Process Innovation projects aim at satisfying the urge of improving or implementing new sets of organizational activities. Innovating processes, in todays’ complex business environment, seems to be one of the few elements ensuring economic sustainability and competitive advantages. The greater attention given to product innovation, in previous times, makes Process Innovation still not completely exploited. Idea Generation, Process Development and Process Implementation are the three major phases characterizing the model scouted in literature about Process Innovation, from the beginning to its end. The author proposes Design Thinking, addressed to Idea Generation, and Agile Innovation, to Process Development and Implementation. This thesis analyzes the integration between Design Thinking and Agile Innovation practices, aimed at creating a complete Process Innovation model. Through the case-based study proposed, the author demonstrates Practices aimed at ensuring the transition between one phase to the other, represented by the integration between methodologies. The study thus allows us to identify elements and practices aimed at ensuring continuity to the identified model, validated through empirical analysis and the study of existing literature.
I progetti di innovazione dei processi cercano di soddisfare l'esigenza di migliorare o creare nuove opportunità organizzative. I processi innovativi, nel complesso contesto competitivo di oggi, sembrano essere uno dei pochi elementi a garantire sostenibilità economica e la creazione di valore. Generazione delle Idee, Sviluppo dei Processi e Implementazione dei Processi sono le tre fasi principali che caratterizzano il modello esplorato in letteratura sull'innovazione dei processi, dall'inizio alla fine. L’autore propone Design Thinking, come metodologia applicata alla fase di Generazione delle Idee e Agile Innovation, come approccio allo sviluppo e alla implementazione del nuovo processo. La presente tesi ricerca la possibilità di integrazione tra pratiche di Design Thinking e di Agile Innovation, mirate alla creazione di un modello completo per la realizzazione di innovazione di processi. Attraverso lo studio di sette casi di innovazione di processo, l’autore dimostra Pratiche mirate a garantire il passaggio tra una fase e l’altra, rappresentato dall’integrazione tra metodologie. La studio fatto permette quindi di individuare elementi e pratiche rivolti a garantire continuità ed efficienza al modello individuato, validato attraverso l’analisi empirica e lo studio della letteratura esistente.
Agile thinking and process innovation. Exploring the integration of design thinking and agile innovation in process innovation projects
BERTOLINI, MARIA VITTORIA
2018/2019
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Process Innovation projects aim at satisfying the urge of improving or implementing new sets of organizational activities. Innovating processes, in todays’ complex business environment, seems to be one of the few elements ensuring economic sustainability and competitive advantages. The greater attention given to product innovation, in previous times, makes Process Innovation still not completely exploited. Idea Generation, Process Development and Process Implementation are the three major phases characterizing the model scouted in literature about Process Innovation, from the beginning to its end. The author proposes Design Thinking, addressed to Idea Generation, and Agile Innovation, to Process Development and Implementation. This thesis analyzes the integration between Design Thinking and Agile Innovation practices, aimed at creating a complete Process Innovation model. Through the case-based study proposed, the author demonstrates Practices aimed at ensuring the transition between one phase to the other, represented by the integration between methodologies. The study thus allows us to identify elements and practices aimed at ensuring continuity to the identified model, validated through empirical analysis and the study of existing literature.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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