The New Innovation Process of a Firm Undergoing Digital Transformation in Industries
ask what are the next steps in their journey .” The executives could see common barriers across the firm with visible progress on key initiatives , on agile values . 17
This agile leadership team consisting of top executives can also be found in Johnson and Johnson . The team embraces agile principles , having the CEO as an “ initiative owner ” of building an agile firm . The challenge for Executives on the team was playing multiple roles including building and running the agile enterprise operating system , overseeing business units and functions , serving serve as mentors and decision makers and handling the crises of the moment . 18
All of this means that conflicts between the BDXI process and elements of other management systems need to be continuously reported , and the BDXI process needs to be settled as the conflicts are eliminated through sensitive responses from top management with agility . Therefore , the promotion of the BDXI process as a new innovation process should be done together with the establishment of a reporting mechanism by the top management for the conflict and the establishment of an agile response mechanism by the top management .
Due to increasingly fast technical changes enabling DX , the EUs undergoing DX face the challenge of fast innovation in which “ test fast , learn fast , scale fast ” matters . 19 IIC has been maintaining activities and programs that help the DX firm ' s innovation process : “ Identify opportunities , create concepts , validate concepts , develop solutions , deploy solutions .” ( These are part of innovation processes in ISO 56000 [ ISO standard for innovation management ]).
For examples , IIC ’ s activities clarifying DX enabling technology and hot new technologies (“ identify opportunities ”), use case program for collecting and sharing cases (“ create concepts ”), test bed program (“ validate concepts , develop solutions ”), test drive program (“ deploy solutions ”), IIoT challenges (“ create concepts , validate concepts , develop solutions and deploy solutions ”). These activities and programs are ones supporting innovation processes of firms which are implemented through collaborative efforts among firms and other organizations .
In order to support effective innovation process of firms , it is recommended that :
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Rigby , D ., et al . ( 2020 ). The Agile C-Suite : A new approach to leadership for the team at the top . Harvard Business Review 98 ( 3 ): 64-73 .
19 Kane , G . C .; Philips , A .; Copulsky , J .; Andrus , G . ( 2019 ) The Technology Fallacy . The MIT Press : Cambridge , Massachusetts .
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