The link between IT and innovation

I’m always on the look out for viewpoints on the links between and IT and innovation and I found some good thoughts here on the Synergize IT blog:

• One of the reasons for M&As is to harness the potential and intellectual capital in the other organisation
• Innovation at a departmental level will receive departmental results
• IT can enable innovation to happen smoothly across boundaries
• IT should make it really easy for people to get to where they would like to go and allow the ideas to flow

We know that technology has enabled the enormous burst of growth of intellectual capital in the knowledge economy. Good management and good IT management are getting harder and harder to separate.

Getting Paid for Intangibles

Interesting look by Lucent-Alcatel here at “Business Transformation: Advanced Business Models for Converged Communications.” You don’t have to be in the communications business to find this article inspiring. They are making the case to companies that have traditionally built their businesses off the sale of “tangible” communication networks that they need to expand their revenue activities into intangibles. This is a shift that technology and product companies throughout the economy are making with increased frequency. It’s also a great illustration of how IT and IC have become so tightly intertwined in many companies.

The list of options includes services, asset sharing, outsourcing, advertising, fulfillment and community building, among others. This list could help you think about new revenue options in your own business. It’s also interesting to note that the last section of the piece highlights Lucent-Alcatel’s consulting services to help their equipment customers–a good example of how L-A has adapted their own revenue strategy to market needs and opportunties.

The Right C’s

An article just came out on CFO.com entitled “Who Needs a COO?” Reading it, I couldn’t help but think about the many articles I see all the time in Information Week about the changing role of the CIO. And it all makes me think that there is something that is still missing Read more

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