Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
By Nicholas D. Evans
10 CIO resolutions for 2022
Is advancing your career on your personal to-do list for the new year? Let these ideas be your guide.
10 strategic tech trends for the infrastructure industry in 2022
The time has come for digital transformation in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry. Here are 10 technology trends that will shape the future of infrastructure.3 tips for combatting not-invented-here syndrome
Company culture and internal politics can block ideas at any time as they make their perilous journey from concept to value. These techniques will help you knock down those barriers to innovation.
How (and why) to create an emerging technology heat map
Use this rapid assessment tool to uncover the emerging technologies and trends that are of strategic importance to the business.
Consequential innovation: 4 tips for unlocking hidden growth opportunities
For innovation to be consequential, you must strike the right balance between incremental innovation and disruptive innovation. Here's how to get started.16 traits of a world class chief innovation officer
Your innovation program, and the role of the CINO, is too important to leave to chance. Make sure whoever holds the top innovation job has these essential qualities.
9 best practices for better innovation
Following these steps for prioritizing ideas will help you seize the most promising opportunities.
Building enterprise agility
Why and how to foster this key capability in your organization
3 steps to developing a risk response advisory system
Much like DEFCON is used in the U.S. Armed Forces to react to changing threat levels, your enterprise needs its own PANDCON to deal with changing pandemic conditions. Here's how to get started.
5 ways to fast-track your next AI implementation
Some quick wins around this important enabling technology can further the business case for more investment in broader digital transformation and innovation initiatives.
Introducing the “lazy economy” business model and implications for CIOs
As you explore the art of the possible around the lazy economy, here are three implications and recommendations for senior IT leaders.![Why you don’t need a Chief [insert new tech name here] Officer](https://www.cio.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/boardroom_job-opening_executive-in-silhouette_empty-chair_new-job-100760295-orig.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=300&h=200&crop=1)
Why you don’t need a Chief [insert new tech name here] Officer
The next time you read a call to action about the need for a new CXO role, you can apply these three steps to take a more disciplined approach to getting to grips with the technology or trend and seizing the opportunity.
Taking a counterintuitive approach to business strategy and technology deployment
As CIOs embrace disruptive technologies, a counterintuitive approach to strategy and execution is key.
Digital transformation with purpose: Making the shift towards balanced business models
As companies continue to work on their digital transformation initiatives and to make steady progress, it’s vitally important to re-visit goals and objectives along the way.
Drones in the supply chain: the evolving drone landscape and ecosystem
The integration of drones into the supply chain is upon the enterprise.
5 design considerations for your design thinking workshop
The most productive ideation workshops, and those with the best customer experience, are those that have a unique DNA comprised of strategy, people, process, technology and which have been refined and optimized over years of experience.
How the Walmart-Microsoft partnership builds on the four strategic themes for digital transformation
Digital transformation insights from Microsoft's worldwide lead for retail strategy examining the strategies of their Walmart partnership.
4 ways artificial intelligence will shape the future of learning technology
Artificial intelligence-enabled strategic themes and scenarios will be hallmarks of leading education practices.
The 4 biggest cultural barriers to corporate innovation
It's important to be aware of the following warning signs – and to have a strategy to counter – if you want your company to be a world-class innovator.
SAP Ariba’s platform strategy
A discussion with Barry Padgett, President, SAP Ariba.
Navigating artificial intelligence strategy in your industry
Considering the impact of the artificial intelligence (AI) on your industry's business models, processes, products and services.
5 ways for public sector leaders to accelerate innovation in 2018
Different approaches that can help to further advance the way ideas are sourced, shared, scoped and shepherded through the innovation process, so that public sector organizations can improve the yield of ideas moving through their pipelines.
No more Post-It’s: The case for software in your digital innovation sessions
Great ideation software should be almost “invisible” when in use so the focus becomes almost exclusively on the ideas and their merits.
4 strategic themes for digital transformation in 2018
With so much focus on specific trends and technologies in the world of digital transformation, it’s often valuable to step back and make sure you can see the forest for the trees.How digital is helping the RNLI to save lives at sea
Every day of every year, people of all backgrounds get into danger in the water. Here's how the Royal National Lifeboat Institution employs “digital” to support a very important and highly-specific mission – that of saving lives at sea.
Platform business models: 4 key steps for implementation
Platform business models are a very different animal from traditional IT projects, they often involve the entire company and require multiple business units to come together and stay in close alignment.
The evolving role of the Chief Digital Officer
What started as a role close to that of the CMO has now evolved into something far-more expansive u2013 reaching into corporate strategy, innovation, technology and operations. More than ever, visionary CIOs are in an excellent position to pick up the mantle of CDO and to become u201ctransformer-in-chiefu201d.
