--- title: Do Something description: Working in IT is not for the faint of heart. At times, your job can feel like the myth of Sisyphus, repeatedly pushing a boulder up a hill. Particularly when you are trying to make infrastructure changes without interrupting daily operations. image: https://shadow-soft.com/hubfs/do-something-just-sayin-shadow-soft.png --- [Skip to content](https://shadow-soft.com/content/do-something#main-content) This is a search field with an auto-suggest feature attached. - There are no suggestions because the search field is empty. 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It’s not enough to do something. It’s important to do something that is innovative. According to McKinsey & Company, meaningful innovation extends a company’s business model to create new capabilities, delivering a competitive advantage in 12-18 months. Too often, IT professionals are stuck doing patches and making minor improvements. But the business requires meaningful innovation to change the game. Meaningful innovation requires a big vision with realistic plans to build, test, and deploy. The good news is that a big vision commands the attention of an executive champion and that champion can clear a lot of the obstacles in your way. One example of a big vision is when Chick-fil-A IT reimagined how technology could increase restaurant capacity from customer to kitchen. And Capital One captured significant market share by imagining a world without retail bank locations.  So if you want to change from busy work to innovative work, then you need to host an [Innovation Workshop](https://shadow-soft.com/innovation-workshop) where your business leaders truly partner with IT. We guarantee you’ll get more done in 36 hours than you will in 3-6 months.  More importantly, it’s your chance to “Do something and be productive!” ## Innovation Workshop Innovation is hard. But it doesn’t need to be. What if you used five different proven innovation methodologies to turn your ideas into reality in 90 days? What if you were supported by an Innovation Master Coach throughout those 90 days? What if you could build a working proof of concept to demonstrate your ideas? 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