scholarly journals Harnessing Exaptation and Ecosystem Strategy for Accelerated Innovation: Lessons From The VentilatorChallengeUK

2021 ◽  
pp. 000812562110566
Author(s):  
Wei Liu ◽  
Ahmad Beltagui ◽  
Songhe Ye ◽  
Peter Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Traditional Industry ◽  
Seriously Ill

The COVID-19 crisis has underlined the need for accelerated innovation to rapidly help business solve social problems. These problems require access to capabilities and knowledge that no single organization or existing supply chain possesses. Drawing on the experience of the open innovation and rapid-scale-up achieved by the VentilatorChallengeUK to address a shortage of ventilators required by patients seriously ill with COVID-19, this article develops a framework for accelerated innovation and delivery that crosses traditional industry boundaries. It offers a series of important lessons for how open innovation, exaptation, and ecosystem strategies—backed by a set of enabling initiatives—can be used to solve multi-faceted social and business problems at speed.

scholarly journals A study on how open innovation influences on supply chain behavior

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 271-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gholam Abbas Arabshahi ◽  
Masoomeh Arabshahi ◽  
Reza Zaafarian
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Open Innovation

Adopting an Open Innovation Program with Supply Chain Management in China: A Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 24-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio K. W. Lau ◽  
Leo W. Y. Lee ◽  
Kee-Hung Lai ◽  
Peter K. C. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Chain Management

Industry 4.0 technology provision: the moderating role of supply chain partners to support technology providers

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guilherme Brittes Benitez ◽  
Mateus Ferreira-Lima ◽  
Néstor F. Ayala ◽  
Alejandro G. Frank
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Customer Loyalty ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Technology Development ◽  
Competitive Strategies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Long Run

Purpose The provision of Industry 4.0 solutions demands a vast range of technology domains. To provide these solutions, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) may need the support of different supply chain actors through an inbound open innovation strategy. The authors study the contribution of four types of supply chain actors for inbound open innovation: suppliers, competitors with complementary technologies, R&D centers and customers. The authors analyze how these four actors moderate the effect of integrated Industry 4.0 solutions on three main competitive strategies: cost, focalization and differentiation. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a survey on 77 SMEs from the automation sector, using OLS regression with moderating effects. They considered the integration of 15 technologies and 7 classic automation activities in the provision of Industry 4.0 solutions. The authors also studied three competitive outputs – technology cost reduction (cost), customer loyalty (focalization) and technology innovation (differentiation) – as well as four supply chain actors (moderators). Findings Expanding the provision of Industry 4.0 technologies increases customer loyalty and technology innovation. Collaboration with competitors (complementary technologies) leverage these results and reduce technology costs. Integration between customers and R&D centers elevates costs but R&D centers can foster long-run innovation. Originality/value This study is the first to empirically investigate inbound open innovation in the supply chain for technology development in the context of Industry 4.0. The authors discuss how these actors contribute to four inbound open innovation activities: technology scouting; horizontal technology collaboration; vertical technology collaboration; and technology sourcing.

Innovation

2012 ◽  
pp. 200-229
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Opinion Leaders ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Communities Of Innovation ◽  
Successful Innovation

Organizations globally must expect severe competition for at least the next decade, and there is unanimous agreement that sustainable innovation is the quintessential challenge for all organizations – without it organizations must flounder and perish. In this chapter, theory and practice are explored to specify the vital underpinnings of successful innovation, including the critically important organizational property of absorptive capacity which is largely based on leadership, participative and open culture, and knowledge management. Strategic topics such as the knowledge based view, open innovation, and the pros and cons of ‘innovation’ orientation and ‘imitation’ orientation are discussed, together with the importance of supply chain innovation. Details of the practical role Communities of Innovation (CoInv) serve are clarified, together with explanations of why identifying and leveraging the influence of innovation champions and opinion leaders is essential to success. The concepts of Learning-to-Innovate and Innovating-to-Learn are also discussed.

Innovating Elite Undergraduate Education through Quality Continuous Improvement

2013 ◽  
pp. 1754-1789
Author(s):  
Kam Hou Vat
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Organizational Innovation ◽  
Organizational Transformation ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
The University

This chapter investigates a mechanism of organizational innovation serving to make sense of a maturing university community involving educational executives, academic staff, and students in the occasion of a new campus development, starting in the year 2009 and realizing in the year 2013, under the auspices of a national policy benefiting the long-term development of higher education in the Macau Special Administrative Region (Macau SAR) of China. It is understood that the university as a public institution should not be operated like a business enterprise, running on profit-making initiatives; yet, without the enterprising context, the transformation of the existing infrastructure could hardly be innovated effectively, especially regarding the productivity of its staff, both academic and administrative. As a university with a staff count of less than 1000 and a history of close to thirty years, the University of Macau (UM) is ready to steward an elite undergraduate education marked by a quality learning experience that could become her branding value in the immediate future. The question is how innovatively UM could scale up in this opportunistic growth to excel for the local community. This case study is aimed to investigate from the perspective of a learning enterprise, a reflective way of forward thinking to record the author’s observation and interpretation of what is entailed in this process of upbringing a relatively young university in this age-old city, Macau, famous for its rich heritage of East (Chinese) meeting West (Europeans – Portuguese). Of specific interest is the proper context of open innovation in university governance for organizational transformation. The chapter examines the accountability framework for undergraduate curriculum reform and by treating the electronic transformation (e-transformation) as one of the open innovation strategies, the chapter explores the e-transformation of the university environment, based on holistic concerns of the campus community. The challenge is to identify the organizational context of innovation, which lies in the realm of electronic governance (e-governance), referring mainly to the decisions that define expectations, enable empowerment, and verify performance of the systems in support of community engagement and shared responsibilities in campus development, providing a sense-making perspective to interpret what is entailed in the organizational innovation of the university in this precious occasion of campus relocation. In practice, the lessons learned behind the e-transformation of the learning enterprise should benefit all walks of our local community, including the community of the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).

