The Next Wave of Digital Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges: A Report on the Research Workshop 'Digital Challenges in Innovation Research'

Yoo, Youngjin; Lyytinen, Kalle; Boland, Richard J.; Berente, Nicholas

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“…2 Some scholars (e.g. Tilson et al 2010a;Yoo et al 2010b) make a semantic distinction between digitization (technical process) and digitalization (social-technical process of applying digital technology to social contexts). This study relinquishes this differentiation due to the fact that in the context of the digital economy digitization cannot be understood without its social-technical implications.…”

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Seeing through the network: Competitive advantage in the digital economy

2017

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Firms operate in an environment that is increasingly permeated with digital technology. The incorporation of digital technology into products, services, and operations has significant implications on how firms can attain and sustain competitive advantage. Traditional strategic models of competitive advantage -such as the industry structure view, the resource-based view or the dynamic capabilities approach -are built on assumptions which lack validity in today's digital environments. Digitization radically changes the very nature of products, the process of value creation and, above all, firms' competitive environment. This study contributes to a better understanding of how firms may achieve sustained competitive advantage in this digital economy: It outlines a network-centric view which explains the competitive environment of firms being confronted with digital technology and its affordances. Based on the network-centric view, the firms may achieve competitive advantage by actively shaping the digital environment (i.e. applying a logic of effectuation) and by value co-creating of the interconnected firms in the digital environment. The framework may help firms to design and create strategies in order to attain and sustain competitive advantage in a digital economy.

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Seeing through the network: Competitive advantage in the digital economy

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“…Within the underlying research project, digitalization is understood as "the transformation of socio-technical structures that were previously mediated by non-digital artifacts or relationships into ones that are mediated by digitized artifacts and relationships" [41]. By following this definition, it goes beyond the technical process of encoding analog data or information and of converting it into a digital format, frequently referred to as "digitization", and emphasizes the utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by organizations, companies or the society as a whole.…”

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Toward the Development of a Maturity Model for Digitalization within the Manufacturing Industrys Supply Chain

Klötzer¹,

Pflaum²

2017

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Product categories were dictated by the underlying material, which forced a tight coupling between format and content; a dominant model for doing business and organizing work had cemented the relationships between the four orders of design. However, in the digital design space, the malleability of digital materiality, 29 makes product categories fragile and negotiable. Indeed, the material that is given form in digital design processes displays fundamentally different properties.…”

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Oscillating Between Four Orders of Design: The Case of Digital Magazines

Nylén¹,

Holmström²,

Lyytinen

2014

Design Issues

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This is the published version of a paper published in Design Issues. Citation for the original published paper (version of record):Nylen, D., Holmström, J., Lyytinen, K. (2014) Oscillating between four orders of design: the case of digital magazines. IntroductionThe rapid evolution of digital technologies has significantly affected most industries and their design practices. This is particularly evident in the publishing industry: Historically dominated by a graphic design culture, design decisions mainly concerned page layouts. Increasing digitalization, however, presents publishers with an expanded set of design challenges ranging from device form factors (industrial design), to user experience (interaction design) and business logic (environmental design). In this paper, we examine the characteristics of the new design processes that emerge, asking: As publishing companies move increasingly into digital design, what are the new design challenges, and how can they be dealt with?Against this backdrop, we conduct an exploratory case study of a leading Swedish media company-Bonnier-and its efforts at designing a digital magazine. The design project was carried out by a global multi-disciplinary team and resulted in a digital publishing platform called Mag+. Developed for tablet-based content delivery on the iPad, Mag+ integrates new interaction design principles with a magazine concept to achieve a rich user experience, while introducing a new business model governing the production, distribution, and billing of the content. We apply Buchanan's model of the four orders of design, 1 combined with extant research on digitalization, 2 to analyze the design process. The study shows that as digitization enables loose couplings between formats and contents and therefore relaxes design constraints within and between orders; designing in digital spaces involves simultaneous challenges in all four orders of design. Further, not only do some design decisions manifest a co-dependency between two orders, they are also likely to cause ripple effects on other orders. We also posit that digital capabilities change the design process-in that digital design processes involve unprecedented dynamism and frequent iterations between the four orders. Overall, we contribute to multi-order design theory by heeding the specific effects of digitalization on design spaces in the publishing industry.

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The Next Wave of Digital Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges: A Report on the Research Workshop 'Digital Challenges in Innovation Research'

Cited by 133 publications

References 36 publications

Seeing through the network: Competitive advantage in the digital economy

Seeing through the network: Competitive advantage in the digital economy

Toward the Development of a Maturity Model for Digitalization within the Manufacturing Industrys Supply Chain

Oscillating Between Four Orders of Design: The Case of Digital Magazines

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The Next Wave of Digital Innovation: Opportunities and Challenges: A Report on the Research Workshop 'Digital Challenges in Innovation Research'

Cited by 133 publications

References 36 publications

Seeing through the network: Competitive advantage in the digital economy

Seeing through the network: Competitive advantage in the digital economy

Toward the Development of a Maturity Model for Digitalization within the Manufacturing Industrys Supply Chain

Oscillating Between Four Orders of Design: The Case of Digital Magazines

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