Management of Digital Innovation

Innovation Processes

Changing interfaces in digital innovations:
Challenges for incumbents

Product-centric incumbents need to balance:
  • Existing versus new innovation practices 
    • develop new capabilities without hampering existing practices
  • Product versus process focus
    • Design products for continuous evolution; rather than annual updates "one-off"
  • Internal versus external collaborations
    • Efficiency, role-based collaboration
  • Control versus flexibility in governance
    • E.g. Freeze designs prior to production?
 
 
  • Can we simply overturn existing innovation practices?
  • Can we develop digital innovations in a separate unit/venture?

Diskussion