A Lightweight Innovation Process for Software-Intensive Product Development

Gorschek, Tony; Fricker, Samuel; Palm, Klas; Kunsman, Steven

doi:10.1109/ms.2009.164

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“…For a company to be successful it needs to promote innovation [19]. An innovation is the implementation of a new or significantly improved product (goods or service), or process, a new marketing method, or a new organisational method in business practices, workplace organisation or external relations [31].…”

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Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company

Moe

Barney

Aurum

et al. 2012

Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

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Abstract. Sustaining innovation in a fast growing software development company is difficult. As organisations grow, peoples' focus often changes from the big picture of the product being developed to the specific role they fill. This paper presents two complementary approaches that were successfully used to support continued developer-driven innovation in a rapidly growing Australian agile software development company. The method "FedEx™ Day" gives developers one day to showcase a proof of concept they believe should be part of the product, while the method "20% Time" allows more ambitious projects to be undertaken. Given the right setting and management support, the two approaches can support and improve bottom-up innovation in organizations.

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Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company

Moe

Barney

Aurum

et al. 2012

Product-Focused Software Process Improvement

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“…In our previous and ongoing research we have been investigating how to support the documentation and collection of ideas from employees at work [5] and with mobile tool support in situ from end-users [13]. Furthermore, we worked on tools that allow users to capture and deliver situational feedback to an addressee identified from contextual information [12].…”

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“…For an innovation process to work well, we recognize the following five requirements. They are based on the experiences we made with the Star Search innovation process in [5].…”

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Online social networks as a catalyst for software and IT innovation

Singer

Seyff

Fricker

2011

Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Social Software Engineering

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People have many creative ideas, but only a few of these ideas are realized and lead to innovation. Good ideas often fail because they are not shared between innovators and stakeholders, hence are unlikely to be realized. Consequently, many opportunities are missed to excite customers and to gain a competitive advantage. This paper proposes an innovation process that uses online social networks to lower the hurdle to sharing ideas. The process leverages diffusion effects of social networks while supporting the generation, evaluation, consolidation, and implementation of innovative ideas with lightweight activities. The process is illustrated and discussed using an application example. Although we are focusing on innovation regarding software-intensive systems, we foresee that the discussed process has the potential to be applied to other domains as well.

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“…The key issues with this problem scenario are: There is often an abundance of ideas existing in a company [12], [38], and therefore idea screening is a time consuming and cognitively demanding task, because it is very hard to assess the potential value of an individual idea [39], given that ideas are often hard to compare with each other [3]. Moreover, companies are often held captive by customer requirements which consumes innovation resources [40], because most funding decisions are based on financial aspects.…”

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Designing an Idea Screening Framework for Employee-Driven Innovation

Ciriello

Richter

Schwabe

2016

2016 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)

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As ever more companies encourage their employees to realize innovations, a surplus of ideas that exceeds the available resources to implement them has become reality in many organizations. With this paper, we follow recent calls for designing IT-supported, comprehensive, multi-attributive idea screening throughout the whole innovation cycle. Our Idea Screening Framework is grounded in literature and empirical data we collected from a two-year field study in a multinational European banking software provider. We identify a set of dimensions for screening ideas and show with a prototype how the framework can support innovation practices by facilitating the evaluation, selection, and tracking of ideas for managers and innovators.

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A Lightweight Innovation Process for Software-Intensive Product Development

Cited by 48 publications

References 14 publications

Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company

Fostering and Sustaining Innovation in a Fast Growing Agile Company

Online social networks as a catalyst for software and IT innovation

Designing an Idea Screening Framework for Employee-Driven Innovation

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