Administrative Evolution and Open Innovation

Abstract

Our future society cannot be clarified or characterized without considering various factors related to IT. IT continues its fundamental development in the open innovation environment, where genius or outstanding talent does not necessarily play a central role to drive transformation. Rather, individual consumers, suppliers, workers, or any one who has the ability to engage in creative and collaborative activities brings transformation that leads to innovation. The Architecture of Participation is very crucial. In other words, the dissemination of IT depends on social architecture, or the agent that activates open innovation. Social development, in turn, depends on how we can facilitate social utilization of IT. Therefore, we must design a new social paradigm for active and open innovation. This paper will discuss e-Government and Local e-government as a core infrastructure of innovation, upon which regional digital revolution is achieved. Also, the importance of the administrative CIO's role and responsibilities is explored in other part of this paper. Currently, administrative CIOs are occupied with duties regarding IT security and system acquisitions. In period of emerging IT-based organization, CIOs must engage in technological management of IT, and cannot handle strategic knowledge management such as organizational reform. However, in order to fully utilize the potential capacity of IT for organizational and social transformation, the roles and responsibilities of CIOs must be greatly refined. e-Government can be the infrastructure that facilitates the co-creation of new information and knowledge and the systemic chain reaction of innovation in partnership of industry, government, university, and the private sector. To promote innovation, CIOs must play a critical role, and their roles and responsibilities must be refined. It is necessary for us to envision a new paradigm for open innovation, which will be utilized to achieve sustainable social development. In the new paradigm, e-Government and Local e-government should be emphasized as a core function. The infrastructure must be developed into a platform so that it can be applied to the entire society. For innovative capabilities to be strengthened, we are required to obtain a wide range of knowledge both in the humanities and sciences. It is also necessary to find relationships among the knowledge, and create new knowledge and capabilities. Such a relation-building effort must become the foundation of creativity. As social applications of information technology and networks are increased and refined further, the CIO, as chief officer of an organization, needs to improve innovative capacity; in other words, to develop the ability to form relationships.