The aim of this thesis is to propose improvements in the selected banking process. This thesis consists of a theoretical and a practical part. The theoretical part is devoted to the traditional and banking approaches to innovations. The definition of innovations, classification, sources, models of innovation process, barriers to innovations are defined in the theoretical part. The practical part is devoted to the analysis of the process and a proposal of the innovation model of the process.

Since China embraced the “Open Door” policy in 1978, innovation has been an increasingly important factor for the Chinese economy. China is now the third largest country in the world league table of patent applications. China has also received large amounts of foreign direct investment, much of it from major Western innovative companies. In the earlier years of the Open Door policy, much of the involvement of Western companies was through joint ventures. International joint ventures are still important, and it is believed have substantially enhanced China's innovative capability. It is the contention of this research that there is a direct correlation between the arrivals of Sino-Western JVs and China's increased innovation capabilities. This is an important area of study as China moves towards becoming a developed economy. The gap in research at present is in applying innovation theory to China and to JVs. The thesis explores the contribution of Sino-Western JVs to the development of China's innovative capabilities. A model of the innovation process is developed, and eight important factors that are considered to enhance a company's innovative capacity, are derived from the model. The factors, expressed as propositions, are: 1: Becoming part of a wide innovative network in its industry 2: Taking part in an open innovation system in its industry 3: Relating closely to universities, and particularly their research laboratories 4: Relating closely to research institutions 5: Developing a social atmosphere conducive to innovation 6: Developing a strong strategic planning system with innovation as a focus 7: Having innovation as a primary objective of both partners at the outset of the joint venture 8: Focusing on developing intellectual property To investigate whether these propositions were accepted by Sino-Western joint ventures, 40 semi-structured interviews were conducted in ten international (Sino-western) joint ventures in China. In general the interviews provided support for the propositions. However, some reservations were expressed. Executives were reluctant to engage in open (collaborative) innovation, preferring to seek patents for developed intellectual property. They also perceived the main objective of the Western partners to be commercial success rather than innovation, although the Chinese partners were very much innovation-orientated. The research contributes to our understanding of the contribution of Sino-western JVs to the innovative capability of Chinese companies, and provides support for most of the propositions identified in the literature. Respondents remarked that most of the propositions would apply also to self-standing companies in China, and suggested that joint ventures could stimulate innovation in indigenous Chinese companies. In addition to providing a historical overview of the development of innovation in China, developing an innovation process model and testing it in the Chinese context, the thesis makes important policy and practical recommendations to Chinese organizations.

Darbo objektas: Inovacijų diegimas Lietuvos kelionių organizatorių įmonėse. Tikslas: įvertinti inovacijų diegimą Lietuvos kelionių organizatorių įmonėse. Uždaviniai: 1. Apibrėžti inovacijos sampratą ir paaiškinti inovacijų valdymo procesą; 2. Išnagrinėti inovacijų specifiką turizmo sektoriuje; 3. Apklausti Lietuvos kelionių organizatorių įmonių darbuotojus, siekiant ištirti inovacijų diegimą. Tiriamasis klausimas: 1. Ar kelionių organizatorių įmonės siekia kurti inovacinius produktus bei paslaugas? Svarbiausi rezultatai, išvados ir pasiūlymai. Atlikus tyrimą, galima daryti išvadą, kad Lietuvos kelionių organizatorių įmonių veikla orientuota į naujų paslaugų, produktų kūrimą bei jų diegimą. Didelis dėmesys skirtas ir esamiems produktams, paslaugoms tobulinti. Dažniausiai įmonėse yra diegiamos produkto ir paslaugos inovacijos. Retai diegiamos organizacinės veiklos inovacijos bei technologinio proceso inovacijos. Mano pasiūlymas kelionių organizatorių vadovams, savininkams – daugiau dėmesio skirti technologinio proceso inovacijoms, nes technologijos sparčiai juda į priekį, todėl visada yra terpė plėstis, tobulėti. Taip pat daugiau dėmesio skirti organizacinės veiklos inovacijoms, nes tik darniai dirbančios bei turinčios atitinkamą organizacinę kultūrą organizacijos, galės daug efektyviau kurti bei diegti naujus produktus. Taip pat rekomenduočiau vykdyti mokymus, seminarus apie naujų produktų kūrimą, esamų produktų tobulinimą, sėkmingą jų įvedimą į rinką. Siūlyčiau daugiau... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Key words: innovation, process of innovation, new products, travel organizer. Object of research: innovations in the enterprises of travel organizers. Aim of research: to evaluate the innovatory of Lithuanian travel organizers. Goals: 1. To explain the conception of the innovations and the process of the administration; 2. To discuss the particularity of the innovations in the tourism sector; 3. To investigate the Lithuanian travel organizers and evaluate their innovatory. Investigation: 1. Are the travel organizers enterprises ready to make the new products and services? Leading results, conclusion and suggestions. After the investigation we can come to the conclusion that Lithuanian travel organizers are innovatory enough and their work is directed towards creation of new services, products and their implementation in the market. 87 percent of enterprises apply the innovations in their activities. Great attention is paid to the already existing products and services and their implementation. Mostly the innovations of products and services are applied in the activity. Organizational and technological innovations are rarely used. The investigation showed that travel organizers enterprises do not encourage to suggest the new ideas, because it is considered as a matter-of-course, usual thing. My suggestion for the travel leaders and owners – is not only to pay more attention to the technological innovations, because technologies are expeditiously in progress, therefore... [to full text]

