How can I use technology to improve my organization's innovation capability and thereby gain and exploit a competitive advantage?

From there I argue that to improve innovation capability, you have to understand the mix of your own organization's innovation capability breakdown, as this is greatly influenced by organization-specific innovation strategy. Other organizational parameters, e.g. enterprise life cycle position, complexity, etc. also play a role, although most of these effects are evident in the innovation strategy. Innovation capabilities can in broad terms be broken down into three categories: innovation process, knowledge and competency, and organizational support

Once organization-specific innovation capabilities are understood, we can figure out how to use technology to help fulfill the requirements. So in essence, we are aligning our technology architecture with the organization's innovation strategy. Populating and instantiating this architecture is where the changing technological comes into play and where sustainable functional analysis and matching of technological characteristics are preferred over dated, once-off implementations.

Another element of the research is concerned with ensuring that the framework is useful in a wide spectrum of business scenarios, ranging from a simple SME to a large multi-national corporation with formalized Enterprise Architectures and policies.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any framework that could be used as guidance but I'll think about it. I'd also love to hear more about your research.

And it is precisely this lack of guidance for the confused CIO that is the motivation for my personal research. I am proposing an Innovation Technology Framework which will help CIO's to understand their organization's critical innovation capabilities and their respective technological requirements.

The changing technological landscape however adds another dimension to such a framework, as this threatens to render your innovation technology architecture outdated before your implementation is done! In my opinion, one has to focus on the functional characteristics of technologies that can support your innovation capabilities. By rather focusing on the characteristics than the specific technologies/applications/systems, the technology portfolio can be replenished as is deemed applicable and necessary.

Do you know of any frameworks/reference materials that could provide the same guidance to our confused CIO?