Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

Program for the 2nd Nordic Workshop on Digital Foundations of Business, Operations, and Strategy (DBoS)

Program for the 2nd Nordic Workshop on Digital Foundations of Business, Operations, and Strategy (DBoS)

Venue: Aalto University, AGrid building, seminar room Jeti on the 2ndfloor, Otakaari 5, Espoo, Finland

DAY 1 Thursday 6.2.2020

12-12.45 Lunch in front of seminar room Jeti on the 2ndfloor  (AGrid)

13.00 Opening and welcome by Robin Gustafsson, Matti Rossi, and Kalle Lyytinen

Session 1. Platform Economies and EcosystemsChair Robin Gustafsson

13.05-13.25      Towards a Deeper Understanding of Platform Ecosystems: A Process Theorizing Approach to Early-Stage Ecosystem Formation, Magnus Mähring, Anna Essen, Claire Ingram Bogusz (discussant Paavo Ritala)

13:25-13:45      Building the Silicon Cage: The regulatory promise and effect of digital technology in financial services, Stefan Haefliger, Kalle Lyytinen, Michael deSa, Wlad Fomin & Francois-Xavier de Vaujany (discussant Timo Seppälä)

13.45-14.05      Revisiting Network Externalities in Platform Markets: Beyond The N in Network Effects, Kimmo Karhu, Mikko Heiskala, & Paavo Ritala (discussant Magnus Mähring)

14.05-14.25      The New Platform Economy: Explicating Artificial Intelligence Platform Strategy, Tomasz Mucha & Timo Seppälä (discussant Stefan Haeflinger)

14:30-14:50 Coffee break

Session 2. Micro Foundations of Digital Transformation, Chair Stefan Haefliger

14:50-15:10      How to Build Technology that Builds People: Comparative Case Study of Personalized Adaptive Capability Transforming (PACT) Systems, Leona Chandra Kruse (discussant  Abayomi Baiyere)

15:10-15:30      The Challenge of Path-dependency in Agile Transformations: Case Study of a Norwegian Government IT Organization, Knut-H Rolland (discussant Kirsimarja Blomqvist)

15:30-15:50      Digitalization inertia: speedbumps of digital strategy journey, Abayomi Baiyere & Peter Lambaerts (discussant Knut-H Rolland)

15:50-16:10      Co-creating knowledge for concept design by using digital artifacts on a collaboration platform, Kirsimarja Blomqvist & Matti Vartiainen (discussant Leona Chandra Kruse)

16:20-16:40 Networking break

Session 3. Leading digital transformation and innovation, Chair Matti Rossi

16.40-17.10      Company keynote: 5G Shaping the ICT Ecosystems and Innovation, Timo Ali-Vehmas, Nokia Fellow

17:10-17:40      Keynote by Professor Christopher Tucci on ‘The digital transformation of search and recombination in the innovation function’

17:40-18.00      Discussion

18.30-20.30 Dinner at Restaurant Fat LizardTietotie 1 in Otaniemicampus

DAY 2. Friday 7.2.2020

8.30-9.00          Morning Coffee in front of seminar room Jeti 

Session 4. Digitalization of Value Creation and Capture, Chair Paavo Ritala

9.00-9.30          Keynote by Professor Kalle Lyytinen on ‘Digital Paradoxes: Diffuse Social Categories of Taxiwork, Music Streaming, and Social Media as Conditions and Outcomes of Digital Innovation’

9.30-9:45          Discussion

9.45-10.05        Digitalisation, anti-rival compensation and governance: Need for experiments, Pekka Nikander, Kimmo Karhu, Ville Eloranta & Kari Hiekkanen (discussant William Baber)

10.05-10.25      Key Factors in Business Model Innovation at the Frontier, William Baber & Arto Ojala (discussant Pekka Nikander)

10:30-10:50 Coffee break

Session 5. Digital Innovation Across Boundaries, Chair Christopher Tucci

10.50-11.10      Driving Digital Transformation Through Orchestration of a Digital Innovation Project Portfolio, Johan Sandberg & Daniel Nylén (discussant Joaquin Rodrigues)

11:10-11:30      Digital Platforms and Constitutive Agents Innovation: An Integrative Framework, Joaquin Rodrigues (discussant Jonny Holmström)

11.30-11.50      What’s a Successful Digital Innovation Strategy? Building a Bridge Between Digital Innovation and Digital Transformation, Jonny Holmström (discussant Johan Sandberg)

12:00-13:00 Lunch at Restaurant Factory (AGrid)

Session 6. Novel Forms of Organizing Work in the Age of Digital, chair Matti Vartiainen

13.00-13.20      Exploring new areas for project portfolio management – Evolving practices for digital transformation projects, Philipp Barthel (discussant Siavash Khajavi)

13:20-13:40      Smart City Governance, Niall Connolly (discussant Jere Lehtinen)

13.40-14.00      Hackathon: Who is the Winner—Participants, Companies or Organizer?Siavash Khajavi & Alireza Jaribion (discussant Philipp Barthel) 

14.00-14.20      Effective social media communication for engaging project stakeholders, Jere Lehtinen, Kirsi Aaltonen (discussant Niall Connolly)

14:30-14:50 Coffee break            

14.50-15.45      Closing Panel on ‘Digitalization and Platformization: What are we going towards?’

Panel: Christopher Tucci, Timo Seppälä, Magnus Mähring, Leona Chandra Kruse 
Facilitated by: Robin Gustafsson & Matti Rossi

15:45-16.00      DBOS 2021 and good bye!

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