Managing IT Innovation for Business Value: Practical Strategies for IT and Business Managers (IT Best Practices Series)

Esther Baldwin is Innovation Diffusion Manager at Intel Corporation, focusing on IT innovation. With 20 plus years of experience in the industry she was key in establishing a culture of systemic innovation while starting up the Innovation Center in Shanghai, China. Esther has also been active in many Intel technical and management initiatives including choosing new Intel sites, starting a new factory in Pudong, China, and building new global data centers in Japan, the UK, and USA. Esther holds a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Design and Design Engineering from Brigham Young University and a Master's Degree in International Management from the Galvin Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). She is an Eisenhower Fellow. Martin Curley is Global Director of IT Innovation and Research at Intel Corporation. Martin drives the development and adoption of emerging technologies and IT business practices in support of new business solutions. Martin has held senior IT and engineering positions at General Electric in Ireland and Philips in the Netherlands. At Intel, Martin has served as Director of IT Strategy and Technology, and Fab14 Automation Manager based in Dublin, Ireland. Martin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering and a Masters degree in Business Studies, both from University College Dublin, Ireland. He is an adjunct Professor at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth and co-director of the Innovation Value Institute. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. Customer Comments: "Curley's book is required reading for all IT execs. Ignore this book at your peril." --Professor Paul Tallon, Carroll School of Management, Boston College "Curley shines a light on the path ahead for ambitious users of IT. If you have any impact on how IT gets used in your organization, you owe it to your shareholders to read this book. It will impact your bottom line!" --John Fleming, CEO, Enzo Consulting "Martin Curley is a valued member of two very different communities--one populated by theorists who invent better methods to manage enterprises and the other populated by practitioners who put these methods to use." --Jeanne Ross, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research