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Chapter 27
INMATE-Innovation
Management Technique:
An Innovation Management Tool with
Emphasis on IT Information Technology

José Carlos Cavalcanti
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

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The main objective of this chapter is to present an innovative tool for innovation management with
emphasis to the information technology-IT management called INMATE- Innovation Management
Technique. In order to arrive at this tool an analysis on the current market tools was conducted. This
analysis observed that none of the existent tools gives the due importance to the role of information
technology-IT for the innovation process. In this way, the chapter presents a brief discussion of two of
these market tools: an international, called TEMAGUIDE, and a Brazilian, called NUGIN. Then the
chapter introduces the INMATE tool with its main dimensions. Next, the chapter gives a detailed ac-
count on how the IT management is dealt inside INMATE, which is done via the concept of Enterprise
Architecture, a concept from the Computing Science and Engineering. From this concept the chapter
presents a methodology, in an analogy to the Structure-Conduct-Performance Paradigm (that is tra-
ditionally used on the empirical market analysis), which identifies the firm according to three linear
connected approaches: its architecture, its governance, and its growth strategy.

introduction

In this way, the management of innovation ( 1 )
is becoming a business imperative. This condi-
tion was the main reason for the development
of a research that could analyse an innovation
management tool which could be simultaneously
simple, fast e effective. Hence, some available
tools have been assessed in order to benchmark
one tool which could generate simplicity, speed
and effectiveness, and more than that, it could

Nowadays is practically impossible not to deal
with technology and innovation. Despite the vast
amount of technology tools at our disposal, every
day one sees the emergence of innovations turning
obsoletes the tools we have been used to.