"Does your organization fumble when it comes to innovation? 'The
Innovative CIO' presents a pragmatic guide to overcoming the 10
'innovation killers' within your company." --Dennis McCafferty "CIO
Insight", 1/23/2013
(www.cioinsight.com/it-management/innovation/slideshows/ten-ways-to-kill-innovation/)
"Are you unwittingly stifling your employees' entrepreneurial spirit?
'The Innovative CIO' discusses 'innovation killers' that could be
holding back your small business or startup." --Paul Shread
"TIME/Business & Money", 1/29/2013
(business.time.com/2013/01/29/removing-barriers-to-innovation/#ixzz2JSrUlD3A)
The Chief Information Officer's influence in the business organization
has been waning for years. The rest of the C-suite has come to regard
Information Technology as slow, costly, error-prone, boring, and
unresponsive to business needs. This perception blinds company leaders
to the critical value IT can deliver and threatens the competitive
health and long-term survival of their enterprise.
The modern CIO must reassert the operational and strategic importance of
technology to the enterprise and reintegrate it with every department
and level of the business from boardroom to mailroom. IT leaders must
design, sell, and implement a vigorous culture of IT competence and
innovation that pervades the enterprise. The culture must be rooted in
bidirectional exchange across organizations and C-level policies that
drive technology innovation as the engine of business innovation.
The authors, international IT strategists and innovators, quantify the
benefits and risks of IT innovation, survey and rank the myriad
innovation opportunities from mature, new, and emerging technologies,
and identify the organizational structures and processes that have been
proven to deliver ongoing innovation. Buttressing their brief with
dozens of case studies and specific examples, The Innovative CIO shows
you how to:
- Take advantage of the IT and business innovation opportunities created
by new and emerging technologies
- Shift IT innovation from afterthought to prime mover in strategic
business planning
- Inject IT into the dynamic core of your organization's culture,
training, structure, practice, and policy
