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Nowadays—and due to an increasingly competitive world—organizations need to collaborate in an open innovation context to be efficient and effective by achieving high levels of innovation with their products and services. However, the existing resources—as well as the innovation achieved from the diversity of partners involved—brings challenges to the management; in particularly with risk management. To fulfill such needs, risk management frameworks have been created to support managers, on preventing threats with systems development, although without properly account the influence of each system component, on the entire system, as well as the subjectivity within human perception. To account for these issues, a framework supported by fuzzy logic is presented in this work, to evaluate the risk level on system development in open innovation environment. The approach robustness is assessed by using a case study, where the challenges and benefits found are discussed.
Ricardo Santos; António Abreu; Ana Dias; João Calado; Vitor Anes; José Soares. A Framework for Risk Assessment in Collaborative Networks to Promote Sustainable Systems in Innovation Ecosystems. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6218 .
AMA StyleRicardo Santos, António Abreu, Ana Dias, João Calado, Vitor Anes, José Soares. A Framework for Risk Assessment in Collaborative Networks to Promote Sustainable Systems in Innovation Ecosystems. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (15):6218.
Chicago/Turabian StyleRicardo Santos; António Abreu; Ana Dias; João Calado; Vitor Anes; José Soares. 2020. "A Framework for Risk Assessment in Collaborative Networks to Promote Sustainable Systems in Innovation Ecosystems." Sustainability 12, no. 15: 6218.
The survival of companies in globalized and highly competitive markets, heavily depends on their ability to innovate through the creation of new products and/or services, supported by sustainable processes to prevent business failure. There are many factors regarding the interface company/stakeholders/market at all hierarchical levels, which have a major contribution to sustain innovation in processes regarding the creation of new products and services. A holistic approach of all these factors, as a whole, has not been a subject of scientific research conducting to the necessity of creating a proposal of a framework that can be integrated and systemic. Thus, this paper aims to propose a functional holistic model, which integrates the strategic, organizational and operational levels regarding market business and company interaction, as well as the set of factors to take into account to guarantee assurance that innovative processes are sustained, when new products and/or services are created or improved. Conducted through an investigation of the state of the art, by literature review, a comprehensive and integrated conceptual model was built in a deductive-inductive way. Then, the conceptual model was validated through four case studies. Finally, it was found that the conceptual framework became functional, because its applicability has been successfully tested in a business environment. As a result, the tool developed here, can be useful to measure and evaluate projects dedicated to companies that innovate in a sustainable way.
Ana S. M. E. Dias; António Abreu; Helena V. G. Navas; Ricardo Santos. Proposal of a Holistic Framework to Support Sustainability of New Product Innovation Processes. Sustainability 2020, 12, 3450 .
AMA StyleAna S. M. E. Dias, António Abreu, Helena V. G. Navas, Ricardo Santos. Proposal of a Holistic Framework to Support Sustainability of New Product Innovation Processes. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (8):3450.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAna S. M. E. Dias; António Abreu; Helena V. G. Navas; Ricardo Santos. 2020. "Proposal of a Holistic Framework to Support Sustainability of New Product Innovation Processes." Sustainability 12, no. 8: 3450.
In the present context, companies to be competitive must develop high-performance innovation capabilities that enable them to respond quickly to market needs. However, the lack of tools and methodologies to assess the performance of innovation projects in an integrated way remains an obstacle. The paper begins by discussing the principles of Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard for performance evaluation. Next, the advantages of the Six Sigma Business Scorecard are discussed as a tool to support the evaluation of performance in innovation projects. Finally, the advantages of their application in the context of a collaborative ecosystem are discussed. It is illustrated that the BSC ensures that top management pays attention at any time to the specific elements of the Six Sigma implementation that are not working as planned, providing a link between strategy and quality initiatives assuring customers satisfaction in innovation projects.
João M. F. Calado; José Gomes Requeijo; António Abreu; Ana S M E Dias. Management of Innovation Ecosystems Based on Six Sigma Business Scorecard. Open Engineering 2019, 9, 41 -51.
AMA StyleJoão M. F. Calado, José Gomes Requeijo, António Abreu, Ana S M E Dias. Management of Innovation Ecosystems Based on Six Sigma Business Scorecard. Open Engineering. 2019; 9 (1):41-51.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJoão M. F. Calado; José Gomes Requeijo; António Abreu; Ana S M E Dias. 2019. "Management of Innovation Ecosystems Based on Six Sigma Business Scorecard." Open Engineering 9, no. 1: 41-51.
Nowadays, companies to be competitive must develop capabilities that enable them to respond quickly to market needs. According to some managers, the strategy is the development of dynamic logistics networks based on a collaborative environment. However, the absence of mechanisms to detect and even anticipate potential opportunistic behaviour is an obstacle to the proliferation of this way of working. The article aims to understand the role of trust to sustainability of collaborative processes. The paper begins by discussing the trust properties. It is then discussed how statistical control charts can be used to support the trust monitoring of each member within a collaborative ecosystem. The control charts’ tools suggested in this paper are the Z control charts for trust level monitoring and the Zi capacity index. Finally, it is discussed how this approach can be applied to dynamic logistics networks within the context of a collaborative ecosystem.
António Abreu; José Requeijo; J. M. F. Calado; Ana Dias. Control Charts to Support Trust Monitoring in Dynamic Logistics Networks. ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection 2018, 499 -511.
AMA StyleAntónio Abreu, José Requeijo, J. M. F. Calado, Ana Dias. Control Charts to Support Trust Monitoring in Dynamic Logistics Networks. ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection. 2018; ():499-511.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntónio Abreu; José Requeijo; J. M. F. Calado; Ana Dias. 2018. "Control Charts to Support Trust Monitoring in Dynamic Logistics Networks." ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection , no. : 499-511.
Research centres to be excellent, increasingly need to develop or add skills to respond quickly to challenges of Research and Development (R&D) with increasing complexity. In this context, the route passes through the promotion of R & D networks where predominates sharing/transfer of knowledge and resources. In this way, the development of performance indicators focused on collaboration can help those in charge of managing research centres in decision-making processes and in defining best strategies. Applying concepts of social network theory, this article presents a model that allows to evaluate the performance of R&D centres and research networks according to various perspectives.
António Abreu; J. M. F. Calado; Ana S M E Dias. Performance Indicators to Support the Governance of Research Networks. 2018 3rd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) 2018, 1 -10.
AMA StyleAntónio Abreu, J. M. F. Calado, Ana S M E Dias. Performance Indicators to Support the Governance of Research Networks. 2018 3rd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE). 2018; ():1-10.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAntónio Abreu; J. M. F. Calado; Ana S M E Dias. 2018. "Performance Indicators to Support the Governance of Research Networks." 2018 3rd International Conference of the Portuguese Society for Engineering Education (CISPEE) , no. : 1-10.
Ana S M E Dias; António Abreu; João Matias. Methodologies and Tools to Support Design and Development of New Products. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems 2014, 167 -173.
AMA StyleAna S M E Dias, António Abreu, João Matias. Methodologies and Tools to Support Design and Development of New Products. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems. 2014; ():167-173.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAna S M E Dias; António Abreu; João Matias. 2014. "Methodologies and Tools to Support Design and Development of New Products." Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems , no. : 167-173.