A Survey on the Perception of Innovation in a Large Product-focused Software Organization
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Summary, in English
Context.Innovation is promoted in companies to help them stay competitive. Four types of innovation are defined: product, process, business, and organizational. Objective. We want to understand the perception of the innovation concept in industry, and particularly how the innovation types relate to each other. Method. We launched a survey at a branch of a multi-national corporation. Results. From a qualitative analysis of the 229 responses, we see that the understanding of the innovation concept is somewhat narrow, and mostly related to product innovation. A majority of respondents indicate that product innovation triggers process, business, and organizational innovation, rather than vice versa. However, there is a complex interdependency between the types. We also identify challenges related to each of the types. Conclusion. Increasing awareness and knowledge of different types of innovation, may improve the innovation. Further, they cannot be handled one by one, but in their interdependent relations.
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Publiceringsår
2015
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
66-80
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)
Volym
210
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Dokumenttyp
Konferensbidrag
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Computer Science
Nyckelord
- product innovation
- processinnovation
- business innovation
- organizational innovation
- software engineering
- software business
- survey
- case study
- empirical investigation
Conference name
6th International Conference on Software Business - ICSOB'2015.
Conference date
2015-06-10 - 2015-06-12
Status
Published
Projekt
- Synthesis of a Software Engineering Framework for Open Innovation through Empirical Research
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1865-1348