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Capturing and measuring technology based service innovation - A case analysis within theory and practice

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Grant K, Alefantos T, Meyer M & Edgar D (2013) Capturing and measuring technology based service innovation - A case analysis within theory and practice. International Journal of Information Management, 33 (5), pp. 899-905. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2013.07.002

Abstract
While economies in the industrialised World have become increasingly knowledge driven and service based, much of the work on capturing and measuring business value is still constrained and steeped in the thinking of the manufacturing era. One area that is more susceptible to measurement is the field of technology based or enhanced services. This case analysis seeks to explore how a service operator, such as an international airport, can gauge value from investment into IT. We examine how the airport operator combines a variety of accounting techniques and other tools to capture value from their IT investments. We explore how the operator could improve their measurement of business value derived from their IT investment. One observation of practice is that value capturing tools and techniques are used in parallel rather than ‘in sync’. Drawing on the notion of user innovation, we argue operators should embrace a systemic approach in adapting and modifying measuring regimes to accommodate service based innovation.

Keywords
service innovation; technology innovation; measuring technology service enabled innovation;

Journal
International Journal of Information Management: Volume 33, Issue 5

StatusPublished
FundersUniversity of Kent
Publication date31/10/2013
Publication date online13/08/2013
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/28915
ISSN0268-4012

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Professor Kevin Grant

Professor Kevin Grant

Dean of Stirling Management School