TY - JOUR T1 - Managing the Disruption of Mobility Services: How to align the value propositions of key ecosystem players JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2021 A1 - Joel Wolff A1 - Esko Hakanen KW - Design Framework KW - ecosystem KW - Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) KW - Urban Mobility KW - value proposition AB - Many industries nowadays are facing drastic changes that enable and require new forms of interdependencies that facilitate complex ecosystems of interconnected actors. This paper investigates such a transformation facing the mobility sector, as user-centric bundles of mobility services are being introduced and compiled, by referring to the Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) concept. In the process, new value propositions arise that call for aligning the established players with new entrants. The implementation of MaaS is still in its infancy, and many open questions remain about how local authorities should support its emergence. One key challenge relates to decomposing the focal offering of the MaaS ecosystem into complementary value propositions for key players in the industry. This paper presents the results of a constructive design research project, building on interviews with a leading MaaS provider, as well as stakeholders representing national and local authorities in four European cities. The findings emphasize the need to balance a shared desire to disrupt conventional ways of offering mobility services against reluctance to overturn the industry's public and private incumbents. The co-design framework that results serves to summarize five steps that enable MaaS by guiding strategic interaction between local authorities and various players in the mobility ecosystem. In addition, the article builds on ecosystem research insights and emphasizes the need to align value propositions among multiple stakeholders. The study suggests that the mobility sector provides a prominent empirical context for future ecosystem research. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 11 UR - timreview.ca/article/1433 IS - 4 U1 - Aalto University Joel Wolff, MA (Art & Design), is a strategic service designer and researcher currently focusing on user-centric sustainable development, systems analysis and urban transformation. His forte is in applying co-creative design methods to facilitate sensemaking and strategy development. Mr. Wolff is affiliated with the Department of Industrial Engineering and the Department of Design at Aalto University. U2 - Aalto University Esko Hakanen, DSc (Tech), is a postdoctoral researcher in the areas of digitalization, platforms, and value creation and sharing in networks. His work builds on an interdisciplinary background and combines multiple perspectives for analyzing digital transformation as a socio-technical change. Dr. Hakanen is affiliated with the Department of Industrial Engineering and the Design Factory at Aalto University. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - More for Less? Sharing Economy as a Driver of Public Welfare Innovation JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Eva Pallesen A1 - Marie Aakjær KW - innovation KW - public sector KW - sharing economy KW - technology KW - welfare state AB - This article investigates sharing economy as a path to welfare innovation. It is based on a case where a digital platform is activated in order to support sharing among citizens with lung disease, and thereby increase health and well-being. The case exemplifies how sharing economy currently is taken up by public actors in the attempt to prolong the goals of the public sector beyond itself. This implies drawing everyday sharing practices into a new middle between formal organization and private relations. In a critical response to literature on sharing economy that tends to reduce "sharing" to "transaction", the article draws attention to how sharing entangles with hopes, fears, and affectual engagements of everyday life, and to how it interacts with technology in unforeseen ways and beyond anticipated outcomes. Based on the analysis, the article concludes that there may be good reasons for public welfare authorities to engage in facilitating sharing among citizens. This is not because it is likely to provide "more for less" in relation to predetermined goals, but rather because it can open up other kinds of welfare outcomes that cannot be produced by public organizations themselves. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1353 IS - 5 U1 -

University College Absalon Eva Pallesen is Docent (Senior Associate Professor), PhD in Center of Management and Experience Design at University College Absalon, Denmark. Her research focuses on welfare innovation, management and entrepreneurship in the public sector. She has published in international journals such as Organization Studiesand Methodological Innovations. Before entering academia, she worked as Head of Methodology Department in the Danish Evaluation Institute and as Head of Section in the Danish Ministry of Education.

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University College Absalon Marie Aakjær is Associate Professor, PhD in Center of Management and Experience Design at University College Absalon, Denmark. Marie has a background in design and her research areas cover social innovation, learning and co-creation with particular interest in the interaction among citizens, civil society and public sector organizations. She has published in international journals such as International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, and Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management.

ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Multi-Actor Network Perspective: CaliBaja an emergent binational innovation ecosystem JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2020 A1 - Sylvia Mónica Pérez-Núñez A1 - Arturo Serrano-Santoyo KW - innovation ecosystems KW - Networks Analysis KW - regional development AB - To contribute to the field of management of technology and innovation, this paper focuses on a multi-actor network perspective to map stakeholders and identifies key actors in CaliBaja’s binational innovation ecosystem. This region has a unique territorial extension and population dynamics. It is a land of opportunity for global businesses, houses world-class colleges, universities and applied research institutes, and has been recently acknowledged as a global innovative mega-region. We apply social network analysis to this region as an innovative and valuable methodology to identify significant local contributors, defined as according to key elements and success factors that promote and establish communication and interaction among the network stakeholders. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 10 UR - timreview.ca/article/1320 IS - 1 U1 - CETYS Universidad Dr. Sylvia Mónica Pérez-Núñez, holds a PhD in Global Development Studies from the Faculty of Economics and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Baja California, México in 2016. She has conducted research stays in 2012 in Costa Rica at the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture in the Area of Biotechnology and Biosafety and in 2015 at the Institute of Philosophy, Department of Science, Technology and Society of the Higher Council for Scientific Research with headquarters in Madrid. She currently collaborates as a full-time professor at the School of Business Administration at CETYS Universidad, Tijuana campus, where she teaches the subjects of Introduction to International Business, Geography of International Business and Human Being and Sustainability. In addition, she is a member of the Research Institute in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Social Change at the same university U2 - CICESE Dr. Arturo Serrano Santoyo, holds a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City in 1980. In 1981, he received the ALCATEL Annual Telecommunications Award and in 1986 was honored with the ERICSSON Telecommunications Award. He has been a consultant for the Organization of American States and the United Nations as well as for many private companies and governmental agencies in the areas of Innovation, Development and Digital Transformation. Dr. Serrano is member of the Mexican Academy of Engineering and author of the books Telecommunications in Latin America, The Digital Divide: Myths and Realities, and Digitalization and Global Convergence. He is currently a researcher at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education of Ensenada (CICESE) and professor at CETYS Universidad and the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Management Innovation Approach to Project Planning JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Haven Allahar KW - innovation KW - management innovation KW - management innovation tools KW - scenario planning KW - strategic foresight AB - Innovation is viewed as indispensable to the economic and social development of countries, and the subject has been widely researched. The initial research focused on the development of new products and services by firms applying technological initiatives. The concept has expanded to cover many domains and features of innovation that led to innovation in non-technological areas, currently referred to as “management innovation”. Many tools were developed by management specialists and gurus such as strategic planning, vision and mission statements, benchmarking, customer-satisfaction measurement, and outsourcing to target performance improvements in firms. The output of this article is a project development planning model that integrates management innovation tools related to the field of project planning as a novel approach tested by a consulting firm over several applications. The article has implications for managers, consultants, and professionals involved in the design, planning, and implementation of a varied range of development projects. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1245 IS - 6 U1 - University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago Haven Allahar has served for over 25 years as an Adjunct Lecturer in entrepreneurship and innovation, and a coach of MBA teams’ capstone projects at the Arthur Lok Jack Global School of Business of the University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago. Haven has a wide academic and specialized training background in Economics (BSc, Jamaica), Entrepreneurship and Management (MA and DBA, US), Industrial Project Planning, Financing, and Management (UK and Poland). Haven served for over 40 years in senior management and CEO positions in companies involved in project planning and management, SME development, and urban development. Haven, along with two partners, owned and operated for 15 years a consulting firm that provided project planning, design, and management services to a variety of clients in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean. Haven’s research interests are in broad areas of business and management, and his publications are available at Academia.edu or ResearchGate. