Leading the Epic Revolution -- Contents -- Foreword: Innovating for Continual Growth and Prosperity -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Innovation Challenge -- The Psychology of Innovation -- An Expanding Range of Influence -- Speed and Failure Are Essential in Continuous Innovation Strategies -- Fail Fast and Fail Smart -- The New Speed of Change -- Focus on the Business Challenge, Not on the Technology -- In the Modern Enterprise, True Innovation Takes Many Shapes and Forms -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Governance Trumps Process -- Being a Leader of Innovation at an Innovative Enterprise -- Great Companies Avoid the "Me Too" Syndrome When Innovating -- Cycles of Innovation and Adoption -- Good CIOs Are Leaders at All Stages of Innovation -- From Enabler to Innovator: The Evolving Image of the CIO -- Replacing Up and Down with Left to Right -- Creating a Culture of Innovation -- Converting Ideas into Successful New Products and Services -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Leveraging Multiple Skill Sets -- Networking and Connecting -- Overcoming Obstacles to Innovation -- Two Types of Thinking -- Overcoming Habits -- Breaking Through and Moving Forward -- Professor of Innovation -- Leveraging the Cloud and Thriving on Innovation -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Accelerating Innovation -- In the Modern Enterprise, IT Is the Backboneof Innovation -- Underlying Principles of Innovation -- A Practical Taxonomy of Innovation -- The Mouse in the Maze -- Managing Innovation Across the Enterprise -- Eight Action Steps for Driving Innovation -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Innovation Begins with Business Strategy -- The New Face of IT Executive Leadership -- Improvisational Skills Can Elevate Innovation Leadership Capabilities -- Blending Innovation and Operations -- Innovating in the Battle Against Cancer.

Focusing on Value Creation, Improved Margins, and Staying Ahead of the Trend Curve -- Escaping the Pull of the Past -- Chapter 6 Evolving Relationships Across the C-Suite -- From Captain to Coach, from Controlling to Enabling -- Connecting the Dots Between Innovationand Analytics -- Digging Deeper into Big Data -- Innovation in the Age of the Industrial Internet -- Moving Toward the Customer -- Lining Up the Innovation Roadmaps -- Designing Practical Innovation Strategies -- Managing Between Extremes -- Three Complementary Pairs of Roles -- Note -- Chapter 7 Why Credible Leadership Matters -- Do Not Hesitate to Be a Leader -- Sometimes Getting Out of the Way Is the First Step to Achieving Innovation -- Innovation Conundrum -- Accelerating Innovation Through Partnerships -- A Shifting Mindset -- Leading Innovation and Driving Transformation -- Managing the Merger of Culture and Technology -- Two Tiers of IT Innovation in the Modern Global Enterprise -- A Role Model for Innovation and Leadership -- The Next Big Wave: IT Value Creation -- Where Innovation Begins: Understanding the Goals and Objectives of the Business -- The Four Dimensions of Continuous Innovation and IT Transformation -- Building a Hybrid Platform for Continuous Innovation -- Making the Case for Top-Down Innovationin the Enterprise -- Avoiding "the Emperor Has No Clothes" Syndrome -- Note -- Chapter 8 Leveraging Social Collaboration to Drive Innovation -- Tangible Results Through Social Media -- Embracing the Social Workforce -- Putting Innovation in the Hands of Users -- Innovation and Social Collaboration -- Note -- Chapter 9 Living with Uncertainty -- Keep Your Eyes on the B2B Internet -- Trust, Freedom, and Responsibility: Keys to Transformational Leadership and Continuous Innovation -- Key Traits of Innovative IT Leaders -- Security Is Integral to IT Strategy.

Maintaining Credibility: You Have to Know When to Get Down in the Weeds -- Think Multiregional Before Committing to Global Markets -- Walking the Talk -- For Many Reasons, Now Is the Perfect Time to Be the CIO -- Revisiting the Relationship Between Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- The Emerging Ecosystem of Continuous Innovation and Transformation -- A Historic Moment -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- Meet Our Sources -- About the Author -- About HMG Strategy, LLC -- Index.