It was a pleasure meeting and speaking with many of you personally and I hope everyone enjoyed the day as much as I did.
Over the past three years, the combined collaborative efforts of numerous IT and New Media community members including educators, IT sector leads, professional associations and business and industry professionals we have raised the profile of IT and New Media education in California. The IT and New Media Innovation Summit Southern California built upon that foundation.
Please find highlighted below the most of the materials, the various initiatives and organizations that were presented. Check back in a few days and I’ll have a few more items posted.
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Today’s IT – is all about Getting Down To Business
A perfect example of this is an article and a survey written by by Chris Curran at the CIODasboard.
Chris writes about the 5 roles for IT Innovators and the survey results are telling.
5 Roles for IT Innovators
What is IT’s role in innovation? Is it just about making IT better or is it about driving business value too? We asked 592 business and IT leaders in the US and UK this question in our latest Diamond Digital IQ survey by asking them to choose what innovation role they thought their CIO and IT organization played from the following list:
1. Improve the IT Function
2. Improve Business Processes
3. Improve Customer Service
4. Reach New Customers
5. Create New Products/Services
Over three-quarters of our respondents said their CIOs primary innovation role is to improve business processes or IT. So, the vast majority of the innovation work we do is focused on internal improvements. It makes sense that IT focuses on areas it has the most influence and control over – its own processes and the business processes it automates. However, as the CIO desires to improve IT’s business impact, she strives to have IT drive value too.
Most of the conversations I have with CIO’s are, however, about how to bring new technology-fueled business ideas to the table. Are these desires just wishful thinking or are they really in-line with the role the CEO and business leaders want IT to take on? I don’t know the answer but I suspect that the explicit conversation on IT’s role in innovation doesn’t happen too often.
Just for fun, I uploaded the survey results into Tableau Public, a very powerful (and free) data visualization tool. My colleague Amaresh Tipathy introduced me to it and uses it for one of his latest posts on FEMA disaster data analysis. Enjoy exploring this data and let me know what you think.
IT Innovation Summit Sacramento – Sessions and Speakers Announced Sessions Focus on Jobs, Innovation, Productivity and Education February 1, 2011 (Folsom, CA) —The WhyITNow.org initiative – established to promote jobs, innovation and productivity in the U.S. – are welcoming prominent industry and education professionals to speak at the second in a series of nationwide IT [...]
Health Information Technology Fundamentals According to Wikipedia, Health information technology (HIT) provides the umbrella framework to describe the comprehensive management of health information and its secure exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities, and insurers. Health information technology (HIT) is in general increasingly viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, [...]
Educating Tomorrow’s Green IT Workforce – A Cisco Sponsored Case Study and the Boston Consulting Group on behalf of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative As the nation moves toward a more environmentally sustainable economy, many of the new green jobs will be information technology (IT) and networking jobs. Large-scale energy efficiency, carbon emissions reduction, resource management, [...]
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IT Innovation Summit Silicon Valley Take Aways interview with Julian Loren, Author, Innovator and Design Strategist with innOh. In this three minute interview with Julian Loren, CEO of innOh, Julian shares his thoughts regarding the outcomes and take aways of the 2010 IT Innovation Summit -Silicon Valley and what he thinks about the specific skills [...]
Information and Communications Technologies in Silicon Valley: An Economic and Workforce Analysis The workforce investment boards of Silicon Valley have commissioned a team of researchers to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the Silicon Valley ICT ecosystem from both economic development and workforce perspectives. In order to accurately capture the information necessary to meet the [...]
Fostering and Accelerating IT Innovation – Interview with Suzanne Ama, Professor of Media Arts and Web Design Program Coordinator at Cerro Cosa Community College located in Northern California In this three minute interview with Suzanne Ama, Cerro Cosa Community College, Suzanne shares her thoughts regarding why IT Innovation is important to her, the U.S. economy, [...]
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IT Innovation Summit Sessions and Speakers Announced Sessions Focus on Jobs, Innovation and Productivity October 11, 2010 (Folsom, CA) — WebProfessionals.org and the WhyITNow.org initiative – established to promote jobs, innovation and productivity in the U.S. – are welcoming prominent industry and education professionals to speak at the first nationwide IT Innovation Summit on October [...]
