This article presents the results of a literature review and preliminary interviews with directors innovation managers large companies on importance in business strategy, factors they consider when choosing their strategy. Therefore, study determines nine statements. There is no global consensus definition innovation, which could affect its relevance business. contributes to fact that departmen...

There is a resurging interest in automation because of rapid progress machine learning and AI. In our perspective, innovation not an exemption from their expansion. This situation gives us opportunity to reflect on direction future studies. this conceptual paper, we propose framework process by exploiting the concept unit process. Deploying it context automation, indicate important aspects proc...

The last decade have seen a rapid increase in academic studies and business practices of Open Innovation (OI). A key reason for this has been that OI embodies potentialities of expanding markets through external sourcing of innovation and minimize internal innovation costs. Moreover, it can capture enormous knowledge dispersed around the globe in order to buy/license inventions/Innovations or p...

Information Technology (IT) capability is believed to encourage and facilitate service innovation. In addition, since effective competitive strategy is particularly important for service firms, it is imperative to align their service innovation strategy with their business strategy to achieve better firm performance. Many service innovation studies have been performed on the influence of IT cap...

On the basis of beliefs on open innovation, online social networks and Web 2.0, we propose a new type of approach based on people-to-people interaction to support national innovation activities. With the aim of generating new ideas, our National Open Innovation System (NOIS) combines two rival innovation sources: (1) technology and social foresight research, and (2) customer needs and experienc...

In this paper the focus is on the strategy formulation processes, specifically supportive methods and structures, which address various managerial issues concerning discontinuous technologies and radical innovation in the early phase of strategic decision-making. In three in-depth case studies how companies proceeded with discontinuous technology and radical innovation ideas in strategy formula...