Hunter Muller

Leading the Epic Revolution (eBook, ePUB)

How CIOs Drive Innovation and Create Value Across the Enterprise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A must-read leadership guide for CIOs and executives whose careers depend on creating value and growth through continuous innovation Innovation is the hot topic. Everyone's talking about it, but there seems to be a lot of misperceptions about getting it done. Innovating for Growth and Value is aimed at CIOs and other technology leaders in the modern enterprise. This insider's guide to innovation presents repeatable processes, detailed methodologies, and robust frameworks for innovation and continuous transformation in today's fast-paced business environments. It provides actionable programs for developing and successfully executing profitable and repeatable innovation strategies. * Focuses on specific critical areas where innovation is imperative * Features real-world stories and revealing anecdotes * Presents interviews from international companies such as Netflix, IBM, Cisco, Boeing, Facebook, Intel, Microsoft, McKesson, Flextronics, and more Without innovation, your company cannot compete and cannot survive. So the real question isn't whether to innovate or not. The real question is how to innovate and make innovation strategies work in the modern enterprise. Thoughtfully written and carefully researched, Innovating for Growth and Value grasps the central truth about innovation with a wealth of information made truly valuable for IT leaders and CIOs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118431948
• Artikelnr.: 38485108

Autorenporträt

HUNTER MULLER is the President and CEO of HMG Strategy, LLC, an established provider of networking events and professional services to CIOs and senior executives across the IT industry. He has more than twenty years of experience in business strategy consulting with a strong focus on IT organization development, strategy, and business alignment.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction xix Chapter 1 The Innovation
Challenge 1 The Psychology of Innovation 6 An Expanding Range of Influence
7 Speed and Failure Are Essential in Continuous Innovation Strategies 8
Fail Fast and Fail Smart 10 The New Speed of Change 12 Focus on the
Business Challenge, Not on the Technology 14 In the Modern Enterprise, True
Innovation Takes Many Shapes and Forms 18 Chapter 2 Governance Trumps
Process 23 Being a Leader of Innovation at an Innovative Enterprise 27
Great Companies Avoid the "Me Too" Syndrome When Innovating 29 Cycles of
Innovation and Adoption 32 Good CIOs Are Leaders at All Stages of
Innovation 34 From Enabler to Innovator: The Evolving Image of the CIO 36
Replacing Up and Down with Left to Right 38 Creating a Culture of
Innovation 40 Converting Ideas into Successful New Products and Services 41
Chapter 3 Leveraging Multiple Skill Sets 45 Networking and Connecting 48
Overcoming Obstacles to Innovation 49 Two Types of Thinking 50 Overcoming
Habits 51 Breaking Through and Moving Forward 53 Professor of Innovation 55
Leveraging the Cloud and Thriving on Innovation 57 Chapter 4 Accelerating
Innovation 61 In the Modern Enterprise, IT Is the Backbone of Innovation 69
Underlying Principles of Innovation 72 A Practical Taxonomy of Innovation
73 The Mouse in the Maze 74 Managing Innovation Across the Enterprise 77
Eight Action Steps for Driving Innovation 79 Chapter 5 Innovation Begins
with Business Strategy 85 The New Face of IT Executive Leadership 88
Improvisational Skills Can Elevate Innovation Leadership Capabilities 90
Blending Innovation and Operations 95 Innovating in the Battle Against
Cancer 97 Focusing on Value Creation, Improved Margins, and Staying Ahead
of the Trend Curve 99 Escaping the Pull of the Past 101 Chapter 6 Evolving
Relationships Across the C-Suite 105 From Captain to Coach, from
Controlling to Enabling 109 Connecting the Dots Between Innovation and
Analytics 111 Digging Deeper into Big Data 115 Innovation in the Age of the
Industrial Internet 118 Moving Toward the Customer 120 Lining Up the
Innovation Roadmaps 122 Designing Practical Innovation Strategies 126
Managing Between Extremes 129 Three Complementary Pairs of Roles 130
Chapter 7 Why Credible Leadership Matters 131 Do Not Hesitate to Be a
Leader 134 Sometimes Getting Out of the Way Is the First Step to Achieving
Innovation 137 Innovation Conundrum 139 Accelerating Innovation Through
Partnerships 141 A Shifting Mindset 145 Leading Innovation and Driving
Transformation 148 Managing the Merger of Culture and Technology 149 Two
Tiers of IT Innovation in the Modern Global Enterprise 151 A Role Model for
Innovation and Leadership 153 The Next Big Wave: IT Value Creation 156
Where Innovation Begins: Understanding the Goals and Objectives of the
Business 157 The Four Dimensions of Continuous Innovation and IT
Transformation 160 Building a Hybrid Platform for Continuous Innovation 162
Making the Case for Top-Down Innovation in the Enterprise 164 Avoiding "the
Emperor Has No Clothes" Syndrome 165 Chapter 8 Leveraging Social
Collaboration to Drive Innovation 169 Tangible Results Through Social Media
172 Embracing the Social Workforce 175 Putting Innovation in the Hands of
Users 177 Innovation and Social Collaboration 180 Chapter 9 Living with
Uncertainty 183 Keep Your Eyes on the B2B Internet 188 Trust, Freedom, and
Responsibility: Keys to Transformational Leadership and Continuous
Innovation 190 Key Traits of Innovative IT Leaders 192 Security Is Integral
to IT Strategy 195 Maintaining Credibility: You Have to Know When to Get
Down in the Weeds 196 Think Multiregional Before Committing to Global
Markets 199 Walking the Talk 201 For Many Reasons, Now Is the Perfect Time
to Be the CIO 203 Revisiting the Relationship Between Innovation and
Entrepreneurship 205 The Emerging Ecosystem of Continuous Innovation and
Transformation 210 A Historic Moment 212 Recommended Reading 215 Meet Our
Sources 217 About the Author 297 About HMG Strategy, LLC 299 Index 301