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The proliferation of entrepreneurship, technological and business innovations, emerging social trends and lifestyles, employment patterns, and other developments in the global context involve creative destruction that transcends geographic and political boundaries and economic sectors and industries. This creates a need for an interdisciplinary exploration of disruptive technologies, their impacts, and their implications for various stakeholders widely ranging from government agencies to major corporations to consumer groups and individuals. Disruptive Technology: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that examines innovation, imitation, and creative destruction as critical factors and agents of socio-economic growth and progress in the context of emerging challenges and opportunities for business development and strategic advantage. Highlighting a range of topics such as IT innovation, business strategy, and sustainability, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for entrepreneurs, business executives, business professionals, academicians, and researchers interested in strategic decision making using innovations and competitiveness.

© 2017 International Business Information Management Association, IBIMA. All rights reserved. This paper addresses organisational success and prevailing values of innovative firms as perceived by peer/competitor enterprises. Partnering with the Information Industry Association of Australia (AIIA), surveys were undertaken and 244 responses from 102 member organisations statistically analysed. In-depth follow-up with selected enterprises then more closely examined factors deemed important to corporates comparing achievements. Outcomes indicate that high-growth firms often prioritise realisation of innovation over simply making money - yet high cash flows are still generated.Findings also show that having a strong reputation for innovation is a competitive advantage in its own right, attracting invitation to cross-enterprise ecosystems and beneficial partner alliances. Interestingly, topics around outsider/peer perceptions of other enterprises accrue comparatively little precedence within innovation discussions. What our study shows is that balancing an internal reality of innovation with the external perception for innovation can lead to significant improvements in commercial performance and rising market leadership.

Innovation is a significant contributor to effective economies worldwide. This paper aims to apprise a model of Innovation and Leadership created by Grant Mooney and Ken Dovey (Mooney & Dovey 2008). The model examines the resource of individual creativity and organisational innovation through the use of constructs and metrics. Recent developments have identified constructs that were used to appraise and enhance the model as a result of the strong correlations identified in literature and their high level of relevance. The new factors are (1) 'followership' or confidence in top leadership, and (2) 'return on investment' which measures the innovation efforts in an organisation.

Software development has endured radical change with the introduction of agile methods for creating software solutions. This change has prompted new considerations of how software creation should be managed. While agile methods have changed software development processes, it would be premature to assume that has also induced modification in higher-level project management processes. Software development lifecycles (SDLC) and project management lifecycles (PLC), while associated, are not the same thing and it is still unclear to what degree the overarching project management tasks, tools or techniques must change or adapt to meet the needs of undertaking successful agile projects. This exploratory pilot study investigated agile methods used to manage software projects and was conducted via an online survey and restricted to a specific sample audience with significant project experience and with background in both traditional and agile development methods. The results indicate that traditional project management phases and techniques are adapted to fit with agile. However, as the discipline evolves the potential exists for a pure agile project management framework to surface -one that can be applied to better suit the needs of the management of agile projects as well as projects beyond the realm of software development.

Ensuring organisational survival requires the ability to frequently come to market with a new and innovative product or service. This paper explores the creativity and innovation process within small Australian technology organisations from an entrepreneurial perspective. In all 21 interviews were conducted drawing on 23 individuals from 19 organisations. The interview findings were grouped into two main areas, firstly entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs and secondly entrepreneurial leadership practices. From the findings and discussion creativity, innovation and leadership practices are the foundations on which entrepreneurs thrive showing that entrepreneurial practices improve organisational creativity and innovation capability and therefore lead to a higher probability of producing transformational outcomes.

Compact routing algorithms have been presented as candidates for scalable routing in the future Internet, achieving near-shortest path routing with considerably less forwarding state than the Border Gateway Protocol. Prior analyses have shown strong performance on power-law random graphs, but to better understand the applicability of compact routing algorithms in the context of the Internet, they must be evaluated against real- world data. To this end, we present the first systematic analysis of the behaviour of the Thorup-Zwick (TZ) and Brady-Cowen (BC) compact routing algorithms on snapshots of the Internet Autonomous System graph spanning a 14 year period. Both algorithms are shown to offer consistently strong performance on the AS graph, producing small forwarding tables with low stretch for all snapshots tested. We find that the average stretch for the TZ algorithm increases slightly as the AS graph has grown, while previous results on synthetic data suggested the opposite would be true. We also present new results to show which features of the algorithms contribute to their strong performance on these graphs.

The objective of this paper is to explore the role of leadership in fostering innovation within technology dependent organisations and in particular the ways in which such leadership manifests. The research used a Grounded Theory approach aligned to the interpretive paradigm. In all 21 interviews and 3 focus groups were conducted drawing on 72 individuals from 62 organisations. The main themes identified in this research were: 1) Entrepreneurial Leadership Practice, 2) The Innovative Culture, 3) Attributes of Negotiated Order and 4) Proactive Operational Ethos. The paper concludes by providing consolidated view of innovation attributes in small and large enterprises.