Nadine Niewöhner successfully completed her doctorate on the topic of "Systematics for the design of ambidextrous innovation management" with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Roman Dumitrescu.
Summary:
Increasingly, economic, social, political and above all technological transformations offer new potential for innovation. These are increasingly turning entire industries upside down and have an important influence on innovation. To remain competitive in the long term, companies must be able to promote both incremental and radical innovations as part of their innovation management. To achieve this, the consideration of ambidextry in the development of innovations is a promising approach. However, many companies do not know how to implement ambidextry in innovation management, which concrete tasks have to be dealt with and what the current Status quo in the company looks like. The goal of this thesis is therefore the development of a methodology for the design of an ambidextrous innovation management. This comprises a total of four components: A reference model of innovation management, a maturity model for evaluating the Status quo of ambidexterity in innovation management, design options for improving performance, and a process model for the systematic design of ambidextrous innovation management. The methodology supports companies in evaluating the current consideration of ambidextry in innovation management. Furthermore, it provides a catalog of design options that improve the implementation of ambidextry. The methodology is applied in three companies as examples.
