26th International Association for Management of Technology Conference - IAMOT 2017

Modern society is experiencing the fourth Industrial Revolution, which demands managers to develop industrial development plans and re-industrialization efforts, in search for competition in a digitalized manner throughout the whole value chain. Digitalization is characterized by the integration and control of production, with the use of sensor and network connected devices, whereas physical world is entangled with the digital one, the so-called cyber physic systems. The intense information exchange between men and machines, among each other and with all other systems, values information from beyond the tangible world limits, reaching the intangible realms. In the particular case of the intensive growing knowledge industry, where innovation is part of the business plan, information and knowledge security must be considered throughout the whole productive chain so that one can reach the desired novelty via innovation embedded in new goods, products of services, to which we refer here as Secret Security. As a result of our research, we present in the paper a framework for the use of instruments of secret protection in the innovation environment of an industrial baseline. We have conducted an applied research that adopts the philosophical conception of social constructivism, by interpreting the endogenous and exogenous interactions, policies, regulations and instruments that operate in an industrial innovative environment. This qualitative research approach allowed us to discover and understand the use of instruments of secret protection in this environment. In the data collection step, we analyzed vast bibliographic review in order to meet the real understanding of the complexity of the innovation environment of the industrial base, which resulted in a framework and the mapping of the dimensions of knowledge representation of organizational areas that require attention in regards to secret protection, such as people, process, knowledge artifacts, organizational management, culture and technology. From the identification of 28 existing instruments used for secret security, containing recommendations to be applied in the dimension of protection, the main goal was to safeguard the industrial secret via the understanding that protection represents actions adopted to safeguard the secret and also that the roll of security is to establish conditions to neutralized potential threats to the industrial secret. Our work resulted in a recommendation plan to adapt the secret instruments used in the context, considering risks, likelihood and impact to each dimension of knowledge, to become effective.