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An interaction between the fields of technical communication and corporate communication can be seen in Stage-Gate Project Management processes for innovation and product development. This paper proposes that approaching Stage Gate Project Management processes as a space of interaction, offers an opportunity for understanding how technical communication interacts with other organizational communication...
With the advent of globalization and the knowledge-based economy, industrial SMEs must constantly innovate to remain competitive. Now, an important research issue in this regard concerns the role played by IT capabilities in enabling innovation processes such as new product development, and in determining the product innovation performance of these organizations. Using a configurational approach grounded...
This study will draw on knowledge-based view to explore how different organizational culture (e.g., power distance, individualism-collectivism, and uncertainty avoidance) impacts innovation for Chinese firms. As results, high uncertainty avoidance and power distance will negatively impact firms' innovation, and high collectivism will positively impact firms' innovation. This study fills up extent...
The effective cross-functional integration has become one of the key factors to decide the success or failure of product innovation, so how to promote cross-functional integration from the perspective of HRM is particularly critical. This paper, based on the analysis of the barriers to cross-functional innovative integration, will discuss the strategies to promote cross- functional innovative integration...
Champions of innovation often play a major role in facilitating entrepreneurial behavior within organizations. Without the influence and efforts of these entrepreneurial champions, many organizational initiatives would not be successful. Examples of organizational initiatives which are often influenced by champions include: new product development, new internal ventures, intrappreneurship, implementing...
This paper presents a new approach to innovation management in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). The holistic innovation framework (hif) and value generation model (VGM) support and extend the unique processes of new product development (NPD) in SMEs. These processes were found to be primarily dependent on the owner/manager of the SME. The approach then externalizes the tacit process of the...
The authors are developing a course on socially conscience innovation. The purpose of the course is to teach students to identify and evaluate opportunities for new and innovative products. The course will be divided into five modules. Each module will begin with the students selecting an academic article read and summarize for the class. The first module will cover foundation topics. The following...
This paper examines the problems decision makers experience when selecting and prioritizing new ideas and development projects. It is based on an explorative study, with interviews carried out in three companies that have new product development as a core competitive factor.The findings indicate that to deal with all the situations and problems that may arise in the innovation process, various approaches...
This paper examines the inevitable product feature creep, also known as requirements creep, from an engineering project manager's perspective. Feature creep is often the wildcard a project manager has to balance against resources, cost and schedule. After first describing the nature and sources of feature creep, the paper delves into the detrimental aspects of feature creep, some of which are non-intuitive...
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