Organizing for innovation - Innovation climate - Innovation through collaboration
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What is the difference between mechanistic and organic organization forms?
Organic --> Flexible and less narrowly defined
When do you get the most gains from heterogeneity?
Name 3 Network structures and their organizational performance
Dense network structures --> resource sharing positive for ideation
Strength of weak ties --> good for creativity and radical innovations
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What are trends in more open, collaborative and interactive innovation practices?
Collaboration improves efficiency and effectiveness
Internal innovation becomes more like open innovation
Importance relationships and social capital increases
What influences individual creativity?
Creative skills (cognitive style, self-discipline, risk-taking, acceptance of ambiguity, lack of concern for social approval)
Motivation
How do collaboration and competition influence ideation? What is coopetition?
• Mixing different sets of knowledge
• Beneficial to ideation
• Negative for idea quantity
Competition:
• Induces high idea quantity
• Increase quality
• Enhances but also reduces motivation and performance
Coopetition:
• Nurtures motivation (among high perf.)
• Induces high number of ideas
• Induces high idea quality
• Drives ideation efficiency
What are stimulants and obstacles in a creative climate?
– Organizational encouragement
– Supervisory encouragement
– Work group supports
– Sufficient resources
– Challenging work
– Freedom
• Obstacles
– Organizational impediments
– Workload pressure
What are drawbacks and advantages of collaborating?
– Availability of capabilities
– Protecting proprietary technologies
– Controlling technology development and use
– Building and renewing capabilities
Advantages
– Obtain necessary skills quickly
– Reduce asset commitment and increase flexibility
– Learning from others
– Share costs and risks
– Creating a shared standard
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