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While most organizations have flashes or spurts of innovation, only a handful of organizations have been able to innovate on a continuous and sustained basis. In this paper, we report on the challenges faced by firms when trying to build sustainable innovation programs. These findings have been deduced from an examination of innovation programs in over 30 organizations based in North America, Europe, and Asia.</p></td>--> <td width="70"align="center"><P><a class="nav" href="Documents/022007_Sustaining_Innovation_13_I3M_TechReport.pdf" target="_blank">View</a></P></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><b><P>Opening up Innovation through<br>Information-Communication Technologies</P></b></td> <td><P>Awazu, Y.,<br>Baloh, P.,<br>Desouza, K.C.<br>Wecht, C.H.,<br>Kim,J., and<br>Jha, S. </P></td> <td><P>I4I-I3M-InnovICT-1</P></td> <td><P>July, 2006</P></td> <!--<td><p>Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) are no longer just for internal use. Rather, in the era of open and distributed innovation ICTs must be leveraged by businesses and organizations to reach, record and review ideas from internal and external sources ranging from vendors, suppliers, customers and employees. Interacting with all stakeholders improves the quality and consistency of ideas. ICTs enable this process at all levels through inclusion and interaction. This paper explores specific ways that ICTs can be used to enable the entire innovation process: from idea generation and development, to experimenting and testing, and finally, to commercialization of ideas.</p></td>--> <td align="center"><P><a class="nav" href="Documents/CACM_ICT_ver10.pdf" target="_blank">View</a></P></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><b><P>Customer-Driven Innovation</P></b></td> <td><P>Desouza, K.C.<br>Awazu, Y.,<br>Jha, S.,<br>Dombrowski, C.,<br>Papagari, S.,<br>Baloh, P.,and<br>Kim, J.Y.</P></td> <td><P>I4I-I3M-CustInnov-1</P></td> <td><P>August, 2006</P></td> <!--<td><p>Involving customers in the innnovation process invloves a host of new concerns, concepts and managerial decisions. Transforming from older paradigms of no or low customer involvement requires new attention to types of customer innovation, organizational mission and organizational structure. This article (1) provides a typology for customer innovation, (2)describes how to involve customers in the innovation process, and (3) provides a framework for shifting organizational structure and emphasis towards customer-driven innovation. This conceptual overview is illustrated with examples from successful organizations and discussion of critical issues and concerns around each type of customer innovation. Shofting to a customer-driven innovation process enables continual, sustainable innovation for an organization.</p></td>--> <td align="center"><P><a class="nav" href="Documents/Customer_Innov_V16.pdf" target="_blank">View</a></P></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><b><P>Crafting Organizational Innovation Processes</P></b></td> <td><P>Desouza, K.C.<br>Awazu, Y.,<br>Jha, S.,<br>Dombrowski, C.,<br>Papagari, S.,<br>Baloh, P.,and<br>Kim, J.Y.</P></td> <td><P>I4I-I3M-InnovProc-1</P></td> <td><P>September, 2006</P></td> <!--<td><p>Innovation is a crucial component of business strategy, but the process of innovation may seem difficult to manage. To plan organizational initiatives around innovation or to bolster innovation requires a firm grasp of the innovation process. Few organizations have transparently defined such a process. Based on the findings of an exploratory study in over 30 US and European companies that successfully foster innovation, this paper breaks the innovation process down into discrete stages: idea generation and mobilization, screening and advocacy, experimentation, commercialization, diffusion and implementation. For each stage, context, outputs and critical ingredients are discussed. There are several common tensions and concerns at each stage, which are enumerated; industry examples are also given. Finally, strategies for and indicators of organizational maturity around innovation are discussed for each stage. Mature organizations will use an outlined innovation process to create a common framework for discussion and initiatives around the innovation process, and to establish metrics and goals for each stage of the innovation process.</p></td>--> <td align="center"><P><a class="nav" href="Documents/Inn_Process_v16.pdf" target="_blank">View</a></P></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><b><P>Elements of Innovative Cultures</P></b></td> <td><P>Desouza, K.C.<br>Braganza, A.,<br>Jha, S.,<br>Dombrowski, C.,<br>Papagari, S.,<br>Baloh, P.,and<br>Kim, J.Y.</P></td> <td><P>I4I-I3M-InnovCult-1</P></td> <td><P>October, 2006</P></td> <!