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Chief Innovations Officer, ITT Exelis
Position Summary:
- The Chief Innovations Officer (CIO) is responsible for managing the innovation process within the workforce to identify strategies and new technologies and then implement those efforts.
Major Job Activities:
- Originates new ideas but also recognizes innovative ideas generated by other people.
- Lead Focus Groups that involve functional level employees who are most likely to recognize redundancy or inefficiency and surface avenues for correction/improvement.
- Provide keen understanding and demonstrate success in identifying and driving change through collaborative efforts in a high performance organization.
- Plan, organize and implement a program which supports Company innovation initiative goals.
- Performs other duties and assignments as required.
