‘Forewarned is Forearmed’: Overcoming Multifaceted Challenges of Digital Innovation Units
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26th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2020: Strategic and competitive uses of IT. ed. / Association for Information Systems (AIS) . Atlanta: AIS eLibrary, 2020. (Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS); Vol. 2020).
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T1 - ‘Forewarned is Forearmed’: Overcoming Multifaceted Challenges of Digital Innovation Units
AU - Raabe, Jun-Patrick
AU - Horlach, Bettina
AU - Schirmer, Ingrid
AU - Drews, Paul
N1 - Conference code: 26
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Due to rapidly changing customer needs, enterprises seek to innovate continuously. Incumbent firms need to improve their capabilities to develop, evaluate, and implement digital innovations. Recently, many enterprises established digital innovation units (DIUs) for accelerating their digital innovation endeavors. Although numerous units exist in practice, the number of negative press headlines that address failure or dissolution of DIUs is increasing. Based on a literature review and a qualitative cross-industry study with eleven enterprises, we discuss the relation of DIUs to organizational concepts like ambidexterity, bimodal, and trimodal IT. Furthermore, we substantiated seven multifaceted challenges of DIUs, which span across stages of innovation development, organizational units, and hierarchical levels. Based on these findings, we developed three recommendations for responses to these challenges: (1) DIU-Business-IT collaboration across stages, (2) network of executive responsibilities, and (3) general digital awareness of the organization as a whole.
AB - Due to rapidly changing customer needs, enterprises seek to innovate continuously. Incumbent firms need to improve their capabilities to develop, evaluate, and implement digital innovations. Recently, many enterprises established digital innovation units (DIUs) for accelerating their digital innovation endeavors. Although numerous units exist in practice, the number of negative press headlines that address failure or dissolution of DIUs is increasing. Based on a literature review and a qualitative cross-industry study with eleven enterprises, we discuss the relation of DIUs to organizational concepts like ambidexterity, bimodal, and trimodal IT. Furthermore, we substantiated seven multifaceted challenges of DIUs, which span across stages of innovation development, organizational units, and hierarchical levels. Based on these findings, we developed three recommendations for responses to these challenges: (1) DIU-Business-IT collaboration across stages, (2) network of executive responsibilities, and (3) general digital awareness of the organization as a whole.
KW - Business informatics
KW - Digital Innovation Units
KW - Digital Innovation Labs
KW - Challenges
KW - Failure
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M3 - Article in conference proceedings
T3 - Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
BT - 26th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2020
A2 - , Association for Information Systems (AIS)
PB - AIS eLibrary
CY - Atlanta
T2 - Americas Conference on Information Systems - AMCIS 2020
Y2 - 10 August 2020 through 14 August 2020
ER -