Strategic Innovations

Please take time to read the formal charter document below for an in-depth exploration on the importance of capabilities-driven growth and the role of innovation as a formal business capability for DDC. Follow the link below to view the current draft:
DDC Strategic Innovations Charter

Are you a subject-matter expert and willing to help grow our shared Intellectual Capital? We need experts in software development, cloud adoption, cybersecurity, DevSecOps, agile methodologies and all things data to author capability slick, whitepapers and delivery methodologies!

Do you have thoughts about how to improve our client's operations? Ideas for a new tool or improved process that would benefit our teams or our customer? We want to hear from you!

Would your customers or potential customers benefit from seeing a working prototype of a tool or app? Need a software lab environment to try out new technologies? The DDC Strategic Innovation Team is here to help!

Whitepapers are a longer-form medium suitable for in-depth exploration of DDC capabilities, innovations and thought leadership on a variety of topics. Whitepapers exist as a specific type of artifact within DDC's canon of shared, tangible intellectual capital and are carefully positioned between the short-form, marketing like language found in a capability slick and the more comprehensive treatment of a given discipline found in a capability delivery playbook. To that end, a whitepaper will typically have a corresponding capability slick and be directly related to a larger discipline covered by one of our delivery capability playbooks. This provides our SMEs, technologists and functional experts across DDC a great deal of flexibility in the topics they can address while still staying well within DDC strategic guardrails.

Capability Delivery Playbooks are a type of DDC shared intellectual capital which represent an encapsulation of DDC's methodology or approach to execution and carry the DDC Spectrum branding. Playbooks are developed to address key practices areas within each of DDC's Digital Transformation themed focus areas including Data Enablement, Data Science, Cloud Adoption, Modern Software Development and ITSM/DevOps. Inasmuch as Playbook content is targeted towards guiding and ensuring quality delivery, most Playbook content will be considered company proprietary. Our Innovation Capability Leads are responsible for identifying, prioritizing and leading Playbook development based on their assigned area of focus.

Capability Slicks are one page, selling focused documents which summarizes the differentiated value proposition of a specific capability, technique, process, methodology or innovation provided by our DDC family of companies. These documents are designed to be printed on high quality paper or card stock and serve as introductory or leave-behind materials for existing or potential clients. These documents have also proven to be a reliable source of ready-made, cut-n-paste materials for RFI's, SOOs and other brief response opportunities. Delivery teams can use these documents to support tactical selling opportunities.

Outside of capability slicks and whitepapers, this content showcases specific accomplishments in a variety of mediums. This includes capabilities we've developed for internal usage, demos we've presented to existing or prospective clients or content developed for reach back engagements. We also showcase content developed by the Communities of Practice and Communities of Interest (CoP/CoI) we sponsor.

Our extended team of innovation professionals, solution architects and accomplished technologists are encouraged to develop and maintain a healthy degree of industry engagement. This section showcases presentation materials, blog content and videos where our team has presented at a variety of industry, professional, technical and customer conferences and forums.