Darbo objektas: inovacijos kaimo turizmo sodybose. Tikslas: atskleisti vartotojų požiūrį į kaimo turizme diegiamas inovacijas ir jų poreikį. Uždaviniai: 1. Apibrėžti inovacijos sampratą ir paaiškinti inovacinės veiklos procesą; 2. Išnagrinėti inovacijų specifiką kaimo turizmo sektoriuje; 3. Nustatyti vartotojų požiūrį į inovacijų taikymą kaimo turizmo sektoriuje. Tiriamasis klausimas: 1. Koks vartotojų poreikis naujoms kaimo turizmo sodybų paslaugoms? Svarbiausi rezultatai, išvados ir pasiūlymai. Atlikus tyrimą, daroma išvada, kad respondentus pagal jų požiūrį į inovacijas galima skirti į tris grupes. Dalis respondentų mano, kad kaimo turizmo sodybų sektoriuje inovacijos reikalingos ir naudingos, jų diegimas populiarina sodybas, nauji įdiegti produktai ir paslaugos skatina apsilankyti ar rinktis vieną ar kitą kaimo turizmo sodybą. Šiai grupei vartotojų svarbu, kad sodyboje teikiamų paslaugų paketas būtų nuolat papildomas naujai siūlomomis paslaugomis. Kita respondentų dalis mano, kad inovacijos jiems nebūtinos, nes jų lankymosi tikslas kaimo turizmo sodybose – atšvęsti šventę (gimtadienį, vestuves, šeimos šventes, Naujuosius metus ir kitas šventes). Šie respondentai teigia, kad sodyboje yra tai, kas reikalinga švęsti šventei (maitinimo, apgyvendinimo paslaugos, pakankamai pramogų). Trečioji grupė apklaustųjų teigia, kad jiems inovacijos nerūpi, į inovacijas jie žiūri abejingai ar nežino, kokios gali būti inovacijos kaimo turizmo sektoriuje ir kam jų reikia. Kaimo turizmo... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Object of research: innovations in rural tourism homesteads. Aim of research: to expose consumers‘ attitudes to innovations in rural tourism. Goal: to gauge consumer opinion about innovations in a rural tourism sector. Aims: 1. To explain the conception of innovations and the process of administration; 2. To discuss the peculiarites of innovations in a rural tourism sector. 3. To evaluate the opportunities for innovations introduced in a rural tourism sector. Investigation: 1. What is the attitude of consumers to apply to innovation in rural tourism services? Final results, conclusions and suggestions Having undertaken the research we can come to the conclusion that respondents‘ attitude towards innovations in a rural tourism sector is different. Some respondents believe that innovations in a rural tourism sector are necessary and useful because they popularize homesteads. The number of consumers would like to see innovation in areas such as educational activities, tastings, presentations of culinary heritage and outdoor activities (winter entertainment adventure parks). The other part of consumers consider innovation as inessential because the purpose of their visit is to mark certain occations in rural tourism homesteads. For this purpose, in rural tourism homesteads clients find everything they need. The third of respondents mention that they neither miss nor need innovations in rural tourism sector. They do not know what kind of innovation in this sector can be and why... [to full text]

Diploma thesis deals with SCRUM methodology and its uses in innovation management. The main objective of the thesis is creation of a specific framework which will enable to use SCRUM methodology in the innovation process. The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part presents theoretical framework important for the main research. This part contains literature review and research dedicated to the SCRUM methodology and innovation process. The second part of the thesis deals with mapping of the SCRUM methodology to Hladik's innovation process. This part also contains own design of the innovation management process. The third part of the thesis is dedicated to the case study. The case study uses described innovation management process for verification of the hypothesis saying that is possible to use SCRUM methodology in the innovation process. The author's contribution lies in creation of a framework which provides agile alternative to the classical innovation management models.

