Janne J. Korhonen

• D. Sc. (Tech)
• Aalto University

Measurement of innovation has been a long-time research interest, and surveys have been widely conducted to gauge innovation activity, growth and profit. However, innovations have traditionally been measured in terms of aggregate changes in labour, multi-factor or total productivity, rather than in terms of process variables of the work itself. The...

This study explored the role of the Chief Information Officer's (CIO's) capability in the organization's capacity to change. The topic is motivated by increasingly IT-intensive business and CIOs' integral role in enterprise change. The study resulted in a model that contributes to a better understanding of this role. The capability of the CIO was...

Enterprise change can be seen to have different degrees, each of which is progressively wider in scope and different in nature, varies in type of intervention, and absorbs an increasing amount of environmental complexity. In this chapter, three degrees of enterprise change are identified. The first degree of change is about restructuring in an oper...

The growth of productivity has slowed over the last two decades, and the diffusion of innovation is no longer happening as it used to in the past. Innovation is vital for small and middle-size enterprises (SMEs) to compete against larger incumbents, but it is restricted by difficulties in obtaining the requisite financial and human resources. Abili...

In today’s volatile, high-velocity markets, organizational strategy focuses on developing a series of temporary advantages through non-stop organizational transformation vis-à-vis the environment. To sense and respond to constantly emerging value deficiencies and opportunities, quantitative and fact-based real-time analysis of timely and high-quali...

Business–IT alignment calls for coordination between IT and business (non-IT) parts of an organization along different dimensions: strategic, structural, social, and cultural. The focus of this conceptual paper is on the social dimension of alignment – the mutual understanding of business and IT stakeholders on the business and IT objectives and ac...

Finland’s Slot Machine Association (RAY) has recently undergone a major transformation from a steady operator of slot machines to an agile innovator of new games and concepts. As a key part of this transformation, agile methods used in product development teams have been scaled up to the organizational level using Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). To...

Business Intelligence (BI) purports to support decision-making with better insights into the organization’s environment and sophisticated analysis techniques of ‘Big Data’ help make more effective use of the vast data for competitive advantage. Given adequate sponsorship, approval, and funding from the top level, business intelligence and analytics...

Enterprise Architecture is increasingly seen as transcending enterprise-wide IT architecture. In its exalted conceptualization, EA provides the link between strategy and execution and is driven by strategic considerations such as business transformation and business agility. However, academic research on the topic is still relatively incipient. In...

Enterprise Engineering (EE) is about purposeful design of enterprises and their transformative activities. It is an interdisciplinary domain, which draws largely on information systems and organizational science. Not unlike these fields, EE would benefit from a variety of research approaches to study the engineering of socio-technical systems. To a...

Analytics is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage. It has even been posited that big data will be the next strategic emphasis of organizations and that analytics capability will be manifested in organizational structure. In this article, I explore how analytics capability might be reflected in organizational structure using the...

While the literature is replete with theories and explanations on the organizational value of IT, there are, to our knowledge, few systemic accounts that would help structure the variety of observations, perspectives and paradigms. The purpose of this conceptual paper is to provide a starting point for metatheoretical inquiry in the field. To this...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is increasingly being utilized by organizations as an approach to manage the complexity of business processes, information systems and technical infrastructure. Although EA is generally regarded as an effective management tool, its full benefits can be realized only when it is incorporated into day-to-day operations of...

The discipline of Enterprise Architecture (EA) is still relatively immature and incoherent. The discourse is rather fragmented and lacking a shared vocabulary. To shed some light on the situation, some schools of thought on EA have been suggested, each with its distinct concerns and set of assumptions. In this article, we aim to bring more structur...

The alignment of business and IT has been a persistent topic of discussion in the past decades. As information systems have evolved from an administrative support function to an integral part of business fabric, the classic "internal" perspective adopted by the bulk of alignment research falls short in accounting for the dynamic business network co...

High quality data is a key source of business value, but this high quality can be attained only through proper data management. However, data quality issues in organizations are often addressed inadequately and Data Governance (DG) is called for. Data Governance requires four main components: commitment, technology, process and accountability. This...

Human Interaction Management (HIM) is a holistic theory of human collaborative work that provides management principles and patterns for business processes focused on knowledge work. The Human Interaction Management System (HIMS) is the associated software technology for process design, execution and management. Goal-Oriented Organization Design (G...

High quality data is a key source of business value, but data quality issues in organizations are often addressed inadequately and pertinent Data Governance (DG) is called for. This paper focuses on the accountability aspect of data governance: the assignment of decision rights and responsibilities pertaining to data management. We follow the desig...

In today’s economic, regulatory, and social environment, information security governance and management are topics of great interest to practitioners and researcher alike. In response to the increasingly interconnected, information intensive business landscape, legal pressures, and ongoing scrutiny to transparency and overall governance, organizati...

Information technology enabled services, wherein transactions are digitized and codified through information and communications technology (ICT), bear potential to transcend the inherent limitations of traditional, labor-intensive “in situ” service models. As the production and consumption of service are spatiotemporally separated, information tech...

The Web has evolved from the rudimentary, hyperlinked collection of read-only and static information resources to a ubiquitous participative network computation platform, Web 2.0. Different conjectures have also been put forth as to what the future generations of the Web would entail. The purpose of this paper is to outline a developmental framewor...

In the face of the increasingly complex, interconnected and non-linear business environment, businesses must reach out to each other and form networked ecosystems that pull together capabilities in a nonlinear fashion, eliminating time, distance and location. In the emerging Service-Dominant Logic, co-created value lies in the exchange and applicat...

To succeed in the current business environment, organizations need to be innovative, flexible and faster in the face of uncertainty, complexity and change. As the perspective has moved from products to services, enterprises have componentized their structures to operate in the newly emerging collaborative ecosystems. Service-oriented information te...

This paper identifies and analyzes governance roles and tasks in SOA security governance at macro level. Drawing from Information security management standards and frameworks on one hand and SOA considerations on the other hand, the identified governance elements are mapped to a governance structure that specifies planning and execution aspects at...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is often managed within the IT function of organizations. With the lack of business ownership and involvement, the potential of EA cannot be fully realized on an enterprise scale. We view that the management processes and control mechanisms of IT governance are inadequate for holistic governance of enterprise architectu...

An effective organization is agile in responding to environmental stimuli. Business Process Management (BPM) enhances the organization's agility by enabling faster reassembly of business processes. To redeem this promise on an enterprise-scale, BPM requires an appropriate governance mechanism to facilitate coordination of people and ICT assets. In...