Browsing by Author "Aaltonen, Aleksi"

The digital revolution has reshaped how value is created and delivered, yet a critical challenge remains: how to develop digital innovations that scale effectively and create lasting impact. This symposium explores the intersection of digital innovation and sustainable impact, examining how digital solutions can address fundamental challenges across societal, organizational, and technological boundaries. Through mixed-method research across different contexts, we investigate how emerging digital technologies can be leveraged to create documented impact, with important implications for innovation ecosystems, strategic transformation, and sustainable value creation in the digital age. We examine critical success factors in scaling digital innovations, including methodologies for identifying and validating high-impact opportunities, strategies for maintaining solution effectiveness across different contexts, and frameworks for measuring societal impact. Special attention will be given to how innovators navigate the tension between innovation speed and sustainable impact, manage scaling challenges, and maintain solution effectiveness while expanding across boundaries. The symposium synthesizes insights from both theoretical frameworks and practical implementations, offering fresh perspectives on building digital innovations that drive meaningful transformation. By bringing together diverse research approaches and cross-disciplinary insights, this symposium contributes to our understanding of how digital innovations can create lasting positive change in an increasingly connected world.