Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

• Applying elements of music theory for creating musical and tonal structures, including harmonies and melodies.
• Using computers and synthesizers for composing, orchestrating, and arranging music.
• Determining voices, instruments, harmonic structures, rhythms, tempos, and tone balances required for achieving the effects desired in a musical composition.
• Experimenting with different sounds, and types and pieces of music, using synthesizers and computers as necessary for testing and evaluating ideas.
• Writing changes directly into compositions, or using computer software for making changes.
• Transcribing ideas for musical compositions into musical notation, using instruments, pen and paper, or computers.
• Guiding musicians during rehearsals, performances, or recording sessions.
• Score compositions so that they are consistent with instrumental and vocal capabilities such as ranges and keys, using knowledge of music theory.