Managing IT for Innovation

Regardless of the innovation strategy your organization has adopted, and no matter what kind of innovations you have decided to pursue, you will almost always have to deal with information technology professionals at some time during the process.

Technology is at the center of most production and productivity in many industries, from those dominated by industrial age economics to the emerging innovation economy companies that are presently leading the charge to recovery.

Because of this, information technology may either be considered a necessary evil preventing getting things done, or alternatively, a huge enabler of competitive advantage and worker productivity. Your perspective will likely depend on the way in which your IT organization deals with change on a daily basis.

No matter the perception of the information technology group, there is a key thing that those responsible for innovation will find very hard to avoid: the extreme emphasis that most IT professionals place on minimizing change. There are excellent reasons they do this, though it presents significant difficulties for innovators, whose whole role is to create valuable, productive change.

In information technology organizations, there will likely be change teams, in fact, whose sole role in life is to make it as hard as possible to change anything. They will rationalize their existence using lines such as "we are here to protect service" or "up-time is our number one priority". And for those times when change is impossible to avoid there will be a number of gates and governance processes in places designed to make things as difficult as possible. At least, from the perspective of innovators, that is.

Innovation teams have an answer in a disciplined focus of the rigors of Innovation Management. They provide a positive way to manage technologists in an organization, because they create a set of tools and processes that demonstrate value to technologists as well as innovators. They enable the team to show that change is in the best interests of the organization, and, more often than not, in the interests of IT as well.

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For more information on innovation management to support IT, James Gardner has written an online innovation book, available at no cost as a resource to the community.

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