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Wikstrom, Patrik. "Reluctantly virtual : modelling copyright industry dynamics." Thesis, Karlstad University, Sweden, 2006. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/67930/1/FULLTEXT01.pdf.
Full textBilandzic, Ana. "New approaches to developing and commercialising IP from research in universities using open innovation." Thesis, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/98400/1/thesis_ana.pdf.
Full textCasadevall, Dario. "Skunkworks Finder: A Design Study into the Diverse Ecosystem of Creativity and Innovation Spaces." Thesis, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122139/1/Masterthesis_DarioCasadevall%20Kopie.pdf.
Full textToft, P. N. "Management of innovation in school technology." Thesis, University of Salford, 1988. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14795/.
Full textRoxo, da Fonseca Gustavo J. C. (Gustavo José Costa) 1967. "Technology innovation in financial services industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17891.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 96-98).
Over the last few decades, we have seen an enormous evolution in the financial services industry driven by technology innovations. Indeed, we cannot imagine the current financial system without electronic fund transfers, ATMs, and Internet banking among many other innovative implementations. In fact, the financial services industry is the largest market to IT suppliers which makes the financial providers the preferred partners in many technological innovations such as mobile technologies, security devices and customer relationship management (CRM) tools. Although the importance of technology innovation is clear in transforming the financial services industry, we do not often find organizations getting sustainable competitive advantage though technology innovation. In fact, in most cases, financial providers have just been focused on being as good as the competition in terms of technology innovation, neglecting any sophisticated technology strategy that could enable them to primarily capture the value created by internal innovative ideas. The goal of this research is to evaluate the stage of technology innovation in the financial services industry, its strategic relevance to the organizations, and its governance models. Based on the information gathered through reviewing relevant literature and interviewing people involved with technology and financial services, our work will propose some technology strategies that could improve the effectiveness of innovation to different types of financial providers.
by Gustavo J.C. Roxo da Fonseca.
M.B.A.
Della, Valle Fabio. "Blockchain technology: driving innovation in the supply chain." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672999.
Full textAquesta tesi presenta un estudi de l’impacte de blockchain en las eva aplicació a les cadenes de subministrament (supply-chain o SC). Mitjançant la realització d’una recerca exploratòria la tesi presenta una anàlisi fonamentada en divuit entrevistes amb experts internacionals de diferents camps, com ara representants acadèmics, empresarials i institucionals. La recerca es divideix en quatre fases: la primera fase comença amb l’anàlisi i la identificació del tipus d’innovació per a la blockchain a SC; la segona fase analitza la combinació efectiva entre les tecnologies de blockchain i els processos de gestió de SC; la tercera fase introdueix les principals influències que afecten les operacions de SC per a una transició blockchain a SC; i el quart presenta un cas d'ús concret. Els resultats de la investigació mostren que blockchain per a SC presenta totes les característiques d’una innovació evolutiva més que disruptiva. No obstant això, els resultats van confirmar que les SC són un dels camps d’aplicació amb més projecció per a blockchain i que una SC basada en blockchain s’adapta millor als processos de gestió de relacions amb proveïdors i a les unitats de negoci financeres. Finalment, per mitigar els riscos, l’anàlisi també va identificar elements que poden donar suport als procediments de transició digital en les SC. La tesi conclou presentant els resultats trobats i proporciona suggeriments per a futures perspectives de recerca.
Moeini, Ebrahim. "Technology management and innovation in strategic industries in Iran." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270986.
Full textLaegreid, Trygve 1959. "Technology strategy and innovation management in the petroleum industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8886.
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-69).
The petroleum industry is a mature commodity business and a high- technology business characterized by a relatively high rate of innovation. Probably the world's largest industry even today, the petroleum industry has an interesting history that has shaped the dynamic energy landscape. The petroleum industry is composed of two groups of companies: the petroleum companies and the oilfield service and sμpply companies. Through mergers and acquisitions BP has grown to the third largest petroleum company and the world's 17th largest company. Statoil is a middle tier petroleum company. Both Statoil and BP are integrated oil companies. This thesis studies the technology strategy and innovation management practices in the two petroleum companies Statoil and BP. A literature review presents the central concepts and models that have been developed in the fields of general strategy, technology strategy and innovation management. The main strategy features are alignment between business, technology and research, underpinned by processes, structures, incentives and culture, and an intelligent user strategy focused on cost reduction. The management of innovation emphasizes cooperation across organizational boundaries, a free and effective market approach to ideas, innovation and technology, and a low appropriability regime for technology. The thesis points to weaknesses and problems related to the present strategy. The present strategy is weak in competitive advantage. The free and effective market that underpins the user strategy is vulnerable. The alignment strategy can lead to strategic and organizational inertia and preclude necessary change. Alignment must be combined with adaptability to be sustainable. The strategy of internationalization through technology leverage requires an ambidextrous organization.
by Trygve Laegreid.
S.M.M.O.T.
Ling, Yang, and Zhou Lingxi. "How to enhance innovation management in manufacturing companies." Thesis, University of Gävle, Department of Industrial Development, IT and Land Management, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-7614.
