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Agile thinking and process innovation. Exploring the integration of design thinking and agile innovation in process innovation projects
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALEI progetti di innovazione dei processi cercano di soddisfare l'esigenza di migliorare o creare nuove opportunità organizzative. I processi innovativi, nel complesso contesto competitivo di oggi, sembrano essere uno dei pochi elementi a garantire sostenibilità economica e la creazione di valore. Generazione delle Idee, Sviluppo dei Processi e Implementazione dei Processi sono le tre fasi principali che caratterizzano il modello esplorato in letteratura sull'innovazione dei processi, dall'inizio alla fine. L’autore propone Design Thinking, come metodologia applicata alla fase di Generazione delle Idee e Agile Innovation, come approccio allo sviluppo e alla implementazione del nuovo processo. La presente tesi ricerca la possibilità di integrazione tra pratiche di Design Thinking e di Agile Innovation, mirate alla creazione di un modello completo per la realizzazione di innovazione di processi. Attraverso lo studio di sette casi di innovazione di processo, l’autore dimostra Pratiche mirate a garantire il passaggio tra una fase e l’altra, rappresentato dall’integrazione tra metodologie. La studio fatto permette quindi di individuare elementi e pratiche rivolti a garantire continuità ed efficienza al modello individuato, validato attraverso l’analisi empirica e lo studio della letteratura esistente.Process Innovation projects aim at satisfying the urge of improving or implementing new sets of organizational activities. Innovating processes, in todays’ complex business environment, seems to be one of the few elements ensuring economic sustainability and competitive advantages. The greater attention given to product innovation, in previous times, makes Process Innovation still not completely exploited. Idea Generation, Process Development and Process Implementation are the three major phases characterizing the model scouted in literature about Process Innovation, from the beginning to its end. The author proposes Design Thinking, addressed to Idea Generation, and Agile Innovation, to Process Development and Implementation. This thesis analyzes the integration between Design Thinking and Agile Innovation practices, aimed at creating a complete Process Innovation model. Through the case-based study proposed, the author demonstrates Practices aimed at ensuring the transition between one phase to the other, represented by the integration between methodologies. The study thus allows us to identify elements and practices aimed at ensuring continuity to the identified model, validated through empirical analysis and the study of existing literature
A review of technology innovation. How companies introduce new technologies in the manufacturer-supplier relationship : the e-bikes case
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALEDesign Management cerca di connettere design, innovazione, tecnologia, management e clienti per fornire un vantaggio competitivo attraverso la triplice linea di fondo: fattori economici, sociali/culturali e ambientali.
Questo lavoro di ricerca mira ad approfondire il legame di cui sopra, considerando che il design è il cuore dell'innovazione (Aubert, 1982) e che lavora con quelle idee e concetti che non sono ancora stati creati, generando una finestra di opportunità per il futuro. Da questo punto di vista, il design è diventato uno dei punti critici per le aziende del settore tecnologico perché, con il design management, possono tradurre i loro progressi tecnologici, spesso orientati solo a fini utilitaristici, in nuove opportunità di prodotto e nuovi stili di vita per il cliente finale.
L'obiettivo di questa ricerca è stato quello di individuare il valore del design e la sua percezione durante l'introduzione di nuove tecnologie in un rapporto fornitore-produttore nel settore della bicicletta elettrica, che negli ultimi 10 anni è cresciuto e cambiato in modo esponenziale, sia in termini di tecnologia che di significato del prodotto per l'utente finale come individuo e come Comunità.
Questo report è strutturato teoricamente a partire dalle strategie di innovazione proposte da Verganti (2009) e, quindi, il design è definito come, insieme alla tecnologia, una delle dimensioni dell'innovazione di prodotto, che definisce il messaggio del prodotto e, insieme alle caratteristiche funzionali del prodotto stesso (tecnologia), determina ciò che il prodotto significa per l'utente finale. Inoltre, Verganti e altri accademici, come Dell'Era e Buganza, descrivono una strategia di innovazione in cui l'innovazione radicale nel design si sovrappone all'innovazione tecnologica radicale, chiamata epifania tecnologica. Questa sovrapposizione si ottiene attraverso due diverse strategie di innovazione. Da un lato, la strategia di innovazione guidata dalla tecnologia fornisce tecnologie radicalmente nuove. D'altra parte, una strategia di innovazione è guidata da un design che offre significati radicalmente nuovi. L'epifania della tecnologia è il risultato delle diverse caratteristiche di queste due strategie. In questa nuova strategia coinvolgono molte aziende nel processo di sviluppo di nuovi componenti o prodotti per il cliente finale, che diventano i progetti dominanti nel settore, grazie al loro forte impatto sia nella dimensione semantica, sociale, culturale e tecnologica.
