The Impact of ICTs and Business Strategy on Innovation Activities

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-177
Author(s):  
Hiroki Idota ◽  
Sheikh Abu Taher ◽  
Masatsugu Tsuji
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Process Analysis ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
New Finding ◽  
Product And Process Innovation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Product And Process

This research explores factors of innovation and clarifies the effects of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on innovation process. Analysis is based on a mail survey conducted in February 2012 to March 2012 on 3,959 Japanese SMEs. The number of valid responses was 647 (16.3%) and is used as a sample for the analysis. Based on the data, logit analysis is employed for product and process innovation to answer the following three research questions: (1) What are factors promoting innovation? (2) How ICTs affect innovation? and (3) Which affect SMEs with higher ICT use to realize innovation? As a result, (1) the factors such as R&D expenditures, leadership of top management, motivation of employees, ICT index, effects of ICTs are extracted. (2) Sharing information and shortening the R&D process are the effects which ICTs perform to innovation. (3) These effects are greater to SMEs with higher ICT index. The new finding of this chapter lies in results such that ICTs affect innovation through sharing information and shortening the R&D period.

scholarly journals Digital Tools for Managing Innovative Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (3) ◽  
pp. 408-416
Author(s):  
Alena Stupina ◽  
Tat'yana Berg ◽  
Larisa Korpacheva
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Heterogeneous Environments ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Gert Networks ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Processing Information ◽  
Infrastructure Performance ◽  
New Consumer

The digital transformation of the economy and the conceptual changes in developing new consumer value predetermined new types of interaction between participants in innovation activities. These changes affected the elements of innovative infrastructure, which ensures effective production of open innovations. The increasing communication of innovation process participants remains a problem of innovative infrastructure performance, which requires new forms and configurations based on digital platform solutions. Modern information and communication technologies and their implementation in the innovative infrastructure will reduce investment costs for creation and maintenance of physical objects and decrease the time spent on searching, exchanging, and processing information of innovation process participants. The article considers the innovative infrastructure as an interaction system of subsystems based on digital platforms. The system provides downloadable information and innovative solutions. The paper focuses on the information subsystem of innovative infrastructure, its components, digital platforms, and services. The authors define distributed and integrated technologies for managing innovative infrastructure that provide communications in a single ecosystem of heterogeneous information network services of innovation process participants. The authors introduce effective mathematical tools of modified GERT networks for modeling computational data processing in heterogeneous environments of digital services of innovative infrastructure.

Cultural Aspects and Digital Divide in Europe

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 14-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ursula Maier-Rabler
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Individual Member ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Policy Strategies

This paper aims to make a contribution toward an improvement of European e-policy practice. lt is inspired by the conviction that successfuJ e-policy strategies can lead to ba­lanced chances for all members in certain societies to aquire the absolutely indispensable capabilities for decision-making in the context of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Following the path of the development of e-policy papers it has to be stated that many goals have not yet been achieved. The techno-deterministic concepts 'access' and 'usage' seem not to reach far enough to get people really involved andin­formed. Many more aspects have tobe considered in order to create a clirnate for inno­vation where different choices made by different individuals according to their different social, economic or cuJtural backgrounds do not lead automatically to the well known either or not, connected or not-connected, haves or have-nots, but to a variety of pat­terns of involvement. In this paper, we argue for different e-policy strategies according to cultural aspects in certain societies. And hereby we will focus on the cultural aspects of information itself, on the notion of information in different information cultures. lt also seems important to mention at this stage that we believe that getting all members of society involved in the ICT-innovation process in order to provide the basis for in­formed decisions by each individual member is the most important task of e-policy.

BEYOND THE STEADY STATE: MANAGING DISCONTINUOUS PRODUCT AND PROCESS INNOVATION

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (02) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
WENDY PHILLIPS ◽  
HANNAH NOKE ◽  
JOHN BESSANT ◽  
RICHARD LAMMING
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Relative Stability ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Product And Process Innovation ◽  
Good Guide ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
Discontinuous Innovation ◽  
Selection Of

Research on the innovation process and its effective management has consistently highlighted a set of themes constituting "good practice". The limitation of such "good practice" is that it relates to what might be termed "steady state" innovation — essentially innovative activity in product and process terms which is about "doing what we do, but better". The prescription works well under these conditions of (relative) stability in terms of products and markets but is not a good guide when elements of discontinuity come into the equation. Discontinuity arises from shifts along technological, market, political and other frontiers and requires new or at least significantly adapted approaches to their effective management. This paper highlights empirical findings from a selection of companies involved in a project sponsored by the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry. The results indicate a number of key routines that organisations could implement to enable discontinuous innovation.

