Abstract
In the digital era, innovation power and speed have become the lifeblood of every successful industrial organization. While driving forward and managing innovation has been a subject mainly related to top-level decision makers and innovation managers for a long time, increasingly many organizations realize that this is inappropriate for keeping pace with the rapid changes in today’s societal, economic and ecologic context. Instead, leveraging and pushing innovation from bottom-up by mobilizing the creativity and diversity of the entire workforce has become the lingua franca of innovation in the digital era. An essential part of an organization culture fostering the democratization of innovation is the appropriate empowerment of the workforce through the understanding of essential drivers of change as well as the key innovation megatrends that are about to transform society. This position paper attempts to compile a comprehensive set of skills qualification programs ought to cover, which are aimed at empowering a workforce to act as innovation agents on all levels and organizational positions.
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The authors sincerely thank Thomas Peisl, who significantly inspired Sect. 8. Some of the needs included in this position paper have been derived from the EU Blueprint projects ALBATTS [1] and DRIVES [2]. Both have been financially supported by the European Commission in the Erasmus+ Programme under the project numbers 612675-EPP-1-2019-1-SE-EPPKA2-SSA-B and 591988-EPP-1-2017-1-CZ-EPPKA2-SSA-B, respectively. This publication reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
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Riel, A., Messnarz, R., Woeran, B. (2020). Democratizing Innovation in the Digital Era: Empowering Innovation Agents for Driving the Change. In: Yilmaz, M., Niemann, J., Clarke, P., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56441-4_57
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