TY - GEN
T1 - Dangerous champions of IT innovation
AU - Gogan, Janis L.
AU - Conboy, Kieran
AU - Weiss, Joseph W.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - An IT innovation champion is a self-appointed advocate of a hardware, software or data innovation. A dangerous IT innovation champion can expose an IT innovation project, as well as one or more operational processes and the organization, to reputational, financial, and other risks. While most prior studies see champions as heroes who drive projects forward through advocacy and marshaling of resources, some prior studies reported that champions do not always succeed and some reported that ineffective or dysfunctional champions may cause harm. We answer calls for more research on dysfunctional or ineffective innovation champions, by reflecting on particularly dangerous high-level IT innovation champions revealed in three field-based case studies. Based on our study findings, we discuss how to spot dangerous champions in time to mitigate high project and business risks.
AB - An IT innovation champion is a self-appointed advocate of a hardware, software or data innovation. A dangerous IT innovation champion can expose an IT innovation project, as well as one or more operational processes and the organization, to reputational, financial, and other risks. While most prior studies see champions as heroes who drive projects forward through advocacy and marshaling of resources, some prior studies reported that champions do not always succeed and some reported that ineffective or dysfunctional champions may cause harm. We answer calls for more research on dysfunctional or ineffective innovation champions, by reflecting on particularly dangerous high-level IT innovation champions revealed in three field-based case studies. Based on our study findings, we discuss how to spot dangerous champions in time to mitigate high project and business risks.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85108174420
M3 - Conference Publication
AN - SCOPUS:85108174420
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 6144
EP - 6153
BT - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2020
Y2 - 7 January 2020 through 10 January 2020
ER -