articleOrganization ScienceSep 21, 2012Closed access

Organizing for Innovation in the Digitized World

YYYoungjin YooRJRichard J. BolandKLKalle LyytinenAMAnn Majchrzak

Temple University · Case Western Reserve University · +1 more institution

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Abstract

Our era is one of increasingly pervasive digital technologies, which penetrate deeply into the very core of the products, services, and operations of many organizations and radically change the nature of product and service innovations. The fundamental properties of digital technology are reprogrammability and data homogenization. Together, they provide an environment of open and flexible affordances that are used in creating innovations characterized by convergence and generativity. An analysis of convergence and generativity observed in innovations with pervasive digital technologies reveals three traits: (1) the importance of digital technology platforms, (2) the emergence of distributed innovations, and…

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  • Generativity
  • Affordance
  • Knowledge management
  • Scholarship
  • Open innovation
  • Service innovation
  • Convergence (economics)
  • Service (business)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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