scholarly journals The Role of Marketing Instruments in the Innovative Development of Agrarian Enterprises

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (513) ◽  
pp. 460-468
Author(s):  
T. V. Ilchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Innovation Activity ◽  
Innovative Development ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Priority Direction ◽  
Logical Method ◽  
Information And Communication

At present, intensification of innovation activity is recognized as the priority direction in the operation of agrarian enterprises. It is determined that this, first of all, requires the formation of a qualitatively new system of marketing provision for innovative development of agricultural producers, introduction of modern information and communication technologies, and the use of digital marketing instruments. Therefore, the research is aimed at substantiating and developing proposals to improve the effectiveness of innovative development of agrarian enterprises with the use of marketing instrumentarium. To achieve the aim, research methods such as analysis and synthesis, comparison, generalization, statistical analysis, structural and logical method, systematization are applied. The indicators of innovative development of food production enterprises are analyzed in accordance with KVED-2010. The key factors that determine the feasibility of using marketing instrumentarium in the innovative development of agrarian enterprises are identified. The main advantages of using information and communication technologies as an important marketing instrument in the innovative activities of agrarian enterprises are defined. Global trends in the development of the digitalization process in agriculture are examined. The peculiarities of digital channels for the promotion of agrarian products are considered, which include content marketing (SEO, SERM, SMM, PR content, e-mail marketing, ORM); digital advertising (contextual, targeted, media advertising); multichannel promotion; web-analythics. The directions of intensification of innovation activities of agrarian enterprises with the use of marketing instruments are defined, which are conventionally systematized by eight groups: operational response; budget optimization; remote mode and taking care of the team; assistance to agrarian business through the growth of corporate social responsibility and implementation of social initiatives; marketing strategy adjustments; transformation of communication mix and portfolio of innovative products; e-com enhancement, focus on trade marketing.

ICT Investments and Management for Organizations

2014 ◽  
pp. 544-560
Author(s):  
Georgios N. Angelou ◽  
Anastasios A. Economides
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Real Options ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Qualitative Modeling ◽  
Balance Scorecard ◽  
Cost Benefits ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Decision Making Model

Developing the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) strategy that supports the overall organization's business strategy is critical for generating business value. Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional quantitative cost-benefits analysis for evaluating and managing ICT investments, researchers suggest multi-criteria analysis, integrating quantitative and qualitative modeling. This chapter introduces the Balance Scorecard (BS) decision analysis framework and combines it with Real Options (ROs) analysis, in a qualitative and quantitative perspective, for modeling the business flexibility as well as for evaluating and controlling the ICT investments strategy. The multi-criteria ROs modeling applies to all perspectives of the BS framework providing a holistic decision-making model for ICT business.

From Rural Outsourcing to Rural Opportunities

2013 ◽  
pp. 158-173
Author(s):  
Aarti Kawlra
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Production Model ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Key Innovation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Production Company

Inspired by the potential of Information and Communication Technologies, henceforth ICTs, for socio-economic development, and supported by a university based technology and business incubator, Rural Production Company, henceforth RPC, was set up in 2007 employing an ICT-mediated distributed production model. This paper reveals how RPC, initially an exploratory project whose key innovation was its Internet kiosk-facilitated model of crafts production and local empowerment, morphed into a social enterprise catering to global demands. The context of innovation provided by the Incubator led to a transformation of an ICT4D (ICT for Development) project into a business venture through the practice of formal and informal questioning at every stage of its implementation. This paper focuses on the iterative method adopted while highlighting the role of the incubator in the overall design and development process of the enterprise. This paper is a reflexive mapping of the organization’s evolution from the original research agenda of outsourcing production cum rural employment, to one that privileges local networks both as a conscious business strategy and as an arena for collaborative change for human development.

