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- Kihlander, Ingrid, 1976-
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Innovation Management Professionals in Healthcare: Knowledge and Legitimacy
- 2020
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Ingår i: The ISPIM Innovation Conference – Innovating in Times of Crisis,7-10 June 2020.. - on-line. - 9789523354661
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study provides insights into innovation management practice at a hospital and explores how having a personal certification as an innovation management professional can play a role. The study was conducted at a large university hospital in Sweden and interviews were made with certified innovation management professionals working at the hospitals’ Center for Innovation. Identified main drivers for entering the certification process were different aspects related to legitimacy but also related to enhance the knowledge from different aspects. At present, the urge for legitimization of innovation management appears even stronger in the healthcare context than identified in earlier studies. Since innovation management is an emerging area, a personal certification is not only legitimizing the individual, but also the area in itself. Identified effects from the personal certifications was a raised legitimacy but also an enhanced clarity of contribution of innovation management compared to e.g. research and improvement work.
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- Kihlander, Ingrid, 1976-, et al.
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Critical features in introducing standard-based innovation management systems
- 2023
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Ingår i: 24th CINet Conference.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- ISO56002 ‒ a global standard for innovation management systems was published 2019 and empirical validation of using the standard is so far limited. This study investigates design and introduction of innovation management systems based on ISO56002 and explores the impact this brings to the studied organizations. Two organizations, a UK-based consultancy firm in engineering, and a Japan-based information and technology company, both explicitly utilizing ISO 56002 and considered as leading examples were studied. A qualitative approach was chosen, mainly based on interviews in order to open for elaborations on the emerging phenomenon of innovation management systems based on a standard. The study shows that the ISO56002 brought value to both organizations, despite them being in different sectors. The standard does not provide detail solutions, instead it is used as support to actively apply a systems approach to innovation covering strategic, structural, and cultural issues all together. Specifically, management functions are supported to address strategy and culture, including design structures for fencing space for exploration, risk-taking and experimentation. Critical features to enable this, such as appointing a core team with a long-term ambition, are identified and discussed.
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- Kihlander, Ingrid, 1976-, et al.
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Early perceptions of a standardised innovationmanagement system
- 2023
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Ingår i: ISPIM Connects Salzburg – The Sound of Innovation, Salzburg, 2023. - 9789526506944
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract: Early evidence supports standardised innovation managementsystem(s) (SIMS) as an approach to achieve improved value for organisations.Mott MacDonald, a large multinational engineering, management anddevelopment consultancy is strengthening its innovation and social outcomes byimplementing a SIMS based upon ISO 56002:2019. This case study was basedon their UK operations, and explores early stage implementation phenomena.Data gathering included interviews and a small-sample questionnaire (purposivesampling). We identified how respondents perceived factors such as: ownershipof the innovation work (at individual, unit, and group level); understanding thesystem and value gained from a systematic approach, benefits of a commoninnovation framework; and development in terms of enhanced abilities to “talkabout” innovation, competency growth, and engagement in innovation activities.The findings provide insights for other organisations to further understand theeffects of SIMS and opportunities for enhanced implementation and uptake.
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- Kihlander, Ingrid, 1976-, et al.
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Facilitating blue innovation – promoting systematic innovation management in small seafood firms
- 2024
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Ingår i: ISPIM Innovation Conference. - 9789526506968
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Innovation in the food sector is needed. This study addresses how to support learning around systematic innovation management in smaller firms within seafood, part of the highly regulated food sector. A collaborative change project, with four SMEs, a science park, and a research institute, aiming at enhanced innovation capabilities within the SMEs, was studied. The project included direct interventions in terms of training, dialogues, and coaching related to systematic innovation management ‒ in order to facilitate blue innovation. Empirical data was gathered in interviews and reflective field observations. Crucial factors to consider were to enhance the understanding of the systemic nature of innovation management and utilize visualizations as well as an innovation vocabulary, preferably related to ISO 56000 and ISO 56002. Further, it is also important to include diverse learning activities, while also ensuring a closeness to the firm’s current situation, and to focus on the progress that occurred.
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- Kihlander, Ingrid, 1976-, et al.
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Facilitating blue innovation – promoting systematic innovation management in small seafood firms
- 2024
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Ingår i: ISPIM Innovation Conference, Tallinn, 2024.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Innovation in the food sector is needed. This study addresses how to support learning around systematic innovation management in smaller firms within seafood, part of the highly regulated food sector. A collaborative change project, with four SMEs, a science park, and a research institute, aiming at enhanced innovation capabilities within the SMEs, was studied. The project included direct interventions in terms of training, dialogues, and coaching related to systematic innovation management ‒ in order to facilitate blue innovation. Empirical data was gathered in interviews and reflective field observations. Crucial factors to consider were to enhance the understanding of the systemic nature of innovation management and utilize visualizations as well as an innovation vocabulary, preferably related to ISO 56000 and ISO 56002. Further, it is also important to include diverse learning activities, while also ensuring a closeness to the firm’s current situation, and to focus on the progress that occurred.
