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The performance management and the strategic management of innovative companies
Beran, Jiří ; Neumaierová, Inka (advisor) ; Švejda, Pavel (referee) ; Šefl, Pavel (referee) ; Dvořák, Jiří (referee)
The thesis deals with the management of Czech companies operating in the market areas where frequent innovations are crucial for long term success. The theoretical part of the thesis focuses on the techniques available for strategic management and the management of innovations. On this theoretical background the research part is based. It contains the results of own survey carried out in the selected Czech companies, presented in the context of strategic management and innovation management theory. The method of structured interview with owners or top management members was chosen for research. The interview deals mostly with the areas of strategic management and the management of innovations. The information derived from the structured interview is combined with the economic results of company. Consequently, the relations between techniques and results are found. The thesis also contains the list of five recommendations that, based on research, can be useful for managers.
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Methodology of Innovative Software Product Development
Novák, Adam ; Buchalcevová, Alena (advisor) ; Mittner, Jan (referee)
This thesis deals with the domain of software product methodologies in the context of innovation. In the opening part of the thesis the field of innovation and creativity is analysed. In the next chapter the reasons justifying the necessity to create a methodology for innovative software product development are given. The main intention of this thesis was to create a new methodology of innovative software product development; so the next section focuses on this goal. The new methodology relies on current agile software development methodologies, best practices in innovation management and approaches to startup creation. Based on these principles, the requirements are set up and individual components selected that will form the new methodology. A model of the new methodology was created using tool Eclipse Process Framework. Consequently the methodology was validated by its prospective users.
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How to use innovations for company growth
Melicharová, Kristýna ; Špaček, Miroslav (advisor) ; Brát, Jiří (referee)
The purpose of this paper is to identify the key characteristics of successful innovation, analyse the innovation process in Unilever and provide set of recommendations for the company. This paper addresses a key question of current business -- how to achieve growth of a company via innovation. The thesis is based on the already published research for identifying the best practices in dealing with innovation, survey with strategic innovation leaders in HHC Unilever, interviews with employees of Unilever, published articles and researches on Unilever and internal documents of the company. Findings indicate that the key characteristics of successful innovators are the corporate culture, innovation strategy, human resources management, structures, evaluation of ideas, processes and metrics. Several improvements were suggested for HHC Unilever. The value of this paper is in the development of an action framework for the delivery of accelerated growth of the company when using innovation. The analysis conducted on Unilever may be replicated to other companies in order to analyse status of their innovative activities.
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Řízení informačních služeb
Šimková, Eva ; Basl, Josef (advisor) ; Molnár, Zdeněk (referee) ; Hujňák, Petr (referee)
The main topic of this thesis is IT innovation management which is very up to date theme as a research within the thesis documents. IT innovation should be managed jointly with the IT Governance to support effectiveness of IT and competitiveness of the whole company.
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Support of innovation projects with use of financial instruments of the EU
Matús, Eduard ; Potluka, Oto (advisor) ; Theodor, Michal (referee)
Innovations are one of the crucial pillars of the strategy Europe 2020. This strategy defines the economic and social orientation of the EU for the upcoming decade. Innovations are one of many instruments through which companies (and EU and its member countries as well) can enhance their competitiveness. It is the matter of highest concern of firms, individual countries and the whole EU that they sustain themselves competitive. Bearing these facts in mind, author of this thesis deals with a question of sustainability of competitiveness. Is it possible for a company to gain a long-term competitive advantage through innovative projects? On an example of three companies, author compares approach towards management of the whole innovation process and the contributive effect of the innovative projects on companies' competitiveness. From the results of the implemented multi-criterial analysis, author deduces a conclusion - sustainable competitiveness can be achieved only through an endless innovating.
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