response to the pandemic (working remotely, issues with IT systems, staff workload, etc). It seems the #cultural adoption of WhatsApp was too successful, such that not only did staff choose to use it for communicating patients’ #personaldata (especially images), but they also continued to do so well after the emergency of the pandemic. And then, a non-staff member was also added to the WhatsApp group in error, resulting in the inappropriate disclosure of personal information to an unauthorised individual. A clear break in public trust! The reprimand recognises the complexity, highlighting poor communication and training in data governance and WhatsApp as the root cause. However, it first points out NHS Lanarkshire’s insufficient balance in #risk assessment. Our read is it relied on staff behaviour to mitigate the open nature of the tool, seemingly without consummate measures in place. It’s not necessarily about saying no, but what it takes to say yes.

Why is #decarbonisation a focus of Innate Innovation? Why do organisations feel the pressure to respond #climatechange? The McKinsey Global Institute estimates the world needs to spend US $275 trillion between 2021 and 2050 under the NGFS Net Zero 2050 scenario. IEEE Spectrum’s Vaclav Smil provides some simple ways to understand just how significant that investment is... “By the time the Manhattan Project ended in 1946, it had cost the [USA] nearly US $2 billion, about $33 billion in today’s money, the total equal to only about 0.3% of the 1943-45 [GDP]. When Project Apollo ended in 1972, it had cost about $26 billion, or $207 billion in today’s money; over 12 years it worked out annually to about 0.2% of the country’s 1961-72 GDP.” “[$275 trillion over 30 years] implies an annual expenditure of about 10% of today’s world economic product.” That is, systemic decarbonisation is 50 times larger than our endeavour of getting people to the moon! We’re glad to be helping digital innovators play a vital and upfront role! #decarbonization

Having recently celebrated the first six months of Innate Innovation, we noticed a few big tech providers and users could readily access us, but much of our local industry couldn't. Part of the price of being niche and boutique. To expand our world-class technology strategy mandate to local industry, we needed help. Founded within the pandemic period, serving local SMEs, and with a human-centric and paradigm-changing approach, Techtify's values and capabilities are the perfect synergy for Innate Innovation. Techtify and Innate Innovation recently announced a collaborative venture to provide strategy services as part of Techtify's one-stop-shop approach for technology needs and to drive the novel Techtify approach to market further. ... or watch our 1 minute clip. "Having assisted peak innovators in fulfilling their commercial and social obligations through technology, partnering with Techtify is the optimal approach to making sought-after strategy, advise and implementation available to many", said Steve Quenette, Principal advisor & CEO of Innate Innovation "People are at the heart of what we do - offering strategy services to our comprehensive portfolio ensures our clients can begin to address the complex issues of our times," said Brent Valle, CEO of Techtify. Through Techtify, some of our best learnings and insights are available as smaller pieces and integrated into existing value/product streams.

Innate Innovation’s mission is to help organisations unblock the pathways to innovation and unlock #sustainability value through digital technology. Humankind adds another 33 billion tonnes of #carbon dioxide to the atmosphere annually by burning fossil fuels. A proactive #energytransition posture or “going green” can serve two purposes - drive consumption efficiencies leading to more significant operating margins in the short term, and improve the #socialconsciousness towards your brand in the longer term. The question is ROI. Is offsetting a sustainable decarbonisation option? We have all heard of the inauthenticity in the carbon offset marketplace. But are a few bad apples enough to reconsider the offset, versus change towards sustainable technology? We decided share another reason why we need to innovate and decarbonise the digital landscape. Here’s the summary of the A tonne of fossil carbon isn’t the same as a tonne of new trees: why offsets can’t save us article. "Planting trees does not lock carbon away again deep underground" - necessary for maintaining a carbon/warming balance. "Instead, the introduced fossil carbon remains part of the active carbon cycle" - because releasing that carbon into the atmosphere is (e.g.) a bushfire away. What should we invest in to yield short- and long-term financial outcomes? Have we passed the inflection point where investment is necessary to be competitive? How do we measure and create a corporate (or product) environment that better guarantees an ROI target? And specifically in the #cloud, #HPC, #AI, #LLM and #data space? The space within which we excel!