Social assessment and management of conflict minerals: a systematic literature review

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samanthi Silva ◽  
Stefan Schaltegger
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Conflict Minerals ◽  
Management Literature ◽  
Management Approaches

Purpose The necessity to assess and manage supply chains to be free from social problems such as human and labour rights abuses has become particularly apparent since the introduction of conflict minerals regulations in the United States (Dodd-Frank Act) and the European Union. Similarly, stakeholders demand that products are free from social problems. Ever more companies are therefore challenged to assess and manage social issues in their supply chains. At the same time, the increasing literature on assessment and management of social issues is disperse and an overview missing. This paper aims to provide an overview of the existing literature on social assessment and management approaches relating to conflict minerals and connected to social issues in supply chains. Design/methodology/approach A review of the academic literature on social assessment and management of conflict minerals to provide an overview is currently missing. This paper addresses this gap by systematically reviewing the existing research literature on approaches for the social assessment and management of conflict minerals from a supply chain perspective. Findings The systematic literature review found 21 social assessment and 30 social management approaches with reference to conflict minerals, with the most referenced approach being the OECD guidelines. Overall, the conflict mineral related literature discusses rather general social assessment and management approaches, such as codes of conduct, while the effectiveness of the approaches is not analysed in depth. The paper finds that an analysis of the effectiveness and interlinkages of different approaches is missing. The large variety of social and human rights issues addressed in the academic literature ranges from corruption to violence, going beyond the scope of regulations focused on conflict minerals. This indicates that regulations on conflict minerals and the consequences for management are seen as a specific case with wider implications for future regulations and the necessity for management to solve social problems in supply chains in an effective way. Research limitations/implications The review paper is conceptual and develops a framework to classify social assessment and management approaches for conflict minerals, drawing on the supply chain management literature. Practical implications The overview reveals that research refers to broader social assessment and management approaches indicating wider implications for assessing and managing social issues in supply chains in general, irrespective of whether they are conflict mineral related. Research has, however, so far not addressed the effectiveness and interlinkages between social assessment and management approaches. The aim of the emerging regulations, however, is to foster more effective management of social issues in supply chains. Management is therefore challenged to develop and implement innovative approaches to effectively reduce social problems in supply chains beyond conflict minerals. Conclusions are drawn for management and research. Social implications The paper highlights the need for collaboration with NGOs, industry associations and suppliers, recommending to engage in supplier development. Originality/value The paper conducts the first systematic review of academic literature on conflict mineral related social assessment and management approaches. A framework is proposed to classify social assessment and management approaches based on supply chain management literature. While conflict minerals often represent a small fraction of components in a product, they can have huge and costly implications for companies, which require (potentially) large changes for the sourcing and supply strategy of a company. Conflict mineral regulations represent the first attempt to regulate social and human rights abuses in supply chains holding companies responsible for misconduct caused by suppliers abroad.

The robust analysis of supply chain based on uncertainty computation: insight from open innovation

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (S4) ◽  
pp. 10009-10018
Author(s):  
Xiaole Wan ◽  
Tingting Hao ◽  
Xiaoxia Rong ◽  
Qingchun Meng
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Robust Analysis

ENACTING HARD AND SOFT PRODUCT OFFERINGS IN MATURE INDUSTRIES: MOVING TOWARDS SERVITISATION IN VOLVO

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350014 ◽  
Author(s):  
BJÖRN REMNELAND WIKHAMN ◽  
JAN LJUNGBERG ◽  
ALEXANDER STYHRE
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Support ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Multinational Corporation ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Heavy Vehicles ◽  
Analytical Work ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
Services Innovation ◽  
Traditional Industry

The purpose of the paper is to give an in-depth account of how Volvo Group is working with enabling open services innovation in the organization. It shows that implementing servitization and open innovation within an engineering-based industry such as heavy vehicles manufacturing, is a matter of substantial 'groundwork' on several levels. This 'groundwork' involves substantial analytical work as well as vast mobilizing of internal organizational support. The paper also empirically connects the notions of open innovation and servitization in a theoretical discussion. The article contributes to the emerging field of open innovation by providing an empirical case from a multinational corporation acting within a 'traditional' industry. It highlights the strong efforts organizations are facing when enacting servitization and open innovation strategies within established practices.

Scaling Up Social Problems

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Y. Rodriguez ◽  
Laysha Ostrow ◽  
Susan P. Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
Meaningful Engagement

The Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative aims to focus the profession’s attention on how social work can play a larger role in mitigating contemporary social problems. Yet a central issue facing contemporary social work is its seeming reticence to engage with social problems, and their solutions, beyond individual-level interventions. Social work research, we contend, must more consistently link case and cause, iteratively developing processes for bringing micro-, mezzo-, and macrostreams of information together. We further argue that meaningful engagement with the initiative requires social work scholars and practitioners to actively scale up practice and research inquiry. We detail two key strategies for employing a scaled-up social work practice and research ethos: (a) employing a critical economic lens and (b) engaging with diverse publics. As proof of concept for these arguments, we offer an early example of progressive era social workers scaling up responses to a pressing social issue: infant mortality.

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