MANAGING AND OPTIMIZING INNOVATION PROCESSES IN COLLABORATIVE AND VALUE CREATING NETWORKS

2011 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. 373-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
JENS ESCHENBAECHER ◽  
FALK GRASER
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Industrial Application ◽  
New Products ◽  
Technology Leadership ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Technological Evolution ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Structural Relationships ◽  
Innovation Processes

Management and optimization of innovation processes are highly important for every company that depends on keeping up with market and technological evolution. Methods for the managing and optimizing of innovation processes in networks are just beginning to arise. Among different ways of creating value, successfully managed innovation processes bear the highest overall potential: On the operational level, it creates immediate value in terms of new products while on the strategic level, survival and competitiveness of the company can be assured by creating long-range, intangible values like technology leadership and a secured position in an ever-changing market environment. Therefore, innovation in networks has entered the spotlight of scientific research and industrial application. It requires new managing concepts and sophisticated information-technology-based tools. In this article, we present a model that allows to manage structural relationships within innovation networks and additionally to introduce a conceptual optimization approach.

scholarly journals Methodology of synchronization among strategy and operation. A standards-based modeling approach

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
VICTOR EDWIN COLLAZOS ◽  
HELGA DUARTE AMAYA
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information System ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Alignment Process ◽  
Level Design ◽  
High Level ◽  
Help Model

Enterprise Architecture (EA) has gained importance in recent years, mainly for its concept of “alignment” between the strategic and operational levels of organizations. Such alignment occurs when Information Technology (IT) is applied correctly and timely, working in synergy and harmony with strategy and the operation to achieve mutually their own goals and satisfy the organizational needs.Both the strategic and operational levels have standards that help model elements necessary to obtain desired results. In this sense, BMM and BPMN were selected because both have the support of OMG and they are fairly well known for modelling the strategic level and operational level, respectively. In addition, i* modeling goal can be used for reducing the gap between these two standards. This proposal may help both the high-level design of the information system and to the appropriate identification of the business processes that will support it.This paper presents a methodology for aligning strategy and the operation based on standards and heuristics. We have made a classification for elements of the models and, for some specific cases, an extension of the heuristics associated between them. This allows us to propose methodology, which uses above-mentioned standards and combines mappings, transformations and actions to be considered in the alignment process.

How to Improve Board Accountability in ISO/IEC 38500 Based on IT Governance Implementations

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-39
Author(s):  
Carlos Juiz ◽  
Beatriz Gómez ◽  
Ricardo Colomo-Palacios
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
It Governance ◽  
Senior Executive ◽  
Implementation Framework ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Executive Team ◽  
Extended Practice ◽  
Good Number

With the standardization of Information Technology (IT) governance through ISO/IEC 38500 in the last decade, a good number of organizations have implemented IT governance (ITG) frameworks. Although it is not a fully extended practice. Given the fact that the use of balanced score cards (BSC) on ITG is not an unknown practice, the application of BSC in the implementation of ISO/IEC 38500 has been given less importance, since it normally appears as just examples of good practices. This work not only explains why the BSC's applicability to align IT with business in ISO/IEC 38500 implementations is not included in the standard, but also justifies the importance of BSC to report to the board or senior executive team in a clear way, without the details of the particular implementation framework of the standard. Thus, a framework that allows implementing IT BSCs within the context of IT governance is proposed, cascading objectives included in the strategic map through the tactical and operational level and backwards on the construction of the KPIs to better monitor IT.

scholarly journals Projekty innowacyjne w przedsiębiorstwach jako potencjalne źródło ryzyka finansowego

2016 ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Michał Bacior
Keyword(s):  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Financial Risk ◽  
New Products ◽  
Technological Environment ◽  
Risk Of Failure ◽  
Functional Areas ◽  
Market Strategies ◽  
A Company ◽  
Innovation Processes

Increase in the value of a company is related to implementation of innovative processes in all functional areas of business. As a result of implemented innovation, the company may offer new products or lower prices. In any case, this leads to improved economic efficiency of the company. The rise in innovation is coupled with an increase in the benefits but is also accompanied by an increase of the risk of failure. This constitutes background against which the article presents the course of innovation processes and possibilities of applying innovation in different market strategies. The article stresses relations between financial risk and the time of innovation. Sources of financial risk and methods of financing innovative investments are also discussed as is the need to take into account the technological environment and market context of innovation

scholarly journals Reference model for building innovation networks in information technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adauto Lucas da Silva ◽  
Fábio Müller Guerrini
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Innovation Networks ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Modeling Methodology

