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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"User Innovation"”.
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User innovation in Internet businesses
This paper examines the concept of user innovation, how this concept has been applied to internet businesses, and behaviors and motivation of the users who have participated in user innovative activities for internet businesses. This thesis presents definitions and characteristics of both user …
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User innovation in information systems practice.
… information purposes. It involves individuals or user groups and specialists in applying and adapting information technology resources. The inclusion of groups other than the Information Systems specialist as playing a role in the practice of information systems, is in part the recognition that …
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Lead user innovation : concept analysis and management implications
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1985.
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From Knowledge to Invention: Exploring User Innovation in Irish Agriculture
… as arising from an Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System with innovations provided by others for farmers to adopt. The motivators for farmers who invent useful products for themselves, without outside involvement, are not well understood in such developed countries. These inventions, …
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Process Innovation by working miners : a case of user innovation in copper mining industry
… process improvements. In this thesis, I explore innovation by mining employees working in Codelco, a Chilean mining company. The data on these innovations come from a contest sponsored by mine management at the Andina division of Codelco. This contest encourages workers to come forward and reveal …
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User innovation in digital design and construction : dialectical relations between standard BIM tools and specific user requirements
… of use. Consequently, the requirements of its users are becoming heterogeneous and this heterogeneity hinders the development of BIM tools that can satisfy all possible user requirements. Instead, tools are developed to satisfy more broad, general, and generic needs of the AEC industry. The …
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The medication mismanagement system : causes, evidence of user innovation, and a view towards a product/service solution for the elderly
… 2009) and as a result many of the medical innovations that have increased life expectancy by 47 years since 1900 (Wan He, 2005) remain left unclaimed. So why than do Seniors, facing the pain of arthritis or the impending certainty of death from congestive heart failure, refuse to take their …
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Democratizing innovation in the Department of Defense : a model for improving innovation in an era of fiscal tightening
Democratized innovation is a paradigm characterized by users moving beyond the traditional construct that portrays them as passive recipients of firm-developed products. This field of research was launched by Professor Eric von Hippel in the 1970s with his landmark study on the scientific …
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Digital Tools, Distributed Making and Design
… tools pull information for making toward the user, and enable the distribution of information and product outward. They also demonstrate vibrant user innovation in smaller scale projects for both personal and commercial applications. These current trends and peripheral projects are used to …
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The quantification of workarounds and ways to utilize these ramifications
User innovation is steadily becoming an irreplaceable factor in product development. Thus it is necessary to find ways to measure these workarounds and ways to utilize these figures. I selected three (3) particular styles of workarounds to quantify and discuss. With makeshift window workarounds, I …
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Successes of collaborative decision making at the Traffic Flow Management Program Office and the advantages of adopting toolkits
… of products that have a large and diverse user base are consistently trying to produce products that satisfy as many users as possible. Manufacturers and product developers have found that it is extremely difficult to do so. The closer the manufacturer or developer gets to meeting all user …
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New techniques in project portfolio management don't stifle innovation with excessive phasing and gates
… must not stifle bottom-up creativity, user innovation, intrapreneurship, developer agility or change management. Newer commercial offerings of PPM solutions improve upon the frameworks that simplify portfolio governance and empower enterprise innovation.
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Open source hardware entrepreneurship
… can serve as an extreme application of open innovation and user innovation theories in hardware venture creation, and we hope to use this work as a pilot study for the emerging socio-technological phenomenon.
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Toolkit support for interactive projected displays
… of application scenarios, physical settings, and user needs. These properties have attracted significant academic research interest, yet the surrounding technical challenges and lack of application developer tools limit adoption to those with advanced technical skills. These barriers prevent …
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Innovations in Game-based Learning: How Lead Users Created Minecraft: Education Edition
… decades, myriad studies have shown that lead users are a significant source of major innovations in various industries. Further, studies have shown that innovations by lead users have resulted in economic benefits to firms while also satisfying the needs and improving the lives of users. With …
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Teacher in a Box: Satellite Television and the Evolution of Distance Learning in Thailand, 1995-2024
… Studies frameworks including technology-in-use, user agency and technological reinterpretation during crisis, I analyze DLTV as a complex system shaped by Thai cultural values and changing social needs. The study reveals how the Distance Learning Foundation strategically coordinated expertise to …