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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2007-06 – 2008-12
CBI staff: Maria Elmquist and Thomas Hordern
Funding: CBI internal
Description: The objective of this research was to identify how the design competence engages and facilitates the pursuit of radical innovation. The project investigated both leading design consultancies and large multinational firms, located in America, Asia, Australia, Europe and the UK. The objective was to understand the intersection of design within innovation to identify the capabilities that support the creation, development and commercialization of novel ideas.
Results: So far, two conference publications has been written, but the objective is to develop this paper into a journal article. The project has also contributed to our knowledge on design management and laid the ground for the recently launched project on how to use design practices in innovation, and for the collaboration with Volvo IT Innovation Group. - Hordern T. and Elmquist M. Design in innovation: how external design firms contribute to the development of the innovative capabilities of large firms, International Society for Professional Innovation Management Symposium, Singapore, December 14-17, 2008.
- Hordern, T. and Elmquist M., The Role of Design Firms in Innovation: How Design Firms Contribute to the Innovative Capabilities of Core Firms, European Academy of Management Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 11-14, 2009.
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: Spring 2008
CBI staff: Ralf Osborne (visiting MSc student) and Christian Sandström
Funding: CBI internal and SCA
Description: The project explored how established firms work with discontinuous innovation; innovations which change the way an industry functions. It was initiated when SCA realized that they needed a different evaluation process in the New Business Development unit which aims to develop more discontinuous innovations.
Results: The project resulted in a proposal regarding what such a process could look like and many elements of it were implemented by the company. The gathered empirical data also was also used in several research papers later on, Sandström and Osborne (2010) and Magnusson and Sandström (2010).
- Sandström, C., Osborne, R. (2010) Managing Business Model Renewal, Submitted to The International Journal of Business and Systems Research
- Magnusson, M., Sandström, C. (2010) Discontinuous Innovation and new business models, to be submitted to the 17th International Product Development Management Conference.
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2009-02 – 2009-09
CBI staff: Christian Sandström
Funding: CBI internal
Description: This project aimed to explore the systemic effects of discontinuous innovation from a value chain perspective. It sought to understand what happens outside the boundaries of the company when a discontinuous innovation is introduced, as well as trying to understand how these challenges could be handled.
Results: Case studies were performed at several companies (e.g. Axis Communications, Arboritec, Bona and Astratech) and this empirical data has thus far resulted in one conference paper (Magnusson and Sandström, 2010). - Magnusson, M., Sandström, C. (2010) Discontinuous Innovation and new business models, to be submitted to the 17th International Product Development Management Conference.
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2007-05 –2010-05
CBI staff: Mats Magnusson, Christian Sandström, Jennie Björk
Funding: CBI internal
Description: This research project is part of a European collaboration and is led by Professor John Bessant from the University of Exeter. It is aimed at strengthening participating companies’ capacities for radical innovation by creating arenas for learning in the companies via case studies and workshops. |
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2007-08 – 2009-12
CBI staff: Sören Sjölander (project leader) and Jonas Hjerpe
Funding: CBI internal, Västra Götalandsregionen, Chalmers and Sahlgrenska
Description: The goal of this research was to develop theories and methods for the systematic facilitation (management) of emergent business model innovation processes and to compile a theoretically as well as empirically grounded handbook of technology based business modeling. During 2008 on the empirical project side of the research effort three in depth quasi-longitudinal case studies have been done in emerging new businesses in the fields of computer software, Internet services and new materials. In an additional set of 14 technology-based, emerging businesses, business model analysis has been performed, companies that will be longitudinally followed over a few years. A business development program has been conducted with six innovation-based firms and a PhD course on business creation has been conducted with 10 PhD students, Chalmers and the Sahlgrenska Academy.
Results: The results from the study play a pivotal role in the formulation and initiation of the project CBI’s consortium for Innovative Growth, which is sponsored by Vinnova and conducted from 2009-2012. Publications based on the empirical research are pending. |
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2009-04 – 2010-05
CBI staff: Jennie Björk and Mats Magnusson
Funding: CBI internal
Description: This project examined business model innovation and product innovation, and where their original ideas derive from in companies’ organizations, by applying a social network perspective.
Results: The scientific results from this project can be found in the conference paper below. This paper investigated ideation activities leading to different types of innovation ideas. Special focus has been on individuals that have been active in ideation networks regarding technological innovation and business innovation, respectively. The project has contributed to a deeper knowledge in how access to different pools of knowledge and creation activities in different knowledge areas contributes to ideation perfromance within organizations.
