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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-33415-9
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
D.Engr.
Discipline of degree
Engineering Management
Body granting the degree
The George Washington University
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2018
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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The ability to manage transformative change is paramount to the success of an organization trying to accommodate the unique characteristics of continuous market disruptions. The rate of change the business environment must accommodate requires an approach that provides decision-makers with the ability to identify, forecast, and pick potential innovation alternatives that produce the greatest measured impact. The use of existing innovation maturity models provides limited insight, and industry practitioners lack a generalized means to validate the contextual correlation between innovation maturity progression and business outcomes. Knowing the overall maturity level of the process or capability alone will not provide the granularity needed to identify, assess, or suggest which innovations produce the greatest impact. The purpose of this quantitative study is to evaluate the critical attributes that drive innovation maturity progression.