Full textThis thesis aims at how to enhance innovation management in the companies. Collecting the data by surveys which we have sent to five Swedish companies. Through studying the theories and analyzing the data, then we got a new model about how to enhance innovation management. Through the survey and literatures studies, we found that innovation was the most important for an enterprise; it is a power of enterprise survival and development. To enhance the innovation capability, enterprises must strengthen their innovation management. How to enhance the innovation management effectively? With this purpose question, we have analyzed it through management idea innovation, technology innovation and culture innovation. Through the survey analysis and the theories study, there are 9 factors should be considered when the innovation management has launched .the company should know how to balance the dilemma of innovation, moreover, leader own the open views and offer a loose and free environment to the employees, then choosing a right partner and gain more support in form of fund and technology and so on. At last, we created a new model about enhancing innovation management. In conclusion, innovation management should be taken be an active state in organization operation with the management idea innovation, technology innovation and culture innovation.
Taber, Terry R. (Terry Ray). "Innovation--keeping it alive at established technology firms." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10498.
Full textQu, Zhe. "Three essays on the economics of information technology innovation." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24777.
Full textCommittee Chair: Narasimhan, Sridhar; Committee Member: Li, Haizheng; Committee Member: Slaughter, Sandra; Committee Member: Thursby, Marie; Committee Member: Zhang, Han.
Schweizer, Daniel. "Methodology to manage process technology innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59170.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-65).
The research conducted for this thesis was performed at "Company X", a U.S.-based engineered goods manufacturer. This project focused on the company's Advanced Manufacturing group and its process technology development methodology. The newly founded Advanced Manufacturing group started multiple innovation projects, but did not successfully implement any of them so far. Lack of organizational integration, an overall R&D strategy, as well as a defined innovation methodology negatively affected the difficult situation of that small group of engineers. This project seeks to compare the innovation methodology and process technology development of Advanced Manufacturing with best practices from similar industries as well as literature. An analysis of how to choose the right R&D projects, as well as how to execute these projects, demonstrates the differences between Company X and other organizations that are considered innovative. Case studies of a specific R&D project, in addition to an interdisciplinary workgroup of Advanced Manufacturing, highlight the positive and negative characteristics of the current innovation process. The results of this analysis provide Company X with additional insights how to use the existing innovation resources more successfully. Recommendations provided in this thesis can be used by Company X to support future technology development projects but also to help the newly founded task force that started to develop a company-wide innovation strategy (process and product innovation). Keywords: Product Development, Process Development, Advanced Manufacturing, Innovation.
by Daniel Schweizer.
S.M.
M.B.A.
Zelten, J. Peter. "Digital photography and the dynamics of technology innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/29174.
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Companies heavily and successfully invested in traditional technologies (defenders) often find it difficult to make the transitions to new disruptive technologies, in spite of technological competence and clear opportunity to do so. The core competencies that enabled the firm to excel under the old paradigms become core rigidities when faced with the need to address technological discontinuities. Products like digital still cameras, DSCs, represent the convergence of multiple rapidly changing technologies in electronics, optics, computers, networks, and software. The emergence and adoption of digital still photography both accompanies and defines a new paradigm in the sharing of images as it attempts to both emulate and replace the previous modalities while creating new market-expanding opportunities. The emergence of digital still photography has been predicted and promised for several decades. Indeed, it has already managed to replace silver halide altogether in certain market segments previously relied upon by conventional photography firms, and is at present extending beyond the early adopter stage in the broader consumer market. It is a current example of innovation and technological discontinuity, and one that has enough history to permit analysis. It poses a real potential disruptive threat to the incumbent players, some of which have succumbed while others apparently succeeded. This thesis studies the relationships between the development of the composite technologies in digital photography, the environment in which they operate, the emergence of dominant designs, market diffusion, and the strategies for success employed by leading participants. In the process of studying patterns of entry and exit firms and a detailed look at their products, evidence of a dominant design and support in this industry for the Abernathy and Utterback model of industrial innovation is uncovered. Also revealed is a second wave of innovation in the DSC industry that is firmly established and suggests the onset of a Christiansen-style disruptive dynamic. By studying this specific technological discontinuity in the context of the broader patterns, lessons in adapting to technological change in general are learned.
by J. Peter Zelten.
S.M.
Reddy, Harry 1963. "Global business strategy and innovation in banking." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17882.
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The banking industry is known to have certainty only about uncertainty, change is only constant in adopting the technologies for developing innovative products and services, and yet the opportunities of arbitrage are everywhere including in economical settings and business strategies. The retail banking industry will be analyzed to understand why some banks make sustainable profits while others are less successful. We will analyze what business strategies would best work for such dynamic industry even as banking appears to be a commodity business. A systematic study will be set out to model the dynamics of different positioning of Delta Model and the effect of the underlying interactions. We will walk through the analysis of why the innovation along with the customer targeting and the operational effectiveness are crucial to implement the right business strategies. We also study banking case studies relevant to the business strategies. Finally, we present the conclusions with some recommendations in order for banks to thrive in the industry for years to come during both war times and peace times.
by Harry Reddy.
S.M.M.O.T.
Kameda, Mitsuhiro 1971. "Disruptive innovation : value change and complementary change." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17867.