Supersized and specialised computer chip-making factories - foundries - are where most of the computer chips we use today come from. The Taiwanese company TSMC has nearly 60% of the global foundry market. This article's headline is forward in suggesting TSMC is #greenwashing. The headline does reflect the growing #socialconsciousness (and increasingly regulatory environment) driving the materiality of green claims. On the one hand, TSMC's twenty-year clean (solar) energy purchase is a good, albeit small, step. It will only reduce a tiny part of their carbon footprint. Conversely, TMSC has recognised early their suppliers' need to catch up in #decarbonisation so that TMSC can materially reach #netzero. Thus through this new initiative, TMSC actively incentivises their suppliers towards net zero by reserving half of this new #cleanenergy for use by those suppliers. It is an example of innovative behaviour-changing approaches available when adopting #energyasaservice strategies. #decarbonization

Welcome to Innate Innovation! Digital innovation can be innate to a sustainable, equitable and inclusive world. We help technology-driven organisations adapt to social consciousness and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) priorities. Founded by Steve Quenette, discover how our strategy and advisory services balance leadership, culture, and #technology to knock down the complexity wall. #datagovernance #cybersecurity #decarbonization #decarbonisation #cloudcomputing "Through Innate Innovation, I hope to share pioneering insights with leaders across multiple sectors", said Steve Quenette, Innate Innovation CEO.

Tagging along with Brent Valle / Techtify yesterday, visiting the Victorian Institute of Sport we came across a reminder that will excite all those with an inner athlete...

Product-market fit is a marvellous thing! Aussie ingenuity, investment, skills and a little help from Innate Innovation to cast and ratify truly global & sustainability-based technology play! #gotomarket #strategy Our client Firmus and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres have just announced a massive join-venture to roll out their ultra-sustainable AI computing platform - the HyperCube, across STT's global sites. Firmus is pioneering the combination of #modularDCs, #immersion and NVIDIA #DGX / #OVX at scale. The result - Sustainable Metal Cloud, is the quickest and cleanest way to source #generativeAI scale of #GPU #cloud resources! #sustainability #decarbonisation #decarbonization #hpc

Our Emily giving a bit of time giving to Very Special Kids 24-hour Treadmill Challenge (team: the young & the restless) last Friday

This article is an excellent introduction to scope 1, scope 2 & scope 3 for #cloud computing by Adrian Cockcroft. Meaningful measurement of your own, your project's and your whole organisation's #carbonemissions is challenging. A focus of Innate Innovation is to help organisations understand their footprint at both cultural and technological levels. We are keen to hear from organisations big and small in any field. Do you feel adequately aware of how to measure? How to develop an internal social licence for computing's #sustainability? How to win at an #energytransition over time?

Released last week, listen to our founder Steve Quenette speaking about all things #innateinnovation - the confluence of #decarbonisation, #innovationculture, #AI, #LLM #quantumcomputing and #cybersecurity. Episode #47 now LIVE! Steve is known in tech circles as a prominent #cloudbuilder and we go deep in discussing the 'Microcosm of Future Digital Societies'

Who is responsible for bad code in free software? Is it about to change? The Python Software Foundation has expressed "concern that proposed #EU #cybersecurity laws will leave #opensource organisations and individuals unfairly liable for distributing incorrect code". Let's put the legal journey aside for a moment. Python Software Foundation's concerns illuminate a conundrum in every innovative organisation. #Innovation and #cybersecurity are diametrically opposite without purposeful consideration. We need both, but without getting in each other's way. We'll have to see how amendments and legal interpretation play out. However, we all want underlying open-source software to exhibit best practices in governance, which these foundations embody. Foundations require funding to exist, which means it's natural for them to sell something (e.g. as indirect as t-shirts and as direct as training & certification, but they don't sell the software itself). Under the EU's proposed "Cyber Resilience Act" and "Product Liability Act", such foundations could be interpreted as software companies. Under such an interpretation, the foundation and possibly the individual contributor are as liable as an entity making commercial gains from software. Yet that contributor made no financial gain from their contribution. Let's assume it plays out this way. Then the long-term result would be the loss of the global innovations bought about by open source (which underpins nearly everything digital today). Another possible solution is to provide an exception for such software and foundations. The concern then becomes we also need to ensure companies that deploy open-source software are appropriately liable. It's easy to see exploitations of such exceptions unfairly affecting contributors or consumers. We'll have to watch this space.