Innovating For A Digital Future - The Leadership Challenge

Foreword

This is the final paper in our digital leadership series, during which we have grappled with some of the key challenges facing managers in technology, media and telcommunications (TMT) organisations. In developing this series, Deloitte LLP and Spencer Stuart have combined their own expertise with the perspectives derived from interviews with leaders across the TMT sector. In this third paper, we focus on a critical challenge for TMT companies – how to innovate beyond products or deeply ingrained ways of working which have been successful to date but which are now holding back an organisation from its next stage of evolution.

We all know the fast pace of change means that the speed of innovation is critical to an organisation's success. Organisations need a rapid turnover of ideas in order to get to the 'next big thing'; in order to move beyond where they are now; before smaller, more agile competitors move in.