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I expand Christensen's concept and classify two disruptive technologies, company disruptive technology and product disruptive technology. The company disruptive technology is Christensen's definition itself. The product disruptive technology is the disruptive one outside his definition, for example the digital still camera (DSC). I will discuss about some cases, such as a case of high-end disruption, in this expanded definition. Company disruption follows product disruption. Targeting "company" is useful for making strategies, but it is not enough to target only "company" disruptive innovation because the product disruption sometimes badly damages or kills companies. Complementors, such as other products, law, environment etc, are also very important when we consider the disruptive technology, because they change the value criteria of the product performance. It is very important for us to take advantage of complementors in order to grow the disruptive technology. Disruption is a process and it does not always disrupt everything. The disruption is limited in the case of value-change disruption and another disruption is usually required to disrupt a product which falls outside the immediate influence of the first disruption. The disruptions must be happen one after another to disrupt all in the case of the value-change disruption. Circumstances also limit the impact of product disruption. Therefore, it is very useful for one to check and consider a disruptive technology from the viewpoints of both the value criteria and the circumstances.
by Mitsuhiro Kameda.
S.M.M.O.T.
Ebbvik-Neuman, Jonas, and Leo Neuman. "Innovation management inom den finansiella sektorn : Hur storbanker och fintechbolag arbetar med innovation management i Sverige." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Företagsekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-43880.
Full textIguchi, Yasushi 1969. "Strategies for innovation in the Japanese banking industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17872.
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In this study, I identify and discuss innovation strategies for the Japanese banking industry, with special focus on the R&D process through which banks are seeking to create new e-business opportunities. Traditionally, it was thought to be difficult to undertake well-organized R&D activities in a service industry because the intangible nature of banking services made it difficult to conduct R&D in a typical laboratory setting. Therefore, many service firms did not organize formal R&D activities. Furthermore, Japanese banks faced environmental obstacles to innovation, including government regulations, non-performing loans, and legacy assets that were difficult to abandon, such as the backbone banking system supported by major mainframe architecture. Today, emerging Internet technologies are at last triggering R&D activities among Japanese banks, and they are achieving some success in this field. This thesis identifies empirical R&D methods that have become more commonly used by Japanese banks, as well as the problems encountered in the effort to generate creative and effective ideas, screen them, perform trial-and-error iterations, and manage tests on real-life situations to gain customer input. I identify four factors that can help banks achieve innovation: managing institutional matters, managing legacy assets, acquiring a better understanding of customer needs, and organizing reality tests early to obtain feedback and make appropriate responses. The thesis begins by introducing some formal, empirical R&D methods. Next, I describe the business and technology environment of the Japanese banking industry, and depict the difficult situations that hamper innovation in the industry. Then, I review various organizational issues facing
(cont.) R&D in banking, followed by an analysis of the actual R&D processes taken in actual cases undertaken by the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.
by Yasushi Iguchi.
S.M.M.O.T.
Nouman, Muhammad. "Low-technology innovation in a sectoral system : a critical realist perspective." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2011. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/192529/.
Full textKamtsiou, Evanthia. "Meso-level co-innovation dynamic roadmapping for managing systemic innovations." Thesis, Brunel University, 2016. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14270.
Full textKollarova, Sona. "Innovation and Advanced Technology Use in the Canadian Forest Sector." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31594.
Full textBakry, Faridah Mustaffa. "Management innovation, radical innovation and business performance : the role of knowledge resources for high technology SMEs." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2013. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23188.
Full textZadeh, Rodan 1970. "Evolution of innovation : fiber optics and the communications industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17878.
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Innovations can be the single source of industry's growth. How innovations themselves grow or decline also has a direct affect on the health of the industry in which they play. This thesis looks at fiber optic technologies and their impact on the communications industry. The relative importance of the fiber optic technology is evidenced by its speed and effectiveness in shaping the communications infrastructure in a short period of the recent years. Advent of this relatively new technology, coupled with deregulation policies and the changes in the nature of the network traffic, has caused several disruptions to the communications value chain. Effects of these disruptions and their eventualities are the focus of this thesis. To study these effects, this thesis looks in detail at the interplay of various life cycle stages of innovations and industry. The innovation stages are classified as: Fluid, Transitional, and Specific. Each of these three stages affects the dynamics value chain of the industry in different ways. The characteristics of each stage are studied in detail. There are few innovations that can bring about an impact as extensive as the advent of fiber optics communications has. The review of the processes in the evolution of innovation from birth to potential re- birth provides great insights on the industry's life cycle. The study is based on current theories on the subject of management of technology applied to the communications sector. Most examples and data are based on the telecommunication networks in North America; the timeline of the study is the decade from mid 1990's to present. In closing various strategies in treading the evolution of innovation are described. The evolution life cycle
(cont.) model can be used in several other industries for managing innovation and technologies. Several related research topics are described, and citations for further suggested readings on the topic are provided.
by Rodan Zadeh.
S.M.M.O.T.
Jarmooka, Qabas. "An Examination of the Nexus between Innovation, Knowledge Management and Information Communication Technology." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2017. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1976.
Full textChowchuvech, Pornpratarn. "The culture difference influence on management when innovation occurs in Ericsson Company : GRADUATION PROEJCT IN INNOVATION MANAGMENT." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-12443.
Full textWågström, Greta, and Gustav Meisner. "Innovation Management : Evaluation Criteria for Idea Selection." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-252750.
