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Frugal Innovation Approaches Combined with an Agile Organization to Establish an Innovation Value Stream

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2023)

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Today it becomes more and more important to keep the pace of the changing world and its markets by continuous innovation delivery. To establish a continuous innovation capability enterprises search for ways to integrate this needed innovation culture into their organizational DNA. However, not all enterprises can establish for all topics dedicated innovation units like labs or innovation centers. An approach to innovate within an established respective “ordinary” organization and its structures is an innovation network. An innovation network comes with lean structural elements and is more tied to the operational value streams than dedicated innovation units. However, it requires also governance and methodological approaches respectively procedures to innovate continuously to establish an innovation value stream. One challenge is to establish a sustainable innovation value stream which lasts for a long time and delivers continuously with its projects valuable innovations to its enterprise. This work presents the in 2017 established Quality innovation NETwork (QiNET) initiated by the IT Test & Quality Assurance (TQA) of the Volkswagen AG which combines Frugal Innovation approaches with agile approaches within a zero budget frame for establishing an innovation value stream within the Volkswagen Group IT.

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Poth, A., Heimann, C. (2023). Frugal Innovation Approaches Combined with an Agile Organization to Establish an Innovation Value Stream. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42310-9_19

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