In a recent Business Week interview, Sam Palmisano talks about the results of IBM’s global CEO survey and offers his personal take on why CEO’s feel they have to personally lead their companies’ innovation efforts:

Go back even 10 years ago. Was it natural for IBM to go collaborate around the future of innovation or the future of our technologies? Was it natural for us to open up to the world the things we solved technically as we were inventing things to get feedback on where that was going? Was it natural for IBM to join into the open-source community to talk about standards around lots of technologies? These weren’t natural things to occur. The CEO has to give permission to the organization to have it happen.

Read the full article: Innovation: The View From The Top

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