NEW CHALLENGES OF INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP IN A DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ERA

It is widely believed that the use of creative and innovative thinking helps leadership to support the management process in a modem business oriented organization.Today, the management of organizations is mainly based on the widespread use of modern information technologies. In these circumstances organizations broader and broader are using the digital methods and approaches in their management systems. Therefore a leadership style is gradually changing to the innovative thinking management which crucially distinguished with traditional management skills. Previous research shows that there is a clear link between an interactive, charismatic, transformational leadership and innovation. Such kind of leadership focuses on the big picture and allows one to introduce new ideas and challenging energy to the organization. The purpose of leadership exists and its enormous value will become evident in the next few years when new information technologies take effect on business globally. That sets the topicality of the chosen research direction. The present article accounts for the research conducted to investigate new challenges of innovative leadership relating to management system development on the basis of information technologies. The methodological approach of research was based on the literature review, the interviews of 182 respondents (mainly top managers of companies) and statistics (statistic data analysis, mathematic statistics). The main finding was that there is a close correlation between innovative management and IT based management systems in organizations, and that this affects management performance of companies. Finally, the authors emphasize the potential for further research on this topic.