Full textInnovation utanför företagets kärnverksamhet är viktigt för alla företag på en snabbt föränderlig marknad. Företag som vill satsa på strategisk innovation för att kunna ta tillvara på nya möjligheter behöver metoder för att kunna hantera innovationsprocessen. Detta examensarbete undersöker hur ett etablerat högteknologiskt företag som främjar intraprenörskap använder kriterier i urvalsprocessen att välja mellan olika innovationsförslag. Studien genomför en fallstudie genom att studera ett bolag, benämnt företag A, och samlar in kvalitativa data genom arkivdokument och 19 semistrukturerade intervjuer. Studien använder Christensens teori om disruptiv innovation för att analysera resultaten. Resultaten visar att det studerade högteknologiska företaget använder ett antal kriterier som stöds av tidigare forskares resultat inom området produktutveckling och externa investerare. Kriterierna som identifieras i studien är inom dimensionerna marknad och värdeskapande, produkt och teknik, företagsverksamhet och ekonomi, hur väl innovationen passar företaget och team. Intervjuerna avslöjade att personliga överväganden utgör ytterligare informella kriterier för de som utvärderar, som lägger stor vikt på intraprenörens egenskaper och presentation. Resultaten tyder på att kriterierna bör användas mindre strikt i början av processen, vilket stöds av tidigare forskning. Kriterier bidrar också till insyn i innovationsprocessen och kan användas som riktlinjer för innovatören. Christensens teori stödjer inte användningen av kriterierna marknadsstorlek, hur väl innovationen passar företaget och att verifiera innovationen med en kund på grund av osäkerhet kring framväxande marknader och nya teknologier.
Osorio, Urzúa Carlos A. (Carlos Alberto) 1968. "Architectural innovation, functional emergence diversification in engineering systems." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/38530.
Full textThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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The evolution of the architecture of long-lived complex socio-technical systems have important consequences and can happen in unexpected ways. This dissertation explores this question through the study of the architectural evolution of Municipal Electric Utilities (MEUs) and their diversification into broadband services in the United States. Our research seeks answers to questions of process (why and how did this happen?), impact (what was the economic effect of this evolution?), theory (what is the phenomenon that explains this evolution?) and method (how can we study such changes?). The number of MEUs offering broadband services increased by more than 200% between 2000 and 2005, which made MEUs one of the most important providers of fiber-based broadband services in the nation. As a result, the entry of MEUs into broadband became a heavily debated policy issue at local, state, and national levels, and many laws were proposed for restricting or broadening their role in broadband. Our research provides the first evidence about the economic impact of this phenomenon for better-informed policy making. The analysis of the architectural evolution of MEUs required appropriate methods.
(cont.) We integrated the Representation Stage of the Complex Large Interconnected Open Socio-Technical (CLIOS) Process and Object Process Methodology (OPM) under a framework for system architecture analysis, and developed the CLIOS-OPM Integrated Representation Method (COIReM). COIReM' objective is to study the architectural evolution of socio-technical systems. We applied it to the evolution of MEUs using data from case study research, documentation, field research and interviews. We find that the evolution of MEUs and their entry into broadband services resulted from a process we define as Functional Emergence (FE): the process by which a new externally delivered function emerges triggered by the combined effect of technical and contextual changes affecting internal functions of a complex socio-technical system. The diversification of MEUs into broadband shows that small technological changes related to the internal functions of the system in the presence of regulatory and organizational adaptation, can stimulate the emergence of new externally delivered functions. Especially in organizations with high absorptive capacity and dynamic capabilities, these new functions can become sources of strategic diversification. The inability to understand these dynamics can create dramatic competitive disadvantages.
(cont.) For example, in this case technical changes created significant resources that, while not being perceived as valuable by the system itself, were greatly valued and demanded by an active local customer base. The impact of this evolution was studied quantitatively using Matched Sample Estimators. Results showed that: (i) the adoption of IP-enabled services had a positive impact on the internal efficiency of MEUs, (ii) there is no evidence to support the contention advanced in some policy discussions that MEUs are subsidizing their broadband business with funds from their electric power operations, and (iii) MEUbased broadband is associated with higher growth rates in the number of local business establishments, even after adjusting for the presence of private broadband providers. These qualitative and quantitative results have important implications for policy making. We argue that the entry of MEU into broadband owes more to their nature as an electric utility than as a municipal agency. We suggest that, as result of the economies of scope between electric power and broadband services, MEUs represent a case of sustainable broadband facilities-based providers and that, given the effects in internal efficiency and local economic development, they should be exempted from state legislation preventing local governments from offering telecommunication services.
(cont.) This research makes four main contributions. First, it uncovers a new behavior of complex technological systems: small technological and contextual changes affecting internal components and functions can produce the emergence of new external functions. Second, we propose a new framework to study the architectural evolution of socio-technical systems. Third, it provided evidence that, in the case of MEUs, this behavior is observable and measurable. Finally, the thesis provides a framework with which to formulate intervening policy measures.
by Carlos Alberto Osorio-Urzúa.
Ph.D.
Song, Rui. "Developing radical innovation in telecommunications : an R&D management perspective." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29179/.
