The purpose of the Innovation Briefing Presentation is to INCLUDE a brief recommending an emerging technology or management innovation to senior management.

Scenario

You are an IT leader in a specific organization and have determined that a particular technology or management innovation holds strong value for your organization. To gain senior management approval to begin investing in this technology, you are to present a briefing of this innovation and its possible implementation to the organization's CEO and CIO.

Your Task

First, decide on the organization you will "work" for. This may be an organization you currently work for, one you've worked for in the past, or an organization with which you are familiar.

Then you will need to conduct research to determine the state of the art for an area of interest in order to select an innovation. Google, BusinessWeek, and Wired.com are all excellent sources for scanning the marketplace for new innovations. The innovation can be either technical (e.g., a new software application like an ERP) or a management innovation (e.g., project management, total quality management). 

Developing a presentation that recommends the innovation to the organization's senior management. Focus your presentation on the leadership implications of this innovation by drawing upon a number of themes from the course.

The following is a suggested format for the PowerPoint presentation:

• Provide an overview of a technology or management innovation in terms of the business problem you hope to address.
• Provide details on the organizational implications for the innovation.
• Provide a tentative implementation plan including guidance on key leadership challenges and how to address them.

In your presentation to the CEO and CIO, you will need to provide background details to explain the three to five bullet points on each slide. Use the Notes feature of PowerPoint (i.e., annotations) in order to accomplish this. These notes should provide enough detail for the marker to understand the content of the slide, the issues being presented, and should also provide sources of additional information if needed.