The Visual Collaboration Lab is proud to announce that two papers were presented at HICSS 2021 ! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both of them are part of the collaboration in digital innovation research programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abstract: The continuing emergence of new digital technologies, platforms and infrastructure has opened unprecedented possibilities for innovation. Eager to seize these opportunities, many organizations adopt idea management programs to help leverage their employees\u2019 ideas for digital innovations. However, we lack an integrated understanding of how the logics of digital innovation affect the practice of idea management. We therefore pose the following research question: \u201cHow can idea management programs be conceptualized in light of digital innovation?\u201d. Drawing on the disparate yet complementary conceptual building blocks of open innovation and problem-solution pairs, we develop a revised conceptualization of how idea management is practiced in a digital context. Our framework suggests that idea management programs can be used by organizations as orchestration and cognitive sensemaking devices to support the matching, forking, merging and refinement of ideas. These insights shed fresh light on how innovations form and evolve in a pervasively digital world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n