FOSTERING IT-ENABLED BUSINESS INNOVATIONS - An Approach for CIOs to Innovate the Business

Michael Lang, Michael Amberg

2010

Abstract

Nowadays companies are in worldwide competition for innovations which are essential to ensure their competitiveness and consequently their business success. Information Technology (IT) plays an important role in this context. Thus, it is expected from IT organizations to provide an own value contribution to the corporate performance by delivering innovations. This raises the questions how chief information officers (CIO) can facilitate the generation of IT-enabled business innovations. As a result of our research, we identified 22 factors concerning the relevant aspects in IT organizations - IT projects, IT systems, IT processes, IT services, IT personnel and aspects referring to the organizational structure. These factors help CIOs to foster the generation of IT-enabled innovations and therefore should be considered in the management of IT organizations.

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Lang M. and Amberg M. (2010). FOSTERING IT-ENABLED BUSINESS INNOVATIONS - An Approach for CIOs to Innovate the Business . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-04-1, pages 242-248. DOI: 10.5220/0002901702420248


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@conference{iceis10,
author={Michael Lang and Michael Amberg},
title={FOSTERING IT-ENABLED BUSINESS INNOVATIONS - An Approach for CIOs to Innovate the Business},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={242-248},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002901702420248},
isbn={978-989-8425-04-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: ICEIS,
TI - FOSTERING IT-ENABLED BUSINESS INNOVATIONS - An Approach for CIOs to Innovate the Business
SN - 978-989-8425-04-1
AU - Lang M.
AU - Amberg M.
PY - 2010
SP - 242
EP - 248
DO - 10.5220/0002901702420248