Download or read book Collaboration with Potential Users for Discontinuous Innovation written by Martin Hewing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity and innovation are important drivers of economic welfare and growth in contemporary societies. Collaborating with and learning from users in the early phase of the innovation process has been considered a successful approach to stimulate those creative sparks for organizations. However, the idea of users as innovators has also invoked critical responses especially in the context of innovations that are discontinuous to dominant designs. Martin Hewing and co-author Katharina Hölzle explore the potential that can arise through collaboration with potential users who are not yet users. Those users at the peripheries are perceived to contribute more novel information, by which they better reflect shifts in needs and behavior than current users at the center.

Download or read book ICIE 2014 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship written by Academic Conferences and Publishing Limited and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Open Innovation Dynamics written by Jinhyo Joseph Yun and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book expands the concept of open innovation from a static strategic idea to a dynamic principle. It details various, underexplored aspects of this concept, including the culture for necessary open innovation dynamics, the difference between James Watt and Steve Jobs, and collective intelligence as a new category of open innovation. It specifically considers open innovation within the context of micro- and macro-dynamics of economics.

Download or read book Sustainability and the Future of Work and Entrepreneurship for the Underserved written by Rolle, JoAnn Denise and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disparity in the workplace has been exacerbated in recent years as society faces a number of challenges in promoting inclusion and equality across fields. To ensure appropriate steps are taken to move in the direction of a diverse and equitable future for the workforce, further study and consideration on the key challenges, opportunities, and strategies for advancing business policy to provide for the underserved is required. Sustainability and the Future of Work and Entrepreneurship for the Underserved highlights marginalized labor and entrepreneurial market segments and reviews strategies used to prepare for technological change globally. The book also provides a series of recommendations to assist in growing and sustaining a more inclusive global society. Covering a range of topics such as disparities, class challenges, and entrepreneurs, this reference work is crucial for policymakers, business owners, managers, researchers, academicians, scholars, instructors, and students.

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Download or read book A Systemic Approach to Continuous Change in the Innovation Economy written by Jon-Arild Johannessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unpredictable and unforeseen, or black swan, events are occurring increasingly often, one such recent example is the coronavirus crisis of 2020. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, with its growing use of artificial intelligence, intelligent robots, intelligent informats and intelligent algorithms, may help us to confront these incidents but only if we can avoid the sector optimization logic of some forms of economic thinking. This book offers a multi-faceted presentation of the application of systemic thinking in non-standard situations, especially those created by the fourth industrial revolution. It develops models and mini theories to promote systemic thinking at a time when cascades of innovations are entering the economy, while at the same time black swan events are occurring and disrupting social systems. It takes a critical look at how organizations and social systems have chosen to organize themselves to develop systems that prioritize high performance, by focusing on cost-cutting and maximizing profits, instead of on preparedness elasticity and resource slack. The consequences of this kind of organizational streamlining becomes evident only when the ‘black swans’ loom. The author discusses how individuals and society can develop the resilience needed to deal with these incidents. He asserts that there are three central social mechanisms that can help us understand how social systems work and how they are interconnected: time-lag, threshold value, and feedback. These three concepts can help us to understand how changes occur in non-linear systems; for instance, how small changes at the micro level can lead to large changes at the macro level. This book will be of interest to researchers, academics and students in the fields of economics, finance, business and industry.

Download or read book Evidence Based Innovation Leadership written by Jon-Arild Johannessen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a holistic model for what it calls "innovation leadership," which includes entrepreneurial action,creative energy fields within organizations, high-tech wealth creation, and innovation as a business process.

Download or read book Leadership and Organization in the Innovation Economy written by Jon-Arild Johannessen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1980s, society has undergone enormous change. And yet management styles have stayed the same, not adapting to the change in focus from efficiency and productivity, to creativity and innovation. Here, leading innovation expert Jon-Arild Johannessen offers a replacement to traditional goal-driven management and New Public Management (NPM).

Download or read book Automation Innovation and Economic Crisis written by Jon-Arild Johannessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth industrial revolution is developing globally, with no geographical centre. It is also taking place at enormous speed. This development will shape the workplaces of the future, which will be entirely different from the workplaces created by the first, second and third industrial revolutions. Industry created the industrial worker. The knowledge society will create a new type of "industrial worker", the knowledge worker. While the third industrial revolution was concerned with the digitalization of work, in the fourth industrial revolution, robots will bring about the informatization of work. Many of these robots will be systematically connected, such that they can obtain updated information and learn from their own and others’ mistakes. The way we work, where we work, what we work on, and our relationships with our colleagues and employers are all in a state of change. The workplace of the future will not necessarily be a fixed geographical location, but may be geographically distributed and functionally divided. In his book, Jon-Arild Johannessen argues that a "perfect" social storm occurs when inequality grows at a catastrophic rate, unemployment increases, job security is threatened for a growing number and robotization takes over even the most underpaid jobs. Thus, the ingredients for a perfect social storm will be brought forward by cascades of innovations that will most likely lead to economic and social crises and he argues that it is reasonable to assume that it will only take a small spark for this social storm to develop into a social revolution.

