Q: What is your IT organization's role in business innovation?
Today, organizations look toward IT as a source of innovation. More than half of our survey respondents confirmed that IT is a key enabler of business innovation -- the highest rating for this item since the beginning of our annual survey. According to author Dennis Adams, "Being the source for innovation is often viewed as the holy grail for IT managers. Here, the message they hope to push is for companies to see IT as an innovative, supportive organization -- not as an overhead cost, but as an important business partner keenly involved in business success. The wise IT manager will make sure that he or she understands each business driver and how IT affects the success or failure of each."
* Excerpted from "IT Trends in 2013: A Fresh Spring Perspective ," (
) Cutter Benchmark Review, Vol. 13 No. 1.