E-innovation and total innovation management

Change has become a natural state of organizations. They need the flexibility to respond to continuous evolutions and revolutions in products, technologies and markets. In this climate of continuous radical change, the process of design, strategic planning, and new product development has necessarily had to change and adapt, and the resulting convergence of design, planning scenario building, technology forecasting, market intelligence, new product development and creative business development is converging into a new, proactive response to change that we can call "e-innovation"(Cotton, 2002). The open source movement is the first major demonstration of what the Internet means for the future of work and innovation on a global basis. The open access to software source code creates the potential for distributed innovation on a global basis. Therefore E-innovation represents a powerful model for the organization of research and development, for the arts, for the creation of global community of innovators. This paper will provide the opportunity to update and extend the notions of knowledge management and innovation. Also, to evaluate how new Technology ICT-based media forms of Information Communications have emerged to provide electronic infrastructure for E-innovation and total innovation management.