generativity

L'entreprise, l'ingénieur et le pouvoir

« Quand Mario m'a proposé un dialogue ouvert sur les choses de l'entreprise, je me suis d'abord demandé jusqu'où nous pourrions aller. D'accord pour tirer ensemble le chalut, mais nous passons déjà notre vie à parler de l'entreprise. En surface, je …

Can organisational ambidexterity kill innovation? A case for non-expected utility decision making

The academic construction of ambidexterity articulated around notions such as exploration, exploitation (J. March 1991) has been flourishing over the years with a strong background in organisational theory to explain levels of performance and …

Design Paradigm in innovation management - analysing and extending design thinking methods with design theory

Design thinking (DT) unfolds quickly as a method for managing innovation, beyond traditional decision-making and product development paradigm (Liedtka 2015). DT success appears as a symptom of the emergence of a design paradigm in innovation …

Decision design and re-ordering preferences: the case of an exploration project in a large firms

Decision theory has been long applied to project management for risk and uncertainty reduction. Among the foundations, the manager is considered following axioms describing his rationality; the most prominent ones being transitivity and independence. …

Measuring the generative power of an organisational routine with design theories: the case of design thinking in a large firm

This article studies how a large firm uses Design Thinking (DT) as a core process in specific design and development team whose mission is to bridge the gap between unidentified market needs and business units research & development effort. We …