Innovation Drivers and Outputs for Software Firms: Literature Review and Concept Development

Table 9

Associations between drivers and process innovation.

Software innovation drivers	Software innovation output	Sources
Innovation leadership →	Process innovation	[36, 37, 39, 43, 44, 51, 55, 56, 83, 95, 137]
(i) Work environment →		[36, 37, 83, 93, 95, 135, 138]
(ii) Path creation →		[39, 51, 95]
(iii) Portfolio management →		[39, 94]
(iv) Conflict resolution →		[43]
Innovation evaluation →		[60, 80, 82, 83, 95, 101, 136]
(i) Knowledge leverage →		[25, 43, 64, 68, 69, 92, 95, 96, 107, 135]
(ii) Absorptive capacity →		[6, 37, 82, 127]
(iii) Market understanding →		[36, 39, 52]
(iv) Technology trajectory understanding →		[25, 37, 39, 51, 52, 83, 135]
(v) User domain understanding →		[56, 68, 95, 131]
(vi) Competitor understanding
Community and network →		[51, 63, 68, 69, 82, 107, 123]
(i) Open innovation →		[60, 63, 64]
(ii) Open source →		[59, 60]
(iii) Crowd sourcing →		[63]
User involvement →		[55, 56, 73, 105, 110, 116]
(i) Customization
(ii) User-driven/lead user →		[73]
Creative cognition →		[80, 83, 86, 101, 125, 136, 138]
(i) Generative capacity →		[37, 82, 92, 95, 101, 125]
(ii) Ideation expertise →		[52, 80, 86]
Software design capability →		[11, 86]
(i) Concept →		[11]
(ii) Feature set →		[11]
Teamwork →		[69, 83, 88, 92, 95]
(i) Team composition →		[8, 92, 94, 95]
(ii) Expertise integration		[59, 92]
(iii) Shared understanding →		[69, 92–96]
Innovation tools & techniques →		[25]
(i) Creativity techniques →		[8, 25, 83, 110, 131, 138]
(ii) Creativity support tools →		[83, 93, 94, 99, 101, 125]
(iii) User toolkits →		[11, 73, 83]
Development framework →		[8, 11, 25, 104, 110, 116]
(i) Agility →		[8, 55, 104]
(ii) Creative requirements analysis →		[25, 93, 94, 110, 131]
(iii) Experimentation/prototyping →		[6, 56, 107]
Infrastructure/installed base
(i) Path dependency →		[51]