Open Data Innovation Capabilities: Towards a Framework of How to Innovate with Open Data

Abstract

Part 2: Open GovernmentInternational audienceInnovation based on open data lags behind the high expectations of policy makers. Hence, open data researchers have investigated the barriers of open data publication and adoption. This paper contributes to this literature by taking a capabilities perspective on how successful open data re-users create value out of the available data sources. First, a framework of IT, organization and skills capabilities required to innovate with data is derived from literature. Second, a case study including a survey and interview with managers from 12 frontrunners in the Netherlands was conducted. The analysis reveals that skills are valued the highest closely followed by organizational capabilities. Setting up a multi-disciplinary team with motivated employees and giving this team the mandate to experiment with data, is essential when innovating with open data. Theoretically, this study contributes to open data research by offering a new capabilities perspective on the organizational level. Our results highlight the importance of entrepreneurship theories to explain value creation with open data. Practically, our study suggests that digital skills and start-ups are important to the open government data policies

Big and open linked data analytics: a study on changing roles and skills in the higher educational process

“…Our findings are in line with findings of Aikat et al (2017), Coccoli et al (2017), Eckartz et al (2016) and Ferguson et al (2016), who recommend to engage more stakeholders and set up multi-disciplinary teams focused on flexibility and interdisciplinary competences. This requires the need of some kind of orchestration, rather than highly specific skills (Coccoli et al, 2017).…”

“…Lnenicka et al International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education (2020) 17:28 (Eckartz et al, 2016). The need of skills related to inter-disciplinary team management was also discussed by Mikalef et al (2018).…”

“…It is characterized by the active engagement of stakeholders through cooperation, collaboration, and participation activities on data resulting in an improvement of the educational process. In this regard, new important insights on the interactions of the stakeholders can be gained by performing data analytics on these data (Eckartz, van den Broek, & Ooms, 2016;Huda et al, 2017). The emergence of OER has facilitated online education through the use and sharing of a wide variety of quality learning materials available through open services provided on the web (Mikroyannidis et al, 2016).…”

“…In order to work with and gain from BOLED, it is important to ensure that data skills are able to support them , including architectures that are able to integrate the relevant technologies and components (Huda et al, 2017;Pecori, 2018). As reported by Eckartz et al (2016), it is needed to focus on: (1) infrastructure and enabling technologies that include all hardware and software needed to manage data lifecycle, (2) an IT strategy that includes planning, data management and governance, and measures to secure data, and (3) interoperability that includes skills on working with standards and ability to integrate information systems. Providing the theoretical and practical knowledge in the educational process, Sedkaoui (2018) emphasized the importance of tools to store large volumes of data in scaled-up architectures, integrate of various types of data, real-time data processing, Web data analysis, and data quality management.…”

“…The other group of authors sees a need for acquiring both hard and soft skills. A skills perspective on how successful data reusers create value out of the available data sources was explored by Eckartz et al (2016). They used a framework of IT, organization and skills required to innovate with data in which hard skills can be defined as more technical skills such as programming or data analytics skills and soft skills are more non-technical such as interdisciplinary cooperation or communication.…”