Full textNelson, Natalia (Natalia Natasha). "How companies achieve balance between technology enabled innovation and cyber-security." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104552.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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With increasing economic pressures and exponential growth in technological innovations, companies are increasingly relying on digital technologies to fulfill their innovation and value creation agendas. At the same time, based on the increasing levels of cyber-security breaches, it is clear that the trustworthiness of many established and new technologies is not yet well addressed or appreciated as a fundamental core value in the new digital economy. Consequently, companies are aggressively pursuing strategies to increase cybersecurity of their existing and new digital assets. Many ClOs are faced with having to deal with both of these priorities simultaneously and find them to be frequently conflicting, and creating tensions. This exploratory study first introduces a framework for evaluating these risk/reward trade-offs. Through a survey and a series of interviews, companies are positioned in different quadrants on a digital innovation and cyber-security maturity matrix. This positioning is then overlaid with the perceptual negative impact of cyber-security controls on the innovative projects. The thesis then analyzes the industry level, firm level, technology management and the technology maturity factors that affect this perception and these trade-offs. Ultimately the thesis provides a set of practical recommendations for any company to evaluate their own positioning on the innovation / cyber-security matrix, understand the underlying factors that affect that position and how to better manage these trade-offs.
by Natalia (Natasha) Nelson.
M.B.A.
Flores, Annabel 1977. "Implementing a new organization to manage manufacturing technology innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34729.
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The purpose of this research is to provide an academic, external perspective to facilitate the implementation and development of a new internal organization for Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) with a focus on strategy and the organization. The new organization, named the Advanced Manufacturing Development Center (AMDC), is chartered to work concurrently with the design community to develop state-of-the-art manufacturing technology to compliment the next generation engineering designs. This thesis documents the efforts of a company implementing change detailing the specific challenges they faced. The principle lessons learned during the course of this project are (1) that effectively introducing change is very difficult and depends largely on thorough planning and understanding the culture and (2) that manufacturing innovation and development is a critical step to improving the manufacturing capabilities and providing a competitive advantage to a company. The defense industry is undergoing a lean transformation that focuses on "Better, Faster, Cheaper" defense systems demanding better products within a faster development timeframe at cheaper development and production costs. Defense companies have an external push to improve their manufacturing capabilities. In the context of the defense industry, adapting to change is a slow process given the industry's clockspeed and historical development. Making the challenge of effective implementation even more difficult is the lack of urgency at RMS's due to their success in the marketplace. Benchmarking and organizational studies specific to the industry and the company were conducted to identify best practices to provide a basis for the development of the AMDC. This project uses academic research to identify existing theories on manufacturing innovation and organizational change to overcome the socialization and cultural issues that ensued from implementing change and to improve the potential sustainability and impact of the AMDC. An implementation roadmap and operational model were generated that combined the best practices found in industry and academic theories that would help meet the objectives of the AMDC.
by Annabel Flores.
M.B.A.
S.M.
Willey, Richard Ellert 1966. "Many is beautiful : commoditization as a source of disruptive innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/16990.
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This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
The expression "disruptive technology" is now firmly embedded in the modern business lexicon. The mental model summarized by this concise phrase has great explanatory power for ex-post analysis of many revolutionary changes in business. Unfortunately, this paradigm can rarely be applied prescriptively. The classic formulation of a "disruptive technology" sheds little light on potential sources of innovation. This thesis seeks to extend this analysis by suggesting that many important disruptive technologies arise from commodities. The sudden availability of a high performance factor input at a low price often enables innovation in adjacent market segments. The thesis suggests main five reasons that commodities spur innovation: ** The emergence of a commodity collapses competition to the single dimension of price. Sudden changes in factor prices create new opportunities for supply driven innovation. Low prices enable innovators to substitute quantity for quality. ** The price / performance curve of a commodity creates an attractor that promotes demand aggregation. ** Commodities emerge after the establishment of a dominant design. Commodities have defined and stable interfaces. Well developed tool sets and experienced developer communities are available to work with commodities, decreasing the price of experimentation. ** Distributed architectures based on large number of simple, redundant components offer more predictable performance. Systems based on a small number of high performance components will have a higher standard deviation for uptime than high granularity systems based on large numbers of low power components. ** Distributed architectures are much more flexible than low granularity systems. Large integrated facilities often provide cost advantages when operating at the Minimum Efficient Scale of production. However, distributed architectures that can efficiently change production levels over time may be a superior solution based on the ability to adapt to changing market demand patterns. The evolution of third generation bus architectures in personal computers provides a comprehensive example of commodity based disruption, incorporating all five forces.
by Richard Ellert Willey.
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Akhlaghpour, Saeed. "Three essays on institutional and discursive drivers of information technology innovation diffusion." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121273.
