Understanding innovation in the mobile workplace

This paper discusses frameworks for understanding innovation in mobile and multi-location work. The main perspective is their appropriateness in dealing with systemic change. Based on scenarios, the needs, requirements and bottlenecks in future mobile workplaces are identified. Example frameworks are 'transition management', 'national innovation systems', 'adoption dynamics' and 'economics of organisations'. All are dealing with specific aspects of innovation and do not cover the whole picture. Using them, we can better understand the success conditions for mobile workplace innovation. In doing so, more adequate strategies for designing mobile workplace testbeds and validation environments can be developed.