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To achieve the success and growth in today's competitive marketplace, companies must continuously develop and market new products. Planning and design (P&D) phase in an enterprise is critical to project success in the front-end process of new product development (NPD). In real world, when selecting an appropriate P&D alternative which involves a variety of different considerations such as...
Market globalization leads to a highly competitive environment. A corporation must develop successful new products for sustaining its survival and growth in global markets. New product competition environments have changed in recent decades. Traditional criteria for new product success are high quality, low cost, and product differentiation. But these criteria cannot guarantee firms of new product...
The purpose of this research is to develop a framework for managing the development of platform strategy under the network context. By developing a strategy with the framework, the platform provider shall obtain competitive advantage based on network effects. The managerial framework is constructed based on network effects and conclusion of case studies on representative emerging platforms, including...
The innovation process is a complex combination of factors. Creativity the development of novel products; Innovation - the process of commercializing the novel product, and; Entrepreneurship - the skills, knowledge and capabilities needed to execute the process, all play a role in taking an idea from concept to market. This paper identifies creativity, in particular, as the driving force of the innovation...
Organizational intelligence has become a popular topic recently in business and academia and attracts many researchers and practitioners from different fields. Because of many studies in such different disciplines and perspectives, the interpretation of organizational intelligence shows a discrepancy, resulting in disorder in the organizational intelligence literature. The organizational intelligence...
Reliability feedback information from the field is essential for product improvement. Traditionally, consumer electronics service centers have provided the product designers with reliability information about product generations on the market at that time. However, within the field of high volume consumer electronics, movement of the business processes to emerging markets, increasing time-to-market...
Recent studies have shown that in highly innovative product development processes (PDPs) there is a shift of attention from technical reliability failures to customer perceived failures. Testing the product (design) during the PDP is one of the ways in which quality and reliability information could be obtained early to prevent these failures. In this paper, test methods found in literature are judged...
This paper proposes a conceptual framework to distinguish between different classes of reliability problems encountered in strongly innovative products. Next to the conventional (hardware and software) problems, new classes of failures have emerged with a wide range of often strongly related definitions, such as: soft failures, "No Fault Found" failures, "Fault Not Found" failures,...
Healthcare industry is related to human's life. Any medical mistakes may cause irremediable regret. So "Patient safety" becomes the most important issue in hospitals. The research expresses an empirical case study by developing a RFID patient safety system with LBMS, and the experience of implementation in TMUH which is an indicator hospital in Taiwan. We point out how to integrate RFID...
Mini-problems are a kind of problems, which should be solved for incremental innovation for existing products. The major method to solve them is to find the contradictions, technical or physical, existed in a product, and to solve them. The current reality tree (CRT) and conflict resolution diagram (CRD) of theory of constraints (TOC) are good at finding contradictions. Theory of inventive problem...
Modularity is the key way of innovation and mass customization, and it is the process of decomposition and integration of whole object in logic. The situation of modularity is in a middle section of the complexity continuum. While study modular innovation in service product and process, we found there are many fields employed modularity, such as economics, psychology, design, and production, etc....
In this paper, a conceptual design of packaging machine for dropping pill of Chinese traditional medicine based on TRIZ is introduced. The IFR (Ideal Final Result) of the product is obtained by the evolution patterns of TRIZ. The function structure of the packaging machine for dropping pill is established. The model of substance-field is used to identify the design problem and the design conflicts...
Identifying new potential product innovations requires working on the horizon of already existing product road maps and also ensuring that some credible business case can be made. New innovations often loose momentum due to a lack of resources required to fully explore and develop a concept when such new potential product innovations are not effectively communicated and conceptualized. Hence engagement...
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