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Building Knowledge Management Capabilities for Innovation Projects

In: From Knowledge Management To Strategic Competence Measuring Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation

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  • DAVID TRANFIELD

    (Professor, Director of Research and Faculty Development, Deputy Director and Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL, UK)

  • MALCOLM YOUNG

    (Research Fellow and Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK)

  • DAVID PARTINGTON

    (Senior Lecturer in Project Management Director, Management Research Programmes and Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford MK43 0AL, UK)

  • JOHN BESSANT

    (Chair in Innovation Management and Tanaka Business School, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK)

  • JONATHAN SAPSED

    (Senior Research Fellow and CENTRIM (Centre for Research in Innovation Management), University of Brighton, The Freeman Centre (University of Sussex campus), Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QE, UK)

Abstract

The following sections are included:Background — Innovation and Strategic AdvantageThe “D-R-N” Process Model of InnovationResearch MethodologyUnit of analysis — The organisational routineApproachSampleData collectionValidating the dataCase 1 Radical Product Innovation — Computer-based Training SolutionsInnovation narrativeEnabling activitiesBlocking activitiesCase 2 Radical Process Innovation — Reorganisation of Psychiatric ServicesInnovation narrativeEnabling activitiesBlocking activityCase 3 Incremental Product Innovation — Use of Global Positioning SystemInnovation narrativeEnabling activitiesBlocking activitiesCase 4 Incremental Process Innovation — Work Breakdown StructureInnovation narrativeEnabling activitiesBlocking activitiesDiscussionSynthesising a process approach to managing knowledge for innovationKnowledge management — A description and definitionConclusions — Implications for Theory and Practice

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  • David Tranfield & Malcolm Young & David Partington & John Bessant & Jonathan Sapsed, 2006. "Building Knowledge Management Capabilities for Innovation Projects," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Joe Tidd (ed.), From Knowledge Management To Strategic Competence Measuring Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation, chapter 6, pages 126-149, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9781860948138_0006
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