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mastering the Digital Transformation Process: Business Practices and Lessons Learned JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Lucija Ivančić A1 - Vesna Bosilj Vukšić A1 - Mario Spremić KW - case study KW - change management KW - digital business KW - digital model KW - digital transformation KW - digital transformation model KW - digitization KW - human capital KW - Innovation management KW - talent management AB - Due to its unique features and accessibility, the focus of implementing digital technology is no longer just to improve internal operations, but to expand internal dimensions, reach customers and external partners, affect services, integrate processes, disrupt markets, and fundamentally change industries. It is no surprise that the notion of digital transformation has garnered much research interest, especially from the practitioners’ point of view, but academic achievements are somehow lagging behind, possibly because frameworks for digital transformation are still evolving. In this article, we tried to address that gap by conducting holistic research of digital transformation in companies. We used a series of in-depth interviews to inform comprehensive case studies of three companies from different industries that are in different stages of digital transformation. We carefully investigated the companies’ experiences in the process of digital transformation, which are discussed here to provide valid theoretical framing. We conclude that, in addition to technology adoption, important factors for successful digital transformation are the ability of an organization to change and operational excellence in the integration of external digital services with internal IT support. In that light, we summarize our findings in a form of discovered (sub)dimensions that are the basis for the proposed digital transformation framing, while the narratives and case experiences provide with examples of best practice. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1217 IS - 2 U1 - University of Zagreb Lucija Ivančić is a Teaching and Research Assistant in Business Computing, Business Process Management, and Data Management, and a PhD candidate in the Department of Informatics of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her current research interests lie in business process modelling and management, IT management, data management, and digital transformation, and at the intersection of these fields. She received two Dean’s awards for previous papers on discrete-event simulation modelling and information systems auditing. U2 - University of Zagreb Vesna Bosilj Vukšić is a Professor of Business Process Management and Business Computing in the Department of Informatics of the Faculty of Economics and Business, at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her current research interests are in modelling and the management of business processes, information systems development, and digital transformation. Vesna has a teaching experience in undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She participates actively in research within the framework of the Ministry of Science and Technology’s scientific projects, and is a member of international scientific research projects. She is a member of editorial boards and a reviewer of international scientific journals. U3 - University of Zagreb Mario Spremić is a Professor of ICT Governance and Digital Business in the Department of Informatics of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. His current research interests are in digital transformation, digital technologies, ICT governance, cybersecurity, and IT auditing. Mario is teaching on these topics at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including some international engagements including as a guest lecturer at Imperial College London. He is a member of editorial boards and a reviewer of international scientific journals. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Multidimensional Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence Innovation JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2019 A1 - Sergey A. Yablonsky KW - Advanced Analytics KW - AI maturity KW - AI value chain KW - Artificial Intelligence (AI) KW - big data KW - enterprise platform KW - innovation AB - This is a critical time for the development and adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The field has existed since the 1950s and is only now emerging as viable for commercial markets. Many enterprises are placing bets on AI that will determine their future. Today AI innovation becomes useful when it enriches decision-making that is enhanced by applying Big Data (BD) and Advanced Analytics (AA), with some element of human interaction using digital platforms. This research investigates an opportunity for cross-fertilization between AI, BD, and AA with related disciplines. The paper aims to investigate the potential relationship of AI, BD, and AA with digital business platforms. In doing so, it develops a multidimensional BD-driven AI innovation taxonomy framework with an AA/BD/AA innovation value chain, related levels of BD, and analytics maturity improvement. This framework can be used with a focus on data-driven human-machine relationships, and applying AI at different levels of data driven automation maturity. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 9 UR - timreview.ca/article/1288 IS - 12 U1 - St. Petersburg State University Sergey Yablonsky, PhD in computer science, is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University in St. Petersburg, Russia. Author of more than 200+ publications. Co-creator of the Russian WordNet and the Russicon language processor, and linguistic resources licensed by Adobe Systems Incorporated, Phoenix Int. (USA), Franklin Electronic Publishers (USA) etc. Engaged in 35 national and international research projects in Russia, and across Europe. Research interests include Digital Economy, Digital Business and Entrepreneurship; Multisided Platforms and Markets; Artificial Intelligence, Digital marketing; Big Data Governance; Computer linguistics and text mining; Semantic and Social Web. Courses taught: Data Governance (Bachelor Program); Digital marketing (Bachelor Program); Digital Commerce (Bachelor Program); Digital Business (Master Program); Smart Business Transformation in the Digital Age (CEMS Block Seminar); Multi-Sided Platforms and Innovation in a Global Era (CEMS Block Seminar); Digital Economy (EMBA). Visiting professor at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) in Austria, Stockholm Business School, Stockholm university in Sweden, Aalto University in Finland, Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland, Hame University of Applied Sciences in Finland. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mixing Practices to Create Transdisciplinary Innovation: A Design-Based Approach JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2018 A1 - Kees Dorst KW - disciplines KW - innovation KW - practice KW - transdisciplinarity KW - transdisciplinary education AB - As the problems that are our organizations are facing become more complex, dynamic, and networked, they will need to become more flexible in their ability to respond. These complex networked problem situations often cannot be tackled from a single-discipline perspective, and thus transdisciplinary innovation – that is, innovation across and between disciplinary fields – is becoming more important. But how can we achieve innovation in those in-between spaces, when all of our knowledge and established approaches are held within the disciplines? In this article, we look beyond the limiting confines of traditional disciplines by seeing them as collections of smaller units of action: practices. After a foray into the anatomy of practices, we discuss how a design-based approach to transdisciplinary thinking creates a framework for the mixing of practices, articulating new insights and creating new possibilities for action in the space between the established professions. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 8 UR - https://timreview.ca/article/1179 IS - 8 U1 - University of Technology Sydney Kees Dorst was trained as an Industrial Design Engineer at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Currently, he is Professor of Design Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney’s Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation in Australia, where he is also the Founding Director of the university’s Design Innovation and Designing Out Crime research centres. He lectures at universities and design schools throughout the world. He has published many articles and several books – including Understanding Design (2006), Design Expertise (with Bryan Lawson, 2009), Frame Innovation – Create New Thinking by Design (MIT Press, 2015), Designing for the Common Good (2016), and Notes on Design – How Creative Practice Works (2017). ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Managerial Decision Tool for R&D Outsourcing and Partner Selection in High-Technology Industries JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2017 A1 - Iivari Kunttu KW - decision tool KW - outsourcing KW - partner selection KW - research and development KW - supplier involvement AB - Deciding which tasks and projects are best performed in-house and which should be outsourced to external suppliers are, alongside the supplier selection process, among the key challenges for R&D managers operating in high-technology firms. This study presents a decision tool for evaluating whether to pursue R&D tasks in-house or to outsource them. The tool also helps R&D managers to evaluate which of the supplier candidates would be best suited to undertake the task to be outsourced. The tool is based on four views of evaluation that have both managerial and theoretical roots: identity, dependence, efficiency, and competence. The tool has been developed in a qualitative multiple case study based on R&D supplier relationships and has been empirically tested in an R&D organization. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 7 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1062 IS - 3 U1 - University of Vaasa Iivari Kunttu is an Assistant Professor in Department of Management of the University of Vaasa, Finland. He holds a PhD degree in Information Technology from the Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and has held several R&D manager and R&D process development specialist positions in the Nokia Corporation and project manager positions in TUT. His current research interests include R&D management, R&D supplier involvement, service business development, and innovation management. