The delivery of innovative IT solutions that support business strategy is an increasing, growing competitive aspect of organisations in the financial sector. Previous research has shown the need to follow an innovative or a more agile and flexible methodology when delivering IT solutions to save cost and enable the solutions to reach the consumer market as soon as possible. To apply agile/innovative methodologies across large organisations requires more alternative approaches than to implement them in small enterprises. The organisation used in the case study, implemented an enterprise engineering innovative lifecycle (EEILC). Limited research has been done concerning the challenges and strategies during implementation of an EEILC. The purpose of this study was to investigate the strategies to overcome the challenges when implementing an EEILC. The research was inductive qualitative following an in-depth case study approach. The researcher conducted a case study using documentation analysis, informal interviews, in-depth interviews and observations with multiple stakeholders who are experts in their fields of software design and development. An inductive grounded theory approach was followed using a case study within an organisation in the financial sector in South Africa. Results show there are seven core category challenges when implementing an innovation life cycle. Each of these core challenges has a core enterprise strategy to address the challenges occurring in the applicable domain. The core challenges are: (1) innovation process challenges (addressed by an agile product delivery innovation strategy) (2) invention challenges (addressed by an idea management strategy) (3) business model challenges (addressed by a client’s value proposition strategy), (4) commercialization challenges, which include implementation and operations challenges, (addressed by a product portfolio management strategy), (5) culture challenges (addressed by an innovation culture strategy) and (6) knowledge management challenges and strategy, and (7) innovation management related challenges and strategy An innovation management strategy will manage all these challenges. Most prominent is the innovation management strategy which has links to all other categories in other domains. The relationship between enterprise client value proposition strategy show that enterprise client value proposition serves as a coherent link between how the innovation life cycle is adopted or changed to address the enterprise client value chain. This is driven by demand management to align between business and IT regarding the business model and application portfolio alignment. Thereafter, the alignment between the demand for enterprise application capabilities and the business service portfolio is shown. This is supported by service-oriented architecture (SOA) services. The resource management has to make sure the right resources, competencies and skills are available to deliver the product portfolio. During innovation and life-cycle's execution, there is a lot of interaction between individuals and teams. Therefore, communication and culture play a vital role to create synergies by collaboration of work practice and living the values of the organization. Through grounded theory analysis, a practical theory was developed, to show how challenges that occur during implementation of an innovation life-cycle, based upon enterprise engineering principles, can be addressed by best by putting the right strategies in place. This theory contributes to the body of knowledge by providing data and analysis from practical insight into how an innovation life cycle can be implemented. The challenges thereof and the mitigating strategies make it work. This study also suggested the key re best practices for enterprise architecture driving such an implementation. The research is an area of interest for development or customizing an Innovation Life-cycle using an Enterprise Engineering Framework.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A inovaÃÃo à um elemento propulsor do desenvolvimento econÃmico e um importante meio para a sobrevivÃncia e competitividade. NÃo obstante à grande flexibilidade de uso da palavra inovaÃÃo, no ambiente empresarial o termo remete a uma nova ideia ou prÃtica organizacional, seja desenvolvida internamente ou adquirida no mercado, de forma que esta novidade proporcione algum valor à empresa e/ou seus stakeholders. Devido a sua reconhecida relevÃncia no contexto organizacional, a inovaÃÃo tem sido tema de pesquisas em todo o mundo, que a indicam como fenÃmeno dinÃmico e multifacetado, que pode ser apresentado em diversas dimensÃes e influenciado por diversos fatores. A literatura ressalta ainda a importÃncia de mensurar esse fenÃmeno, bem como conhecer e gerenciar os fatores que facilitam e dificultam o processo inovativo. Na realidade das Micro e Pequenas Empresas (MPE), a inovaÃÃo tem papel fundamental para competitividade e sobrevivÃncia, mas ainda merece investigaÃÃes que a tratem de maneira particular, uma vez que possui vantagens e fragilidades em relaÃÃo Ãs empresas de maior porte. O objetivo geral do estudo à investigar a evoluÃÃo, dimensÃes, facilitadores e dificultadores da inovaÃÃo nas MPE atendidas pelo Programa ALI em Picos - PI. Foi realizada uma pesquisa descritiva, utilizando-se de dados secundÃrios fornecidos pelo Sebrae e de dados primÃrios coletados por entrevistas junto Ãs empresas que participaram do Programa ALI e ao Agente ALI que atuou no programa fomentando a inovaÃÃo nestas empresas. Os resultados evidenciaram que houve significativa evoluÃÃo nos indicadores de inovaÃÃo das MPE a partir das aÃÃes do Programa ALI. Apesar disso, encontram-se em estÃgio de empresas âpouco inovadoras ou nada inovadorasâ. As inovaÃÃes realizadas sÃo predominantemente incrementais, caracterizadas por pequenas melhorias principalmente nas dimensÃes Oferta e Plataforma. Os principais fatores facilitadores da inovaÃÃo estÃo relacionados ao Apoio dos gestores e ao Planejamento de aÃÃes necessÃrias à implementaÃÃo das inovaÃÃes. Entre os dificultadores do processo inovativo, destacam-se a LimitaÃÃo em termos de pessoas, o Receio das consequÃncias da inovaÃÃo e a ResistÃncia à inovaÃÃo por senso de acomodaÃÃo.

