MANAGEMENT FOR COMBINED DIGITAL INNOVATION AND SAFETY-CRITICALITY
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Coordinator | Linköpings universitet - Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling |
Funding from Vinnova | SEK 2 000 000 |
Project duration | October 2018 - December 2020 |
Status | Completed |
Venture | Innovation management - research for increased innovation capability |
Call | 2018-02185-en |
Purpose and goal
The project has addressed new organizational and innovation capabilities to manage opportunities and consequences of the digital transformation. The project has focused on complex systems that have a societal critical function. The project has focused on how safety-criticality and generative digital innovation can be combined and how this affects the interplay between technology, management and organizational aspects. The project has met its goals and also contributed to a broader perspective and theory building including AI and resilience.
Expected results and effects
Several important results contribute to an increased understanding and awareness of and solutions for how combined safety-criticality and generative digital innovation affect the interplay between technical, management and organizational aspects. The results include a model with different levels of digitalization in complex systems, including the use of digital solutions. Digitalization can lead to complexity beyond human understanding which can be managed through a combination of organizational approaches and the use of digital models and simulations.
Planned approach and implementation
The results of the project are based on a in-depth study of avionics development. Through an analysis of the introduction of digital technology and an increased role for digital solutions in safety-critical parts, a model has been developed that shows different levels of digitalization in complex systems. The project also includes studies of WARA PS, one of the WASP program´s demonstration arenas that focuses on a marine rescue scenario for further studies of the combination of safety-criticality and generativity. The Boeing 737 MAX case has also been studied.