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A collaborative space for stimulating innovation is a place of learning through the exchange and sharing of knowledge and experience among its members. At the same time, it allows one to leverage innovation using technological resources available in the space, stimulating the creativity of its...

The chapter aims to demonstrate how important the administration of innovation is as a competitive strategy in business. In order to clarify the objectives of these studies, the authors show the importance of the administration of inovation in small business to present the advantages and disvantages of...

In this chapter, the authors aim to investigate the impact of knowledge management and strategy configuration coherence on İstanbul stock market businesses' innovation and organizational performance through a quantitative analysis carried out on a sample of 203 İstanbul stock market businesses....

This chapter proposes the application of computer simulation models for the evaluation of software quality improvement through the implementation of policies and practices of software development processes and performing the measurement of the evolution of the quality through the Six Sigma methodology....

Knowledge management is still a problem for many organizations and at two different levels: tacit knowledge, which typically resides in the head of each individual and gets lost for the organizations when a person goes to work with a different company; and explicit knowledge, which presents growing...

Companies assume information systems, particularly information and communication technologies, as strategic tools for the generation of competitive advantages. However, it is in the information, as the main economic resources in the information society, that should be concentrated management attention....

The informational age in the twenty-first century is also known as the age of knowledge. The great differential of organizations has been the strategic innovation through the best way to manage the existing knowledge. The pharmaceutical area is one of the most intensive areas in research, development...

The technology of information in organizations gives easy access to information and optimizes the business performance, automates routine tasks, improves internal control of operations, and improves customer service. This study analyzes the use of technology of information as a supportive tool for...

The innovation process is composed of high-level uncertainties and skepticism under the complexity that cause frustration and demotivation. Besides this, the process is prolonged and imprecise. The ideal organizational climate has substantial impact in people's impetus and affects their retention...

The evolution of management processes and the speed of the markets have highlighted the increasingly evident need for sharing of information and knowledge between the different economic agents. The competitiveness of economic organizations in a relational economic environment requires quality...

This chapter reflects the result of the analysis of the importance of information management in organizational innovation and the generation of competitive advantages in a cooperative of aromatic and medicinal plants production. Information is the main resource of management. It is important to assume...

This chapter provides a summarized and objective review of the relationships among market orientation, innovation, entrepreneurship, business models, creation of value, and sustainability to help an entrepreneur in the process of creating, developing, and sustaining any type of organization. The...

This chapter analyzes the challenges faced by a glass bottle manufacturer when incorporating the research, development, and innovation (RDI) standards into the firm's integrated management systems. Based on a case study, this chapter explores how the firm managed to incorporate the new standards...

The objective of this chapter is to systematize and contextualize relevant theoretical and practical considerations in the dynamics of talent management in a business context, as well as observe the practical implementation in small and medium enterprises in the north of Portugal. Talent management...

Digital disruption is a worldwide phenomenon whereby digital technology brings new business models that disrupt existing markets. Business models have become key to digital disruption, as the universal language of innovation from invention. The latest business models shift from pipeline material flow...

This chapter investigates the main concepts and activities of information in a strategic decision-making system as treated by the literature. Since information became the global economy value source for organizations, the information assumes a key role in contributing to the development of the...

In this chapter, the authors will analyze the concept of competencies and their importance as a driver for global trade growth. The relevance of this research is based on the approach to theories of organizational innovation articulating them with the theories of competencies development. To formulate...

The business strategy can be seen as a problem that involves three parts: information, strategy, and information technologies and communication. It has to be seen in the context of business sciences, in the process strategy formulation (analysis) and decision making (the strategy), information sciences...

In spite of a contemporary discussion about the management of knowledge and the deep use of technologies focused on architecture, organization and knowledge detection based on organization inner data analysis, as well as public data available on the internet, it is necessary a critic look above the...

With two principles of transparency and inclusiveness, open strategy is a new paradigm in strategic planning. Although the term has recently entered the related literature, there are several practices of strategic planning which used similar approach for strategic and long-range planning. Moreover...

The main objective of this chapter is to analyze the concept of competitive advantage of organizations from the study and valuation of their intangible assets. The evolution of marketing is analyzed from the materiality of the commercial transactions of purchase and sale of products and services, to...

Economic blocs such as BRICS and MIST are facing decreases in GDP, high interest rates, and a drastic reduction of the productivity of companies. Innovative strategies and new business models have to be considered as a way to improve productivity and reduce operational limitations. Digitalization...

In order to subsidize the public policy planners with an approach to identify innovative sectoral nuclei to support the design of public policies to support innovation in companies, the chapter proposes and constructs an indicator of innovation potential with characteristics that fill an important gap...

The university-enterprise (U-E) relationship is a topic that has gathered much interest in the academic world. Universities seek to offer services and technology that help firms to build and foster a harmonious U-E relationship, allowing firms to continually renew their involvement in the relationship....

We are witnessing the biggest transformation in the technology in the modern society increasing dramatically the data usage, more efficient services, and customized product/services. In the globalized world, the traditional incremental innovation, in some cases, might not be enough to defeat the...