Evaluation of Innovation management performance and ranking the effective factors using Analytic Network Process in Mavad Karan Mapna co

Along with increasing acceleration of developments and changes in the modern world, the process of ongoing transformation is one of the main issues governing human life. Hence, companies and organizations seeking to establish or maintain their competitive advantage are forced to accept flexibility and changes. In such a situation, innovation has become the mainstay of organizations. Success of organizations is primarily rooted in their innovation and management. Competitive advantages arising from innovation change in favor of those organizations which can make use of knowledge, technological skills, and experience to create innovation in their products and the methods to develop and supply them. Given the significance of innovation in the development and performance of organizations, evaluation of innovative capabilities is the most important prerequisite to move toward the deployment of innovative systems in organizations. In this study, Karan Mapna Materials Engineering Company was evaluated using Joe Teide model in five dimensions of organizational processes, organizational climate supportive of innovation, learning, strategy, and external communications. The research method was descriptive-survey and data collection instrument was a questionnaire whose validity was conformed using the judgment of experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient running SPSS software. Due to the limited population of the study, census sampling technique was used in this study. Also, to fit the model and confirmatory factor analysis of the indices of the questionnaire, structural equation modeling and PLS software were applied. After the model was fit, 14 indices were removed out of 40 ones. On the other hand, to rank the factors affecting innovation management in Karan Mapna Materials Engineering Company, paired comparison was run using ANP technique in Super Decisions software. Results obtained from the software indicated that strategy was placed in the first rank and learning, processes, structure, organization, and networking factors were placed in the next ranks, respectively.
Using the data in the questionnaires in this study, the situation on innovation management in Karan Mapna Materials Engineering Company was addressed. Findings from the study indicated that networking factor was the poorest one and the strategy had the best situation among other factors.
In this study, Karan Mapna Materials Engineering Company was evaluated using Joe Teide model in five dimensions of organizational processes, organizational climate supportive of innovation, learning, strategy, and external communications. The research method was descriptive-survey and data collection instrument was a questionnaire whose validity was conformed using the judgment of experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient running SPSS software. Due to the limited population of the study, census sampling technique was used in this study.
Also, to fit the model and confirmatory factor analysis of the indices of the questionnaire, structural equation modeling and PLS software were applied. After the model was fit, 14 indices were removed out of 40 ones. On the other hand, to rank the factors affecting innovation management Karan Mapna Materials Engineering Company, paired comparisons was run using ANP technique in Super Decisions software. Results obtained from the software indicated that strategy was placed in the first rank and learning, processes, structure, organization, and networking factors were placed in the next ranks, respectively.
Using the data in the questionnaires in this study, the situation on innovation management in Karan Mapna Materials Engineering Company was addressed. Findings from the study indicated that networking factor was the poorest factor and strategy factor had the best situation among other factors.