Integrated Modeling

2011 ◽  
pp. 420-430
Author(s):  
Thomas Hadrich ◽  
Ronald Maier
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Process Modeling ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Knowledge Work ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Modeling Approaches ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Process Oriented

Modeling is a key task in order to analyze, understand, and improve business processes and organizational structures, and to support the design, implementation, and management of information and communication technologies in general and knowledge management systems (KMSs) in particular. Process-oriented knowledge management (Maier, 2004; Maier & Remus, 2003) is a promising approach to provide the missing link between knowledge management (KM) and business strategy, and to bridge the gap between the human-oriented and technology-oriented views (e.g., Hansen, Nohria, & Tierney, 1999; Zack, 1999). However, existing modeling approaches for business processes, including their extensions for KM, still lack concepts to support knowledge work, which is often unstructured, creative, and learning and communication intensive. Recently, the activity theory has been proposed to provide concepts to analyze knowledge work (e.g., Blackler, 1995), but it has not yet been integrated with business process modeling for designing KM initiatives and KMSs. The following sections analyze the characteristics of knowledge work, distinguish important perspectives for modeling in KM, and discuss extensions of process modeling approaches including activity modeling. Then, the process-oriented and the activity-oriented perspectives on knowledge work are compared and connected by means of the concept of knowledge stance.

Technological Innovations and Market Power: A Study of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 097639962094427
Author(s):  
Madan Dhanora ◽  
Ruchi Sharma ◽  
Walter G. Park
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Market Power ◽  
Process Innovation ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Product And Process Innovation ◽  
Product And Process ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

Technological innovations are positively associated with firms’ market performance. This study aims to examine the impact of product and process innovation on the market power of 168 Indian pharmaceutical firms during 2000–2013. We generate product and process patent stock to capture firm-level innovation activities. Findings of this study suggest that both product and process innovation positively influence firms’ market power. Results also reveal that MNEs enjoy more market power in the Indian pharmaceutical industry. Further, this study also highlights that there is a differential impact of firms’ product group on market power. This study concludes that patenting is a positive source of firm performance in the Indian pharmaceutical industry.

scholarly journals La dinamización de las TIC en las escuelas

2010 ◽  
pp. a131
Author(s):  
Cinta Espuny ◽  
Mercè Gisbert ◽  
Jordi Coiduras
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Academic Courses ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Action Process ◽  
Teaching Learning

Este artículo presenta parte de los resultados de una investigación sobre la dinamización de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) desde un centro de recursos pedagógico en las escuelas de su comarca, el Baix Ebre (Tarragona) durante los cursos escolares 2006-2007 y 2007-2008. Asimismo se enmarca en una tesis doctoral: «Disseny, implementació i avaluació del Pla d'explotació de recursos TIC als centres de primària del Baix Ebre» (Espuny, 2008). En líneas generales, se expone una propuesta sobre cómo dinamizar las TIC, basada en el análisis del papel de los agentes fundamentales en cualquier proceso de innovación, y con el objetivo de ser un referente en el diseño de un plan de incorporación de las TIC de forma gradual y metodológicamente significativa en la escuela. Se parte de un enfoque metodológico de investigación-acción y se utilizan técnicas de recogida e interpretación de datos mixta, cualitativa y cuantitativa (entrevistas, diarios, cuestionarios, demandas, opiniones, observaciones, reflexiones de expertos, etc.). A partir de ellas, nuestras conclusiones nos permiten reflexionar sobre el estado actual de las TIC en los centros y servir como base a las Administraciones educativas, en general, y a las diferentes comunidades educativas, en particular, en la definición de los cambios necesarios que nos permitan implementar exitosamente las TIC como un potente instrumento pedagógico que mejora la calidad del proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje.AbstractThe article is based on the results of a research into dinamization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). It's made by the Teaching Resources Centre of Baix Ebre (Tarragona) and it was applied in different schools located in the same area, during the academic courses 2006-2007, 2007-2008. This researching project is included in a thesis: «Design, implementation and assessment of a running plan of ICT resources in primary schools in the Baix Ebre area». (Espuny, 2008). In a general way it sets out a proposal to invigorate the ICT. This proposal is based on the study of the role the key agents that take part in every innovation process, and it has the objective of being an essential reference when designing a plan to involve or incorporate the ICT in schools in a methodological significative way. In this project the methodological research-action process has been taken as a reference. It used different resources to collect and analyze the data, mixed, qualitative and quantitative, (interviews, diaries, expert opinions...) The findings of the study are intended to reflect on the current status of ICT in schools, and to serve as a basis for the necessary changes that the educational authorities and the educational community may deem essential to enable ICT to be successfully implemented as a pedagogical tool that is to improve the quality of the teaching-learning process.

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