قدرت تجمعی نوآوری فزاینده و نقش مدیریت توالی پروژه
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Studies of project lineage management and incremental innovation
3. Method and data
4. A sequence of incremental vehicle projects
5. Management practices: A generative concept and four meta-rules
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion and future studies
Acknowledgements
Appendix 1. Agenda for retrospective interviews 2014–2015
References
Abstract
In innovation and project management studies incremental development projects are perceived as theoreticlly and organisationally uninteresting. By means of a longitudinal study of product improvement projects at an automobile firm, this paper challenges such views and shows how the cumulative impact of the studied sequence resulted in a competitive repositioning of the company's product portfolio during a financially difficult period. Project managers achieved this by transcending the separation between exploration and exploitation projects; they not only adhered to time, cost and quality goals but also tried out new ways of testing and experimenting with controversial technical ideas. The paper analyzes the intensive inter project learning that generated these ambidextrous capabilities and emphasizes that practices at the project-level need to be buttressed by expanded management learning and capability development also at the sequence level.