Successful organisations do two things well. Firstly, they innovate externally by, for instance, producing better products than their competitors. Secondly and just as importantly, they innovate inside their businesses.
The turbulent global economy has fundamentally changed the CIO’s role. A technology evangelist, innovator, operational expert and stakeholder manager are all part of the new CIO’s brief.
It’s a truism of promotion and advancement: The further up the corporate ladder you go, the less you have a view of what’s at the foot of it.
Innovation, it seems, is a rather difficult term to pin down. Few CIOs or IT leaders would admit to not being innovative, and yet ask them to define exactly what it means and you will get a wide variety of responses.