InformationWeek:
CIOs don’t have to be idea people. They have to make ideas work.
I’m following up on the excellent blog written by my colleague Mitch Wagner about Ram Charan’s presentation here at the InformationWeek 500 conference in Tucson, Ariz. Charan is an internationally known business and management consultant, and the author of several best-selling books on those subjects.
Charan likes to talk about innovation - how innovation is the key to driving businesses forward into new markets, new ways of doing things, and, in particular, new ways of making money. Not only can technology managers participate in that business innovation, they can (should be) leaders of it, given how critical technology is to driving new ways of doing business.
But what is innovation - and how do you generate it? According to Charan, an IT manager might say to him, ‘Ram, I’m not an idea person. What can I do?’
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