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- Kihlander, Ingrid, 1976-, et al.
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Role of Certification in Establishment of an Innovation Management Profession
- 2021
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A professionalization within the area of innovation management is taking place, and this paper presents a study on the phenomenon of personal certification as an innovation management professional. The study has investigated motivations for taking a personal certification as an innovation management professional, and impacts from it, addressing certified individuals, their organizations, and potential contributions to professionalization. The study was conducted in Sweden related to the personal certification of innovation management professionals launched in 2017 by the Swedish Association for Innovation Management Professionals (Innovationsledarna) and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden as a third-party certification body. Identified motivational factors covered desired knowledge enhancement, measuring of competence level, a strive for legitimacy, and curiosity. Impact from taking the certifications were for example increased knowledge, enhanced professional communication about innovation management, boosted self[1]confidence, expanded network, and more opportunities to influence. The current situation was also analyzed from a professionalization perspective as well as discussed in terms of innovation maturity and innovation diffusion.
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- Kihlander, Ingrid, 1976-, et al.
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Systematic implementation of an innovation strategy using ISO 56002
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- An innovation strategy aims to provide guidance in terms of direction and prioritisation regarding innovation efforts. This study explores formulation and implementation of innovation strategy in the context of a case study of an organisation that explicitly deploys the guidance standard for innovation management systems ISO56002. Interviews were conducted and were analysed together with an abundance of company documentation, spanning seven years. The empirical results convey how intertwined the work on innovation strategy was with the formulation and implementation of the company’s innovation management system (based on ISO56002). The study addressed the call for more research on strategy implementation and showed the innovation strategy (part of the ISO 56002 Leadership element) influencing the other system elements within the innovation management system. Further, it is important to use a system of systems approach to integrate an Innovation Management System with other management systems. This may be achieved through ambidextrous leadership competences given that the management systems have with different purposes, properties and actions. Finally, as an innovation management system develops, it is important to adapt rather than over-optimise in order to for retain flexibility required to innovate.
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- Lerche, Kristoffer, et al.
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Innovation Management System Legitimacy Emergence – A Process Perspective
- 2024
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines an organization’s adoption of a standard based innovation management system (IMS) to systematize and lead its innovation efforts. The organization, a large public hospital, characterized as an early implementor of the standard based IMS approach to innovation management, was analyzed during a fouryear time span via a longitudinal study. The paper utilizes components of neo institutional theory as a lens to explain the empirical findings, adopting a legitimacy-as-a-process perspective to trace how the IMS system became a legitimate approach to innovation management, through institutional work. By analyzing the organization from its initial planning to its implementation of the system, the paper presents an order of legitimizing an innovation management system.
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- Lerche, Kristoffer, et al.
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Leveraging Legitimacy for Innovation Management Through an Innovation Management System – A Longitudinal Perspective
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines an organization’s adoption of an ISO innovation managementstandard to systematize and lead its innovation efforts. We focus on how the ISO standard has acted as a legitimating factor for innovation activities in the organization.Theoretically, we clarify how legitimacy can be understood, and used to explain innovation management activities. Managerial implications include a suggestion to utilizethe ISO name and its approaches to innovation management.
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- Selvefors, Anneli, et al.
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Design for sustainable consumption behaviour : Systematising the use of behavioural intervention strategies
- 2011
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Ingår i: DPPI'11 - Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, Proceedings. - New York, NY, USA : ACM. - 9781450312806 ; , s. 19-26
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- It has been well debated if user centred design, UCD, can actually lead to innovation. This paper discusses the case of sustainable innovation, specifically addressing the development of solutions to influence users' resource consumption behaviour. The approach presented, suggests how knowledge on user actions and habits in a resource consumption situation can be used in the product development process in combination with systematised behavioural intervention strategies to facilitate the creation of innovative solutions aiming to motivate resource efficient everyday actions. The Design for Sustainable Consumption Behaviour-approach, defined through a combination of UCD-methodology, studies of user consumption behaviour and categorised behavioural intervention strategies, explores how systematised knowledge within the domains can be applicable in an industry context to stimulate innovative solutions supporting actions for a decreased consumption of resources. The DSCB-approach can be regarded as an exploratory tool, which has the potential to help companies to integrate a behavioural perspective within their existing product development processes by providing guidance and an overview of available intervention strategies. To illustrate the use of the approach and conduct a first evaluation of the applicability, this paper reports on an explanatory case study carried out at IKEA of Sweden. The innovative results and outcomes of the case study suggest that the approach has potential to bring forth sustainable innovations. However, the presented approach should be developed further and tested through additional research before further conclusions can be drawn.
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