Full textCette thèse présente trois essais qui constituent une étude intégrative, multi-perspective et multi-méthode sur la diffusion des innovations organisationnelles en technologies de l'information (TI). Mon projet de recherche s'appuie sur diverses théories des organisations et des mouvements sociaux afin de proposer de nouveaux modèles d'innovation en TI et de suggérer certains développements théoriques. Plus particulièrement, les études qui forment cette thèse tiennent compte des mécanismes non-relationnels de diffusion, c.-à-d. théorisation et de framing, ainsi que des tenants normatifs et symboliques d'adoption de décision en TI. Les trois essais sont présentés comme suit:Le premier essai examine le phénomène de diffusion des TIs du point de vue des adoptants. Il cherche à concilier un certain nombre d'arguments en apparence paradoxaux qui visent à expliquer la diffusion des techniques de gestion des TI. En prenant le cas spécifique de la diffusion du « Capability Maturity Model », cette étude adopte une approche multi-perspective pour examiner le processus de diffusion. Cette recherche contribue au domaine des TI en (a) illustrant la façon dont plusieurs perspectives théoriques différentes (c.à.d, le choix efficace, la sélection forcée, la mode, et le fad) peuvent être utilisés pour expliquer la diffusion d'une innovation IT, (b) identifiant les limitations spécifiques de chaque point de vue, et (c) démontrant comment chacun de ces points de vue divergents peuvent être consolidés afin de donner une compréhension plus holistique de la diffusion de l'innovation informatique.Le deuxième essai propose une synthèse de la recherche sur l'innovation en TI., visant à proposer de nouveaux apports théoriques. Grâce à un examen et une synthèse de la littérature en TI et disciplines de référence, une théorie typologique de l'adoption de l'innovation IT est proposée. La théorie identifie et explique en détail les quatre types idéaux (configurations globales) de l'adoption des TI, particulièrement en ce qui a trait à l'adoption des TI pour l'augmentation de l'efficacité, la transformation organisationnelle, la conformité et le prestige. Le cadre théorique proposé vise à résoudre un certain nombre d'incohérences trouvées dans la littérature existante. Il met également en lumière des caractéristiques distinctives de l'innovation en TI, en ajoutant à sa clarté conceptuelle.Le troisième essai présente une étude des processus de la construction sociale et la diffusion d'innovations populairess de TI (IT fashion ) et propose une théorie de l'entrepreneuriat dans ce domaine. Cet essai se base sur l'argument selon lequel une bonne diffusion de l'innovation en TI doit être accompagnée d'une rhétorique puissante. Le rôle de cette rhétorique est d'inspirer et de donner une légitimité aux décisions d'adoption - malgré toutes les incertitudes concernant les bénéfices réels réalisés. En utilisant une analyse du discours sur un concept d'innovation TI populaire, à savoir la diffusion de Entreprise 2.0, cet essai génère une théorie sur la manière dont ces éléments rhétoriques sont construits et utiisés par des entrepreneurs en « IT fashion ».Globalement, les études de cette thèse visent à dépasser le paradigme dominant actuel dans le domaine de la recherche sur la diffusion des TI en mettant l'accent sur des aspects et mécanismes sous-explorés dans la recherche existante. Les conclusions de ces études fournissent des contributions théoriques et pragmatiques pour la recherche en TI, ainsi que des contributions pratiques pour les gestionnaires, les fournisseurs et les consultants en TI.
Malik, Khaleel Ur-Rehman. "Intra-firm technology management and the innovation process in a multinational company." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.488399.
Full textMöhring, Monika Maria. "Innovation in a high technology B2B context : exploring networks, processes and management." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2013. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18979.
Full textTao, Lan. "Developing a framework for depicting the radical innovation process in established firms." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609332.
Full textYuen, Kevin Ka-Chun. "New sustainable models of open innovation to accelerate technology development in cellular agriculture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113537.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 96-103).
Cellular agriculture is an emerging field to develop in-vitro agricultural products. Despite overwhelming public attention towards the field's trajectory, there are significant research hurdles to overcome in order to validate scalable applications. These challenges, referring to the translational development of cell lines, serum-free media, cell-scaffolds, and bioreactor designs with regulatory and market assessment efforts, require new models for industry collaboration. The Open-Innovation Network Map was used to prioritize key collaboration networks to address the translational challenges of cellular agriculture, and three in-depth case studies from open-source models, big-science collaborations, and pre-competitive consortia were evaluated. Nine best practices to support open innovation across translational development were surfaced: Open-Source Models I OpenCompute Foundation, a community for open-source data center hardware designs, highlights the focus on: (1) the modularization of biological parts, equipment and protocols to encourage reproducibility, (2) the scalability of proof-of-concepts through industry participation, and (3) the self-assembly of industry clusters to initiate standardization. Big-Science Collaborations I The Human Genome Project, a large-scale collaboration to complete the sequencing of the human genome, exhibits attributes of successful research-intensive organizations, such as: (4) the centralization of leadership in distributed networks, and (5) policies to increase data-sharing frequency. Pre-competitive Consortia I SEMATECH, a semi-conductor manufacturing consortium established to address bottlenecks in the product development process, reveals that: (6) a crisis is critical for industry cohesion, (7) investment in innovation hubs increases translatability across stakeholders, (8) 'honest brokers' should be created to promote trust, and (9) feedback loops with end-users are critical to test market applications for new scientific advancements. The building of cellular agriculture's communities, channels, and technologies with appropriate open innovation models can enable stakeholders to collaborate and maintain a competitive edge. The conclusions of the thesis represent a convergence point among industry, academia and policy to discuss how to best shape and execute open innovation efforts in the future.
by Kevin Ka-Chun Yuen.