Questa ricerca si basa principalmente su studi basati sullo stato dell'arte della letteratura nel campo dell'innovazione, del design e della gestione tecnologica e, in secondo luogo, sulla ricerca di casi di studio. L'autore ha sviluppato una metodologia di case study all'interno della stessa industria ma con ruoli diversi, sia per i fornitori di componenti tecnologici che per i produttori/progettisti di biciclette elettriche per gli utenti finali. I dati sono stati raccolti attraverso interviste, osservazioni e risorse secondarie come riviste e relazioni annuali.
Alla fine di questa relazione, l'autore propone due modelli che descrivono ed esplorano il ruolo svolto da fornitori e produttori nell'introduzione e nella direzione di nuove tecnologie destinate ad essere componenti tecnologici in un rapporto fornitore-produttore nell'industria della bicicletta elettrica. Questi modelli si propongono di spiegare i diversi processi in cui gli attori principali guidano le nuove tecnologie e le strategie di progettazione per esplorare nuovi significati e sfruttare appieno il potenziale delle nuove tecnologie, per vivere un'epifania tecnologica. I risultati preliminari rivelano alcune implicazioni strategiche legate allo sfruttamento delle nuove tecnologie e all'esplorazione di nuovi significati nel rapporto fornitore-produttore/designer.Design management seeks to link design, innovation, technology, management and customers to provide a competitive advantage across the triple bottom line: economic, social/cultural and environmental factors.
This study seeks to explore in-depth the link mentioned above, considering that design is the heart of innovation (Aubert, 1982) and it works with those ideas and concepts that have not yet been created, generating a window of possibilities for the future. From this perspective, the design has become one of the critical points for technology companies, because with design management, they can translate their technology advances, often oriented only to utilitarian purposes, into new product opportunities and new lifestyles for the final customer.
The objective of this research was to identify the value of design and how it can be captured during the introduction of new technologies into a supplier-manufacturer relationship in the electric bicycle industry. Which during the last 10 years it has grown and changed exponentially, both in terms of technology and in terms of the meaning of the product to the end-user, both as an individual and as a community.
This report is theoretically structured on the innovation strategies proposed by Verganti (2009), so it defines the design as, together with technology, one of the dimensions of product innovation, which defines what the message of the product is, and together with the functional characteristics of the product itself (technology), determines what the product means to the end-user. Furthermore, Verganti and other academics, including Dell'Era and Buganza, describe an innovation strategy where radical innovation in design overlaps radical technology innovation, known as technology epiphany. This overlap is made with two different innovation strategies. On the one hand, the technology-driven innovation strategy that provides radically new technologies. On the other hand, a design-driven innovation strategy that offers radically new meanings. The technology epiphany is produced by the different characteristics of these two strategies. This new strategy involves many companies in the development process of their new component or final-user products, that are becoming the dominant designs in the industry, due to their high impact on both the semantic and technological dimensions.
This research is based primarily on state-of-the-art literature on innovation, design and technology management, and secondly on case study research. The author developed a methodology of case studies from the same industry but with different roles, both technology component suppliers and manufacturers/designers of electric bicycles for end-users. The data were collected through interviews, observation, and secondary resources such as journals and annual reports.
At the end of this report, the author proposes two models that describe and explore the role played by suppliers and manufacturers in the introduction and direction of new technologies intended to be technological components in a supplier-manufacturer relationship in the electric bicycle industry. The Models seek to explain the different processes in which the main actors steer new technologies and design strategies for the exploration of new meanings and exploiting the full potential of new technologies, in order to enjoy a technology epiphany. The preliminary results reveal some strategic implications related to the exploitation of new technologies and the exploration of new meanings into the supplier-manufacturer/designer relationship
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Framing the multifaceted nature of design thinking in addressing different innovation purposes
Full text linkScholars and practitioners acknowledge the role of design, and specifically design thinking, as a driver of innovation and change. Design thinking is gaining attention in the business community beyond the traditional product innovation realm and is increasingly promoted as an engine for the creation of novel user experiences, new businesses, strategic transformation, organizational and cultural change. Is it reasonable to assume that the same set of practices fits such a broad range of applications equally well? This study addresses how design thinking applications are differently framed when addressing diverse innovation purposes. Specifically, we compare two purposes: innovation of solutions, encompassing traditional product and service development projects, and innovation of direction, encompassing strategic and organizational renewal projects. Based on data collected from 146 design thinking projects conducted by European consulting firms we investigate the relationships between the design thinking practices adopted and the value generated by the projects. We then analyze how these relationships vary depending on the purpose of the innovation project, namely whether focused on innovating solutions or direction. The results show that different purposes indeed call for different practices. In projects aimed at innovating solutions, market value is positively related to capturing current user needs and envisioning future society. Conversely, in projects aimed at innovating direction, market value is positively related to challenging current assumptions
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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