Why IT leaders must foster innovation and challenge the status quo | Linux Today

Why IT leaders must foster innovation and challenge the status quo

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Minda Zetlin
Feb 18, 2015

Keeping a sense of innovation alive within a technology team can be challenging.How do you get your tech staff to keep innovating and coming up with new ideas? Different companies have different approaches. In this interview with Bassam Zarkout, CTO of an information governance solution provider, he shares some of the way he tries to keep his engineers excited, engaged, and on board. From hiking to the top of a mountain after a product release to going on road trips, Zarkout shares why engagement is so important on technology teams.

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Minda Zetlin

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