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Due to the rapid changing marketplace, technology, equipment and raw materials, companies pursuit competitiveness by the new product and new product development (NPD) process for the purpose of innovation, high quality, and speed to the market. It is a gradual trend that the product life cycle is becoming shorter. The product manager intends to achieve the highest customer satisfaction, product value...
Standardized project management (SPM) is regarded as a well-structured system for improving the success of new product development projects. SPM can be defined as a standardized set of project management practices. It helps achieve the company's strategic goal through the effective use of project-driven approach. This paper used a Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method to...
With the increasing amounts of research and practices of use innovation and quick responses to environmental changes, great attention has been paid to organizational customer innovation and organizational responsiveness as well. Based on supplier responsiveness to the organizational user innovation, this paper firstly explores not only the direct influence of supplier responsiveness on project performance,...
With the development of service economy, service functions can be seen to be prominent all over the industries, and thus, service innovation is fast becoming the key driver of socio-economic growth. Knowledge management is crucial for service innovation. As for the service characteristic of customer interaction, customer knowledge is the main component of knowledge management. The importance of knowledge...
Affective management is a new idea of decision-making in management which has a sense beyond conventional management by giving value to both people's affect and conventional numerical and rational indices. In psychology, affect is referred to emotion, feeling, and mood. Moreover, benefits of positive affect tend to give advantages to all stakeholders and to organization itself. Thus, the purpose of...
In 2010, the Government of Canada awarded major funding to the Wavefront Wireless Commercialization Centre under the Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR) program. As a result, Wavefront's mandate has expanded to include development and execution of a national strategy for accelerating the commercialization of wireless technologies developed by startup companies, small &...
The National Research Council's Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP) is one of several Government of Canada programs that seek to bridge the gap between invention and successful commercialization. In order to successfully bring an invention to market, several key elements must co-exist: 1) the invention itself, 2) a viable and addressable market to consume the invention, 3) sufficient...
Under the mass customization production mode, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to adopt postponement strategy to reduce business costs, respond more quickly to the market demand, and strengthen core competitiveness. The field research of 70 SMEs in Hubei Province shows the enforcement environment exerts a great impact on the effectiveness of postponement management. An unfavorable environment will...
A user-centered new product development process is discussed in this paper. The design of a new sports earphone is illustrated as a case study. User study methods such as questionnaires, survey, interviews and observations are used. Quantitative and qualitative methods are used to create Persona, scenario and discover user requirements. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method is used to translate...
Customer co-creation is becoming increasingly popular among companies, and intensive communication with the customer is generally seen as a determinant of new product success. However, there is still limited insight into what interaction with customers really is. The most recent thinking argues for an understanding of value-in-context in order to co-create value with customers. The question, then,...
E-commerce transactions in the present market play an increasingly large proportion, and apparel consumption in the e-era has great business opportunities, to make in-depth study of apparel network marketing is necessary. Compared to the traditional marketing model, apparel network marketing has an advantage in the operating cost, convenience, interactivity, etc., but there are many deficiencies:...
This paper presents a study conducted with the aim of completing an activity model about information-sharing in the ceramic NPD process. Information flows with customers (about their design preferences) were not included in this model. From previous results (a conceptual framework and a pilot study), this paper raises the modification of the original activity model, studying the information dependences...
In current dynamic manufacturing environment, Small, Medium Enterprises (SMEs) must develop new products successfully in order to maintain a competitive advantage. SMEs differ from large companies due to their limited resources. Currently, most of SMEs lack a structured process in their New Product Development (NPD) management. NPD is vital for SMEs to survive in a competitive business environment...
Service industries have been booming and their specialness is widely discussed. There are suggestions that the developing antecedents would differ between service firms and product firms. However, there are also other means for business categorization, and the antecedents have rarely been studies globally. In this study, framework for future research is proposed based on literature review. The antecedents...
In general, the phenomenon of managing modularization is not well known. The cause-effect relationships between modularization and realized benefits are complex and comprehensive. Though a number of research works have contributed to the study of the phenomenon of efficient and effective modularization management it is far from clarified. Recognizing the need for further empirical research, we studied...
The capability to develop high quality products and processes constitutes the competitive advantage of many engineering companies. In production management, numerous tools exist for improving both effectiveness and efficiency. This study explores the applicability of these production management principles to engineering management. An academic focus group and engineering managers in seven German companies...
This paper presents a methodology and corresponding results how interdependencies in-between lifecycle phases deriving from the application of Eco-Design strategies can be identified to support engineering management. Thereby, interdependencies among the phases `Product Planning', `Product Development', `Production Planning', `Production', `Distribution', `Utilization', `Maintenance', `Modernization'...
In order to avoid fierce price competition, companies intend to differentiate their product lines and to target specific niche market segments. However, companies with expending product lines/families often face the challenge of controlling inventory cost, consistent product quality and good delivery performance. As a result, the platform based modular design becomes a promising method to overcome...
Identifying key NSD success factors has long been a hot NSD research topic. However, NSD success factor studies are more descriptive than instructional. From a managerial perspective, we conclude that most NSD success factors identified so far actually relate to four management processes: NSD strategy management, NSD process management, NSD knowledge management, and customer involvement.
FPD films have a large market size in the functional chemical industry and it has a great significance to study the method of technology acquisition. In this study, we conducted a comparative research on the technology acquisition method of equivalent products for each organization with or without raw materials of phase difference films. The result of this study indicated that no significant differences...
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