Authors:
Lucía Méndez-Tapia
1
;
2
and
Juan Pablo Carvallo
1
Affiliations:
1
Universidad del Azuay (UDA), Av. 24 de Mayo 7-77 y Francisco Moscoso, Cuenca, Ecuador
;
2
Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (UPV), Camí de Vera, s/n, 46022 València, Spain
Keyword(s):
Organizational Readiness Assessment, Open Source Software Adoption, Open Innovation.
Abstract:
Open Source Software (OSS) is probably, the most iconic implementation of Open Innovation business paradigm, due its capacity to concentrate both technical benefits and business advantages. Over time, organizations face the OSS adoption challenge strengthening mainly its internal and technical elements. However, the rapid changes on business dynamics, and the comprehensiveness and fast development of open paradigms, show us that a new set of conditions must be satisfied to reach a successfully OSS adoption. These conditions, considered as a critical success factors, involve a wide range of resources, capacities and skills, both in internal and external scopes. Hence, although adopter organizations should be better prepared to face the challenges related to collaborative innovation, they do not have a systematic approach to value its readiness level to face the adoption challenges. In this context, the present research work proposes a model to assess the organizational readiness, cons
idering the adopter as part of a live business ecosystem, where the relationships originated on co-development with developers’ communities, have mutual business impact at strategic, tactic, and operative level.
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