Professor Jeremy Rose would like to invite companies to participate in an international study of Software Innovation.The study is funded by the Danish Research Council and is led by the Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University and Cambridge University's Judge Business School (Cambridge University).
His study seeks to:
- understand how innovative software development is organised and managed in high-tech companies
- develop best practice models and strategies
- communicate these back to software practitioners.
Professor Rose would like to:
- make contact with companies willing to share their experiences
- interview experienced software/systems developers, project managers or development managers.
Such shared knowledge is important for his research and other software developers with similar needs.
The researchers would also like to develop more extended forms of co-operation, with a small number of companies, with direct benefits for business development - for example, an innovation readiness assessment, experience exchange or internal workshop. These free services will be custom designed to suit the needs of contributing companies.
The research project is externally funded and participants will not be asked to pay for services or information. All of the results of the project will be disseminated directly to participating companies
Software Innovation
Innovation is the forgotten key to modern systems development - the element that defines the enterprising engineer, the thriving software firm and the cutting edge software application. Traditional forms of technical education pay little attention to creativity - often encouraging overly rationalistic ways of thinking which stifle the ability to innovate. Professional software developers are often drowned in commercial drudgery and overwhelmed by work pressure and deadlines. The topic that will both ensure success in the market and revitalize their work lives is never addressed. The new field of software innovation organises the existing scientific research into eight simple heuristics -- guiding principles for organizing a system developer's work-life so that it focuses on innovation.
Data collection will take place in England, Denmark, Sweden and Holland.
For more information please contact:
Jeremy Rose
Professor of IT, University of Skøvde, Sweden
Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science, Aalborg University, Denmark
Visiting Research Associate, Judge Business School
jeremy@cs.aau.dk
Matthew Jones
Lecturer in Information Systems, Judge Business School
Fellow of Darwin College
m.jones@jbs.cam.ac.uk
Frank Ulrich
PhD student in creativity and innovation in systems development, Department of Computing Science, Aalborg University, Denmark
frank@cs.aau.dk