Management Leadership
Provide visible leadership support for technology-driven innovation activities.
Improvement Planning
Practices-Outcomes-Metrics (POM)
Representative POMs are described for Management Leadership at each level of maturity.
- 2Basic
- Practice
- Leadership support is sporadic and based on particular projects in the IT organization.
- Outcome
- Visible leadership support clarifies organization's innovation goals, encourages employee involvement.
- Metrics
- # of Leader communications supporting Innovation.
- % positive score validating leadership's support of innovation (from employee survey).
- 3Intermediate
- Practice
- Leadership support visibly promotes innovative, entrepreneurial culture within the IT organization.
- Outcome
- Visible leadership support clarifies organization's innovation goals, encourages employee involvement.
- Metrics
- # of Leader communications supporting Innovation.
- # of initiatives initiated with leader sponsorship.
- % positive score validating leadership's support of innovation (from employee survey).
- 4Advanced
- Practices
- Leadership support of IT innovation is visible enterprise-wide.
- Senior management leverages enterprise-wide relationships to promote innovation.
- Outcome
- Visible leadership support clarifies organization's innovation goals, encourages employee involvement.
- Metrics
- # of Leader communications supporting Innovation.
- # of initiatives initiated with leader sponsorship.
- % positive score validating leadership's support of innovation (from employee survey).
- 5Optimized
- Practice
- External alliances are actively built to drive innovation (e.g. suppliers, customers, academia, external labs, etc.).
- Outcome
- Visible leadership support clarifies organization's innovation goals, encourages employee involvement.
- Metrics
- # of Leader communications supporting Innovation.
- # of initiatives initiated with leader sponsorship.
- % positive score validating leadership's support of innovation (from employee survey).