--<td><p>Organizational culture is an important determinant of sustained innovativeness and financial performance. Though it is easy to appreciate the important role culture plays in making an innovation successful, it is difficult to change culture. One way of changing culture could be to identify elements of innovative culture and then imbibing the ones relevant to a given organization. In this paper, we have identified, based on past research, eight elements of organizational innovative culture: innovative mission and vision statements, democratic communication, safe spaces, flexibility, collaboration, boundary spanning, incentives, and leadership. We believe assimilating these elements of organizational culture will enable organizations to support and sustain innovative activities.</p></td>--> <td align="center"><P><a class="nav" href="Documents/InnovativeCultures_Final_KPM.pdf" target="_blank">View</a></P></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><b><P>Six Case Studies on Organizational Innovation</P></b></td> <td><P>Desouza, K.C., and<br>Dombrowski, C.</P></td> <td><P>I4I-I3M-InnovCases-1</P></td> <td><P>October, 2006</P></td> <!--<td></td>--> <td align="center"><P><a class="nav" href="Documents/InnovCaseStudies_FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">View</a></P></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><b><P>Building Partnerships for Innovation</P></b></td> <td><P>Desouza, K.C.<br>Awazu, Y.,<br>Jha, S.,<br>Dombrowski, C.,<br>Baloh, P.,and<br>Kim, J.Y.</P></td> <td><P>I4I-I3M-InnovBusPart-2</P></td> <td><P>March, 2006</P></td> <!--<td><p>In a business environment characterized by the development of deep, niche expertise in a particular domain, business partnerships can provide a source of innovative rejuvenation. This paper aims to uncover how organizations engage in innovation with business partners through exploratory multiple case study of over 30 innovative European and US companies. Data collection involved 50 semi-structured interviews with senior representatives from R&D, product management, information technology, and marketing. The interview data were complemented by desk research: analysis of corporate reports and validated in follow-up sessions. Three complementary models of business partner innovation emerged: acquisition, strategic alliances, and open source. These can be used in a portfolio manner by organizations with sustainable innovation programs. Organizations make strategic, project-based choices. Based on the three models, we propose a three-dimensional  Co-Innovation Space , in order to analyze existing innovation project portfolios and/or to plan what kind of innovation approach a company may take within the near future.</p></td>--> <td align="center"><P><a class="nav" href="Documents/TechReport_Innovat_Biz_Partners_2.pdf" target="_blank">View</a></P></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"><b><P>Critical Skills for IT Project Management and How They are Learned</P></b></td> <td><P>Taylor, H<br> Woelfer, J</P></td> <td><P>I4I-I3M_PMLearning-1</P></td> <td><P>November, 2008</P></td> <!--<td><p>In a business environment characterized by the development of deep, niche expertise in a particular domain, business partnerships can provide a source of innovative rejuvenation. This paper aims to uncover how organizations engage in innovation with business partners through exploratory multiple case study of over 30 innovative European and US companies. Data collection involved 50 semi-structured interviews with senior representatives from R&D, product management, information technology, and marketing. The interview data were complemented by desk research: analysis of corporate reports and validated in follow-up sessions. Three complementary models of business partner innovation emerged: acquisition, strategic alliances, and open source. These can be used in a portfolio manner by organizations with sustainable innovation programs. Organizations make strategic, project-based choices. Based on the three models, we propose a three-dimensional  Co-Innovation Space , in order to analyze existing innovation project portfolios and/or to plan what kind of innovation approach a company may take within the near future.</p></td>--> <td align="center"><P><a class="nav" href="Documents/cpr15-taylor.pdf" target="_blank">View</a></P></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!--</div>--> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td></td> <td><img alt="" width="51" height="1" src="MsSpacer.gif"></td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> <td height="1"></td> </tr> <tr> <td background="Images/leftbar.jpg">&nbsp;</td> <td background="Images/rightBar.jpg">&nbsp;</td> <td height="718"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="15" background="Images/leftbar.jpg">&nbsp;</td> <td width="195" style="border-right: 1px solid #999999" valign="top" align="right">&nbsp; </td> <td width="584" valign="top"> <!--webbot bot="Include" U-Include="bottom_info.htm" TAG="BODY" startspan --> <table border="0" width="582" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="table1"> <!-- MSTableType="nolayout" --> <tr> <td width="584" valign="top"> <p class="copyright" align="right">Copyright © 2008 University of Washington<br> &nbsp;</p></td> </tr> </table> <!--webbot bot="Include" i-checksum="16109" endspan --></td> <td width="25" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td width="14" background="Images/rightBar.jpg">&nbsp;</td> <td height="45" width="1"></td> </tr> </table> </div> </body></html>