Continuous improvement and inter-project learning in new product development
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New product development (NPD) can foster continuous improvement and learning by providing resources to assess the project, disseminating improvements in the whole organization, and adopting pattern-identifying schemes. The NPD scheme requires that learning and innovation be strategically managed in that aside from the immediate gains, they must also be employed to improve product capacity. This strategy avoids barriers to NPD such as context- specificity and misapplication of developmental experience.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 1997
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Bottom-up or top-down? Evolutionary change management in NPD processes
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Theoretical evolutionary change management principles and a simulation game based business process development method, built upon these principles are presented. The results from the case projects concluded that the bottom-up initiated change project of the pharmaceutical company and the top-down initiated project of the telecommunication company, however, both achieved good results in process development.
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 2003
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Knowledge management in continuous product innovation: A contingent approach
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The relation between individual firms' contingent variables and managerial approaches to foster knowledge management in product innovation, are analyzed. Evidence is based on a survey of 70 companies, including European and Australian firms, developed within the Euro-Australian cooperation project entitled CIMA (Continuous Improvement for global innovation management).
Publication Name: International Journal of Technology Management
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0267-5730
Year: 2003
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