For CIOs (Length: 17 pages)

February 21, 2008

IT Can Help Accelerate Business Innovation

Making Product, Business Model, And Process Change Sustainable

This is the first document in the "Making Innovation Sustainable" series.

by Bobby Cameron

with Laurie M. Orlov, Alex Cullen, Tim DeGennaro


Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Innovation has reached the level of near-meaningless cliché, with execs wishing they were engaged in more of it — even though these execs are unclear about what they want. For their part, CIOs want to create a greater role for IT in business innovation, but it's no longer appropriate for IT to have a separate IT-enabled definition. Why? Innovation is a company challenge, given that technology is increasingly embedded in every aspect of an enterprise. Instead, CIOs should work with their peers to adopt a five-step innovation pipeline process to accelerate the pace of innovation, including: invention and discovery; validation of viability; incubation and investment; implementation and commercialization; and monitoring, measurement, and reward.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemCEOs And CIOs Want Innovation — But Words And Deeds Don't Match

itemAccelerating Business Innovation Requires A Solid Foundation

itemBuilding A Sustainable Innovation Pipeline Process

recommendations

itemCIOs: You Have A Role To Play

WHAT IT MEANS

itemAre You And Your Firm Ready For Innovation?

Forrester interviewed 20 senior executives from such companies as Accenture, AT&T, Brooks Health, Capgemini, Con-Way, Dominic Barrow, Going Global Ventures, IBM, Kimberly-Clark, Konica-Minolta, Lionbridge, Merck, Security Benefit Group, Spectrum Health, and ZRG and experts from Carnegie Mellon University, the Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, Olin College, and the Society for Information Management.

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Analyst: Bobby Cameron
Technology: B2B Sales & Marketing, Innovation Networks, IT Management, Serving the Business
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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