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Evaluating the impact of a new Technology within a Business Environment: A Methodology supporting Strategic Choices
No full textGlobalization and new technologies are forcing firms to adopt continuous processes of change. Change Management has become a widespread discipline within firms because it allows to manage change in the best possible way and to prevent drastic consequences that could lead the company into failures. Within change management, knowledge management and impact analysis allow managers from one side to find and extract information and from the other-one to make ex-ante evaluations by identifying critical factors of failure, formulating recovery plans, and estimating potential benefits deriving from technological investments, organizational changes or future strategic choices. Starting from these consideration our research aims to create a methodology and a dashboard of analysis in order to support managers in making an accurate and realistic impact analysis with specific reference to the introduction of new ICTs within a business environment. This paper shows the preliminary results of a work-in-progress research. The research has been conducted through a mixed approach: a desk study (analysis and systematization of state of the art) and a field analysis through four case studies identified by a pool of experts (Community of practice) in order to define the methodology and the tools for the dashboard of analysis
Start-ups Innovative Performance: Empirical Analysis of the main influencing factors
Full text linkThe literature on start-ups has mainly focused on performance characteristics and the way they influence innovation and growth path. Start-ups constitute a remarkable instrument through which new ideas are brought to life, especially those ideas that require an alternative response to that from the already-established companies in the industry. In this context, political, economic, social, technological, (external level) influencing factors, as well as the main factors within the organizational (internal level) boundaries, are to be considered as crucial for start-up innovation and growth. Starting from these approaches, the present dissertation aims at studying the main factors affecting start-up innovative performances.
Specifically, this work focused on some relevant drivers of the innovative performance of start-up, namely the role of grants received, the presence of a highly qualified team, the geographical distance, and the relationship intensity among actors involved in innovation processes.
In fact, innovations enable start-ups to challenge the existing technological order, shape new trajectories and allow them to engage in corporate reinvention, business growth, and new business development.
The work is structured in three distinct parts. In the first part of the work there will be the presentation of the original results of a systematic literature review through the identification, classification and analysis of the current knowledge concerning the main factors influencing start-ups’ innovative performance and organize them into areas of influence. The aims was to systematize the available knowledge on the factors affecting start-up innovative performance by:
- identifying articles about innovative performances and their main influencing factors;
- classifying and codifying the characteristics of these articles;
- discussing the results of the literature review;
- providing a framework for addressing the gaps in the current knowledge, contributing to a future research agenda.
In the second part of this work there will be an investigation about the coexistence of multiple phenomena and their influence on the innovative performance, and in particular on the R&D activities. Specifically, the focus will be on some relevant drivers of the R&D activities of start-up, namely the number of grants received, the total amount of grants received and the presence of a highly qualified team. The crucial aspect that characterizes this study is the choice of the sample, based on innovative start-ups in accordance with the Decree-Law 179/2012 on “Further urgent measures for Italy’s economic growth”, converted into Law 221/2012.
Ultimately, in the last section, I deal with the Start-ups – Incubators joint innovation, focusing on the factors making some collaborations better than others. Specifically, differently from previous works that have mainly focused on identifying start-ups characteristics and relations that promote this kind of collaboration, I analysed how these characteristics interact each other, investigating the role that both geographical distance and grants received compared to the innovative value of start-up. In an attempt to fill the above gaps, I focused on industrial property, measuring the innovative value of start-up as the number of patents, licenses, property rights owned by the start-up for the achievement of innovative products/services and processes
The Aerospace “Networked” Business Model: evidences and suggestions
No full textThe aerospace industry is characterized by intensive collaborations among firms that work for the realization of complex aerospace products that require high risks and costs. Collaboration and risk sharing are needed at each supply chain level. For companies working in networks, in this period of market changes and crisis, it is needed to think and re-think about a networked business model highlighting the relevance of each collaborating actor in the value generation for new products. The paper aims to explore the business model features of companies working in aerospace networks and to highlight improvements actions. Evidences are collected through a survey and a case study. The research results suggest two new elements for business model frameworks: the value exchange strategy and the value enablers both necessary for an extended collaboration among all nodes of a business network. The introduction of these two elements is discussed and justified in the paper
A methodology aimed at fostering and sustaining the development processes of an IE-based industry.
No full textIn the current competitive scenario, where business relationships are fundamental in building successful business models and inter/intra organizational business processes are progressively digitalized, an end-to-end methodology is required that is capable of guiding business networks through the Internetworked Enterprise (IE) paradigm: a new and innovative organizational model able to leverage Internet technologies to perform real-time coordination of intra and inter-firm activities, to create value by offering innovative and personalized products/services and reduce transaction costs. This chapter presents the TEKNE project Methodology of change that guides business networks, by means of a modular and flexible approach, towards the IE techno-organizational paradigm, taking into account the competitive environment of the network and how this environment influences its strategic, organizational and technological levels. Contingency, the business model, enterprise architecture and performance metrics are the key concepts that form the cornerstone of this methodological framework
The role of knowledge in the New Product Development Process through the perspective of business model
No full textCollaborating to new product development (NPD) is became a common and diffused practices to share skills and resources and to better manage costs and risks. The important role of collaboration in network and its interrelated exchange of knowledge needs in–depth analysis to highlight their role in the organisational mechanisms of working. This paper describes a business model for companies working in network where the knowledge and its protection is relevant. It is as a conceptual paper and wants to highlight the relevant role of the knowledge exchanged in a value network of companies for developing a new product. These aspects are treated and discussed through the use of business model elements in order to point out the relevance of knowledge and its management also in the organisational operations definitions. The findings contribute to enlarge the proposition on business model and knowledge sharing for NPD
A Network Business Model supporting Collaborative Product Development: evidences in Aerospace Industry
No full textAvio case study: the MRO process.
No full textThis chapter presents the case study of the Avio Brindisi plant where a profound process of change has been in progress for a number of years. We use the TEKNE Project methodology of change to analyze the different aspects of the case, highlighting the firm’s strategic, organizational and technological characteristics and the environment it operates in. In particular, we envisage a change in the plant’s business model in response to the expansion of its client segments and a potential new approach to MRO operations based on advanced fleet management practices that would radically change the firm’s organization and value network with respect to its MRO service offering, thereby yielding extensive global market opportunities
Dynamic Business Models: a Proposed Framework to Overcome the Death Valley
No full textThe ex ante definition of business model offers the possibility to create a static picture of “how” the company is able to generate value in a given moment. But is this business model able to generate value over time? The time factor of the value proposition life cycle is not usually taken into account. This paper, starting from the lean canvas model (Maurya 2012), proposes a framework able to consider the temporal factor and, coming from Rogers’s innovation diffusion theory (Die Diffusion von Innovationen in der Telekommunikation, 17, 25–38, Rogers 1995), to evolve the business model from a single picture to a set of pictures representing the many phases of the value proposition life cycle. A local context analysis was conducted, interviewing 10 CEOs of University of Salento start-ups, and the framework’s tool kit was developed: application methodology, questionnaire, and glossary. To validate the tools and methodology, a real business case was considered. Using the framework proposed in the business model definition would allow managers of start-ups to identify several marketing strategies, channels, and key metrics dedicated to each customer category
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
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