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.