In my last post I cited the Top Trends Blog with the following: Nobody can tell what’s silly and what isn’t without the benefit of hindsight. But in the course of my dissertation I need a way to get such a foresighted evaluation. The problem is: How to evaluate the user acceptance of a software [...]
One of the most challenging tasks concerning innovation is to juggle the following two things: keeping your existing products thriving and pushing innovation for the future. In other words: How can one balance daily business and seminal development? Researches at the Harvard Business School (Tushman et al.) have published a working paper some days ago [...]
Yesterday I had – once again – a discussion about the degree of rigor and other research related aspects of the so called “design science paradigm” which was published by Hevner et al. in the MIS Quarterly. Design science plays an important role in Information Systems research and is supposed to be considered in interaction [...]
George Colony, CEO of Forrester Research, wrote an interesting article about the role of the CIO in particular and IT in general in the triad technology-process-organization. And the fact that CEOs are not looking to the CIO to be a proactive leader in innovation and process is not bad news. [...] Why? In most companies, [...]
Jeffrey Phillips’ post “What kills innovation” concludes that missing feedback is one of the most powerful innovation killers. I agree that you can hush up new ideas and that this will cause the “fountain of innovations” to run dry sooner or later. But I think that we should abstract it one level. A company can’t [...]
