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Pull and PushThe Sources of Technology Innovation

Bringing together business and IT to create and deliver technology innovation should be a combined effort. No one area of the business should have supremacy, but rather all areas of business—including IT—should work together to stimulate growth and competitive advantage through new innovation.

Central to this approach is the notion that anyone can be the key to great innovation, especially when it comes to groundbreaking new ideas (as opposed to incremental innovation). After all, if a lowly patent clerk like Albert Einstein can end up generating some of the most innovative and impactful new ideas ...

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