While it has always been said that even in the fast changing enterprise software industry, consolidation & innovation would co-exist. Frank Gens reports that survey results show that Product Innovation and Improving IT are rising as CEO Priorities in 2006
Atleast in respect of the enterprise software, which is closer to the heart of CIO’s its clear – as I had always been telling - while vendors are addressing market realities to keep their industry vibrant and with consolidation fever ahead - one could clearly hear the voice :whether customers would benefit a lot because of this, add the need to make more innovation happen and absorb faster.No, I am not talking about Marc Benioff finding SAP innovation free, while I certainly agree with his perspective that observers tend to overestimate the creativity and innovation that entrenched technology companies can bring to a particular problem and underestimate the effect of business-model conflicts that lurk behind the scenes ( as applicable to all majors). Recently I wrote innovation related metric must be tracked for all growing entities. Innovation would be the mantra for growth & survival for enterprise software players, including those seen as walking dead – In the valley it is innovation driving the growth.
Category :Innovation, Emerging Trends
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