INFLUENCE OF DIGITAL INNOVATION ON TIMELY IMFORMATION DISSEMINATION OF TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

Digital innovation simply means initiating changes in place of existing digitalized processes, methods, tools, services, etc to enhance organizational effective and efficient operation in the digital world while conducting fronting its mandate. It also has to do with the modification of digital process and presence by a tertiary institution. Raffaele, Alexander and Gerhard, (2018) defined digital innovation as innovating products, processes, or business models using digital technology platforms as a means or end within and across organizations. Digital technology has three key characteristics that change the nature of innovations: First, once digitized, information can be stored, transformed, transmitted, and traced by any digital device irrespective of its content (Yoo, Henfridsson & Lyytinen, 2014). Second, digital information is editable through means of re-programming, making digital solutions malleable to changes after deployment by interaction with external systems (Kallinikos, Aaltonen,& Marton. 2013). And third, inherently self-referential, digital technology is needed to create digital technology