Using The Intranet Environment For Enhancing Organizational Creativity

The use of intranet has become crucial to support managerial practices increasing organizational creativity. However, it can also generate “creaticidal” effects by reproducing practices hampering creative processes. Based on an in-depth case study at Schneider-Electric (France), this article studies the effects of the intranet usage on creativity within the four departments of the company. The intention of management is to encourage the innovation by stimulating the collaborators’ creativity through the intranet use throughout the departments. Although the intranet is impelled with similar intention, the results reveal that its use has reproduced the already existing managerial practices in departments. The study reveals the importance of reconsidering managerial practices so that the use of intranet that emerges in the human interaction, does not contribute to the “creaticidal” practices in organizational context

ORGANIZATIONAL CREATIVITY CLIMATE FACTORS: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE FRENCH ENERGY MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY

In this paper, we draw on evidence from a case study to explore how to enable organizational creativity within a centralised information system. We argue that, even if the project leaders were seeking to enable organizational creativity using a centralized system they overlooked organizational climate factors. To understand these issues, we used the componential creativity theory to explain the influence of creativity encouragements, resources and management practice) toward organizational creativity. We conclude by suggesting that the case described might be an example of the actions to avoid when an organization wants to enable its creativity within a centralized information system

The moderating effect of gender on continuance intention for mobile Internet services (MIS)

The paper investigates the moderating effect of gender on the intention to continue using mobile Internet services (MIS) in an everyday life context. An extended model based on the technology acceptance model (TAM) is applied to predict MIS continuance intention, with gender as the moderating variable. The hypotheses are tested on data from a survey of 648 French MIS users. The findings show that female users expressed a stronger need for perceived usefulness and ease-of-use than male users. Interestingly, the stronger effect of perceived usefulness in females was contrary to prior TAM research. These results may be partially explained by the role of intrinsic motivation. The effect of perceived enjoyment was not significant for either males or females. The observed gender differences suggest that MIS providers should consider user gender when advertising and marketing MIS

Exploring the impact of organizational climate factors on organizational creativity within a centralized IS

The present study aims to illustrate problems associated with enabling organizational creativity through a centralized information system (IS). A creativity model based on the componential creativity theory was adapted from organization theory and was used to develop propositions regarding organizational climate factors that should be avoided when using a centralized IS to foster organizational creativity. The present study offers a useful case study to help organizations understand actions to be avoided when seeking to enhance organizational creativity via the adoption of a centralized IS

Big data innovation and diffusion in projects teams: Towards a conflict prevention culture

Despite the enormous literature on how team conflicts can be managed and resolved, this study diverges, by examining factors that facilitate conflict prevention culture in project teams, especially when introducing Big Data Technology. Relying on findings from relevant literatures and focus group discussions, 28 attributes for embedding conflict prevention culture were identified and put together in questionnaire survey. Series of statistical tests including reliability analysis and exploratory factor-analysis. The results identified five critical success factors for entrenching the culture of conflict prevention in project teams introducing big data driving innovations. The five-factor solution include “building effective relationship”, “effective project communications”, “project team efficacy”, “pro-active conflict management approach” and “effectual project documentation”. Result of this study presents a Conceptual framework for effective management of human resource in relation to conflict prevention among project teams, as an effective strategy for facilitating seamless adoption and diffusion of big data innovation in organisations

Knowledge Sourcing and Creativity within Project Teams under Time Pressure.

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Time pressure, knowledge sourcing and creativity within innovative project teams

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Sourcing knowledge for innovation: knowledge reuse and creation in project teams

International audiencePurpose– The purpose of this paper is to investigate motivations of team members to source knowledge and how the sourced knowledge increases their reuse and creation outcomes.Design/methodology/approach– A model based on knowledge sourcing perspective is proposed and tested to link knowledge sourcing methods in teams to their performance outcomes. The hypotheses are tested on data collected from a survey of 341 project teams.Findings– The findings show the critical role of team members’ learning orientation in increasing knowledge sourcing, reuse and creation; group knowledge sourcing and repositories are more appropriate to increase knowledge reuse; the Internet is more effective to increase knowledge creation; and knowledge reuse increases knowledge creation among team members with a strong learning orientation.Research limitations/implications– Further studies can replicate the model presented in this paper and introduce group characteristics to improve its explanatory power. Also, use of self-reported measures in data collection may lead to biases; future research should collate different measures longitudinally or use separate primary and secondary observations.Practical implications– Team leaders should enhance team effectiveness by ensuring diversity of knowledge and skills. Current research emphasizes that team leaders can integrate a crowdsourcing or “users as co-creators” approach to increase knowledge creation by team members. Team members’ learning orientation can be increased by promoting a climate that encourages open discussion of problems, mistakes and errors.Originality/value– This research highlights that knowledge sourcing methods produce different performance outcomes regarding knowledge reuse and creation. These insights can be useful to team leaders and researchers to better understand what motivates team members to source knowledge and how it increases their reuse and creation outcomes

Créativité organisationnelle et usage de l’intranet chez Schneider Electric

Cet article étudie les effets de l’usage de l’intranet sur la créativité organisationnelle à l’aide d’une étude de cas réalisée chez Schneider Electric. Il explicite l’ambivalence observée de l’utilisation de l’intranet, qui amplifie les processus créatifs dans certaines fonctions de l’entreprise tandis qu’elle les freine dans d’autres. Cette ambivalence peut être expliquée par les processus d’appropriation qui prennent corps dans les pratiques managériales propres à chacune de ces fonctions

Knowledgesourcing, reuse and creation in innovation management project teams

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