Innovation is increasingly taking place in networks of organizations, both private and public. This Network Innovation is challenging traditional approaches to project management and development. In this paper we present the application of a Co-Design approach in an innovation project with more than 20 organizations as partners, including global corporations, SMEs, government authorities, unive...

How to cite this article: Esterhuizen, D., Schutte, C. & Du Toit, A., 2012, ‘A knowledge management framework to grow innovation capability maturity’, SA Journal of Information Management 14(1), Art. #495, 10 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ sajim.v14i1.495 Background: Innovation is a key prerequisite for being organisationally competitive. Therefore, it is imperative that enterprises grow and...

A model of knowledge management initiatives, innovation and performance is developed and tested for the listed Malaysian Government-Linked companies (GLC). Data collected from 273 employees representing the three different levels of management is subjected to structural equation modelling analysis. The proposed model fits the data well. Results indicate that employees perceived knowledge manage...

Idea management platforms enable firms to generate pools of ideas and connect employees to large number of colleagues. Although these platforms hold the potential to support employee innovation, managers face considerable difficulties when it comes to deploying them in a way that generates business value. This article describes Allianz UK’s ten-year initiative to tap into its employees’ ideas a...

Innovation is one of the main drivers of business success. Using computers and special software applications in support of innovations cannot only shorten the whole process of bringing an initial idea to life, but it can improve the overall decision making process. Moreover, aligning innovation management and product life cycle management (PLM) helps organizations in gaining and reusing importa...

This paper presents an empirical study which examines the co-alignment between Total Quality Management (TQM) and technology/research and development (R&D) management in predicting organizational performance in terms of quality and innovation. This study improves our understanding of the relationship between TQM and innovation based on the following two major issues. First, this study contribut...

T paper examines the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) service innovation and its complementary strategies on brand equity and customer loyalty toward ICT service providers. We draw from research on brand equity and customer loyalty, ICT innovation management, and strategy complementarity to propose a model that includes new constructs representing ICT service innovation...

The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as an emerging approach that cuts across the fields of knowledge management within open innovation and adjusts mutual behavior that parties taking participate in open innovation to be expected. The paper proposed that knowledge governance approach is positively related to open innovation, and then the research has explored the antecedent fact...

This paper presents a first version of a methodology for risk management in crowdsourcing processes. The methodology comprises three phases. Each phase is interlinked and designed to build support and trust as the collaboration develops. Managing risk is central to open innovation strategy, but there aren ́t relevant scientific or empirical studies explaining the relationship between them. Stead...