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Thu, Nov 12, 2009 12:09 EST
At Last: Some Real-world Innovation Talk
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Posted by: Jim Malone in Best Practices Topic: Enterprise Management
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Sometimes I think "If I hear one more analyst pontificating on 'innovation' I'm gonna yank their power supply."
And then I read a piece like CIO Joel R. Schwalbe's expert opinion over at infoBOOM!, the community site for mid-market CIOs sponsored by IBM and CIO magazine.
What's great about Joel's piece is it's a mini case study on how to organize for innovation at a mid-sized organization. How'd he do it? Well, he started here:
"I felt that our IT team wasn’t connecting enough with our business needs," Joel writes. "Following a series of executive meetings, it became clear that opportunities had been missed to better partner with the business. We had met our SLAs, but had failed to provide timely technical solutions to business challenges, which hurt our credibility."
Pain point established! Now for the solution: Go to infoBOOM! to read the whole piece and get in on the conversation.
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