After finally experiencing the law of diminishing returns on efficiency improvements, many companies are now placing innovation as a top priority. Innovation requires a different environment and a different culture; most companies will require an extreme makeover in order to be successful.
An IT manager friend of mine tells me that one of the most interesting questions he asks when interviewing programmers and software engineers is: "Tell me three or four of the most recent computer books you've read, and what you thought of them." And if he'
We have written this article thinking mainly about the IT department of the future and the IT profiles needed. Management of IT could free business growth or restrain it.