抄録
Business innovation aims at transforming business frameworks, models, processes, or other elements related with business activities in order to create value. Considering that IT is a key driver of business transformation, the CIO is expected to play an important role in business innovation. However, does the CIO actually make a significant contribution to it? This study indicates that the existence of the CIO has a positive impact on business innovation and that this impact becomes clearer when the CIO has an executive position and is truly functioning in the role of CIO. In this paper, we present a three-layer model for roles of the CIO to explain the trend of a shift in roles from the CIO as Innovation Enabler to Innovation Driver and finally to Innovation Strategist. The data for the study has been primarily derived from the evaluation of CIOs by their employees through two web-based questionnaires and from self-evaluations conducted in interviews with 22 CIOs of relatively large companies in Japan.
