project: the management of innovation in young high-tech (software) companies

small grant from the Danish research council

participation in four countries: England, Holland, Denmark, Sweden

participating companies silicon fen: Amino Communications, ARKcls Ltd, ArtVPS Ltd, Digital Locksmiths Ltd, Linguamatics Ltd, MagicSolver, McMillan Technology, Metail Ltd, NationSoft, OpenDCU, PARIS Transport Management Solutions, Plextek Ltd, Product Technology Partners Ltd, Speedwell, Synthetix Ltd, TriSys Business Software

website: http://softwareinnovationresearch.org

linkedin group: software innovation research

software innovation

eight work-style heuristics for creative system developers

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SI: relevant scientific disciplines

80-100 articles

institute’s research

economicscognitivescience

sociologymanagement

science

innovation

others

computerscience

informationsystems

softwareengineering

softwareinnovation

content overview

ESSENCE

infrastructure and trajectory

• market and technology trajectories

• hardware and software convergence

• market (user demand)

• infrastructure development

• innovation windows

work-style heuristic

keep your head up

innovation networks/community• innovation networks: theory

• the social character of knowledge

• extending knowledge boundaries

• absorptive capacity

• open source community

• private collective model

work-style heuristic

grow your knowledge community

the innovative software product• invention v. innovation

• novelty and utility

• consequence = social change

• incremental v. radical

• technical system hierarchies/levels of innovation

• utility forms

• computing infrastructural

• technology enabling

• user service

• business change enabling

• interaction/communication

• entertainment

• innovation profile

innovation profile:•novelty

•utility

•user community

•social change

•market

•technical innovation

•infrastructure dependence

work-style heuristic

target your product’s innovation profile

the innovative software process• linear and iterative innovation models

• linear: the light bulb model

• agility: necessary, not sufficient

• market-led and technology-led software innovation

• improvisation, bricolage

• six innovation process strategies• creative requirements analysis

• designed process framework

• low tech prototyping

• user-driven innovation

• community development

• research prototype

work-style heuristic

shape your own process

the creative software developer

• the developer’s mental process: recognising and exploiting discovery points

• a set of personal development competences concerned with both solving problems and recognising opportunities

• a style of thinking associated with different strengths in individual’s development personalities

• meta-thinking: recognising predispositions and tendencies in one’s own (and others’ ) thinking and coming beyond them

• whole-brain thinking: beyond rationality

• a relationship between the individual developer and communities of people and ideas (domain, field)

• a state of mind: the way the developer’s mind is disposed when being creative (flow)

• a universal mental skill to be enhanced

work-style heuristic

develop your personal creativity

the innovative software team• negative

• creativity barriers

• negative: group dysfunction

• positive

• innovation team roles

• positive: innovation team interaction

• positive: team learning

• positive: innovative social patterns

• positive: accommodation of divergent thinking

• positive: expertise integration

• positive: overview, vision, common purpose, shared learning

• positive: environmental scanning

work-style heuristic

be a super-team-worker

tools and techniques for innovative development

• creativity techniques

• brainstorming

• backward mapping

• SCAMPER

• six serving men

• six thinking hats

• vision box

• elevator pitch

• tools for:

• support for escaping routine work

• sandbox tools

• knowledge tools

• collaboration tools

• visualization and overview support

• creativity technique support

• repertoire

• situational choice

work-style heuristic

bring your toolbox

evaluating software innovation

work-style heuristic

know when you are (not) innovative

overview

work-style heuristics

keep your head upgrow your knowledge community

target your product’s innovation profileshape your own process

develop your personal creativitybe a super-team-worker

bring your toolboxknow when you are (not) innovative