Tensions in Digital Transformation: How Prototype Work Links the Temporary and the Permanent

IF 5.1 2区管理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT

Project Management Journal Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI:10.1177/87569728241278661

Yunchen Sun, Fredrik Tell

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Abstract

Digital transformation projects often fail due to tensions that emerge between temporary project teams set to design digital transformation and the permanent organization where digital transformation is to be executed. As a potential organizational response to such tensions, we introduce the notion of prototype work; in other words, the actions and interactions facilitated by making prototypes. Through a real-time longitudinal study of a digital transformation project in a Swedish manufacturing firm we specify prototype work, addressing strategic tensions, temporal tensions, and cross-functional tensions at different loci of temporary–permanent interfaces and, in turn, how both temporary and permanent organizations are transitioned.

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数字化转型中的紧张关系：原型工作如何将临时性和永久性联系起来

数字化转型项目的失败往往是由于负责设计数字化转型的临时项目团队与执行数字化转型的常设机构之间出现了紧张关系。作为应对这种紧张关系的潜在组织对策，我们引入了原型工作的概念；换句话说，就是通过制作原型来促进行动和互动。通过对一家瑞典制造企业的数字化转型项目进行实时纵向研究，我们明确了原型工作，解决了临时-永久界面不同位置的战略紧张关系、时间紧张关系和跨职能紧张关系，并反过来解决了临时和永久组织如何过渡的问题。

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Project Management Journal MANAGEMENT-

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9.30

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14.00%

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期刊介绍： Project Management Journal (PMJ) is the academic and research journal of the Project Management Institute and features state-of-the-art research, techniques, theories, and applications in project management. Projects represent a growing population of human activity in large, small, private, and public organizations. Projects are used to execute and sustain today's organizational activities. They play a fundamental role as the engine of tomorrow's innovation, value creation, and strategic change. However, projects often fail to deliver their promise. PMJ addresses these multiple challenges and opportunities by encouraging the development and application of novel theories, concepts, frameworks, research methods, and designs. PMJ embraces contributions both from within and beyond project management to augment and transform theory and practice.