This book describes how chief information officers (CIOs) can embrace and drive the digital transformation by providing innovative leadership that uses old skills in a novel way. The book explores ways in which new actors and factors will play a key role in this process and how new relations can...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The need for innovation -- Characteristics of the lateral leader -- The innovation test -- Laying the foundations for change -- Making the vision real -- Challenge your assumptions -- Ask searching questions -- Take a different view -- Combine the unusual --...

Organizations competing in today's rapidly changing technological markets are faced with the challenges of ""dualism""--operating efficiently in the present while innovating effectively for the future. Managers and leaders within these organizations not only have to focus on current market...