IT innovation for adaptability and competitiveness: IFIP TC8/WG8.6 seventh Working Conference on IT Innovation for Adaptability and Competitiveness, May 30-June 2, 2004, Leixlip, Ireland

Fitzgerald B., Wynn E. (eds.)140208000X, 1402079990

IT Innovation for Adaptability and Competitiveness addresses the topic of IT innovations that can further an organization’s ability to adapt and be competitive. Thus we address the problem at an earlier starting point, that is, the emergence of something innovative in an organization, applied to that organization, and its process of being diffused and accepted internally.Topics covered in the book include:-The role of IT in organizational innovation,-Innovating systems development & process,-Assessing innovation drivers,-Innovation adoption,-New environments, new innovation practices.This volume contains the edited proceedings of the Seventh Working Conference on IT Innovation for Adaptability and Competitiveness, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.6 and held at Intel Corporation, Leixlip, Ireland in May-June 2004.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Contents……Page 6
Conference Chairs……Page 10
Program Committee……Page 12
Sponsors……Page 16
Contributing Authors……Page 18
Message from the Organizing Chair……Page 22
Preface……Page 26
Acknowledgements……Page 42
Part I: The Role of IT in Organizational Innovation……Page 44
Evolving Self-Organizing Activities……Page 46
Enriching Views of Information Systems within Organizations: A Field Theory……Page 64
IT Innovation through a Work Systems Lens……Page 86
Success and Failure Revisited in the Implementation of New Technology: Some Reflections on the Capella Project……Page 108
IT Systems to Support Innovation……Page 122
Part II: Innovating Systems Development and Process……Page 134
Assessing Improvements of Software Metrics Practices……Page 136
Standardizing Software Processes–An Obstacle for Innovation?……Page 160
Organisational Dynamics in the Software Process Improvement: The Agility Challenge……Page 178
Mapping the Information System Development Process……Page 200
Taking Steps to Improve Working Practice: A Company Experience of Method Transfer……Page 216
Part III: Assessing Innovation Drivers……Page 222
Evaluating Innovative Prototypes……Page 224
Applying IT Innovation……Page 246
IT Business Value Index……Page 252
Using IT Concept Cars to Accelerate Innovation……Page 262
Software Patents: Innovation or Litigation?……Page 272
Part IV: Innovation Adoption……Page 286
Temporal Disclosedness of Innovations……Page 288
How Is an IT Innovation Assimilated……Page 310
Groupware Integration in Virtual Learning Teams……Page 332
IOS Adoption in Denmark……Page 356
Lifting the Barriers to Innovation……Page 378
Diffusion of Application Service Provision among SMEs……Page 396
Part V: New Environments, New Innovation Practices……Page 416
Digital Gaming: Organizing for Sustainable Innovation……Page 418
Introducing Mobility: The mPolice Project……Page 426
Supporting the Re-emergence of Human Agency in the Workplace……Page 448
Learning Management Systems: A New Opportunity……Page 462
Web-Based Information Systems-Innovation Or Re-Spun Emperor’s Clothing?……Page 484
Part VI: Panels……Page 502
ICT Innovation: From Control to Risk and Responsibility……Page 504
The Darker Side of Innovation……Page 508
IT as a Platform for Competitive Agility……Page 510
Innovation in Industry and Academia……Page 512