Monday, April 1, 2019

The Monthly “IT Innovation” Book Tuning: Running IT as Innovation Threshold Apr 2019

IT has to learn the business; be the business and become the business.

Within abundant information and emergent digital technologies, IT is a key component of holistic business mindset to re-imagine “what is possible” - unleashing business potentials and improving business efficiency, effectiveness, agility, and maturity. The art of possible to reinvent IT in the digital age is to deliver the value of information in helping businesses grow, delight customers and doing more with innovation.


  Re-imagine IT as the Innovation Threshold


Running IT as Innovation Threshold? Digital is the age of innovation. Innovation management is about transforming new ideas to achieve their business value. Innovation is what leads to differentiation. When looking at businesses or organizations, any innovation practice today is always a combination of people, process, and technology. The most powerful innovation navigation system involves tapping the organization's ecosystem for collective perspectives and knitting all critical business elements such as people, process, and technology into differentiated innovation competency in which IT is the threshold.

Leverage Design Factors to Reinvent IT? A digital organization starts with a transcendent purpose that leads to a unique natural design, a design most fit to achieve the purpose of businesses. IT is the linchpin of the business’s digital transformation. It could be necessary to reinvent IT by applying Design Thinking and asking tough questions: What factors drive the restructuring or IT innovation? How is the structure of your IT department aligned with the organization? Do you allow room for adjustments, keeping it dynamic, and how can you leverage design factors to improve IT maturity from functioning to firm to delight?

Running IT to Shape Innovative Workforce? We live in the knowledge economy, digital workplace encompasses so much that it's hard to isolate it from other dimensions of the enterprise. With information fluidity, knowledge abundance, and powerful technologies, the digital era upon us is the age of people, people are the focal point of any organizational design, technology application, or process optimization. IT is the linchpin of digital transformation, how to run a people-centric IT organization to shape innovative digital workforces and improve overall business performance and maturity?

Running IT as the Business Growth Engine: IT organizations are at the crossroad, either continue to be a commodity IT service provider or reinvent itself to become a business growth engine. To keep relevant, IT should help the company achieve its business objectives in any way possible. IT has to learn the business; be the business and become the business. Then, you can run IT as the growth engine of the business, suggest and implement IT-enable business solutions that move the company forward.

Running Design-Led Digital IT  IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage, it plays a pivotal role in orchestrating the business’s digital transformation. Design Thinking is a unique path of pursuing innovation. Digital CIOs need to wear their design thinking hat to tap the creative side of IT. The strategic objective of design thinking can fundamentally change organizations, build a strong brand, improve the overall organizational maturity and make the societal impact.

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