Submitted by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2017-11-21T12:08:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney_Matos_Mendes.pdf: 2644478 bytes, checksum: ad05e40b69c9dae20702b1b2183e2bc1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2017-11-21T12:08:46Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney_Matos_Mendes.pdf: 2644478 bytes, checksum: ad05e40b69c9dae20702b1b2183e2bc1 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Alves Rodrigues (aalves@espm.br) on 2017-11-21T12:18:17Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney_Matos_Mendes.pdf: 2644478 bytes, checksum: ad05e40b69c9dae20702b1b2183e2bc1 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-11-22T12:57:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sidney_Matos_Mendes.pdf: 2644478 bytes, checksum: ad05e40b69c9dae20702b1b2183e2bc1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-28 / This research sought to understand how the product development process occurs with the disaggregation of geographic and proprietary scope. Comparisons were made between different theoretical references on the process of global innovation, open innovation and the relationship between them, to be applied in the three selected premium companies belonging to the Fashion Industry of Brazil, located in the city of São Paulo. For this, fifteen employees were interviewed, whose functions involve the development of collections of these companies. The research objectives were to propose a framework disaggregating the steps in the geographic and proprietary scopes; Identify the innovation process that can be adopted in multinational strategies; And which are the proprietary and geographic scopes of the process steps. The methodological approach is the qualitative one, the method is the one of case study and the technique of treatment of data was the analysis of content. It was found that the process occurs in a disaggregated way between its stages, there is independence of performance in the geographic and proprietary scopes, but, at different intensity, open innovation was more found than global innovation. And, the practice of open innovation does not influence the use of global innovation. / Esta pesquisa buscou entender como ocorre o processo de desenvolvimento de produto com a desagregação do escopo geográfico e proprietário. Foram feitas comparações entre diferentes referenciais teóricos sobre o Processo de Inovação global, inovação aberta e a relação entre eles, para que fossem aplicados nas três empresas premium selecionadas, pertencentes à Indústria Têxtil e Confecção do Brasil, localizadas na cidade de São Paulo. Para isso, foram entrevistados quinze funcionários, cuja as funções envolvem o desenvolvimento de coleções destas empresas. Os objetivos de pesquisa foram propor um framework desagregando as etapas nos escopos geográfico e proprietário; identificar o Processo de Inovação que pode ser adotado em estratégias multinacionais; e quais os escopos proprietário e geográfico das etapas do processo. A abordagem metodológica é a qualitativa, o método é o de estudo de caso e a técnica de tratamento de dados foi a análise de conteúdo. Constatou-se que o processo ocorre de forma desagregada entre suas etapas, existe independência de atuação nos escopos geográfico e proprietário, porém, em intensidade diferente, a inovação aberta foi mais encontrada que a inovação global. E, a prática da inovação aberta não influi no uso da inovação global.

The topic of this thesis is Innovation Management in the Chosen Organization. The aim of this work was to evaluate the actual state of innovation management, to identify possible weaknesses of this and to propose changes which can improve the present state. The thesis is divided into two parts. In the theoretical part there is a literary review of term connected with the topic of the thesis. There are descriptions of the terms like innovation, innovation management or innovation process. The practical part begins with the introduction of chosen organization. Then there is described a current state of innovation management in detail. The analysis of actual state of innovation management is based mainly on information obtained in interviews with the director of company and other staff. After that part, there are given some recommendations to improve current situation.

