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IT, Innovation, & Social Impact CIS 9002 Kannan Mohan Department of CIS Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College

IT, Innovation, & Social Impact

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IT, Innovation, & Social Impact. CIS 9002 Kannan Mohan Department of CIS Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. Learning Objectives. How are innovation and IT related to one another? How can one drive the other? How can IT & innovation be used to positively affect societal impact?. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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IT, Innovation, & Social ImpactCIS 9002

Kannan Mohan

Department of CIS

Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College

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Learning Objectives• How are innovation and IT related to one another?

• How can one drive the other?

• How can IT & innovation be used to positively affect societal impact?

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Innovations: Incremental vs. Radical

• Incremental• Minor changes to existing products

• Exploits potential of established design

• Reinforces dominance of established firms

• Radical• Based on different set of scientific and engineering

principles

• Opens whole new markets and potential applications

• Problematic for established firms

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Innovations

Core concepts

LinkagesIncremental Modular

Architectural

Discontinuous

Reinforced OverturnedU

nch

ange

dC

hanged

(Henderson and Clark, 1990)

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Revolutionary levels

Evolutionary levels

IT-enabled Business Transformation

Range of potential benefits

Degre

e o

f b

usi

ness

tr

ansf

orm

ati

on

Localized exploitation

Internal integration

Business process redesign

Business network redesign

Business scope redefinition

(Venkatraman, 1994)

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Sustaining vs. Disruptive Innovations

• Maintaining a rate of improvement

• More and more on attributes that customers already value

• Different package of attributes

• Worse performance along some dimension that is of value to customer

(Bower and Christensen, 1995)

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Sustaining vs. Disruptive Innovations

Time

Perf

orm

ance

Disru

ptiv

e

Mainstream

(Bower and Christensen, 1995)

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Open Innovation• Crowdsourcing

• IT as a platform for open innovation

• Challenges?

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Links between IT & Innovation• Control & Order vs. Chaos

• Capabilities• Portfolio/program/project management

• Collaboration

• Knowledge Management

• Business-IT linkage

• Ambidexterity

• Competitive Intelligence

• Tools

• Control

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IT and the BoP (Bottom of the Pyramid)