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 of IT as a business asset and threatens the competitive health and long-term survival of their enterprise. The modern CIO must reassert the operational and strategic importance of IT to the enterprise and reintegrate it with every department and level of the business from boardroom to mail room.
The authors, top 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 hundreds of case studies and specific examples, The Innovative CIO shows you how to :
*Take advantage of the IT and business innovation opportunities being 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.
