Towards a Maturity Model for Assessment of Organization Readiness in Implementing and Deploying an Open Innovation Platform

Open innovation platforms emerged as software solutions to facilitate collaboration among diverse participants in an open innovation initiative. Implementing an open innovation platform is a challenging endeavor mainly due to the disruptive nature of the paradigm itself and to technological aspects that, if left overlooked, may have a big impact later. During our experience in implementing an open innovation platform in a Chilean university, we soon discovered the need for guidance in the implementation, and we argue that this guidance is compatible with the gap-covering structure of capability maturity models, a well-known approach to ICT process improvement. Based on this insight, we propose an initial version of a focus-area maturity model to assess an organization's readiness to implement and deploy open innovation software platforms. As befits emerging work, we also discuss and share some future lines of work.