The Digital Innovation Design Activities Wheel

Shirley Gregor, A R Hevner

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    Abstract

    While the importance of innovation as a dominant driver of societal and economic progress is well established, the processes and outcomes of the new phenomena of digital innovation (DI) are diverse. Managers and practitioners should benefit from a sense-making device that helps them better understand the opportunities and practices in the DI landscape. Thus, an original framework named the Digital Innovation Design Activities Wheel is proposed that builds on prior influential work on portfolio approaches to innovation (e.g. the ambidexterous approach) combined with recent thinking that modern strategic management of innovation should be based on innovative design activities. The Wheel framework relates DI design activities to different digital innovation outcomes in cyclic processes. It integrates work on portfolio approaches to innovation, the Knowledge-Innovation Matrix (KIM), theory of creativity knowledge flows and innovation design activities in the context of DI. The framework is informed by analysis of case studies of DI of different types. We conclude with an agenda for future research to extend DI innovation theorizing and with actionable advice for improving current practices of innovation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationPre-ICIS workshop on Practice-based Design and Innovation of Digital Artifacts
    EditorsNone
    Place of PublicationDublin
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages14pp
    Publication statusPublished - 2016
    EventSIGPRAG Workshop Practice-Based Design and Innovation of Digital Artifacts - Dublin, Ireland
    Duration: 1 Jan 2016 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceSIGPRAG Workshop Practice-Based Design and Innovation of Digital Artifacts
    Period1/01/16 → …
    OtherSun Dec 10 00:00:00 AEST 2017

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