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Ideas for Innovation [I4I] project completed!

In the last 3 months I have been a part of a great global research project, Leveraging Ideas for Organizational Innovation (short: I4I), which has been led by Dr Kevin C Desouza. The project has now reached completion, as goals of the project have been reached: six (6) technical reports (over 160 pages of content) have been delivered to project sponsors:

• Baloh, P., Jha, S., Desouza, K.C., Kim, J.Y., Awazu, Y., Dombrowski, C. “Building Partnerships for Innovation,” Technical Report, # I4I-I3M-InnovBusPart-1, Institute for Innovation in Information Management, The Information School, University of Washington, October, 2006, 35 pages.
• Desouza, K.C., and Dombrowski, C. “Six Case Studies on Organizational Innovation,” Technical Report, # I4I-I3M-InnovCases-1, Institute for Innovation in Information Management, The Information School, University of Washington, October, 2006, 30 pages.
• Dombrowski, C., Kim, J.Y., Desouza, K.C., Braganza, A., Papagari, S., Baloh, P., and Jha, S. “Elements of Innovative Cultures,” Technical Report, # I4I-I3M-InnovCult-1, Institute for Innovation in Information Management, The Information School, University of Washington, October, 2006, 20 pages.
• Desouza, K.C., Dombrowski, C., Awazu, Y., Baloh, P., Papagari, S., Kim, J.Y., and Jha, S. “Crafting Organizational Innovation Processes,” Technical Report, #I4I-I3M-InnovProc-1, Institute for Innovation in Information Management, The Information School, University of Washington, August, 2006, 35 pages.
• Desouza, K.C., Awazu, Y., Jha, S., Dombrowski, C., Papagari, S., Baloh, P., and Kim, J.Y. “Customer-Driven Innovation,” Technical Report, #I4I-I3M-CustInnov-1, Institute for Innovation in Information Management, The Information School, University of Washington, August, 2006, 28 pages.
• Awazu, Y., Baloh, P., Desouza, K.C., Wecht, C.H., Kim, J.Y., and Jha, S. “Opening up Innovation through Information-Communication Technologies,” Technical Report, #I4I-I3M-InnovICT-1, Institute for Innovation in Information Management, The Information School, University of Washington, July, 2006, 16 pages.

However, the work in the highly challenging area of Innovation management continues. So far, over 50 executives in over 30 US and European companies have been examined in exploratory manner to uncover the dynamics of their innovative processes. Particularly we were interested in how mature innovative organizations (1) engage external sources (e.g. customers, business partners, academia, and even competitors) in the innovation process, (2) what are the characteristics of organizational culture in regards to innovation, and (3) examining the role and potential of contemporary information technologies in the open innovation process. The critical step of the double loop learning-’reflection to the learning’ is still to be completed: (1)  participating organizations will be provided with actionable insights to better manage their innovation agendas, and (2) critical reviews of our papers by A+ academic community are currently being incorporated into our works, which will hopefully soon be published in journals. The next effort (forthcoming project) will look at linking innovation to business value and also communicating the value of business innovation.