Bitcoin lessons from the California gold rush
We’re at the beginning of another “Kodak moment” as the world shifts more and more towards bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. As the world transforms, the lessons from the California gold rush may help you put your best foot (or shovel) forward.Assessing your organization’s digital transformation maturity
While there are perennial capabilities and skills that are required for business success – investment, leadership, culture, change management, governance – digital transformation requires new capabilities that organizations need to acquire and develop mastery around.Assessing your organization’s digital transformation maturity
While there are perennial capabilities and skills that are required for business success (e.g. investment, leadership, culture, change management and governance), digital transformation requires new capabilities that organizations need to acquire and develop mastery around.
4 key techniques for continuous improvement in corporate innovation
There's a lot of attention paid to how to design and implement corporate innovation programs, but not how to effectively operate these programs and capabilities in a sustainable way.
4 considerations for navigating 'innovation antibodies' and 'innovation theater'
Many innovation leaders need to carefully navigate the waters between too much resistance to innovation from corporate antibodies and, conversely, too much enthusiasm for innovation from those wishing to put on theater.
Digital sustainability: Digital transformation’s next big opportunity
It’s time to think about how we can reduce our environmental “exhaust” through new digitally-sustainable business models and processes.
6 ways the digital-physical blur is affecting your money
The banking industry as well as the high-tech industry is continuing to experiment with the art of the possible, particularly around the digital-physical blur of payments and redesigned business processes. After more than 65 years of traditional credit cards, 50 years of cash machines, and nearly 20 years of contactless payments, almost everything is up for reimagination.5 digital business predictions for 2017
While discrete technology trends often get all the attention in New Year's lists, this coming year will be highlighted by organizations taking a more holistic focus on digital transformation with an increasing number of "world-firsts" as vertical industries refine their mastery of digital business.Platform business models: A primer
Platform business models can be a powerful ecosystem for value exchange and innovation. Here is a primer on the definition and benefits of platform business models and some go-forward strategy recommendations for executives and managers.The future of innovation management software
Today, the market for innovation management software is highly fragmented and centered on the idea-management portion of the innovation life cycle. Here are five areas where today's software needs to evolve over the next few years to best support continuous digital innovation.The IoT past, present and future
Professor Sanjay Sarma is best known for his ground-breaking work with Kevin Ashton and David Brock in co-founding the MIT Auto-ID Center. It was during this period back in 1999 that the term “Internet of Things” was coined and “things” truly started to get connected to the Internet.Blockchain’s split personality: Digital disruption or digital distraction?
When deluged with so much information, and stark differences in opinion, it’s worth looking at the facts and formulating a go-forward approach which is appropriate for blockchain’s relative maturity in the market and your organizations appetite for risk.Digital business ecosystems and platforms: 5 new rules for innovators
Just as there's a dominant technology platform for digital business, comprised of a set of foundational emerging and disruptive technologies, there's also a dominant new business model emerging in the form of digital business ecosystems.3 steps to a lean innovation workshop
If you're managing any aspect of innovation for your organization, particularly innovation workshops or other initiatives in support of targeted ideation, here are some steps to ensure your activities pass — and even exceed — the litmus test in terms of "lean" principles.How the Industrial Internet builds on the new platform for digital business
More than just the IoT and big data/fast data/data analytics, the real potential of the Industrial Internet and Industry 4.0 will be realized by the holistic combination of a key set of technology enablers to deliver “dynamic, real-time optimized, self-organizing value chains”.9 key questions to ask of your next digital business initiative
Here's a list of nine key questions to ask of your next digital business initiative — not just on the vision, value proposition and differentiation of the product or service itself, but on your entire business model and how you intend to go to market.Digital business predictions for 2016
In 2016, as the race to digital transformation progresses, we’ll start to see the leaders separate themselves from the rest of the pack by setting a firm pace that’s fueled by five essential ingredients.Digital business lessons from the world of Formula One
With all the interest in digital transformation in the business world, what can the world of Formula One, where results are measured in thousandths of a second, teach us about emerging technologies and how to manage, combine and optimize them to deliver competitive advantage?The 5 critical pillars of innovation management capability
Every three to five years the map of the world in terms of innovation is redrawn as organizations change strategic direction, bring in new leaders and/or respond to market threats and opportunities. Here are five critical pillars of innovation management capability that need to be a part of any large-scale initiative.6 steps for digital transformation
How should an organization think beyond the strategy and get to transformative execution and outcomes for digital business? Here are six steps for digital transformation that you can take to progress from innovative strategy development, to an architectural framework, to practical execution.
How digital business disrupts the five forces of industry competition
Exactly why is digital business so disruptive to traditional business models and traditional notions of industry competition? A useful way to analyze the situation is by looking at Porter's model of the five forces of industry competition and exploring how digital business is impacting each of the various forces.Instrumenting the human and socializing the machine
When it comes to the digital workplace, the popular opinion, and fear, is that machines are encroaching upon human work activities and taking an ever larger percentage of this work away for good, Fortunately, this doesn’t take into account the realm of possibilities created when work processes are reimagined in the context of mutual human-machine collaboration.The wild, Wild West of IoT security
When it comes to IoT security, it’s the Wild West out there. One of the main problems is that security is often an afterthought, bolted onto solutions after the fact, once issues arise. Here are some steps to help you do things better.
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