Collaborative innovation processes in unpredictable environments are a challenge for traditional management. But new demands in a global digital society push public and corporate leadership to... Show moreCollaborative innovation processes in unpredictable environments are a challenge for traditional management. But new demands in a global digital society push public and corporate leadership to collaborate ad hoc, without predictable goals and planned working rules. In this study, an actor-network approach (ANT) is combined with critical incident technique (CIT) to elaborate dynamic network principles for a new real-time foresight (RTF). Real-time foresight replaces traditional planning and strategic management in ad hoc multi-sector collaborations. Although ANT originates from science and technologies studies, it is here applied to a management problem due to ist ability to merge voluntaristic and evolutionary managerial components and micro- and macro perspectives. The investigation is placed in an exemplary management field of high dynamics: global disaster management. From process analysis and from comparison of three dynamic innovation networks that emerged around Indian coastal villages after Tsunami 2004, five dynamic network patterns are obtained which underly successful collaborative innovation processes. These dynamic structures build the agenda for a new real-time foresight, and for an instrument to evaluate in real-time the emergence of dynamic innovation networks (DINs). Show less
Michel Foucault’s work concerned ‘subjectivation’. Contemporary critics argue that his work on ‘surveillance societies’ is based on the industrial organisation paradigm. In the information era, his... Show moreMichel Foucault’s work concerned ‘subjectivation’. Contemporary critics argue that his work on ‘surveillance societies’ is based on the industrial organisation paradigm. In the information era, his surveillance model is said to be defunct. One way of assessing the value of Foucault’s work for present-day concerns is to examine how ‘subjectivation’ relates to technology. His own research on neoliberalism provides a starting-point. We do need to look further though, for example at Bruno Latour’s work, which claims that technologies are to people what ‘plug-ins’ are to the internet. The question is how technology-mediated subjectivation turns out in practice. This study examines the case of healthcare innovation from the point of view of ‘shaping’ the patient. The Dutch Electronic Health Record and the Personal Healthcare Budget are political designs to foster innovation. Both designs were introduced in the mid-1990s and were nearly abolished in 2011. What happened over the course of one and a half decades? The study concludes by examining the democratisation of healthcare innovation in ‘Living Labs’: local or regional platforms in which people are in some way involved in innovation processes. Again, the crucial question is: what roles are attributed to the patient? Show less
