Business Administration 3300K Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gartner, Hype Cycle, Breaking The Surface
10 Nov 2020
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Mis session 3: the manager"s guide to it innovation waves burton. Swanson: introduction, many executives have problems in making wise decisions about which innovations to adopt when. Diffusion of innovation should be seen as complex social system that generate natural force a sort of wave machine: introducing the it innovation wave machine. It innovation wave machine: kind of institutional apparatus that serves to produce waves of innovations as just described; consists of five stages. 3. 2 stage 2: sending out ripples: exposure of product: having it research and analysis companies write about product that then spread assessment to their subscribers who usually buy it products and services. 3. 4 stage 4: building the swell: for innovation wave to form & gain size, firms need to adopt & implement it. Management fashions: transitory collective beliefs, disseminated by discourse of management knowledge entrepreneurs that a management technique is at forefront of rational management practice (by eric abrahamson)
