IDC PeerScape: Practices to Fund and Achieve IT Innovation

IDC PeerScape Figure

• Figure: IDC PeerScape: IT Innovation — Practices to Fund and Achieve IT Innovation

Executive Summary

Peer Insights

• Practice 1: Create a Culture that Spawns Continuous, Low-Cost Innovation

• Challenge

• Examples

• Santa Clara County, California

• Carhartt Inc.

• Union Pacific

• Guidance

• Practice 2: Build a Track Record by Starting Small and Building on Successes

• Challenge

• Examples

• Carhartt

• Santa Clara County, California

• City of Asheville, North Carolina

• Guidance

• Practice 3: Leverage Partners with Shared Interests to Provide Innovation Resources

• Challenge

• Examples

• Carhartt

• Santa Clara County, California

• Guidance

• Practice 4: Reduce IT Operational Costs and Shift Budgets to Fund Innovation

• Challenge

• Examples

• Carhartt

• Santa Clara County, California

• DXC Technology

• Guidance