Exploitation, exploration, and process management¶
Benner, M. J., & Tushman, M. L. (2003). Exploitation, exploration, and process management: The productivity dilemma revisited. Academy of Management Review, 28(2), 238-256.
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- Absorptive Capacity
This sourceDevelops a contingency view in which process-management activities aid stable contexts but are inconsistent with all but incremental innovation, requiring ambidextrous forms.
- Adaptation
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- Adaptive Capacity
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- Ambidexterity (Exploit vs. Explore)
- The temporal or cyclical mechanism (iterating between exploitation and exploration phases) that permits sequential focus while managing competing demands
This sourceArgues that process-management (efficiency/exploitation) metrics are inconsistent with all but incremental innovation and must be buffered from exploratory activity — supports the temporal/cyclical mechanism and the warning that exploration metrics become contaminated by exploitation metrics.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Supports the exploit/explore tension and the need to buffer process management from exploratory work, but it prescribes buffering and co-existence, not a temporal or cyclical sequencing mechanism.
“We argue that while process management activities are beneficial for organizations in stable contexts, they are fundamentally inconsistent with all but incremental innovation and change. We argue that process management activities must be buffered from exploratory activities. As dynamic capabilities are rooted in both exploitative and exploratory activities, ambidextrous organizational forms provide the complex …”
- The temporal or cyclical mechanism (iterating between exploitation and exploration phases) that permits sequential focus while managing competing demands
- Diversity
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- System Slack
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- Three Horizons Analysis
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- Variation Strategies
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