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Many people treat outsourcing as a task, something that most people can do in addition to their "real job." But once you look at the entire process required for an outsourcing lifecycle, you will see that there are a number of competencies required if you want the entire deal -- from womb to tomb -- to be a success.
Innovation is a buzzword that has been overused during the last few years. The sad truth is that almost everyone would like to be innovative, but only a few can be. The good thing is that many could be much more creative than they are; it only requires establishing values and the borders of an environment within which such creativity is possible.
The history of American politics is punctuated with a variety of technological breakthroughs that changed the course of elections and, as a result, of government policies for decades. In the 1930s, Franklin Roosevelt was able, through the magic of a new medium (radio), to speak directly to millions more people than ever before.
Many IT shops suffer from chronic organizational distress. I'm sure you have seen the patient before. The complaints from stakeholders inside the firm typically are:
Insufficient customer-service orientation
Failure to adequately show an interest in understanding the business
Not enough capacity to tackle the important projects queued up
The enterprise innovation Executive Update series was conceived initially through a short poll on innovation practices at Cutter Summit 2006. This networking initiative has evolved into a more thorough survey conducted first in 2007 1 -- and then repeated in 2008 on a larger scale.
