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Without innovation, nothing happens.
CIO — People talk about innovation but they too often take it for granted. Innovation can drive economic growth, just like cell phones, PCs and the Internet did. It also increases the quality of life, with anything from new gadgets for entertainment to ...More…
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What Your Team Can Learn About Innovation from The Simpsons
CIO — Probably the only technical qualification to put Joel Cohen, a writer and associate producer of The Simpsons, in front of the keynote crowd at the Red Hat Summit in June was that Red Hat Enterprise 5 was used to render some of the animation in ...More…
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Why You Need To Plan for Innovation Today
CIO — We all have a tendency to only look at what we're doing today, instead of stepping back and asking, "What do we need to focus on for the future?" Taking that step back is actually a step toward innovation and away from stagnation. Maybe you ...More…
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How to Fund IT Innovation
CIO — CIOs know that their organizations must keep up with rapidly evolving technologies as well as lead the enterprise in the discovery of strategic uses of IT. But with the daily pressures of business, many find there's just not enough time and money ...More…
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Want Innovation from Outsourcing? You Have to Pay for It
CIO — I remember my dad's Model A Ford. (Yeah, I'm that old.) It had a rumble seat in the back that I loved to bounce around in, and it was a beautiful, deep, bottle green. The fact that it came in green was a big deal because its predecessor, the ...More…
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Innovation killer #4: Create an obstacle course for ideas.
CIO — Innovation may be the obvious business mandate, but plenty of companies are guilty of creating a culture where a good idea has as much opportunity to take root as most of us have of winning the lottery. What gives? For starters, the creative ...More…
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The Secrets of IT Innovation
CIO — The 2007 Boston Consulting Group's innovation survey of 2,468 senior executives worldwide found that although companies are spending more on innovation, many are dissatisfied with the return on those investments. And although innovation may seem ...More…
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Collaboration for Innovation: How to Bridge the Gap
CIO — Erin Griffin, CIO and vice president of IT at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) and Mitch Davis, CIO of Bowdoin College, met three summers ago at Snowmass, near Aspen, Colo., during a conference on academic computing. They chatted, shared ...More…
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The Role of IT in Innovation: Friend or Foe?
CIO — Here's IT as an innovation enabler: An innovative IT team moves forward in step with the changing demands of the business-sometimes a little behind, sometimes in front, but for the most part, keeping in sync. That's how Stephen Agnoli, CIO at ...More…
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CIO's Exclusive Outsourcing and Innovation Survey
CIO — Percent Dissatisfied With the Level of Innovation Provided By Dissatisfaction with the level of innovation provided by IT services providers is highest for IT buyers who initially outsourced for cost reasons or due to competitive or management ...More…
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IBM Expands Innovation Network
CIO — A new IBM Innovation Center in Dublin opened on July 11. It becomes the 34th such center IBM has opened around the world in an effort to build a network of support centers for midsize companies. The centers are designed to provide IBM expertise ...More…
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Innovation Lessons from Adult and Gaming Sites
CIO — When the two former advertising men started their own Web design company, Cubik Media, in the mid-1990s, one of their first clients was Eidos Entertainment, the company that makes the Tomb Raider video game. Part of the campaign used streaming ...More…