Creative dissertation. / Malinowski aurait peut-être souhaité que son journal soit révélé à titre posthume afin de contester l’accent mis sur la méthode scientifique par l’anthropologie sociale de son époque. Le dévoilement du journal de Bronislaw Malinowski renverse la domination des explications du fait social par le déterminisme, ouvrant la voie à ce qui devient, dans les années 1960, le tournant discursif. Le journal offre un aperçu de l’impulsion de vitalité de Malinowski et de ses préoccupations existentielles, qui sont excisées dans le processus de réécriture, connu pour transformer les notes de terrain en l’expression formelle caractérisant les monographies. L’anthropologue rédige des monographies pour ses contemporains en construisant des récits étayés par des preuves scientifiques d’une manière qui dissimule par la censure, les automatismes et la catégorie plus large de la subjectivité, ainsi que la possible relégation temporelle de l’Autre, qui peut entraîner la discrimination envers celui-ci. La personnalité publique de l’anthropologue est stylisée par le souci professionnel de représenter correctement le natif-comme-texte. Puisqu’il réfléchit à son avenir publiable, on émet l’hypothèse que Malinowski aurait l’intention de rédiger les entrées de son journal afin d’apporter une contribution posthume à l’anthropologie. Si cela est vrai, le journal est l’espace où les stratégies d’auto-dévoilement surgissent au premier plan, révélant la vulnérabilité supposée de l’auteur. Le dévoilement de l’expérience de vie n’est pas le produit d’un monologue intérieur chaotique, mais possède une fin en soi, qui est de révéler, à travers le mode de l’aveu, l’anthropologue-comme-texte. On pensait autrefois qu’en anthropologie, le système de la vérité était basé sur l’écriture théorique. Maintenant, le journal est mis en évidence. L’héritage de Malinowski repose avant tout sur la sophistique utilisée pour réorganiser le système de vérité entre l’écriture théorique et l’intime, entre la monographie et le journal. Cette réorganisation des vérités est accomplie à travers Writing in Schein qui est mon idiome se référant au jeu textuel avec des composantes du discours destiné à produire la litterarité inspirée d’images brillantes dans l’art apollinien. Writing in Schein est alors la diffusion des apparences, qui amplifie la crise de la représentation entre la copie qui imite, et le simulacre qui invente, puisque la sophistique nécessaire pour aligner les éléments du discours est une folle simulation littéraire. Par l’acte unique du journal et son dévoilement prévu pour la postérité, Malinowski détruit l’enchainement de l’activité productive en anthropologie. / Malinowski may have wished for his diary to be revealed posthumously in order to contest the intense focus on the scientific method, adopted in his time. The unveiling of Bronislaw Malinowski’s diary overthrows the dominance of explanations of social fact based solely on determinism, paving the way for what becomes known, during the 1960s, as the discursive turn. The diary offers insight into Malinowski’s impulse of vitality, along the existential concerns and narratives of personal experience, which are excised in the process of rewriting known to transform field notes into the type of formal expression that characterizes monographs. The anthropologist writes monographs for contemporaries by responding to their expectation of accounts backed by scientific evidence in a way that fosters concealment through censorship, automatisms and the larger category of subjectivity, as well as the possible time-relegation of the Other, which may result in discrimination against him. A positive public persona is stylized out of professional concern for properly staging the