Internal factors affecting radical innovation readiness towards organization performance of ICT SME's

Nurhafizah, Idris (2015) Internal factors affecting radical innovation readiness towards organization performance of ICT SME's. Project Report. UTeM. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Radical innovation is an exploration of new technology or development of new business, products or process that transform the economies of a business. Thus, to develop radical innovation there must have factors analysis to be considered. This research basically set out to identify internal factors affecting radical innovation readiness toward organization performance of ICT SME’s. The objectives of this study are to identify the internal factor and to analyze relationship between internal factors, radical innovation readiness and organization performance. The factors analyses are choose based on the problem identified in the past research. The problem when dealing radical innovation is high cost of R&D and long payback period, uncertainty how to manage a radical innovation, largely unknown size of market and customer needs and difficultness of getting feedback by secrecy because of competition threat. This research used quantitative method to collect and analyze the data. Thus, questionnaires will be used as a method to collect primary data. There are 120 respondents from ICT SME’s who responded this research. The result of this research is interpreted by using SPSS version 20 to testing relationship between variables. From the findings, all these internal factors which are financial, top management support and infrastructure are have a strong relationship with radical innovation readiness and organizational performance respectively. The results showed a complete analysis of the demographic characteristics of all respondents by construct frequency tables and chart. The results from reliability analysis all variables are accepted and the items in questionnaires have a good internal consistency. The finding obtained from this research hope will be useful for ICT sectors in Malaysia to enhance their innovation activities more radically to become pioneer of radical innovation in the worldwide.

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