The June 2014 issue of the Technology Innovation Management Review editorial theme is Opportunities and Capabilities. The authors present insights about patent evaluation, service innovation, technology entrepreneurship, and IT capability improvement.
Derek Smith, founder and principal of Magneto Innovention Management, presents a framework to help managers and entrepreneurs evaluate patents to reveal their hidden value and improve strategic decision making.
Jeff Moretz and Chirag Surti, from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada, examine wireless service pricing and the opportunities it presents for innovation.
Jay Payette, management consultant and graduate student in Carleton University's Master of Design program, addresses a key challenge that new technology startups face: a perceived lack of organizational legitimacy simply because of the venture's young age.
Paul Renaud, Sheppard Narkier, and Sonia Bot, argue that a firm's dependency on its IT function is increasingly central to its ability to innovate. They demonstrate that sustained improvement in the IT function can be achieved through incremental improvement to its technology capabilities, process capabilities, and competency capabilities.
This issue also includes a report on a recent TIM Lecture by Ibrahim Gedeon, Chief Technology Officer of TELUS, who shared insights on innovation based on his experiences as an executive in the telecommunications industry.
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