Abstract: The change in organizational processes by means of associating the new resources made available by IT (Information Technology) with the intrinsic characteristics of business-related areas embodies one of the innovation concepts. This work proposes a reference model for the formation of innovation networks focused on implementing systems that represent innovations by associating IT with the business area. The research methodology is based on an exploratory case study, composed of several analysis units, and on the organizational modeling methodology EKD (Enterprise Knowledge Development) to formulate the reference model. This research proposition contributes to systematize the formation process of collaborative alliances among the innovation agents in order to implement Information Technology-based systems.

Zeit- und kostenoptimierter Serienanlauf von Werkzeugen*/Time- and cost-optimized ramp-up of series production tools – Digital process support for reducing the effort and cycle time of correction loops

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 796-801
Author(s):  
G. Schuh ◽  
C. Kelzenberg ◽  
J. Wiese ◽  
F. Stracke
Keyword(s):  
Cycle Time ◽  
New Products ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
High Time ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
Learning Effects ◽  
Series Production ◽  
Process Synchronization ◽  
Process Support

Der Werkzeugbau kann bei der Produkteinführung entscheidend zu mehr Effizienz in Bezug zu Kosten und Zeit beitragen. Hinsichtlich der Optimierung der werkzeugbauseitigen Wertschöpfung birgt besonders der Serienanlauf der Werkzeuge aufgrund hoher Zeit- und Kostenanteile umfangreiches Potenzial. Die digitale Prozessunterstützung stellt in diesem Zusammenhang einen maßgeblichen Optimierungsansatz dar. Neben einer verbesserten Prozesssynchronisation lassen sich Lerneffekte standort- und projektübergreifend nutzen.   Tool making plays a decisive role in the realization of time and cost advantages of new products. With regard to the optimization of the tool shop’s added value, the qualification and ramp-up of tools holds extensive potential due to high time and cost shares. In this context, digital process support represents a decisive optimization approach. In addition to improved process synchronization, learning effects can be used across different sites and projects.

Information Technology Leadership and Change in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-54
Author(s):  
Joseph Ezale Cobbinah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Technology Leadership ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Higher Educational

Higher educational institutions are widening participation through the introduction of new programs, using different approaches to deliver learning so that many people can have access to education. With the growing number of students in our higher educational institutions, coupled with learners who are working and by virtue of their job commitments cannot do traditional face-to-face education, using information technology (IT) to support lessons in higher education institutions has become very laudable. The introduction and use of technology have brought changes in the way we teach and support students in our higher education institutions. This, therefore, calls for effective IT leaders who will be able to motivate, inspire, and meet the learning needs of the diverse students in our institutions while improving teaching and learning. The IT leaders should not only be individuals who can only lead the change crusade but should be able to manage the change process.

scholarly journals On-line Crowdsourcing: Motives of Customers to Participate in Online Collaborative Innovation Processes

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlota Lorenzo-Romero ◽  
Efthymios Constantinides
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
New Products ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Collaborative Innovation ◽  
On Line ◽  
Innovation Processes

The large-scale adoption of the Internet and social media make transactions and interactions between businesses and customers easy, inexpensive, and highly efficient. Online crowdsourcing and co-creation with customers are developments increasingly seen as attractive alternatives to traditional forms of innovation management. Online customers are willing to spend time and effort on collaborative innovation trajectories and so have a say in the development of new products and services. Identifying and recruiting capable and innovation-minded co-creation partners online is one of the main challenges of such collaborative innovation-focused processes; understanding the attitudes and motives of innovation-minded customers are the first steps in enticing and recruit these as innovation partners. In this study, we identify and classify customer motives for participating in online co-creation processes in two European countries: Spain and The Netherlands. More than a quarter of online customers are active co-creators and two co-creator profiles were identified in both countries, based the levels of motivation predisposition; Spanish online customers are more involved and enthusiastic co-creators than Dutch customers. The study confirms that financial motives are not the main reason for co-creation; highly motivated customers are motivated by product-related benefits, while hedonic benefits are the most important triggers for less motivated co-creators.

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