Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence
Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Platform Leadership
Personas in action: ethnography in an interaction design team
Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
From quality in use to value in the world
CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Designing for user experiences
Deploying Common Systems Globally: The Dynamics of Control
Information Systems Research
Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries
Design Research in Information Systems: Theory and Practice
Design Research in Information Systems: Theory and Practice
Information Systems Research
Design science in information systems research
MIS Quarterly
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In recent years, the phenomena of open data have lent a promise to expand the innovation network of an organization. By allowing this type of access to organizational resources, developers beyond the organizational realm may hence generate new innovative artifacts surpassing existing capabilities. However, as an organization utilizes these innovation capabilities they simultaneously loose significant control over the innovations' alignment with existing organizational goals. One way to nurture and harness this type of innovation is to arrange a contest where third party developers are invited to attend. Using a Design Science Research approach, such a contest - a type of artifact we coin Digital Innovation Contest - was designed and field-tested in 2011. The contest, WestCoast TravelHack 2011, summoned 76 developers distributed on 20 teams and was based on an idea to both generate novel digital service prototypes and having these applications promote the organizational goal of less energy-consuming ways of everyday travel. We conclude that by following our empirically grounded and theoretically informed guidelines, this type of contest can indeed increase the likelihood of both producing innovative artifacts and aligning these innovations with organizational goals.