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    Building a Dolmen: An ISD Approach to the Management of Innovation


    Costello, Gabriel J., Conboy, Kieran, Donnellan, Brian and Rochford, Colm (2009) Building a Dolmen: An ISD Approach to the Management of Innovation. In: Information Systems Development. Springer, pp. 417-429. ISBN 9780387687728

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    Abstract

    This chapter addresses a “challenge in practice” by describing the initial stage of an information systems development (ISD) project to support the management of innovation within a subsidiary of APC-MGE. To begin with, a review is presented of relevant literature on the management of innovation and on ISD. The background of the case study is outlined and the advantages of a dialogical action research approach to ISD are discussed. Then the development of a conceptual model using the organizational analysis approach of Multiview2 is described. The work proposes to make a contribution in a number of areas. Firstly, it provides empirical evidence of the role of innovation in an organizational transformation and the challenge of designing an information system to support this objective. Secondly, it presents an example of using dialogical action research, recently introduced to the MIS discipline by Mårtensson and Lee, to develop an information system. Future work will involve tracking the implementation of the concept in order to evaluate its impact on the organization.
    Item Type: Book Section
    Additional Information: Cite as: Costello G.J., Conboy K., Donnellan B., Rochford C. (2009) Building a Dolmen: An ISD Approach to the Management of Innovation. In: Wojtkowski W., Wojtkowski G., Lang M., Conboy K., Barry C. (eds) Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA
    Keywords: Supply Chain; Innovation Management; Plant Manager; Organizational Analysis; Information System Development;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Business
    Item ID: 10800
    Identification Number: 10.1007/978-0-387-68772-8_32
    Depositing User: Prof. Brian Donnellan
    Date Deposited: 21 May 2019 15:42
    Publisher: Springer
    Refereed: Yes
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    URI: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/10800
    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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