Our Objectives

The objectives of this research project are as follows:
1. To describe the changing the nature of organizational innovation projects.
2. To compare and contrast various innovation models that have been developed in the academic and practitioner literatures.
3. To synthesize existing innovation models and identify gaps to propose a new model for innovation. The model proposed will account for the intricacies of managing information, knowledge, and work, in and around, innovation projects. In addition, the model will propose links between maturity in an organization’s innovation capability and business value measures
4. To seek exploratory support for the model via discussions with executives involved in innovation projects.
5. To propose pragmatic mechanisms by which the proposed innovation model may be operationalized accounting for situational and organizational realities.