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Innovation is back on the business agenda. After four long years of post-bubble caution and scepticism about IT, companies are once again looking to technology as an important source of value creation and competitive advantage.  While the heady days of the dot.com boom are almost certainly gone forever, today´s more pragmatic approach bodes well for meaningful IT industry progress.

This optimistic yet still humble attitude is reflected in this issue of our research journal.  Our focus is mostly on practical steps we can all take, whether it is how to improve collaboration via technologies such as videoconferencing; inject more innovation into an outsourcing partnership; or simply how to better think about, plan for, and manage this often fuzzy and intangible topic. Companies are once again recognizing the importance of innovation, but they want to do a better job of delivering it. We hope this series of articles will help.