As the CIO of your company, you have been given the job of leading innovation at the firm so that it can realize the importance of information  technology. 

However, it can be all too easy to fail at this task. I  think that we all understand that innovation is an important driver of  growth, and many CIOs aspire to build capabilities that can deliver  sustained innovation. However they have a steep hill to climb: A quarter  of CIOs who participated in a recent study say that their innovation  capabilities are nonexistent. Of the CIOs who responded, only 11 percent assessed their current innovation capabilities as excellent or leading. 

Why are we doing such a bad job at innovation?