Special Report
Innovation Mandate
In an ongoing series of articles, opinion columns, and executive interviews, InformationWeek will explore the issues driving and holding back U.S. tech innovation. First up: What our extensive research tells us.
Critical Thinking
IT Must Play Central Role In Enterprise Innovation
Panel of CIOs at Interop wrestles with transforming IT's role from protectors of the status quo to leaders in development of novel business solutions.
Innovation Mandate: Is America's STEM Education Deficit Overblown?
In the second of our two-part series, we explore what needs to be done to solidify this nation's technical grounding
Innovation Mandate: American Students Score 'C' In Math And Science
In the first of a two-part series on STEM education, we look at the dim U.S. results on the latest PISA tests and ask: What's a country to do?
Innovation Mandate: The Case For Less Regulation
One think tank fellow thinks the key to spurring innovation and creating jobs is to put a moratorium on regs in a handful of industries, but only temporarily. His proposal doesn't go far enough.
Innovation Mandate Gets Glenn Beck Shout-Out
The Fox News commentator, citing InformationWeek Analytics research, says the U.S. has gotten soft. But are we underestimating just how technically strong we really are?
Innovation Mandate: Ford's CIO On Innovating Through Tough Times
Leveraging its Sync in-vehicle technology as well as internal social networking and mobility advances, carmaker roars out of the recession.
Innovation Mandate: Is China Poised For Global Lead?
China will pass the U.S. and Japan next year as the world leader in patent filings, according to a new report, which cites other innovation advances at the world's largest country and second largest economy.
Innovation Mandate: Has America Lost Its Innovation Edge?
In an ongoing series of articles, opinion columns, and executive interviews, InformationWeek will explore the issues driving and holding back U.S. tech innovation. First up: What our extensive research tells us.
Innovation Mandate: Valero Execs On Keys To U.S. Success
It all starts with quality education, and a culture that emphasizes hard work and technical prowess.
Innovation Mandate: Does America Have The Fire For Innovation?
About a quarter of respondents to our Innovation Mandate survey view the current and emerging U.S. workforce as complacent when it comes to IT innovation.
The Innovation Mandate Interview
IT Must Play Central Role In Enterprise Innovation
Panel of CIOs at Interop wrestles with transforming IT's role from protectors of the status quo to leaders in development of novel business solutions.
Innovation Mandate: An Interview With NASA's CTO For IT, Chris Kemp
From a technology perspective, I see every new space craft and new mission as a new way to connect with the public.
Innovation Mandate: Ford's CIO On Innovating Through Tough Times
Leveraging its Sync in-vehicle technology as well as internal social networking and mobility advances, carmaker roars out of the recession.
Innovation Mandate: Patrick Byrne Lays It On The Line
Our schools are awful and our financial markets are corrupt, insists Overstock.com's outspoken CEO, so no wonder that U.S. technology innovation is in jeopardy.
Innovation Mandate: Has America Lost Its Innovation Edge?
In an ongoing series of articles, opinion columns, and executive interviews, InformationWeek will explore the issues driving and holding back U.S. tech innovation. First up: What our extensive research tells us.
For the better part of a decade, executives, economists, policy-makers, researchers and other so-called experts have lamented the inexorable decline of the U.S. IT industry and the country's standing as the global technology leader. Reports with ominous titles have questioned whether U.S.-based IT vendors and the organizations they sell to have the technical chops, national backing and requisite will to out-innovate their counterparts in other countries.
