Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Telling an Innovation Story

   1. Telling an Innovation Story

      • E. Burton Swanson

      Pages 1-4

3. Implementation and Coordination Issues

   1. A Web Innovations on Software Process-Center for Diffusing Techniques

      • Carla Freericks

      Pages 5-16

   2. Diffusion and Adoption of IT Products and Processes in a Danish Bank

      • Jan Pries-Heje, Susanne Tryde

      Pages 17-34

4. New Interpretations of Diffusion Theory

   1. The Phenomenon of Diffusion

      • Tor J. Larsen

      Pages 35-50

   2. A Perspective of the Innovation-Diffusion Process from the Self-Organizing System

      • Toshio Mitsufuji

      Pages 51-65

   3. The Illusion of Diffusion in Information Systems Research

      • Tom McMaster

      Pages 67-85

5. Software Process

   1. Understanding and Changing Software Organizations

      • Karlheinz Kautz, Henrik Westergaard Hansen, Kim Thaysen

      Pages 87-109

   2. Diagnosing Diffusion Practices Within a Software Organization

      • Ingegerd Andersson, Kerstin Nilsson

      Pages 111-129

6. Contextual Factors

   1. The Diffusion of Components

      • Richard Veryard

      Pages 131-145

   2. Across the Divide: Two Organisations Form a Virtual Team and Codevelop a Product

      • L. Levine, G. Syzdek

      Pages 147-172

   3. What’s Wrong with the Diffusion of Innovation Theory?

      • Kalle Lyytinen, Jan Damsgaard

      Pages 173-190

7. Communication of Information

   1. Influences of Sources of Communication on Adoption of a Communication Technology

      • William D. Stuart, Tracy Callaway Russo, Howard E. Sypher, Thelma E. Simons, Lisa K. Hallberg

      Pages 191-204

   2. Knowledge Creation in Improving a Software Organisation

      • Pouya Pourkomeylian

      Pages 205-223

8. Experience Reports

   1. How To Live With Software Problems

      • Klaus Jul Jeppesen

      Pages 225-239

   2. Introducing Concurrent Functional Programming in the Telecommunications Industry

      • Bjarne Däcker

      Pages 241-255

   3. Change and Adaptive Behavior in Organizations

      • Andrew P. Jansma

      Pages 257-275

   4. In Search of an Efficient EDIcebreaker

      • Helle Zinner Henriksen

      Pages 277-291

   5. Process Definition in Web-Time

      • Alan S. Koch

      Pages 293-305

   6. Erratum to: Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations

      • Mark A. Ardis, Barbara L. Marcolin

      Pages E1-E1

Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations addresses the problems and issues surrounding successful diffusion of innovations in software. Everett Rogers' classic text, Diffusion of Innovations, provides a valuable framework for evaluating and applying technology transfer methods. In today's new economy, the most important innovations may well be new software products and processes.
Topics covered in this valuable new book include:

• Implementation and coordination issues;
• New interpretations of diffusion theory;
• Diffusion of software processes;
• Contextual factors;
• Communication of information;
• Experience reports.

This volume contains the edited proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Diffusing Software Product and Process Innovations, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 8.6, and held in Banff, Canada in April 2001. It reflects the latest experiences of practitioners and theories of academics in this fast-changing field.

• Feder
• Processing
• functional programming
• information processing
• information system
• innovation
• organization
• programming

• Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA

  Mark A. Ardis

• University of Calgary, Canada

  Barbara L. Marcolin

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