Managing Innovation

Instrumenting the human and socializing the machine

When it comes to the digital workplace, the popular opinion, and fear, is that machines are encroaching upon human work activities and taking an ever larger percentage of this work away for good, Fortunately, this doesnu2019t take into account the re....

The wild, Wild West of IoT security

When it comes to IoT security, itu2019s the Wild West out there. One of the main problems is that security is often an afterthought, bolted onto solutions after the fact, once issues arise. Here are some steps to help you do things better.

It’s time for a Digital Customer Experience Bill of Rights

Consumers now expect and even demand the same kinds of digital experiences from any company they deal with, regardless of industry.

5 lessons monkeys can teach us about innovation

Corporate innovation programs need to be living, breathing, socially connected entities. They need to constantly adapt to their environment, evolve as the target business outcomes of innovation evolve, follow natural rhythms in terms of event-based a....

Which industries best safeguard your personal information? Security perceptions vs. reality

When it comes to your personal information, which industries do you trust most, or least, with your data? How do some of the recent, highly publicized breaches affect your opinion in terms of which industries are most vulnerable, and how does this co....

8 classic (digital) business strategy moves from Apple Pay

Apple's recent announcement at its Worldwide Developers Conference of giving shoppers even more ways to pay via its Apple Pay service is an interesting example of a set of eight classic (digital) business strategy moves the company has executed ....

Beyond SMAC: The new platform for digital business

From being a former disruption to enterprise IT, SMAC technologies are now becoming the essential building blocks of a new platform for digital business initiatives.

Preparing for the digital disruption that’s coming to your industry

The business strategies and options regarding how and where to play in the future value chain are the same strategic decisions that organizations have needed to make for decades. What's new and different is the magnitude of potential business di....

Multi-modal ideation: 5 best practices for setting the rhythm of innovation

By implementing a multi-modal ideation approach, with both event-based and ongoing ideation vehicles, your organization will be well-poised to maximize the innovation potential across your diverse ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers and part....

Digital services mastery: A key competency for digital business

Mastery of digital services is going to become a key competency for organizations to grow their business and build sustainable competitive advantage in the years ahead.

5 considerations for adapting innovation programs for digital transformation

In one form or another, most organizations have had a corporate innovation program for many years now. Today's innovation objectives, however, are all gravitating towards digital transformation.

Be careful what you transform: The unintended consequences of digital innovation

While shortcuts are often the goal in re-thinking and re-designing business processes to create process efficiencies, cost savings, and an innovative and highly convenient new digital customer experience, every business model and process innovation m....

A brief history of hybrid IT: How today’s digital business gets done

Hybrid IT is perhaps the mirror image of digital business. As digital business continues its march towards digitizing physical business models, processes, products and services, then hybrid IT responds by providing a palette of technology options for....

The hidden disruption of digital business models

Many of new SMAC-enabled digital business models have the intrinsic potential to be more transformative than they would at first appear to CEOs as they re-think and re-design their traditional, existing business models and processes in the context o....

5 cybersecurity tips for consumers: Lessons learned in the enterprise

So many of our everyday consumer business processes -- finance, healthcare, etc. -- are now online. Theyu2019ve become de-facto mission critical computing processes. We need them constantly accessible, available and secure.

Digital transformation needs an industrialized software-defined data center

In today's fast-paced environment, where digital transformation creates opportunities to literally re-wire how business gets done, the concept of a totally software-defined data center is vital to enable the speed of change required for organiza....

Digital transformation needs a modern, mission-critical infrastructure

Digital transformation is about a lot more than your front-end digital customer experience. It requires a modern, mission-critical infrastructure on the back-end as well.

Game changing technology in football, tennis, business

The IoT meets the Internet of Behaviors

The most commonly discussed IoT threats involve theft of sensitive data, introduction of malware, and ultimately, “command and control”-style sabotage of connected, controllable devices.

The importance of zero-trust and an adaptive perimeter in cyber fortifications

Today’s market forces and challenges are forcing many organizations to re-think their policies for sensitive data protection and their overall cybersecurity response in terms of future investments and operations.

3 enterprise IoT lessons learned from triathlete training gear

Retail’s chess game with point-of-sale malware

The recent point-of-sale (POS) malware targeted at major retailers is just the latest in a growing number of attacks in recent years which have gross fraud losses of $11.27 billion, up 14.6% over the prior year.

CIO considerations for digital transformation in 2014

SMAC and the evolution of IT

After the mainframe era, mini-computing era, personal computer and client-server era, and the Internet era (or more correctly, the “Web” era), we’re now in what many call the fifth wave of corporate IT. This fifth wave is characteri....

Another innovation paradox — Connecting innovation with execution

It may come as no surprise that one of many challenges with innovation in large organizations is in successful execution.

The three waves of disruptive trends

Understanding the wave that each trend is in at any point in time will help you best exploit its position for business model transformation (emerging wave), high competitive advantage (differentiating wave), or proven business value (business value w....

What type of CIO are you? A Scotty or a Mr. Spock?

The new scope of mission-critical computing

Mission-critical computing has historically been defined as secure, reliable and scalable computing and process environments that support a company’s front office processes and operations. Today, the scope of what is considered “mission-c....

CIO considerations for SMAC fusion

4 options for getting more with more data

BYO what? The implications of mobile as the new desktop

10 steps to a successful innovation workshop

There are many variables you can adjust in an innovation workshop, from number of focus areas, to number of attendees, to the structure and timing of each step in the process, to the types of voting criteria and whether or not to vote individually or....

3 CIO considerations from IDC’s 3rd platform

How disruptive technologies can contribute to U.S. innovation and productivity

10 CIO considerations for disruptive trends in 2013

The importance of precise terminology for innovation

Without common agreement on the precise meaning of various terms related to innovation, organizations will risk mis-aligned objectives, expectations and outcomes.

The world’s most innovative companies: Ranking the best of the best innovators

Every year, we see a number of publications issue their top 50 lists of the world’s most innovative companies.