Get innovators out of the IT department, says DWP's CTO

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Key staff should be placed where they can advance a core business line

Gardner: Innovators need to be spread across the business Businesses will struggle to be innovative if all their forward-looking people are stuck in the IT department, said the DWP’s chief techno...

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