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Innovation management : from a conceptual framework to the design and development of an idea management tool
Thesis (MEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2022.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/124536 Innovation management : from a conceptual framework to the design and development of an idea management tool Jacobs, Pierre Malan Dirkse Van Schalkwyk, Theuns Technological innovations -- Management Technological innovations -- Economic aspects Organizational change Business enterprises -- Technological innovations Idea Management Tool Innovation strategy UCTD Thesis (MEng)--Stellenbosch University, 2022. ENGLISH SUMMARY: Large corporations are often disrupted by innovative organisations and then they lose their competitive advantage. For organisations to survive today’s competitive marketplace, it is crucial for them to be innovative. Therefore, it is important for organisations to manage their innovations effectively to ensure that their business grows and remains relevant. Managing innovation is not an easy task and requires that many different components of an organisation and its market should be in place and are managed well. Organisations should not take innovation lightly, but they should ensure that it is managed with care, just as they manage any other resource. Many times, organisations do not know where to start managing their ideas and innovations so that they can increase their competitive advantage. The research seeks to find all the different factors within the organisational and external domains that need to be taken into consideration when dealing with innovation. The different factors are used to develop a conceptual framework that describes the different concepts and their relationships with one another. The concepts are obtained from literature and then categorised and synthesised to form the conceptual framework. The conceptual framework does not aim to be an improvement of existing innovation models, but rather to give an understanding of the factors that need to be taken into consideration when organisations want to start the journey of managing their innovations. In order to validate the conceptual framework, an idea management tool is developed that assists with the implementation of an innovation strategy and framework at an organisation that wants a more defined and official innovation management process. The result of the research is a conceptual framework that can be used by organisations to assist with the development and implementation of an innovation strategy. It could also give a better understanding of the innovation management sphere and where to start, in order to implement it. The framework also highlights where idea management tools can be useful within the process to assist organisations with managing innovations effectively. AFRIKAANS OPSOMMING: Groot besighede verloor dikwels hul mededingende voordeel teenoor ander innoverende organisasies wat binne dieselfde mark as hulle funksioneer. Om in vandag se kompeterende mark te kan oorleef, is dit noodsaaklik vir organisasies om innoverend te wees. Dit is dus belangrik vir organisasies om innoverende idees op ‘n effektiewe manier te bestuur en sodoende te verseker dat hul besigheid groei en relevant bly. Dis nie ‘n maklike taak om innovasie te bestuur nie, en dit vereis dat sekere belangrike aspekte in plek moet wees vir innovasie om in die mark en besigheidsplek te kan floreer. Innovasie is nie ‘n kwessie wat besighede ligtelik moet opneem nie, maar dis iets wat bestuur moet word met dieselfde sorg wat enige ander hulpbronne bestuur sou word. Organisasies weet egter nie altyd waar of hoe om hul idees en innovasies te bestuur om hul mededingende voordeel te kan bevorder nie. Die navorsingstuk ondersoek verskeie faktore binne die besigheidsomgewing en eksterne omgewing wat in ag geneem moet word wanneer innovasie ter sprake is. Die verskillende faktore word later gebruik om ‘n konsepsuele raamwerk te skep om die verskillende konsepte asook hul verwantskappe met mekaar te verduidelik. Die konsepte word deur die beskikbare literatuur oor die onderwerp geidentifiseer en gekategoriseer om die raamwerk te skep. Die doel van die raamwerk is nie om bestaande innovasie modelle te verbeter nie, maar eerder om die verskillende faktore uiteen te sit wat oorweeg moet word wanneer ‘n organisasie beoog om hul innovasies beter te bestuur. ‘n Innovasie-bestuur sagteware stelsel is geskep om die validasie van die konsepsuele raamwerk meer prakties te kon doen. Die raamwerk en stelsel is getoets by ‘n organisasie wat die behoefte het om hul innovasie-bestuur proses te verbeter, en dit het die organisasie gehelp om die waarde van ‘n innovasie strategie en stelsel te kon raaksien. Die navorsing het bewys dat ‘n konsepsuele raamwerk organisasies kan help om ‘n innovasie-strategie te formuleer en te implementeer, asook om innovasie bestuur en die implementering daarvan beter te verduidelik. Die raamwerk lig ook uit hoe innovasie-bestuur hulpbronne organisasies kan help om hul innovasies beter en meer effektief te kan bestuur. Masters 2022-02-09T06:54:03Z 2022-04-29T09:18:35Z 2022-02-09T06:54:03Z 2022-04-29T09:18:35Z 2022-04 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124536 en_ZA Stellenbosch University xiii, 175 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Technological innovations -- Management Technological innovations -- Economic aspects Organizational change Business enterprises -- Technological innovations Idea Management Tool Innovation strategy UCTD Jacobs, Pierre Malan Innovation management : from a conceptual framework to the design and development of an idea management tool |
| title | Innovation management : from a conceptual framework to the design and development of an idea management tool |
| title_full | Innovation management : from a conceptual framework to the design and development of an idea management tool |
| title_fullStr | Innovation management : from a conceptual framework to the design and development of an idea management tool |
| title_full_unstemmed | Innovation management : from a conceptual framework to the design and development of an idea management tool |
| title_short | Innovation management : from a conceptual framework to the design and development of an idea management tool |
| title_sort | innovation management from a conceptual framework to the design and development of an idea management tool |
| topic | Technological innovations -- Management Technological innovations -- Economic aspects Organizational change Business enterprises -- Technological innovations Idea Management Tool Innovation strategy UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/124536 |
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