S.M. in Engineering and Management
Reichert-Facilides, Christopher 1964. "Organizing for innovation : an examination of collaborative teams in industrial design." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17886.
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Why are some industrial design firms more successful than others in consistently producing high quality products and services? Do they hire more talented people, or are they organized so as to maximize the potential of their teams? I begin this thesis with an examination of literature on teamwork, the dynamics of idea propagation, and the product development process itself. This is meant to extract some insights into successful teams across a broad spectrum of activities and what they did to generate a creative output. These examples include references to historically significant teams such as Thomas Edison's Lab and the Manhattan Project. By using such extreme examples, I am seeking similarities in more common projects and organizations. I use a workgroup framework to analyze the factors involved, including the context, the people on the teams, their task requirements and formal organization, group cultures that emerge, as well as the outcomes that define the success, or otherwise of a project. I interviewed a number of professionals in the industry. These include professionals from IDEO, Design Continuum, Modo, and sevenO2design, as well as professors at the MIT School of Engineering, Media Lab, Sloan School, and Olin College of Engineering. The main focus is in analyzing the collaborative processes and methods of these sample organizations. My objective is to identify their methodology for organizing the creative process and how they maintain a high standard across projects, industries and over time.
by Christopher Reichert-Facilides.
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Ostrowski, Susan M. (Susan Marie). "Innovation in medical devices : a case study of the coronary stent." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8917.
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This thesis presents a case study of introduction of the coronary stent into the percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) industry. The industry evolution is analyzed within the industrial life cycle framework developed by Utterback, Tushman and others. The coronary stent was first introduced in 1994, and has passed through all of the industry cycle stages: from a technology disruption stage to an incremental improvement. The interactions of the organization with the exterior environment and the technical development expertise, in combination, prove to be determining elements in an the stent manufacturer's likelihood for success. Relationships with the clinical personnel and practitioner are needed for design validation ( data for regulatory filings), design feedback, clinical acceptance of their products and to promote awareness of their products. Relations with clinical institutions and purchasing groups form distribution channels. This case study of the coronary stent industry provides an additional data point to compare actual industry practice against theory.
by Susan M. Ostrowski.
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Ubiebor, Merhedia Ricardo. "Modernisation and innovation management : developing a digital society : an investigation into public sector modernisation and innovation management in its introduction of wireless technology." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5366.
Full textUbiebor, Merhedia R. "Modernisation and Innovation Management: Developing a Digital Society. An investigation into public sector modernisation and innovation management in its introduction of wireless technology." Thesis, University of Bradford, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/5366.
Full textMeneses, Alvarez Fernando. "Engineering a culture that promotes innovation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117938.
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In today's world, innovation has become a well-worn, sometimes over-used buzzword. Much of today's innovation is mainly linked with new technologies. Many companies talk about innovation using new metrics like "innovation premium," and they would like to be on the "Top 100 Most Innovative" list published by Forbes every year. This thesis seeks to answer the following questions: Do the CEOs of the most innovative companies create a unique environment within their organizations? Do they create an internal culture that supports employees who have ideas for innovative products or services? What can a CEO do to influence the company's shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices which in turn promote innovation? What are the main elements that influence internal culture and make it more innovative? To answer these questions, I reviewed the research literature by scholars and researchers on innovation. I also reviewed literature about the kind of organizational culture that promotes innovation. In addition, I interviewed nine leaders from several companies generally regarded as being innovative to inquire how they fostered an innovative environment. From this study, I identified three main elements that I think are key to creating a culture that promotes innovation. After determining the critical elements necessary for innovation, I interviewed 17 individuals from P-Automotive (a pseudonym). I asked them to discuss how their internal innovation culture relates to the three main elements. Based on what I learned from the research literature, the innovative leader interviews, and the case study of P-Automotive, I provide several general recommendations and several specific recommendations (for P-Automotive) for fostering an innovative organizational culture.
by Fernando Meneses Alvarez.
S.M. in Management of Technology
Neshati, Ramin. "Participation in Technology Standards Development: A Decision Model for the Information and Communications Technology Industry." PDXScholar, 2014. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1850.
Full textMcDougall, Heather S. "Starting the journey towards manufacturing excellence : MX Start : innovation report." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/53859/.
Full textVan, der Walt Johanna Maria. "Technology for knowledge innovation : a realistic pluralist scientific problem solving capability." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2005. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01232006-155408.
Full textBhatti, Yasser Ahmad. "Frugal innovation : social entrepreneurs' perceptions of innovation under institutional voids, resource scarcity and affordability constraints." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:17121614-7918-4e56-bccc-2806c9ecbfb3.
Full textTsekouras, George. "Integration, organisation and management : investigating capability building." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.263212.
Full textIshii, Katsuki. "Managing technological innovation and sustaining competitive advantage in the digital imaging industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33552.
