Call for papers for the July Issue 2025 – Deadline 25.05.2025
Suggested research topics of interest:
- Process Innovation strategy design and portfolio balancing of process innovation projects of different degrees of newness in a process-industrial context.
- Designing structural organizational frameworks for product and process innovation from the viewpoint of digitalization, sustainability, and sectoral convergencies.
- Reconfiguring a company process innovation work process for non-assembled products from the perspective of digitalization and sustainability.
- Methodologies and best practices as supportive instruments for an enhanced process innovation work process.
- Success factors and key performance indicators for enhanced future process innovation performance.
- Revisiting the “S-curve” concept and process innovation road-mapping methodology for strategic process innovation.
- Project management and project compression mechanisms for complex collaborative strategic long-term process innovation projects.
- Exploring new or improved innovation management capabilities and knowledge areas in response to process-industrial digitalization and sustainability challenges.
- Fostering a sustainable company innovation culture in “production-oriented” process-industrial operational environments.
- Open production as “wall-to-wall” raw material supplier integration and equipment supplier integration in company production process systems.
- The search for effective coordination mechanisms and collaborative models for customer and end-user interactions in complex process-industrial supply/value chains in view of future sectoral convergencies.
- Managing process innovation in the perspective of physical exchange of raw materials, by-products, energy, and water; industry symbiosis.
- Managing intra- and inter-firm collaboration and technology transfer as supporting mechanisms in digitalization and sectoral convergences.
- Application development in the adaptation of B2B customers’ production processes to supplied new or improved products.