Six Ground-Breaking Innovation Management Concepts
This paper discusses six concepts that, in the authors’ opinion, have fundamentally shaped the meaning of innovation management in the past 25 years.
December 14, 2011
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IT Innovation Collection – Page 4
CIO Agenda for IT Innovation and Competitiveness
This presentation discusses the imperative for information technology innovation, the emerging role of the CIO in fostering IT innovation, and effective IT organization practices that implement the CIOs innovation agenda.
November 1, 2011
Success Factors to Design and Implement Service Excellence
This article discusses the importance of service excellence and introduces a six dimensional framework to turbo charge your customer management strategy.
November 1, 2011
Developing an Open Innovation Capability
The authors present a case for technology transfer – in-bound and out-bound – integrating the perspectives of technology source and recipient through a discussion on the "potential interactions of absorptive and desorptive capacity in interorganizational technology transfer."
October 24, 2011
Creating Business Value Through Innovation
This article presents a framework for innovation management for sustainable business value and discusses different kinds of value creation and operating contexts within this framework.
October 20, 2011
IT Innovation for Competitive Advantage
This article details the use of innovation in information technology at United Parcel Service (UPS) to create competitive advantage. The discussion focuses on five specific business opportunities enabled by IT that created value for the organization.
October 17, 2011
A Framework for Strategic Innovation
This paper describes a holistic, multidisciplinary framework that enables organizations to take a strategic approach to innovation.
April 18, 2011
Idea Competitions and Breakthrough Innovation
This paper describes the surge of interest in the phenomenon of leveraging competitive spirit to create breakthrough ideas and outlines the factors critical for the success of competitions that seek ideas from company employees.
April 18, 2011
The Coherence Premium
Is your strategy revenue focused? Some companies start by building differentiated capabilities aligned to market opportunities – the author argues that the market rewards them with sustained superior results.
March 24, 2011
How to Run IT Like a Business
This step by step guide to running an information technology organization like a value center. Running IT like a business is the imperative because it maximizes return on investment, and provides excellent business IT alignment. However, most organizations cannot transform themselves from a cost center focus to a value driven focus. Here is some helpful guidance for CIOs who want to undertake this transformation. Excellent Read!
January 10, 2011