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The emergence and adoption of a disruptive technology that replaces an existing industry platform not only has enormous implications to incumbent firms, but also creates business opportunities that is enabled by the newly adopted technology. Firms competing in such an evolving and dynamic industry face great management challenges in its product's technological innovation process. Furthermore, defining strategies to sustain its competitive advantage through the market evolution by transitioning to the new platform is a non-trivial management task. This thesis focuses on the digital imaging industry that consists of input/output/storage devices as well as related software and services. This thesis will -- describe the evolution, transition, and competitive/collaborative environment of the consumer photography industry, both analog and digital, by way of value chain analysis, -- identify current trends that is shaping the digital imaging industry and the challenges it faces, -- explore key factors that influence the expansion of digital imaging, focusing on two platform technologies, specifically the image data format and removable memory card format, -- discuss the strategic implications for a new format to be introduced in a fast growing industry and its diffusion strategies, and -- establish a basis to allow firms to address the industry challenges in order to sustain its competitive advantage.
by Katsuki Ishii.
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Bonsen, Joost Paul. "The Innovation Institute : from creative inquiry through real-world impact at MIT." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/37141.
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This document is an exploration into the past, present, and emerging future of MIT from the perspective of a participant-in and observer-of Institute life and learning, and seeks to better understand how creative inquiry at the Institute leads to real-world impact. We explore the Institute's history, mission, and creative ethos. We survey MIT's links to industry, highlight the inner-connections between the triad of research, education and extracurriculars, and explore the rich entrepreneurial ecosystem, how the Institute formally and informally educates and inspires new generations of founders, builders, and leaders. We conclude by observing how distributed initiative, inquiry, and leadership enable organizational reinvention and survey a few of MIT's emergent future frontiers.
by Joost Paul Bonsen.
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Cho, Yonghee. "Exploring Technology Forecasting and its Implications for Strategic Technology Planning." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4224.
Full textBoavida, Nuno F. F. G. [Verfasser]. "The role of indicators in decisions of technology innovation / Nuno F. F. G. Boavida." Karlsruhe : KIT Scientific Publishing, 2017. http://www.ksp.kit.edu.
Full textStone, Leah. "Digitization, Innovation, and Participation| Digital Conviviality of the Google Cultural Institute." Thesis, Colorado State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10824526.
Full textThe Frightful Five—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Alphabet, the parent company of Google—shape the way data are generated and distributed across digital space (Manjoo, 2017). Through their technologies and increase in scope and scale, these titans provide new ways for people to create, find, and share information online. And, with such control, they have continued as well as expanded their reign over information commerce, changing the way that people and technology interact. In this way, tech giants act as gatekeepers over data, as well as serve as all-mighty-creators over technologies that arguably act on humans.
To explain, debates over whether or not technologies are employing “computational agency” (Tufecki, 2015, p. 207) have developed. One of these disputes is commonly referred to as the Great Artificial Intelligence (AI) Debate, and is currently being publicly argued between two of the most prominent tech titans: Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, and Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook (Narkar, 2017). On one side of the AI argument, sits tech mogul Musk, who is crying for regulatory restrictions over AI and painting doomsday pictures of robots killing humans. Conversely, on the other side of the dispute, sits tech giant Zuckerberg, who claims AI will enhance society as it makes the world a better place.
This great AI debate underscores what Illich (1973) described as organizations that practice in convivial versus non-convivial ways. In other words, as tech titans are continuing to advance technology, it can be argued that they are operating in convivial ways as they enhance society through their participatory tools that work with humans to complete a task. Alternatively, it can be debated that technology organizations may be functioning in non-convivial ways as they manipulate society for the sake of their technologies. And, while these technologies may be participating with humans (convivial) to complete a task, they may actually be working for and/or acting on humans (non-convivial) to do an activity.
The purpose of this dissertation was to establish a unique approach to studying the conviviality of technology titans and how they organize digital space, a concept the researcher coined as digital conviviality. Digital conviviality is when a technology company operates in digital convivial ways such that it: (a) builds tools for digital communication; (b) has a value proposition that, while aimed at generating a profit, is also focused on using its technology to enhance society, instead of manipulating society for the sake of its technologies; and (c) designs technological tools that work with humans, instead of tools that work for humans or tools that act on humans, to accomplish a task. To further understand this conception of digital conviviality, an investigation was piloted into a tech titan that arguably claims to promote digital conviviality at its core: Google.
Using Illich’s (1973) notion of conviviality as a guide, an exploration into Google’s approach to convivial technologies was conducted. This study sought to understand Google’s ability to shape information in the arts and culture space. Through its Google Cultural Institute (GCI) and Google Arts & Culture (GAC) initiatives, Google focused on “democratizing access to the world’s culture” (Google CI Chromecast, 2014, 00:44). In this way, the study aimed to answer the overarching question: in what ways is the GCI considered a digital convivial company, and conversely, in what ways is it not? Based on this, an explication of the concept of digital conviviality and a framework for studying such things were developed.
Drawing from several disciplines, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks (e.g., science and technology, posthumanism, actor-network theory, design science in information systems, business models, digital methods, and convivial studies), a body of theory was gathered together, synthesized, and enhanced. Next, the collected information was used to assemble and create a new methodological strategy called digital convivial tracking with a design science (DS) approach and actor-network theory (ANT) mindset. Digital convivial tracking employs traditional qualitative methods, as well as innovative digital methods, to trace important objects throughout a digital ecosystem. Because the GCI digitizes the world’s arts and culture, the iconic The Starry Night painting by Vincent van Gogh (1889d) was selected as the object to track across the institute’s ecosystem. This process helped identify the GCI’s complex and entangled business model, as well as its technological innovations. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.)