The New Innovation Process of a Firm Undergoing Digital Transformation in Industries
BDXI process is a new innovation process , adopting a new approach to innovation , of firms undergoing DX in industries .
Figure 1 7 shows where BDXI process can be positioned in a case of a smart connected product producer , as an EU . DevOps integrates IT , research and development and operations . For the firm , the product development process should go beyond DevOps for IT development and integrate IT and OT . DevOps needs to be more tightly integrated with business than before because smart products tend to be linked with a new business model . So far , BizDevOps has been an approach to software development that encourages developers , operations staff and business teams to work together so that the organization can develop software more quickly , be more responsive to user demand and ultimately maximize revenue .
Table : Approaches and Application Area : DevOps , BizDevOps , BDXI
DevOps BizDevOps BDXI
Approaches |
An approach to development that encourages developers , operations staff teams to work together . |
An approach to development that encourages developers , operations staff and business teams to work together . |
A new approach of innovation of firms undergoing DX in industries , integrating not only business , development and operation but also IT and OT , for fast and customer centric innovation through application of best innovation approaches / practices including design thinking , lean startup , agile methods and BizDevOps . |
Application Area Software Software Software and hardware
This approach can be applied to the IIoT operator firm undergoing DX . Development work should be carried out by close cooperation between a collocated team of developers , operations staff and business teams . However , EUs find that insights from existing BizDevOps are insufficient to integrate IT and OT . BizDevOps should include participation of hardware engineers , hardware developers , hardware operation staff and hardware business teams too . We think it ’ s necessary to make BDXI as a kind of BizDevOps extended to apply to innovation activities of integrating IT and OT .
7 Porter , M . E . and Heppelmann , J . E . ( 2015 ) How smart , connected products are transforming companies . Harvard Business Review , 93 ( 10 ): 96-114 .
6 November 2021