Innovation and IT in an International Context: R&D strategy and operations [Hardcover]

Innovation and IT are intertwined. In order to understand how, this book takes an interdisciplinary view of innovation in an international and digital world. It addresses strategic and operational aspects of R and D and new product development, emphasizing knowledge management, configurational design, distance and diversity.PART I: STRATEGIZING THE R AND D FUNCTION 1. International Open Innovation: Taking Stock and Moving Forward 2. The Organization of the Knowledge and Inventive Performance 3. Industrial Clustering and Innovative Output PART II: SUPPORT FOR R AND D COORDINATION AND DESIGN 4. Why Innovative Design Requires New Scientific Foundations for Manageable Identities of Systems 5. Configurational Thinking and Value Creation from Digital Innovation: the Case of Product Lifecycle Management Implementation 6. Coordination of R and D and Communities of Practice in Multinational Companies 7. Effects of Product Lifecycle Management on the Reliability of New Product Development: the Case of Co-development with China PART III: INNOVATION AND COLLABORATION IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT 8. Helping Global Software Development Teams Overcome the Challenges of Temporal Dispersion and National Diversity: the Importance of Leadership Roles 9. IT Use and Dispersed NPD Project Performance: the Mediating Role of Coordination 10. 'Looking for trouble' in Global ISD and NPD Outsourcing Projects 11. Market, Technological and Process Management knowledge in NPD Projects and the Value of New ProductsFrantz Rowe is a professor in the Institute of Economics and Management at Nantes University, France. His research conducted at SKEMA Business School and LEMNA includes information systems and knowledge integration (particularly ERP and PLM systems), inter-organizational information systems and IS-enabled organizational transformation. Frantz is past president of AIM, Head of Master in Consulting and Research, and Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Information Systems. &l£)