Strategic Scanning and innovative design: fuel the C/K method through Strategic Scanning information

• Main Authors: Marie-Laurence Caron-Fasan, Justine Fasquelle, Nicolas Lesca
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Escuela Politécnica Nacional (EPN) 2018-09-01
• Series: Latin-American Journal of Computing
• Subjects: c-k theory; innovative design; knowledge space; strategic scanning.
• Online Access: https://lajc.epn.edu.ec/index.php/LAJC/article/view/145

The aim of this article is to study the role of StrategicScanning in innovation processes. We seek to answer the followingquestion: how can Strategic Scanning feed an innovative designactivity? We mobilized the C-K theory which models the logic ofcreation in companies and the method of the same name. Based ona case study of 65 participants, we conducted a Strategic Scanningstudy to feed an innovative C-K design approach. The results showthat Strategic Scanning helps to provide knowledge in a C-Kprocess. It helps either to build the knowledge base of noviceparticipants, or to validate the existing knowledge of expertparticipants. The Strategic Scanning activity also makes it possibleto start the first disjunction mechanism C→K from the C0concept.