native-as-text. It is hypothesized that Malinowski possible future publication of the journal intends to compose its entries so as to make a posthumous contribution to anthropology. If that is true, the journal is the space where strategies of self-showing come to the fore, revealing the author’s assumed vulnerability. The unveiling of life experience is not the product of chaotic interior monologue or brooding, but has an end-goal which is to unveil, through the mode of avowal, the anthropologist-as-text. It was once thought that the anthropological system of truth is based on theoretical writing. Now, however diary is highlighted. Malinowski’s legacy rests foremost upon the sophistry used to reorder the system of truth between theoretical and intimate writing, between the monograph and the diary. This reordering of truths is accomplished through Writing in Schein, which is my idiom referring to the textual play with components of discourse intended to produce beautiful constructs inspired by shining images in Apollonian art. Writing in Schein is then the dissemination of appearances, which amplifies the crisis of representation between the copy that imitates, and the simulacrum that invents, since the sophistry required to align elements of discourse is a mad literary simulation. Through the single act of the diary and its unveiling planned for posterity, Malinowski destroys the sequence of productive activity in anthropology. / Malinowski możliwie życzył sobie, aby dziennik został ujawniony pośmiertnie. Podsuwam hipotezę, że chciał on w ten sposób rzucić wyzwanie metodzie naukowej przyjętej przez ówczesną antropologię społeczną. Odsłonięcie dziennika Bronisława Malinowskiego odwraca uwagę od dominacji wyjaśniania faktów społecznych przez determinizm, torując drogę zwrotowi dyskursywnemu spopularyzowanego w dyscyplinie od lat sześćdziesiątych. Pamiętnik oferuje wgląd w impuls witalności Malinowskiego i jego obaw egzystencjalnych, które są strategicznie wykreślane z tekstu podczas przekształcania notatek terenowych w formalne wyrażenia, charakteryzujące monografie. Antropolog komponuje monografie dla współczesnych czytelników, konstruując tekstualne relacje poparte dowodami naukowymi i cenzurą automatyzmów, szerszej kategorii podmiotowości, a także czasowego degradowania Obcego. Postać publiczna antropologa jest stylizowana, aby poprawnie przedstawiać rdzennego-jako-tekst. Spekuluje się, że zastanawiając się nad swoją publikowalną przyszłością, Malinowski zamierza formułować wpisy do swojego dziennika, aby pośmiertnie przyczynić się do nauki o kulturze, i ludzkości. Jeśli to prawda, dziennik jest przestrzenią, w której ujawnia się jego rzekoma wrażliwość. Odsłonięcie doświadczenia życiowego nie jest wytworem chaotycznego monologu wewnętrznego, ale ma cel samo w sobie ujawnienia, poprzez poufałość, antropologa-jako-tekst. Kiedyś uważano, że w antropologii system prawdy opierał się na piśmie teoretycznym. Teraz dziennik jest podświetlony. Dziedzictwo Malinowskiego polega przede wszystkim na sofistyce, za pomocą której reorganizuje on system prawdy między pismem teoretycznym a prywatnym, między monografią a pamiętnikiem. Tę reorganizację prawd dokonuje się poprzez Scheinschrift, które jest moim idiomem odwołującym się do gry tekstowej mającej na celu wytworzenie systemu wyrazów piękna inspirowanych sztuką apollińską. Scheinschrift potęguje kryzys reprezentacji między modelem a kopiami. Scheinschrift jest zatem sofistyką niezbędną do zestrojenia elementów dyskursu i rozpowszechnienia pozorów, miejącymi na celu kształtowanie szalonej symulacji literackiej. Wyłącznym aktem pisma pamiętnika i jego odsłonięciem przeznaczonym dla potomności, Malinowski niszczy dawny łańcuch twórczej działalności antropologii.