- Björk, Jennie. (2010) Dual-connected individuals in Ideationt. To be presented at 11th International CINet Conference, September 2010, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2009-01 – 2010-03
CBI staff: Joakim Björkdahl and Sofia Börjesson
Funding: Vinnova, Branschforskningsprogrammet and company funding
Description: This project investigated nine forest-related companies in relation to the creative climate, ability to take innovations to market, and need for renewal. The project involved interviews and questionnaire studies. Within the framework of this project, a study was conducted on the capital market’s view of the motives for investing in Swedish forest-related companies. A number of firms participated in a quantitative study focusing innovative capabilities - Tetrapak, Billerud, Södra Cell, Eka Chemicals, SCA Packaging, SCA Personal Care, SCA Tissue, Elopak, Lyckeby, Stora Enso and Innventia. The project aimed at measuring current state in the sector and thereby triggering a discussion on the possible need for developing innovative capabilities. In the project, also a study of the financial sector’s view was included.
Results: The results of the study have been presented for the companies involved in the project and the project ended with a common workshop involving all companies in the study. The results show that the forest based companies have a good creative climate on most climate dimensions but that the capability to innovate differs among the firms. Most firms in the study are good at incremental innovations but many suffer from having difficulties to change their business models and grasp opportunities based on more radical offers. Many of the companies have initiated projects based on the results from the study in order to improve their work with innovation. In the project, we developed the tool for measuring innovation capabilities. The project is currently in a writing phase with several papers to be published. The below mentioned article partly draws on the project but also on previous audit work that CBI faculty has undertaken.
- Björkdahl, J., and Holmén, M. (2010). Making Innovation Innovation Audits Rigorous. Article that will be presented at the 2010 Academy of Management Conference, August 6-10, Montreal, Canada. Peer-reviewed by three referees.
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2009-03 – 2009-08
CBI staff: Sofia Börjesson and Marcus Linder
Funding: CBI internal
Description: This single case study investigated the process leading up to radical changes in the value proposition from an organizational capability perspective. The firm investigated was Göteborg Energi AB, which has developed an extensive product portfolio and competence in Energy related services even though previously operating in a fairly protected industry position. The study investigated the origins and subsequent organizational path, the firm’s learning from the market and that learning’s connection to the momentum of the ideas that eventually became specific offers. The aim was to comprehensively capture the changes in shared values, organizational processes and resource development along the development process of the small number of specific offers.
Results: The project resulted in preliminary insights about the role ownership and top management attitude play for the ability and intent to work with green sustainable offers. Göteborg Energi being owned by Göteborg Stad both calls for and enables a strive for dual goal fulfillment, business-wise and providing citizens with green offers and solutions. Top management view on environmental issues and new business development was found to be crucial.
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2007-08 – 2008-08
CBI staff: Jennie Björk, Mats Magnusson and Christian Sandström
Funding: CBI internal
Description: This project aimed at investigating how firms work in order to identify and manage ideas that lead to discontinuous innovations. The contribution from this project was increased knowledge about how firms can identify and manage discontinuous ideas in a fruitful manner. This project studied a firm that has worked systematically with idea management over a long period of time and has established a system aiming at systematically harnessing the ideas of the employees.
Results: The academic results from this research project can be found in a forthcoming article: Sandström and Björk (2010). The article describes how changes in the nature of innovation has changed from being primarily related to incremental product innovation towards more business model innovation, discontinuous innovation and open innovation. The focus in the article is how these changes impose new demands upon the ideation phase of the innovation process and on idea management systems and the challenges and managerial implications related to work with dual idea management systems and processes.
This project has also been a part of a series of workshops included in a broader research project focusing on discontinuous innovation. Three workshops have been organized and persons from industry invited to discuss the results from the research projects and the managerial implications of the results. The first workshop was organized in Lund in June 20 2007, the second one in Göteborg December 18th, 2007 and the final one in Lund in January 30, 2009. - Sandström and Björk (2010) Idea management systems for a changing innovation landscape, International Journal of Product Development Vol.11 No3/4
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2007-04 – 2010-12
CBI staff: Sofia Börjesson, Maria Elmquist and Joakim Björkdahl
Funding: Vinnova
Description: This is an intervention project concerning the understanding and development of innovative capability and new business models at Volvo Cars with a special focus on the importance of strategic change and the need to conceive and design new business models. |
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2008-05 – 2009-12
CBI staff: Sofia Börjesson, Maria Elmquist, Thomas Hordern, Marcus Linder
Funding: IMIT and CBI internal
Description: This project utilized an explorative approach to ascertain how firms are managing the ambition of innovating with a significant increase in environmental performance. The research was focused on participating medium to large Swedish multinationals from various industries, operating in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer markets. The objective of the research project was to identify and thus manage factors to enhance the potential to conduct green innovation successfully.