Download or read book Robot Ethics and the Innovation Economy written by Jon-Arild Johannessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an authoritative resource on the topic of intelligent robots, artificial intelligence and the ethical implications of these revolutionary innovations. It examines the moral and ethical problems that arise in relation to the development, design and use of intelligent robots, which are capable of autonomous or semi-autonomous decision-making. These problems might relate, for example, to medical robots, driverless cars, intelligent military drones, pedagogical robots, police robots, legal robots and many others. The main question addressed in this book is how we can understand, explain and apply the concept of ethics in relation to intelligent robots and artificial intelligence. In each chapter, the author examines a different aspect of this question. The author also questions how we can ensure that intelligent robots are of service to humans and under what conditions intelligent robots could become more ethical than humans. The book employs an original approach to examining this cutting-edge research question, combining different research areas, and offers a wealth of practical relevance and real-world examples, illustrated through vivid case studies. With its jargon free approach and a dedicated chapter on relevant concepts at the end, this book is also accessible to readers without prior knowledge on intelligent robots and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. By providing a general account of this debate, and of the consequences of the innovations resulting from these trends, the book serves as an important contribution to the discussion and will find a natural readership among scholars and students of the innovation economy and those concerned with the ethical considerations arising in the wake of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Download or read book Leadership and Communication written by Jon-Arild Johannessen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-02-11 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managers and leaders spend a great deal of time on communication; it binds together all the communications in the organisational system. In other words, communication is the glue that impacts on the effectiveness of communication in the entire organization, therefore the style of leadership communication has a profound impact on how the organization works. If too much ‘glue’ is used, the consequence is information overload, which hampers effective communication. If there is too little glue, individuals and entire organizations may find themselves in a pathological state of disorder, with people filling the information vacuum with rumours and gossip. Leadership communication can be involving and participatory, motivating colleagues to be creative and put in as much extra effort as is necessary. Leadership communication can also be power-based and patronizing. Such a style of communication will cause tensions and conflicts within an organization. In this textbook, the author shows how information and communication are parts of a special type of interaction, namely situations in which you want to gain trust or influence people. With a plethora of case examples and practical exercises to get stuck into, this engaging book helps students gain a deeper understanding of the concepts and contexts described in each chapter, such as communication strategies, influencing techniques, communication and values, and communication and trust. The second half of the book offers six personal communication tools, and six personal coaching tools, with assignment to each of the coaching tools. In addition, the book provides 66 exercises to the six personal communication tools. Ideal reading for those taking leadership and communication courses, this textbook takes a practical approach to the key issues in organizational communication that will prepare students for their careers in business.

Download or read book The Emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution written by Jon-Arild Johannessen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last thirty years, there has been an industrial revolution that has changed the world and given rise to an innovation economy that is changing the face of organizational logic. Here, Jon-Arild Johannessen shows how the knowledge worker emerges to become the new working class of the fourth industrial revolution.

Download or read book The Workplace of the Future written by Jon-Arild Johannessen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book, The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies, Jon-Arild Johannessen sets a chilling vision of how robots and artificial intelligence will completely disrupt and transform working life. The author contests that once the dust has settled from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, workplaces and professions will be unrecognizable and we will see the rise of a new social class: the precariat. We will live side by side with the 'working poor' – people who have several jobs, but still can’t make ends meet. There will be a small salaried elite consisting of innovation and knowledge workers. Slightly further into the future, there will be a major transformation in professional environments. Johannessen also presents a typology for the precariat, the uncertain work that is created and develops a framework for the working poor, as well as for future innovation and knowledge workers, and sets out a new structure for the social hierarchy. A fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, The Workplace of the Future will be of interest to professionals and academics alike. The book is particularly suited to academic courses in management, economy, political science and social sciences.

Download or read book The Future of HR written by Helene Sætersdal and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HR departments are in transition. From 1980 to today, HR management has shifted into a strategic function of the company, and digitalisation is at the centre of the modern workplace. For people to keep up with technology, HR management must evolve to embrace these changes.

Download or read book Consciousness and Creativity in Artificial Intelligence written by Jon-Arild Johannessen and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Industry 4.0 accelerating AI, synthetic knowledge and creativity, Consciousness and Creativity in Artificial Intelligence posits a central question: “Under what conditions can intelligent robots develop creativity?”.

Download or read book Discontinuous Innovation written by Peter Augsdörfer and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on the findings, issues and questions related to an ongoing decade-old research project named the Innovation Lab (www.innovation-lab.org). The research project focuses on discontinuous innovation in more than thirteen countries, most of which are European, and provides useful insights into its different challenges. It also raises several questions related to the subject, some of which are: how do firms pick up weak signals on emerging — and possibly radically different — innovation? What should firms do when these weak signals hit their “mainstream” process? What are the criteria for allocating resources to a strategic innovation project? What actions should firms take to avoid being left out by the “corporate immune system”? How should firms organize projects that often break existing rules and require new rules to be created? This book attempts to provide answers to the above mentioned questions by gathering information from the research project and also from firms that have tried exploring various ideas, models and insights to tackle discontinuous innovation. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will be of interest to both practitioners and academics alike.

Download or read book 5th World Conference on Detergents written by Arno Cahn and published by The American Oil Chemists Society. This book was released on 2003-05-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.