The importance of innovation to the health of the enterprise is well established, but different companies approach innovation in different ways. To stay focused on innovation, CEOs know that they have to delegate and in some cases, CEOs are delegating to a new member of the executive staff--the Chief Innovation Officer. Chief Innovation Officers are tasked with figuring out how to drive innovation in their companies. But to succeed, these new CIOs need a guide that teaches them how to do this important but little understood job--things like writing a job description for themselves and executing on each element of that job description.

Read more about the new Chief Innovation Officer concept:
- read the article at Leadership and Business

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