Three groups will be given different innovation exercises to work through for 30 minutes. Judges will evaluate the results based on possibilities, feasibility, and potential problems. The exercises include having members recount a typical work day and identify areas where technology could help, creating an empathy map of a role's experiences and challenges and technology solutions, and envisioning the needs and role of IT in three years to outline steps to work towards that future.

2. The Process
• Three different groups, will be presented
with a different innovation methodology.
• Teams will have half and hour to work
through their exercise.
• Judges will evaluate the results based on:
• “What could we do if everything was
possible?”
• “How can we do it?”
• “What can go wrong?”
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3. ‘A Day In The Life’
• Pick 1-2 members of the group and ask
them to recount a typical work day —
meetings, travel, tasks, etc.
• Create a timeline for these tasks. Discuss
areas where technology could optimize or
assist in the process
• Do the same exercise by thinking through
the day of a non-IT colleague in one of the
member’s firms (ie, CEO, CMO, VP Sales)

4. ‘Empathy mapping’
• Create a sketch of the head of a common
role in your firm that IT supports (finance,
sales, marketing, operations, legal, HR).
• Divide the poster into sections that outline
what the character sees, hears, thinks and
feels about a challenge or priority facing
the business.
• Explore technology ideas to help not only
the outcome but the user’s experience.
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5. ‘Remember the Future’
• Think three years out: What will be the
biggest challenges/needs of business
workers and how will IT departments have
helped? What will you as CIOs have done?
• Write down in point form the technologies,
processes and key business outcomes that
will have been involved
• Outline at least three practical steps to
realize this future today.
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