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Proliferative Innovation: A New Game for CIOs
Ovum, Dec 2010, Pages: 20
Introduction
The ICT strategies of many organisations are dominated by consolidation and standardization, fewer moving parts, and less is more. While sensible for cutting costs and promoting integration, this approach is often resented by line-of-business colleagues because it frequently stifles innovation and differentiation.
Features and benefits
- This is a thought piece that gives CIOs and IT strategy folks some perspectives for thinking about how to manage the proliferation of new technologies- Five key strategies for coping with technology proliferation are proposed: virtualize, automate, orchestrate, secure, and influence.
Highlights
Proliferative innovation requires new strategies beyond the inherently futile quest for standardization. These include virtualizing and automating the provisioning of technology solutions, orchestrating and securing an increasingly wide range of externally delivered services, and influencing user decision-making.The enterprise IT agenda for the first decade of the new century was all about 'fewer moving parts' and 'less is more'. The next decade will be about 'more is more', with users in the driving seat. CIOs will need to get with the proliferative innovation game and its five key strategies: virtualize, automate, orchestrate, secure, and influence.For vendors, the game will be won by solutions that combine innovation in both 'user-appeal' and 'CIO appeal' - innovation in funtionality and usability as well as innovation in integration and in the creation of ecosystems which assist CIOs to implement the strategies of proliferative innovation.
Your key questions answered
- How should CIOs think about managing the proliferation of new technologies and what are the key strategies?
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