Denna rapport omfattar skapandet av en träningsmiljö tänkt att placeras utomhus i Karlstad och är anpassad för rullstolsburna individer. Arbetet har utförts på uppdrag av Karlstad kommun och motsvarar som ett examensarbete för högskoleingenjörsexamen inom Innovationsteknik och Design, vid fakulteten för Hälsa, Natur och Teknikvetenskap. Arbetet har utförts vid Karlstad Universitet under våren 2014. Karlstad kommun har sett ett behov av träningsutrustning i utomhusmiljö tillgängligt för rullstolsburna. På många träningsplatser i dagsläget stängs rullstolsburna ute från träning då det finns få möjligheter att justera den utrustning som erbjuds. Ur ett användarperspektiv anses träningsmöjligheterna vara otillräckliga vilket har legat till grund för detta arbete. Utfrån uppdragsgivarens synpunkt och krav samt genom informationsinsamling, intervjuer och obervationer formulerades en produktspecifikation. Produktspecifikationen omfattar huvudbehovet och andra nödvändiga behov för att platsen skall fungera som mötesplats med inriktningen ”träning för rullstolsburna”. Det ställs bland annat krav på användarvänlighet, hållbarhet och säkerhet. Konceptutvecklingen har följt den designprocess som används inom ramarna för innovationsteknik och Design. Vid utvecklingsprocessen användes skisser och CAD som hjälpmedel för att enkelt kunna simulera konstruktioner och lösningar på problem. Genereringsprocessen gav ett resultat på nitton olika lösningar som därefter utvärderas med hjälp av eliminerings- och utvärderingsmatriser. Det slutgiltliga konceptet motsvarar en träningsplats med fem maskiner speciellt anpassade för rullstolsburna där allsidig träning erbjuds. Träningsutrustningen är tänkt att kunna användas av alla individer oavsett tidigare erfarenhet och kunskap om träning. Maskinerna tillåter att hela övre delen av kroppen kan tränas, att manövrering på platsen är enkel och att skaderisken är låg. / The report deals with the subject of an outdoor gym located in Karlstad adapted and accessible for wheelchair using individuals. The work is performed within the course degree project for degree of Bachelor of Science in Innovation and design engineering, MSGC12 at the faculty of health, nature and engineering science at Karlstad University. The work has taken place at Karlstad University in the spring in 2014. Karlstad municipality has seen a need for exercise equipment in an outdoor environment that is accessible to wheelchair users. In today’s outdoor gyms wheelchair are users shut out. This is due to the face that the equipment is not adjusted accordingly. From a user perspective this is considered to be inadequate training opportunities and has been the basis for the creation of the outdoor gym, adjusted for wheelchair users. Based on the requirements from the client's point of view, data collection, interviews and observations a product specification was developed. The specification covers the main requirements and other necessary requirements for the site to function as a meeting place with focus on training for wheelchair users. The specification includes demands such as ease of use, durability and safety. Concept development has followed the design process used in the context of innovation, technology and design. During the development process sketches and CAD was used as means to easily simulate designs and solutions to problems. The concept generation process yielded a score of nineteen different solutions which is subsequently evaluated using elimination and evaluation matrix. Diagrams for how well each concept met the required conditions were used to evaluate in its entirety. The final concept is an outdoor gym which provides the opportunity for wheelchair users to work-out and preform rehabilitation exercises. The facility is equipped with five machines adjusted for wheelchair users which offer comprehensive training. Exercise equipment is intended to be used by all individuals regardless of previous experience and knowledge of training. The machines allow the entire upper part of the body to be trained. The operation of the site is simple and the risk of injury is low.

The diploma thesis Digitization and the Internet - Disruptive Technologies of Television Broadcasting discusses the changes in television forms. Emphasis is placed on the transformation of the market in the form of digitization, which subsequently also led to the intensive distribution of data within the Internet environment. The introductory part of the thesis is arched with theoretical support from the sides of economic and media approaches to the process of change. Their central motif deals with innovation or remediation. A closer description of the technologies themselves and their properties is not omitted either. Thanks to a closer description of the technologies themselves and their properties, it is possible to define the existence of imaginary boundaries of television. The second part of the work focuses specifically on the Czech landscape. It deals with the current state of legislation and the non-linear functions that the Internet has brought to television screens. At the practical level, the thesis focuses on alternative forms of television distribution in the Internet environment. The aim is to present the typical features and innovative elements of the disrupting technology of television broadcasting, which were defined in the theoretical part, on the example of the selected VOD...

This thesis examines a process of innovation within a Swedish early-stage start-up company in the textile industry. The thesis describes and analyzes the case company’s intentions to create entrepreneurial value by reconfiguring its supply chain as one of its resources. Theories of dynamic capabilities, entrepreneurial value creation and supply chain management are applied for analysis of the case company’s process of investigating how Blockchain technology can be applied to the company’s supply chain to create and enhance value for the company, its customers and suppliers. Topics of digitalization, Blockchain technology, supply chain management, entrepreneurial value creation and dynamic capabilities are covered as part of the discourse. The work in this thesis is qualitative and explorative and based on the study of one case company and its quest for creating entrepreneurial value by reconfiguring its supply chain. The study explores several potential ways for how entrepreneurial value can be created through process of innovation, e.g., by the application of Blockchain to a company’s supply chain. Although Blockchain has potential to create entrepreneurial value for the case company, it is not possible to predict if the benefits outweigh the costs, if the project is feasible in practice, if it is suitable for one company to undertake the project on its own or if collaboration and alliances are the way forward.