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Methods for Supporting Older Users in Communicating Their Emotions at Different Phases of a Living Lab Project JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2017 A1 - Sonja Pedell A1 - Alen Keirnan A1 - Gareth Priday A1 - Tim Miller A1 - Antonette Mendoza A1 - Antonio Lopez-Lorca A1 - Leon Sterling KW - aging well KW - co-design methods KW - emotion-led design KW - expressing emotions KW - Living lab KW - personal alarm systems AB - In this article, we focus on living lab methods that support the elicitation of emotions – a key success factor in whether a design solution will be accepted and taken up over the long term. We demonstrate the use of emotional goal models to help understand what is relevant for a target user group in the early phases of design. We promote animations and storyboards to envision the context of use and to gain an understanding of how design ideas can integrate into people’s lives. For the evaluation of ideas and to further understand user needs, we show how technology probes facilitate natural interactions with a suggested solution concept. All methods have in common that they enable older adults without design or development experience to participate in the design process and work towards a meaningful solution by helping to communicate feelings and goals that are often hard to define. Lastly, we present a process model that demonstrates our emotion-led design toolkit at various phases of a living lab process. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 7 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1053 IS - 2 U1 - Swinburne University of Technology Sonja Pedell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Design and Digital Media Design and Director of the Future Self and Design Living Lab at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where she contributes extensive knowledge of human–computer interaction (HCI) to the co-creation of innovative technologies. Her research interests are user-centred design methods, scenario-based and mobile design, domestic technology development for health and wellbeing, and the design of engaging novel technologies for various user groups, in particular for the ageing population. Sonja holds a Master of Psychology degree from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany and for several years was employed in industry as an interaction designer, usability consultant, and product manager. U2 - Swinburne University of Technology Alen Keirnan is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where he received his PhD in Industrial and Product Design. Working on a variety of health and ageing related projects in the Future Self and Design Living Lab, he has a strong interest in co-creation and journey-mapping techniques. He embeds his interests of co-creation and journey mapping into collaborative research projects between academia and industry, affording rich user insights appropriate for human-centered design outcomes. His current projects include developing services for retirement park managers to better communicate with their clients, envisioning the waiting room of the future and, evaluating technologies with older adults. U3 - Australian Living Labs Innovation Network Gareth Priday is a foresight practitioner, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is Co-Director of the Australian Living Labs Innovation Network and recently supported the development of Swinburne University of Technology's Future Self and Design Living Lab in Melbourne. In 2014, Gareth led a Financial Resilience Living Lab pilot project and presented at the ENoLL Summer School. He held a futures research position with the Queensland University of Technology (Smart Services CRC). He has published in the Journal of Futures Studies and has presented at a number of Futures and Innovation conferences. Gareth holds a Master of Strategic Foresight degree from Swinburne University of Technology. His first career was in the financial services sector working for large international banks in the UK and Australia (UBS Warburg, Macquarie, ABN Amro, Royal Bank of Scotland) where he delivered on large-scale global projects. U4 - University of Melbourne Tim Miller is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds a PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Queensland and spent four years at the University of Liverpool, UK, as a Postdoctoral Researcher Associate in the Agent ART group. Tim's primary interests are in artificial intelligence and human–AI interaction. U5 - University of Melbourne Antonette Mendoza is a Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research expertise includes how users interact and adopt technology; how systems can be better designed to support that interaction; and once deployed, what we can do to facilitate adoption and sustainability of technologies. She has extensive experience in software engineering, IT project management, and qualitative methods of research. She is currently collaborating with researchers on ARC and NHMRC projects in the health care and homelessness environments. She is also involved in local and international collaborations with researchers on value realization of e-learning platforms and tools. Her achievements include Teaching Excellence Awards in the Melbourne School of Engineering and in the Department of Computing and Information Systems. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Managing Innovation Ecosystems to Create and Capture Value in ICT Industries JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Jarkko Pellikka A1 - Timo Ali-Vehmas KW - innovation ecosystem KW - management KW - network KW - strategy KW - value capture AB - In a new knowledge-intensive economic landscape, firms need to access external knowledge sources due to their inability to generate all necessary knowledge on their own. The interaction with and learning from external knowledge sources implies that firms depend upon decisions and actions made by business partners and external support organizations. This network of linkages can be considered as an ecosystem in which commercial enterprises and non-firm organizations interact with one another and work together to create and capture value. Previous studies have shown that a firm’s ability to successfully commercialize a new product depends not only on its own technology strategy but also its capabilities to manage an innovation ecosystem strategy. Dynamic markets, intense competition, and shorter product lifecycles force companies across different industries to create and capture value more rapidly by launching new innovations. Well-defined and executed innovation ecosystem strategies can help companies to develop new markets and business opportunities for the different types of innovations and enable their businesses to grow. This study provides new insight into how an ecosystem strategy can be formed based on the traditional strategy literature and proposes a conceptual framework for senior leaders to form an ecosystem strategy. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1024 IS - 10 U1 - Nokia Technologies Jarkko Pellikka is Head of Operations at Nokia Technologies in Espoo, Finland. He holds a PhD in Economics and Business Administration, a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and PMP certifications. He has worked for several years in leading global multinational companies and he has been responsible for managing and developing numerous global business operations and major initiatives in technology and innovation management. His research focuses on the commercialization process of innovation, operations and technology management, and business development in technology industries. His research on the commercialization process of innovation, innovation management, and business leadership in high-technology industries has been published in several international journals and books. U2 - Nokia Technologies Timo Ali-Vehmas is a Nokia Fellow and currently works as Head of Ecosystems Research at Nokia Technologies in Espoo, Finland. In his previous role, he was in charge of Nokia’s standardization activities as the Vice President, Compatibility and Industry Collaboration, including Nokia’s contributions to forums such as the 3GPP, ETSI, CCSA, ITU, IETF, W3C, OMA, DLNA, IEEE, WFA, BT, and many others. He has been working at Nokia since 1980 in a number of different areas, including R&D manager of the first Nokia GSM mobile phone and later Vice President, WCDMA Product Programs in Nokia Mobile Phones. He was also tasked to establish the Radio Communication Laboratory in the Nokia Research Centre. For several years, he has been also a member of the European Union's Open Innovation Strategy and Policy Group (OISPG). Since 2012, Timo has served as the Chairman of the Board of Nokia Foundation and since 2008 has been a member of the Board of the Walter Ahlström Foundation. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mobilizing Knowledge: The Evidence Gap for Assistive Devices JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2016 A1 - Edward D. Lemaire KW - assistive devices KW - knowledge mobilization KW - orthosis AB - Knowledge mobilization can be hindered in healthcare technology settings where the pace of change outpaces the ability to perform high-quality research methodologies that provide timely knowledge to enable informed prescription and technology application to the end user. Although well-controlled research with appropriate sample sizes is needed, this approach must be balanced with other evidence sources to address the knowledge immediacy requirements. Using carbon-fibre ankle–foot orthoses (i.e., lower-limb braces that improve stability, alignment, and foot-to-ground placement) as a case study, various sources of assistive device evidence were explored for their contribution to the continuum of knowledge in this area. A basic level of knowledge exists, but the quality is insufficient to inform the physical rehabilitation community on selecting from the almost 70 different devices on the market and the expected clinical outcomes for a target population. A combination of enhanced single-participant reports should be considered as an important part of the knowledge continuum and essential for knowledge immediacy. This approach must also be expanded to national and multinational database initiatives that provide a better base from which to extract knowledge on assistive device performance and mobilize this knowledge to provide optimal care for people with physical disabilities. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 6 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/1018 IS - 9 U1 - The Ottawa Hospital Edward Lemaire, PhD, is actively involved with research on technologies that improve mobility for people with physical disabilities. He is a Clinical Researcher at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s Centre for Rehabilitation Research and Development; Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine; and Adjunct Professor in Human Kinetics, Mechanical Engineering, and Systems Design Engineering. He is also active with the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics, as a board member and international congress scientific chairman. Dr. Lemaire’s research has resulted in over 350 published papers and presentations that include intelligent prosthetics and orthotics, biomechanical walking analysis in 3D virtual environments, smartphone approaches to improve decision making, and eHealth technology to enhance access to education and rehabilitation services. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Making Smart Regions Smarter: Smart Specialization and the Role of Universities in Regional Innovation Ecosystems JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Markku Markkula A1 - Hank Kune KW - innovation KW - innovation ecosystems KW - quadruple helix KW - role of universities KW - smart cities KW - smart regions KW - smart specialisation KW - smart specialization KW - societal innovation KW - triple helix AB - What makes a "smart region" smarter? We argue that it is the active orchestration of the regional ecosystem around concepts such as knowledge co-creation and exploitation, opportunity exploration, and capacity building. Simply adding to the proliferation of software developers in the area, stimulating the activities of business clusters around information technology, and providing digitally enabled services for citizens is not enough to make a region smarter. Smartness is enhanced by a well-orchestrated regional innovation ecosystem with a strong "smart specialization strategy" that leverages the new societal roles played by universities. In this article, we describe the European Commission’s program for research and innovation strategies for smart specialization (RIS3) and show how the Helsinki Region in Finland is using smart specialization, ecosystem orchestration, and the active role of universities to enhance regional innovation and the "smartness" of the region. These activities are discussed in the context of policy documents and strategy papers from regional, national, and European authorities, which illustrates some differences between papers and practice. This is work in progress, and based on early results, we draw initial conclusions about how putting policy into practice can make smart regions smarter. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/932 IS - 10 U1 - European Union Committee of the Regions Markku Markkula is the President of the European Union Committee of the Regions (CoR), where he has been a member since 2010 and Rapporteur on several opinions related to topics such as Europe 2020, digitalization, single markets, as well as research and innovation. His experience includes memberships of several High Level Expert Groups, and he is a member of the EU Smart Specialisation Mirror Group. Markku works within Aalto University as the Advisor to Aalto Presidents, focusing on European Union strategy affairs. His previous work experience includes Directorship of the Lifelong Learning Institute Dipoli and the Secretary General of the International Association for Continuing Engineering Education IACEE. He is a former member of the Finnish Parliament (1995–2003). As an MP, his international role included the Presidency of EPTA Council (European Parliamentary Technology Assessment Network). In the Helsinki Region, he is the Board member of the Regional Council and the chair of the Steering Board, which makes decisions on the use of Structural Funds. He is a longstanding Espoo City Council member, as well as the chair of the City Planning Board. U2 - Educore BV Hank Kune is Director of Educore BV, Founding Partner and member of the governing board of the Future Center Alliance, and active member of the New Club of Paris, a global network organization working as agenda developer for knowledge societies, where his focus is on entrepreneurial initiatives and societal innovation coaching. Hank works with diverse corporate and government organizations in projects about societal innovation and renewal, with a special emphasis on hands-on problem solving in complex social, societal, and organizational situations. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Method and Tool to Support the Management of Systems Engineering Projects JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Claude Baron A1 - Philippe Esteban A1 - Rui Xue A1 - Daniel Esteve A1 - Michel Malbert KW - collaborative engineering KW - decision support KW - engineering processes KW - project management KW - system design KW - systems engineering KW - systems engineering standards AB - Too many industrial projects still fail, mainly due to the managerial techniques used. Indeed, organizational processes are more or less specifically mentioned in systems engineering standards, but in practice, project managers tend to rely more on their own standards, which sometimes set forth practices that do not align with those of the systems engineering domain, hence the reported discrepancies that very often lead to project failure. Thus, we argue that, to improve the companies’ competitiveness when developing new products, cooperation between processes related to system development and project management is key to achieving performance and success. This article presents arguments that tend to support this assertion and introduces an ongoing project to develop both a method and tool that aim to integrate both domains. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/878 IS - 3 U1 - LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS Claude Baron is a Professor of Computer Sciences at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of the University of Toulouse, France. She teaches systems engineering, system design and modelling, and system reliability for real-time and critical embedded software systems in master's programs. Her current research focuses on systems engineering, collaborative engineering, and project management in engineering projects. She develops her research activities in the LAAS-CNRS laboratory in Toulouse. She is the author or co-author of many international articles and several books, and she has received IEEE and INCOSE awards for her work. U2 - LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS Philippe Esteban is Associate Professor at the University of Toulouse, France. He conducts his research on systems engineering at the LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS (French National Center for Sciences and Research). He is an expert in the domain of the design and verification of complex and hybrids systems. His predilection domain of application is embedded systems. U3 - LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS Rui Xue is a PhD Candidate at LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS (French National Center for Sciences and Research) in Toulouse, France. She received her ME degree in Computer Software and Theory in the year 2012 from Jilin University, China. Her PhD topic is about systems engineering, project management, system modelling, decision processes, and decision engineering. U4 - LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS Daniel Esteve is Emeritus Research Director at LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS (French National Center for Sciences and Research) in Toulouse, France. In 1968, he joined the LAAS-CNRS to participate in the development of microelectronics. In 1974, his research work took a new turn towards the management of different programs. In 1981, he was appointed Director of LAAS and later became Head of the Electronics and Computer Sciences Department at the French Ministry of Research and Technology. He is now Emeritus Research Director, and his investigations mainly concern the development of tools and processes needed in the design of complex systems and microsystems. Dr. Esteve has been awarded the CNRS medal of research (1969 and 1976) and the BLONDEL medal. U5 - Michel Malbert is an entrepreneur and consultant, and he holds a doctorate in Physics from the University of Toulouse. For more than thirty years, he was the CEO and founder of a company involved in applied mathematics. Its main activities were to model and simulate the interaction between elementary particles and matter, and to apply statistical methods to industrial problems. His interests include modelling, simulation, Monte Carlo methods, and others statistical methods. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mobile Convergence and Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Innovative Products and Services JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2014 A1 - Jeff Moretz A1 - Chirag Surti KW - Canada KW - competition KW - entrepreneurship KW - innovation KW - mobile convergence KW - mobile services KW - wireless pricing AB - Our research on 2012 and 2013 Canadian wireless service pricing indicates that data was underpriced relative to traditional voice and text messaging services. Such a situation, while potentially disadvantaging consumers of traditional mobile services, created a market that favoured competitors pursuing innovative uses of mobile data. Although more competitive pressures in the telecommunications market would provide broader benefits to Canadian consumers and facilitate greater innovation in related services, a favorable pricing differential vis-à-vis data transmission provides useful incentives. Even with recent changes to the pricing of mobile services in Canada, we should expect continued development of services that substitute data for voice and text messaging, particularly for international communications, as well as more innovative uses of mobile data. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 4 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/800 IS - 6 U1 - University of Ontario Institute of Technology Jeff Moretz is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Oshawa, Canada. He obtained his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, USA, and has an MBA and two undergraduate degrees from Michigan State University, USA. He is a recovering consultant, having worked for McKinsey & Company in Chicago after his MBA studies. Prior to joining the UOIT, he worked at University College Cork in Ireland, researching open source software communities and open innovation. His research interests focus on the impact of information, openness, and information technologies on innovation, business models, and strategies. U2 - University of Ontario Institute of Technology Chirag Surti is an Assistant Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) in Oshawa, Canada. He earned a PhD degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York in Buffalo, USA. His primary research interest is in the area supply chain management and understanding and analyzing the role process innovation can play in boosting productivity. He is a recipient of NSERC Discovery and SSHRC Partnership grants. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Managing Cybersecurity Research and Experimental Development: The REVO Approach JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Dan Craigen A1 - Drew Vandeth A1 - D’Arcy Walsh KW - cybersecurity KW - experimental development KW - performance indicators KW - research KW - research program lifecycle KW - research-activity descriptions KW - research-requirement statements KW - strategic research contexts AB - We present a systematic approach for managing a research and experimental development cybersecurity program that must be responsive to continuously evolving cybersecurity, and other, operational concerns. The approach will be of interest to research-program managers, academe, corporate leads, government leads, chief information officers, chief technology officers, and social and technology policy analysts. The approach is compatible with international standards and procedures published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS). The key benefits of the approach are the following: i) the breadth of the overall (cybersecurity) space is described; ii) depth statements about specific (cybersecurity) challenges are articulated and mapped to the breadth of the problem; iii) specific (cybersecurity) initiatives that have been resourced through funding or personnel are tracked and linked to specific challenges; and iv) progress is assessed through key performance indicators. Although we present examples from cybersecurity, the method may be transferred to other domains. We have found the approach to be rigorous yet adaptive to change; it challenges an organization to be explicit about the nature of its research and experimental development in a manner that fosters alignment with evolving business priorities, knowledge transfer, and partner engagement. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/705 IS - 7 U1 - Communications Security Establishment Canada Dan Craigen is a Science Advisor at the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC). Previously, he was President of ORA Canada, a company that focused on High Assurance/Formal Methods and distributed its technology to over 60 countries. His research interests include formal methods, the science of cybersecurity, and technology transfer. He was the chair of two NATO research task groups pertaining to validation, verification, and certification of embedded systems and high-assurance technologies. He received his BScH in Math and his MSc in Math from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. U2 - IBM Systems Research Drew Vandeth is the Senior Research Strategist for the National Security Community and a Senior Researcher at IBM Systems Research. He is the founder of the Tutte Institute for Mathematics and Computing (TIMC) and was its first Deputy Director. His research interests include theoretical and computational number theory, contextual and cognitive computing, high performance computing architectures, autonomic and autonomous analytical systems, and research management. Dr. Vandeth holds a PhD in Number Theory from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, an MMath in Number Theory from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and a BMath (Hons) in Pure Mathematics, also from the University of Waterloo. U3 - Communications Security Establishment Canada D’Arcy Walsh is a Science Advisor at the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC). His research interests include software-engineering methods and techniques that support the development and deployment of dynamic systems, including dynamic languages, dynamic configuration, context-aware systems, and autonomic and autonomous systems. He received his BAH from Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, and he received his BCS, his MCS, and his PhD in Computer Science from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Measuring Innovation Skills Acquired by College and Polytechnic Students through Applied Research JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Robert Luke KW - applied research KW - business innovation KW - college KW - experiential learning KW - innovation literacy KW - logic model KW - polytechnic KW - skills KW - student research AB - This article provides an overview of how colleges and polytechnic institutes are fostering innovation literacy via support for business innovation, and it outlines models for measuring innovation literacy for improved downstream innovation and productivity in industry. The article demonstrates how we can innovate innovation by taking a specific, proactive, and instrumental approach to fostering business innovation and skills acquisition gained through applied research work experience by students as part of their college education. This approach is being used by George Brown College in developing a framework for measuring this innovation potential with a long-term, outcomes-based analysis. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/735 IS - 10 U1 - George Brown College Robert Luke is Vice President of Research and Innovation for George Brown College in Toronto, Canada. He leads the college’s applied research and innovation activities that focus on working with industry to address development needs and productivity challenges. He is also responsible for institutional research and planning, focusing on overall educational quality measurement and improvement, and strategy implementation, as well as e-learning and innovation in teaching and learning. He is Chair of the Polytechnics Canada Research Group, a member of the Toronto Community Foundation Toronto Vital Signs Advisory Group, and he is a member of the Programs and Quality Committee of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He served as a member of the Council of Canadian Academies’ Expert Panel on "The State of Science and Technology in Canada, 2012". In 2012, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for contributions to Canadian education and innovation. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Multifactor Authentication: Its Time Has Come JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2013 A1 - Jim Reno KW - authentication attacks KW - authentication mechanisms KW - multifactor authentication KW - online security AB - Transactions of any value must be authenticated to help prevent online crime. Even seemingly innocent interactions, such as social media postings, can have serious consequences if used fraudulently. A key problem in modern online interactions is establishing the identity of the user without alienating the user. Historically, almost all online authentications have been implemented using simple passwords, but increasingly these methods are under attack. Multifactor authentication requires the presentation of two or more of the three authentication factor types: “What you know”, “What you have”, and “What you are”. After presentation, each factor must be validated by the other party for authentication to occur. Multifactor authentication is a potential solution to the authentication problem, and it is beginning to be implemented at websites operated by well-known companies. This article surveys the different mechanisms used to implement multifactor authentication. How a site chooses to implement multifactor authentication affects security as well as the overall user experience. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 3 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/716 IS - 8 U1 - CA Technologies Jim Reno is a Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for Security at CA Technologies. He joined CA with the Arcot acquisition in October 2010. At Arcot, Jim led the development of strong authentication and risk management systems. He has more than 30 years’ experience in software development, working on operating systems, databases, networking, systems management, and security. Jim is one of the inventors of the 3-D Secure protocol used in the Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode programs. He holds multiple patents in the area of credit card verification and authentication. At CA he guides the overall architecture of CA’s security products as well as security aspects of the entire CA portfolio. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Making Money from Exploiting Schumpeterian Opportunities: John Sanguinetti and the Electronic Design Automation Industry JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Arthur Low KW - CynLib KW - EDA industry KW - integrated circuit design KW - John Sanguinetti KW - Schumpter KW - technology entrepreneurship KW - verilog KW - VHDL AB - Accounts of the effect that John Sanguinetti’s two companies had on the market for integrated circuit design languages were used to gain insights on how to profit from the exploitation of Schumpeterian opportunities. This article will be of interest to entrepreneurs who expect to profit from exploiting opportunities that disrupt the status quo. To write this article, the author reviewed the literature on Schumpeterian and Kirznerian opportunities and examined the writings of and about Sanguinetti and his companies, blogs written by industry insiders, and articles in industry trade journals. Sanguinetti’s first company introduced a new technology and his second company introduced a new business strategy and a new technology. Both of Sanguinetti's companies undermined the capital investments of the established incumbents and created new value for customers. The article provides three main insights. First, deep knowledge and experience in the customer domain enable an entrepreneur to recognize and act to profit from a Schumpeterian opportunity. Second, to profit from a Schumpeterian opportunity the entrepreneur needs to combine technology and business model components in a way that adds significant value to customers. Third, large amounts of venture capital may or may not be required to exploit Schumpeterian opportunities. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/555 IS - 5 U1 - Crack Semiconductor Arthur Low is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Crack Semiconductor, a supplier of high-performance cryptographic silicon IP used in some of the most demanding security applications. Arthur has a number of patents in the field of hardware cryptography. He has worked for a number of IC startups as a Senior IC designer and Architect and gained much of his fundamental IC design experience with Bell-Northern Research in the early 1990s and with IBM Microelectronics in the late 1990s. Arthur has a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alberta and is completing his MSc degree in Technology Innovation Management in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Managing Entrepreneurial Employees Who Bring Their Own IT to Work JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - David Hudson KW - consumer IT KW - corporate IT KW - entrepreneurship KW - intrapreneur KW - theory of the firm KW - value creation AB - Why do some employees invest their own time and money to acquire consumer information technology (IT) for use in the workplace as corporate IT? This behaviour occurs even when their firms already possess considerable IT resources. Moreover, IT governance policies typically oppose the use of unsanctioned IT within the firm. IT governance assumes that the only IT assets that are relevant to the firm are those that are owned by the firm. However, employees can create value for the firm by combining their personal IT assets with the firm's IT assets. Creating novel asset combinations is consistent with entrepreneurship but entrepreneurship theory does not address this type of voluntary employee entrepreneurship using personal IT assets. This article proposes a link between the theory of the firm and entrepreneurship theory to explain why employees act entrepreneurially. This link is significant because it advances the notion that employees of established firms can be entrepreneurial when they use their own consumer IT as corporate IT. This link is also significant because it suggests that managing employee entrepreneurship requires tolerance of value creation that is emergent and can occur within a firm. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/633 IS - 12 U1 - Carleton University David Hudson is pursuing doctoral studies and is a lecturer in the MBA program at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business in Ottawa, Canada. His research focus considers entrepreneurial effort by employees and changes arising from consumer technology use in industry. Previously, David was the Vice President for Advanced Research and Technology at a large technology firm and has had an extensive career in technology development and product line management. He received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Managing Innovation under Time Pressure: A Practical Perspective JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Blair Winsor KW - consultancy KW - innovation KW - practice-based approach KW - time AB - This article examines the effects of time pressure on innovation. Does time pressure stimulate or eliminate innovation or, in other words, should managers increase or reduce time pressures if they are trying to enhance innovation in their firms? Unfortunately, current research on the subject is ambivalent. To provide some clarity, this innovation management dilemma was examined in a fast-growing, medium-sized communication and IT consultancy (“First”), which claimed to be “highly innovative”. Detailed data on five projects was collected over an 18-month period using practice-based methods. Each project team was followed in real time via observation and interviews. The data was then analyzed by dividing project work into three phases: i) negotiating the project particulars with the client; ii) conducting project work; and iii) project evaluation. This detailed analysis revealed how time pressures eliminated innovation in First’s client-based project work and suggested three implications for the management of innovation. Firstly, managers should try to avoid imposing excessive time pressures on their project teams. Secondly, they should ensure that there is space between projects to enable reflection. Thirdly, managers should ensure that project debriefs occur and that they cover potential innovations. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/593 IS - 8 U1 - Edinburgh Napier University Blair Winsor is a full-time lecturer in Edinburgh Napier University’s business school in the United Kingdom and currently teaches in the innovation management and entrepreneurship areas. He received his PhD from the University of Warwick's Business School where he studied innovation in consultancies. Blair also has an MBA from SDA Bocconi in Italy and a law degree from the University of Ottawa in Canada. He has had business and consultancy experience in both the United Kingdom and North America. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mapping Living Labs in the Landscape of Innovation Methodologies JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Esteve Almirall A1 - Melissa Lee A1 - Jonathan Wareham KW - innovation KW - living labs KW - living labs methodologies KW - Open innovation KW - user-driven design AB - A growing interest in living labs as a mechanism for innovation has drawn significant attention to both the different flavours of this methodology and to the organizations that put it into practice. However, little has been done to assess its impact and to compare its contribution to other innovation methodologies. This article aims to cover that gap by summarizing the most common European living labs approaches and positioning them in the landscape of user-contributed innovation methodology. The merits and appropriateness of living labs in these settings are also assessed. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/603 IS - 9 U1 - ESADE Business School and Pompeu Fabra University Esteve Almirall is an Associate Professor in the ESADE Business School and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain. His research focuses on innovation and innovation management, and he has more than 30 publications in this field. His background is a mix of Management Science (PhD) and Computer Science (MSc, MRes). Esteve is also highly involved in European Projects and EU organizations being a Council Member of the ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) and coordinating/participating in EU projects on innovation and smart cities. U2 - ESADE Business School Melissa Lee is a PhD candidate at the ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Her research interests include open innovation, business ecosystems, and innovation in the public sector. U3 - ESADE Business School Jonathan Wareham is a Professor of Information Systems in the ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Wareham's research has been published, or is forthcoming, in over 80 refereed journals and proceedings. He currently serves as Vice-Dean of Research at ESADE and is Director of the ESADE Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management. In addition, he sits on the advisory boards or editorial boards for a number of academic institutions, journals, NGOs, and social entreprises. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Market Channels of Technology Startups that Internationalize Rapidly from Inception JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Simar Yoos KW - born global KW - channel partner KW - globalization KW - internationalization KW - market channels KW - marketing KW - startups AB - The study of technology startups that internationalize rapidly from inception has increased in recent years. However, little is known about their channels to market. This article addresses a gap in the "born global" literature by examining the channels used by six startups that internationalized rapidly from inception as well as the programs they used to support their channel partners and customers. The six startups examined combined the use of the Internet with: i) a relationship with a multi-national, ii) distributors, iii) re-sellers, or iv) a direct sales force. They also delivered programs to support partners and customers that focused on communications, alliance and network development, education, marketing and promotion, and financial incentives. This article informs entrepreneurs who need to design go-to-market channels to exploit global opportunities about decisions made by other entrepreneurs who launched born-global companies. Normative rules and practitioner-oriented approaches are needed to help entrepreneurs explain and apply the results presented in this article. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/618 IS - 10 U1 - Carleton University Simar Yoos has 15 years of experience launching and growing companies as well as helping international companies to solve commercialization-related conflicts. He is currently completing his MASc degree in Technology Innovation Management at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His research examines how technology startups can accelerate their internationalization from inception. Simar also holds a Business Administration degree with specialization in Marketing from Univali (University of Vale do Itajaí) in Brazil, and he has a certification in International Trade and Negotiation Skills from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Minimum Viable Product and the Importance of Experimentation in Technology Startups JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2012 A1 - Dobrila Rancic Moogk KW - lean startup KW - minimum viable product KW - MVP AB - Entrepreneurs are often faced with limited resources in their quest to commercialize new technology. This article presents the model of a lean startup, which can be applied to an organization regardless of its size or environment. It also emphasizes the conditions of extreme uncertainty under which the commercialization of new technology is carried out. The lean startup philosophy advocates efficient use of resources by introducing a minimum viable product to the market as soon as possible in order to test its value and the entrepreneur’s growth projections. This testing is done by running experiments that examine the metrics relevant to three distinct types of the growth. These experiments bring about accelerated learning to help reduce the uncertainty that accompanies commercialization projects, thereby bringing the resulting new technology to market faster. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 2 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/535 IS - 3 U1 - ADM Consulting Dobrila Rancic Moogk has over 19 years of executive and leadership experience in R&D, marketing, product management, and people management roles in high-tech companies ranging from startups to multinationals in North America and Europe. She is currently working on business strategy, product development, and corporate development with several high-tech startups. Her interests are in the area of increasing the efficiency of innovation commercialization. Also, Dobrila serves as a vice-chair with the University of Ottawa Women in Engineering and Computer Science committee and a vice-chair on the Volunteer Ottawa Board of Directors. Dobrila has a BSEE as well as Master of Engineering and MBA degrees from the University of Ottawa. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Managing the Challenges of Becoming an Open Innovation Company: Experiences from Living Labs JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2011 A1 - Mika Westerlund A1 - Seppo Leminen KW - Innovation management KW - Living lab KW - Open innovation KW - User-driven AB - High-technology firms have paved the way for user-driven innovations, but now even traditional industries are becoming increasingly open. This shift is a great challenge for companies with instituted practices, policies, and customer relationships. In this article, we identify four distinct steps in becoming an open innovation company based on our recent research into firms’ experiences with living lab experiments in the information and communication technology (ICT) sector. We describe these phases and illustrate the divergent roles that users play in each one. We conclude with a discussion on the differences between the management challenges of conventional development projects versus the open innovation model. For all firms that wish to become open innovators, we recommend that their managers promote an open organizational mindset and apply groupware that supports increased openness, because traditional project management tools are insufficient for open innovation. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 1 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/489 IS - 1 U1 - University of California Berkeley and Aalto University Mika Westerlund, D. Sc. (Econ.), holds positions as Postdoctoral Scholar in the Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley and Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Economics at Aalto University. Mika earned his doctoral degree in Marketing from the Helsinki School of Economics. His doctoral research focused on software firms’ business models and his current research interests include open innovation, business strategy, and management models in high-tech and service-intensive industries. Results from his research are reported in numerous scholarly journals. U2 - Laurea University and Aalto University Seppo Leminen, D. Sc. (Econ.), Lic. Tech., holds positions as Principal Lecturer at the Laurea University of Applied Sciences and Adjunct Professor in the School of Economics at Aalto University. Seppo holds a doctoral degree in Marketing from the Hanken School of Economics and a licentiate degree in Information Technology at the Helsinki University of Technology. His research and consultation interests include value co-creation and capture with users as well as relationships, services, and business models in marketing. He runs various living lab and business model projects in ICT and media industries. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Money-Making Platform for Entrepreneurs JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2011 A1 - Robert Poole AB - New technologies such as cloud computing and platforms are beginning to emerge as simple, practical ways for entrepreneurs to start businesses in a short period of time and with little money. They allow businesses to quickly take a concept to the market to see if it will work. If the business takes off, these same technologies are ready to scale the business to reach global markets and to stay profitable the entire time. In this article, an outline is provided of key business models that have proliferated as a result of new technologies, namely multi-sided platforms, long-tail markets, and freemium business models. Next, the author describes FreebirdConnect.com, his new platform business that has emerged out of Carleton University's Technology Innovation Management program. This platform can be used by other entrepreneurs to start a new business venture that can reach new markets around the world. Finally, the article describes the steps that an entrepreneur can follow to start a low-risk, global business on the FreebirdConnect.com platform without substantial start-up capital. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/446 IS - June 2011 U1 - FreebirdConnect.com Robert Poole is CEO of FreebirdConnect.com. He is also a Chartered Accountant and has 15 years of experience building and deploying business intelligence and social analytic solutions to global enterprises. As a consultant, Robert has provided his expertise to private and public-sector clients including Federal and Regional governments. As an entrepreneur, Robert has created several technology-related companies and has appeared on CNBC's Power Lunch. Robert is also a Master's student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Major Events: Good Economics and Exposure to the World JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Bob Yates AB - Major events of all kinds, especially sport events, are becoming a major element in the competitive arsenal of cities and and their economic development and tourism offices. Major events bring people to the city, provide attractions for residents, and ensure that the city's name is profiled in the national and international media. But they also can involve major infrastructure investment in facilities and amenities, some of which might have limited post-event utility. This article discusses some of the pros and cons of event hosting as an economic strategy and suggests some useful decision-making guidelines. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/393 IS - November 2010 U1 - Yates, Thorn and Associates Inc. Bob Yates is a Senior Partner of Yates, Thorn and Associates Inc., a firm of professional planners located in Victoria, British Columbia. His focus is recreation and social planning, public consultation, and policy development. He has extensive experience in the area of sport and event tourism. He managed the Canadian Sport Tourism Initiative for the Canadian Tourism Commission and has prepared sport and event tourism strategies for communities from Newfoundland to British Columbia. Bob has also worked extensively on other events, particularly in the arts and cultural field, as well as community social planning. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mifos: Ending Poverty with Software JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Adam Feuer AB - Free and open source software (FOSS) and business are key elements for solving the largest problems facing humanity. In this article, we focus on the challenge of eradicating poverty, a significant economic condition that affects billions of people worldwide. We outline the role of microfinance - the use of small loans to help poor people establish businesses - in eliminating poverty. We then describe the Mifos Initiative, a FOSS project to provide banking software to support microfinance institutions. Although we focus on the specific case where software is being used to address the problem of poverty, the approach and lessons learned can be applied to other great problems facing humanity. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/402 IS - December 2010 U1 - Mifos Initiative Adam Feuer is Director of Engineering at Grameen Foundation's Mifos Initiative. He founded the network scalability solution provider F5 Networks, the internet service provider IXA (now part of Savvis Networks), and helped launch Amazon's grocery delivery business Amazon Fresh. He specializes in mission-critical business applications built using open source software and Agile methodologies. His passion is creating great teams to solve difficult problems. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Migrating an Existing Business to a New Approach to Revenue Generation JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2010 A1 - Howard Rosenblum AB - Traditional development and commercialization models take too long, cost too much, and expose founders to excessive risk. A new approach for small technology companies to generate revenue has been proposed by Bailetti. In the new approach, the top management team of a small technology company uses a a platform to co-create value by collaborating with all the stakeholders of its development and commercialization decisions and builds trust on its work practices and market offers. The purpose of this article is to provide the lessons learned from working with a top management team of a profitable business that uses a traditional approach to development and commercialization and wishes to migrate to the new approach. The article will be useful to managers and owners of existing small companies and vendor-neutral, non-profit organizations that wish to grow their businesses. The article is organized as follows. First, a hypothetical situation of a musical band illustrates the options available to a company that wishes to increase its revenue. This example is based on our work with a local technology. Next, we describe the lessons we learned while preparing the plan to migrate the existing company to the new approach to generate revenue. The hypothetical situation is used to illustrate the lessons learned. Finally, conclusions are provided. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/381 IS - September 2010 U1 - Carleton University Howard Rosenblum is a graduate student in the Technology Innovation Management program at Carleton University in Ottawa. He has over 15 years of experience in the medical, military, and telecom industries. Howard is a System/Business Analyst who has utilized software engineering principles across the spectrum from architecture and requirements through to deployment. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mapping Mashup Ecosystems JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Michael Weiss AB - Mashups enable, users to "mix and match" data and user interface elements from different online information sources to create new applications. The creation of mashups is supported by a complex ecosystem of interconnected data providers, mashup platforms, and users. In our recent research, we examined the structure of the mashup ecosystem and its growth over time. The main contribution of our research is a method for the analysis of mashup ecosystems. Its novelty lies in the development of techniques for mapping the mashup ecosystem, and the use of network analysis to obtain key characteristics of the ecosystem and identify significant ecosystem members and their relationships. In this paper, we summarize the key steps of our analysis method, describe the members of the mashup ecosystem, and discuss the managerial implications of our analysis. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/242 IS - April 2009 U1 - Carleton University Michael Weiss holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, and is a member of the Technology Innovation Management program. His research interests include open source ecosystems, mashups/Web 2.0, business process modeling, social network analysis, and product architecture and design. Michael has published on the evolution of open source communities, licensing of open services and the innovation in the mashup ecosystem. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Measuring Modularity in Open Source Code Bases JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Steven Muegge A1 - Roberto Milev AB - Modularity of an open source software code base has been associated with growth of the software development community, the incentives for voluntary code contribution, and a reduction in the number of users who take code without contributing back to the community. As a theoretical construct, modularity links OSS to other domains of research, including organization theory, the economics of industry structure, and new product development. However, measuring the modularity of an OSS design has proven difficult, especially for large and complex systems. In this article, we describe some preliminary results of recent research at Carleton University that examines the evolving modularity of large-scale software systems. We describe a measurement method and a new modularity metric for comparing code bases of different size, introduce an open source toolkit that implements this method and metric, and provide an analysis of the evolution of the Apache Tomcat application server as an illustrative example of the insights gained from this approach. Although these results are preliminary, they open the door to further cross-discipline research that quantitatively links the concerns of business managers, entrepreneurs, policy-makers, and open source software developers. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/245 IS - April 2009 U1 - Carleton University Steven Muegge is a faculty member of the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Professor Muegge teaches within the Technology Innovation Management program. His current research interests include open source software, open innovation, and open source ecosystems. U2 - Carleton University Roberto Milev completed an M.Eng. degree in Technology Innovation Management in 2008. As part of his research into open source software, he derived the relative clustered cost metric and developed the jDSM open source toolset for computing DSMs and modularity metrics. He is currently working as a manager for a software development company. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The Micro- and Macro-levels of Co-creation: How Transformations Change People's Preferences JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Tore Kristensen AB - Radical technologies can lead to extreme transformations of their users and even societies. Innovation researchers, archeologists, economic- and technological historians, and other scholars have studied past radical innovations to rationalize how these innovations emerged. This knowledge is indispensible for business and governmental decision makers. However, most research studies lack the human dimensions, such as "what did these innovative people think?" and "what were their personal motivations?". In many instances, we don't even know who the inventors were. In this article, we argue that a better understanding of personal transformations may lead to an increase of co-creation effectiveness and efficiency. First, this article will explore the nature of the personal transformations taking place among ordinary people as consumers and users of cultural institutions. Such institutions have been created to enable people to learn and grow individually and to create a sense of community and cohesion. Second, we discuss the co-creation aspects of personal transformation processes. This will be seen in two contexts: that of the individual who is transformed, and in terms of the different value contributions to a community of users. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/303 IS - November 2009 U1 - Copenhagen Business School Tore Kristensen is a Professor in strategic design at the Department of Marketing, Copenhagen Business School. His main area of research includes strategic design, creative marketing, and physical space and architecture. Tore has a Bsc, Ms and PhD from the Copenhagen Business School. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - A Model for Sustainable Student Involvement in Community Open Source JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Chris Tyler AB - A healthy community is the lifeblood of any open source project. Many open source contributors first get involved while they are students, but this is almost always on their own time. At Seneca College we have developed an approach to sustainably involving students in open source communities that has proven successful in a course setting. This paper outlines Seneca's approach and discusses the results that have been obtained with it. We will examine the key factors for successful student integration into open source communities and steps that educational institutions and open source projects can each take to improve student involvement. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/272 IS - July 2009 U1 - Seneca College Chris Tyler is a programmer and Linux network administrator with a focus on the X Window System and LAMP. He has programmed in two dozen different languages over the past 20 years, and now teaches at Seneca College, Toronto. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Motivating Stakeholders for Co-created Innovation JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2009 A1 - Alex Pedrosa AB - Today's profit orientation forces companies to focus on their core competencies and, at the same time, provide customers with multiple new offerings. To meet these two requirements, companies need to develop innovations in collaboration with different stakeholders including suppliers, customers, and users. While Managers and researchers discuss the benefits coming from the process of co-creating innovations with the various stakeholders, little is known about what motivates different stakeholders to engage in the co-creation of innovations. The purpose of this article is to highlight the first results of a qualitative study that focuses on the different types of value stakeholders can expect from co-creating innovations. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/311 IS - December 2009 U1 - University of Southern Denmark Alex da Mota Pedrosa is Assistant Professor at the Mads Clausen Institute at the University of Southern Denmark. He is also a member of the Integrative Innovation Management Unit. He holds a Doctorate from European Business School (Germany). Alex received a degree in Business Informatice (Dipl. Wirt.-Inf.) with a major in operations research at the University of Paderborn (Germany). ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Making Open Source Ready for the Enterprise: The Open Source Maturity Model JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Bernard Golden AB - One of the questions always asked about open source is whether it's ready for the enterprise. But framing the question in that fashion blurs the issue. With over 100,000 open source products available for download at the click of a mouse, there is no blanket answer comprehensive enough to describe the entire universe of open source products. The real question facing an enterprise is whether, based upon its unique requirements, a specific open source product will satisfy its needs. Far from being a vaguely existential question, this question is extremely pragmatic, completely localized, and, as we shall see, wholly capable of being answered. This article, extracted from chapter four of "Succeeding with Open Source" presents the Open Source Maturity Model (OSMM). The OSMM is designed to enable organizations to evaluate open source products and understand whether a product can fulfill the organization's requirements. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/145 IS - May 2008 U1 - Navica Bernard Golden is CEO of Navica, a Silicon Valley system integrator specializing in open source solutions. He previously served as a venture partner for an international venture fund and has been vice president and general manager in a number of private and public software companies, including Informix, Uniplex Software, and Deploy Solutions. He is a frequent speaker on information technology topics. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Method for Qualification and Selection of Open Source Software JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Raphaël Semeteys AB - For a company, the choice to opt for software as a component of its information system, whether this software is open source or commercial, rests on the analysis of needs and constraints and on the adequacy of the software to address these needs and constraints. However, when one plans to study the adequacy of open source software (OSS), it is necessary to have a method of qualification and selection adapted to the characteristics of this type of software and to precisely examine the constraints and risks specific to OSS. Since the open source field has a very broad scope, it is also necessary to use a qualification method that differentiates between numerous candidates to meet technical, functional and strategic requirements. This document describes the QSOS (Qualification and Selection of software Open Source) method, conceived by the technology services company Atos Origin SA to qualify, select and compare OSS in an objective, traceable and argued way. The method can be integrated within a more general process of technological watch which is not presented here. It describes a process to set up identity cards and evaluation sheets for OSS. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/146 IS - May 2008 U1 - Atos Origin Raphaël Semeteys is in charge of consulting activities for Atos Origin?s French Open Source Skill Center. He produces and manages feasibility studies and technological watch reports on open source and free software. He created the QSOS method and is leader of the associated free project of community technological watch which documents, equips and organizes the collaborative evaluation work. ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Mirth: Standards-Based Open Source Healthcare Interface Engine JF - Open Source Business Resource Y1 - 2008 A1 - Jacob Brauer AB - The Mirth Project is an open source healthcare interface engine and interface repository created and professionally supported by WebReach. Mirth provides standards-based tools to develop, test, and deploy interoperability solutions for healthcare information systems and information exchanges. This article provides an overview of healthcare interface engines. It discusses Mirth and the healthcare and connectivity standards it supports. Lastly, the article compares Mirth to other interface engines. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa UR - http://timreview.ca/article/205 IS - November 2008 U1 - WebReach Jacob Brauer graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine in 2006 with a degree in Computer Science. He has been working for WebReach for 2.5 years, during which time he has been one of the lead engineers on the Mirth Project. Jacob has also contributed to other open source healthcare projects and initiatives, such as OpenMRS, an open source electronic medical record system framework designed for the developing world. He has partaken in many open source and healthcare conferences, including the Southern California Linux Expo Open Source Health Care Summit, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Health Informatics Southern Africa, Open Source Health Care Alliance, and the HL7 Working Group Meeting. ER -