A Life-Cycle Framework to Manage Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange in Open Organisations

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Matthias R. Guertler (1), Nico Adams (2), Glenda Caldwell (3), Jared Donovan (3), Andreas Hopf (1), Jonathan Roberts (3)
Series: DESIGN
Institution: 1: University of Technology Sydney, Australia; 2: James Cook University, Australia; 3: Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Section: Organisation, Collaboration and Management
Page(s): 181-190
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.20
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

Successful research and development requires interdisciplinary collaboration, often across organisational boundaries and for extended timeframes, such as in innovation networks or ecosystems. Open Organisation (OO) research can support collaboration and knowledge exchange in such situations. It builds on established concepts of Open Innovation through enhancing the exchange of knowledge by the exchange of humans. This paper contributes to OO research by presenting an OO lifecycle framework, which analyses evolving organisational and collaboration characteristics and resulting management needs.

Keywords: open innovation, design management, project management, open organisation, organisational lifecycle