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Open innovation is a managerial concept pervasive among practitioners and academics. However both still lack proficiency of the open innovation implementation process. Therefore the paper inquires if and how the action research methodology can be: (i) applied as a mechanism for purposively implementing open innovation practice permanently into organizations (profit or non-profit) and (ii) an efficacious...
In order to stay competitive, European manufacturing companies need to enter new market segments implementing innovative production methodologies to strengthen their collaborative networks. Consumer needs and expectations of specific target groups - such as elderly, obese, disabled, or diabetic persons - are arising as challenging opportunities for European consumer goods companies which are asked...
Inter-organizational collaboration is often viewed through the lens of computer-mediated projects, leading to an understanding of the needed infrastructure and environment as requiring primarily software interoperability. This has been extended in recent efforts by the European Commission and others to include enterprise interoperability and aspects of knowledge interoperability. Here it is argued...
In product development projects in a collaborative environment, it is not uncommon for professionals to work toward goals that do not result in successful, competitive products. One way of avoiding this problem is to employ objective indicators to represent the product's competitiveness and facilitate communication in the project team. This article proposes a Customer Satisfaction indicator for this...
The introduction of new products makes it important for marketers to understand how innovators respond it. This paper investigates consumer innovativeness (CI) from hierarchical perspective of CI and examines the simultaneous impacts of CI on new product adoption. The first, generalist streams represents a generalized personality trait that engenders consumers to adopt new product. The second, particularist...
Both monetary and non-monetary benefits may be achieved through different forms for exploiting technology. On the other hand, globalization has pushed firms to exploit their technologies on a global scale. Companies often issue licenses in foreign countries in order to enter a new market. However, not all firms deal with the licensing successfully, especially when it aims to act as a market entry...
Until now, mass-customization of werable products has been offered as a higher added-value to the broad public. However there are population groups for which personalization is a real need affecting their health and quality of life because of the self products do not meet their needs. FASHION-ABLE project aims at providing the European innovative and customization-concerned SMEs with the technological...
In modern companies which aim to stay competitive the in-house strategic management plays a big role in directing the daily operations and the decision making. The specifications of the chosen corporate strategy have an affect up to the level of decision finding in the product development process (PDP). Here it is necessary that the development team is conscious about the effects of their decisions...
This paper addresses the emerging area of crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is an online problem solving paradigm that is used to tap the intellect of the crowd. This combination of the human and computational intelligence has open doors to complex problem domains such as software project management. Crowdsourcing occurs in teams and among various teams. During the process various tasks such as knowledge...
Various scholars contributed extensively to the area of entrepreneurial education. Nevertheless our key findings in assessing successful entrepreneurs is that strategic partnerships are very important in the daily practice of entrepreneurial companies but these partnerships are almost completely ignored in entrepreneurship courses and business models. These courses and models seem to focus on standalone...
This paper focuses on user involvement in the innovation process in the area of services and especially e-services, a highly unexplored topic. Our research is built on a comprehensive review of the resource-based view, customer/user integration and e-services. A qualitative investigation is performed to explore the situation concerning user involvement in several different companies offering e-services...
The term Obeya has become known as part of the Toyota Product Development System and the Lean Product Development strategy which has come out of that. Literature describes the Obeya as one of the tools of the TPDS, but rarely discusses what really makes an Obeya work, and what the critical aspects of it are. In the EU-sponsored project Linked Design, which develops methods for design in distributed...
Within the last decade open innovation became a key ingredient for knowledge creation and knowledge absorption strategies of large companies. SMEs are usually considered to lack resources and capacity to organize alone open innovation activities. In this perspective, Hafkesbrink and Scholl (2010) proposed the model of Innovation 3.0 or embedded innovation, in order to illustrate how SMEs can take...
To achieve a Lean Product Development Process, it is necessary to define the value for the customer and eliminate waste. Therefore, the objective of this paper is twofold: 1) to present the state of the art about existing methods to assess customer value and define the different types of waste that can be identified in the product development process and 2) to summarize the results of eleven face...
The paper builds on the argument that cross-functional teams require autonomy for developing a new business. The paper add on the ongoing discussion to develop a concept of autonomy that defines the playing field for those teams. It is argued that the concept of autonomy inheres the dimensions functional, decision making and strategy making autonomy. We provide two in-depth case studies of high-tech...
For years, production companies have faced an increasingly complex and rapidly changing market, which results in higher client customization. These coupled with a high complexity of cause-effect relationships of industries, globally-dispersed markets, technologies and economic areas create great challenges to the manufacturing systems. Uncertain projections about future sales, fluctuations in quantities,...
The ability to innovate and sustain a programme of innovation has become critical to the promotion of competitiveness and achieving and sustaining business success. There are many determinants of innovation: some are related with technology push and pull, or the individual abilities of the entrepreneur, but many are related to innovation capabilities of the organization. It is important to comprehend...
Within an increasingly competitive environment companies face the challenge to continuously launch innovations which are accepted by the customer and at the same time manageable by the organization. In this context product planning takes in an important role, as demands and potentials concerning the future lifecycle of a product have to be acquired, anticipated and systematically analyzed in order...
Sustainability is an emerging factor companies are called for considering in their business according to the growing people-awareness about the impact of their behaviour as customers against environmental, social and economic issues. However, companies seldom manage to focus on sustainability all along the design and decisional process due to lack of proper sustainability measurement systems and/or...
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