Results: The project resulted in a working paper (CBIWP10 Managing Green Innovation) and several conference articles pointing at firms’ challenges to work with so called green innovation. In summary, results from the study indicate that drivers for investments in environmental performance include both market demand for environmental performance, employer brand management considerations, as well as competitive issues related to anticipated regulations and market developments. One interesting challenge to green innovation discovered during the study was the perceived risk of being accused of 'greenwashing', a threat that was considered seriously even in cases in which the executives seemed convinced of the environmental benefits of certain products/activities.
- Hordern, T., Börjesson, S., Elmquist, M. (2008) Managing Green Innovation, CBI Working Paper Series.
- Björkdahl J, Linder M (2010). 'Formulating Green Problems For Commercializing New Technologies: A Problem Solving Perspective'. Druid summer conference, June 15-18 2010
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2009-04 – 2010-04
CBI staff: Jennie Björk and Mats Magnusson
Funding: DIME (Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe) and CBI internal
Description: This was a cooperative research project with SCA Hygiene Products. It investigated how innovative ideas are created in networks, and how informal structures are established and influenced. Using social network analysis different factors related to individuals’ and groups’ social capital and their influence on ideation performance was investigated.
Results: From this project resulted in four conference papers. One has been published and the other three are to be sent to scientific journals. The project has contributed to increasing knowledge about how individuals’ and groups’ structural capital, including in-depth knowledge and information transfer and creation, influences the creation of ideas.
- Björk, Jennie and Magnusson Mats., (2009) Where Do Good Innovation Ideas Come From? Exploring the Influence of Network Connectivity on Innovation Idea Quality. Journal of Product Innovation Management, Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 662-670. Presented at The 15th International Product Development Management Conference, Hamburg, June 2008.
- Björk, Jennie., Di Vincenzo, Fausto., Magnusson, Mats., and Mascia, Daniele., (2010). The Impact of Social Capital on Ideation -untapping the knowledge creation potential of internal networks. Presented at: the DIME conference - Organizing for Networked Innovation, Milano and Stresa April 2010.
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2006-2007
CBI staff: Joakim Björkdahl
Funding: CBI internal
Description: This was a PhD thesis project funded by CBI. The project investigated how large Swedish manufacturing companies try to create value and appropriate financial returns by renewing their product offerings through the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in their established product categories, and the related challenges and opportunities this produces.
Results: The integration of ICTs in manufacturing products adds to the complexity of the technology domain and firms need to acquire some background competencies in ICTs for efficient integration. The thesis suggests that the economic and commercial domains also seem to be of major importance in diversification of the technology base of products through the incorporation of ICTs. Firms often find it necessary to transform many aspects of the way they do business, to create a better fit between value creation for their customers and profit for themselves. The firms studied often made changes to their business model, especially their sales approach. Firms also try to find new innovative ways to get rewarded for the value they deliver, often by moving downstream into the provision of services.
- Björkdahl, J. (2007). Managing value creation and appropriation: ICT integration for business renewal. PhD dissertation. Department of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2009-02 – 2009-12
CBI staff: Christian Sandström
Funding: CBI internal
Description: This project has looked into how and why digital technology has turned out to have disruptive effects in many industries. It drew upon an extensive study of the Facit archives in Åtvidaberg, as well as former data collection related to Hasselblad and the shift to digital imaging. In total, two weeks were spent going through archival data in Åtvidaberg and interviews were performed with the former top management of Facit. The Hasselblad case has been studied over a couple of years, about 50 hours of interviews and follow-up sessions have been conducted here, as well as some archival studies.
Results: This work has so far resulted in three papers (Sandström et al., 2009; Sandström, 2010; Sandström, 2010).
- Sandström, C., Magnusson, M., Jörnmark, J. (2009) Exploring factors influencing incumbents’ response to disruptive innovation, Creativity and Innovation Management, Vol. 18, Issue 1, pp. 8-15.
- Sandström, C. (2010) High-end disruptive technologies with an inferior performance, Accepted for publication in International Journal of Technology Management.
- Sandström, C. (2010) Hasselblad and the shift to digital imaging, submitted to the Annals of the History of Computing.
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Status: Finished project
Schedule: 2010 – 2011
CBI staff: CBI Faculty
Funding: Vinnova
Description: CBI aims to produce research findings that are actionable and relevant for the industrial community. While CBI has developed a vast network into that community, there are no available investigations regarding issues of relevance. Thus, the iSurvey project is a survey investigation into the perceived challenges regarding innovation in that community. The analysis of the data from this survey is expected to impact the future CBI research strategy, and will also be reported to the scientific community.
Results: See attached pdf-file.
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