Webinar - Conducting Trace Data Research hosted by Dr. Ola Henfridsson

This SIG DITE webinar provides our community with the opportunity to learn from an innovative panel of junior scholars who have embraced digital innovation for creating and implementing novel research designs. This panel will discuss the availability and use of new methods, tools, and techniques for conducting trace data research into digital innovation/transformation/entrepreneurship phenomena. How to translate source code and other new types of data into sources of behavioral insight; What the best methods are for scripting, cleansing, and processing digital trace data; What research questions/topics are emerging from novel trace data methods; and Emerging innovation in research design

Product Design And Success in A Platform Ecosystem

A platform ecosystem allows developers to leverage the software codebase innovations of others. Codebase (re)combination extends the range of opportunities for product innovation aimed at satisfying the functional needs of users. Despite facilitating extraordinary innovation gains among developers, prior research on how outside developers can more efficiently develop digital ecosystem resident products has not been addressed. We emphasize two layered properties of design momentum that may increase digital product innovation: 1) the dependencies of functions and 2) the dependencies of genres expressed in product descriptions. We analyze the source codes of R platform ecosystem packages using deep learning algorithms (i.e., Struc2Vec and Doc2Vec) to capture how layered software properties change as the dynamics of the R platform ecosystem increases in each month. We found a positive relationship between software codebase usage and genre dependencies and digital product design success

Transitioning from Use to Effective Use of Digital Innovation Platforms for Development: An Evergreen Discussion

The disruptions of different nature occurring since the onset of pandemics such as Ebola & Covid19 have exposed the imperative to re-imagine digital transformation, towards a more realistic goal-oriented perspective. Public sector organizations in many countries around the global south are at a crossroads, where the digital solutions at their disposal must be efficient, to address situations beyond technology adoption. Recent discussions have advocated for understanding what effective use of digital platforms is, as this would serve as a backbone between a system and the benefits it can deliver. In this research, we tackle the pressing imperative of using health information systems effectively for efficient organizational transformation. The insights discussed in this research will assist both scholars and professionals in reflecting on the digital transformation of public organizations in the global south, and the drivers behind the effective use of health information systems in fragmented economies

Exploration of Ideas for Sustaining Digital Innovation Management: A Case Study in the Ostrobothnia Region of Finland

Disruption of technologies, climate changes and epidemic crises have significantly affected individuals, organizations, and society. These phenomena force organizations to extend and innovate their business models to adapt to new circumstances. However, literature provides a limited coverage on how sustainable innovations ideas form and evaluate in practice. We thus focus on this issue in the present study. We used nominal focus group technique, C-K design theory for innovative design with citizen sciences as our study’s lenses. Data collection was from three groups of 81 participants who live in three cities in the Ostrobothnia region of Finland. The findings illustrate the process of establishing a sustainable innovation management idea and lesson learned on how to facilitate innovation groups in practice

Open Innovation via Open Source: Collaboration of Companies to Infuse Automobiles with Digital Technologies

Open innovation is a process through which companies open their borders and collaborate with external stakeholders like open source communities to bring new ideas and develop novel digital technologies to gain a competitive position. In this paper, we studied an open source project, i.e., Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) – a Linux Foundation project started by automobile manufacturers and technology companies to innovate technologies for automobiles. By analyzing the code contribution of AGL, we show that much of the code contribution is made by external companies supplying technology to automotive companies and later using the open innovation process to benefit from it. We find evidence that automobile manufacturers engage in open source communities for outside-in, inside-out, and coupled open innovation. As such, this paper shows to managers in larger companies the importance of open source as a way to do open innovation

The role of information systems in creating technological entrepreneurship of Polish high-tech companies

The conceptualization of the contemporary paradigm of entrepreneurship is based on the functional and process approach to operations that are focused on the companies’ use of existing market opportunities. Thus, entrepreneurship is a process constituted of entrepreneurial activities of the innovator and other members of the organization. This process is characterized primarily by creative, cooperative-oriented activities, innovativeness̨, willingness̨ to take risks as well as the creation of value and benefits for the information society. In this regard, technological entrepreneurship, understood as the process of creating new high-tech products and the application of modern technologies by companies, is becoming increasingly important. The literature emphasizes that technological entrepreneurship could not have developed in modern organizations without a well-functioning information system, which is supported by an IT system. Thus, the information system becomes an important determinant of the creation and functioning of technological solutions to be used within an organization that are based on technological entrepreneurship. In view of the above, it seems reasonable to diagnose the impact of the information system on the formation of technological entrepreneurship in polish high-tech companies. The theoretical contribution of article is systematize knowledge of role information system on technological entrepreneurship. The practical is presented some determinates which influence of shaping technological entrepreneurship in business

Exploration of Ideas for Sustaining Digital Innovation Management : A Case Study in the Ostrobothnia Region of Finland

Disruption of technologies, climate changes and epidemic crises have significantly affected individuals, organizations, and society. These phenomena force organizations to extend and innovate their business models to adapt to new circumstances. However, literature provides a limited coverage on how sustainable innovations ideas form and evaluate in practice. We thus focus on this issue in the present study. We used nominal focus group technique, C-K design theory for innovative design with citizen sciences as our study’s lenses. Data collection was from three groups of 81 participants who live in three cities in the Ostrobothnia region of Finland. The findings illustrate the process of establishing a sustainable innovation management idea and lesson learned on how to facilitate innovation groups in practice.©2022 Association for Information Systems.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed