A FUZZY FRONT-END PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK FOR START-UPS

a model of direct and indirect effects of fuzzy-front-end on new product development

at early stages of new product development, the effort tooptimize is low and effects on the whole innovation process are high.therefore, a deeper understanding of fuzzy front end and its successcan help firms to be more successful in developing new products. wepresented and tested a conceptual model of relationships among keyvariable sre lated to the fuzzy front end,execution phase of new produ...

A Socio-interactive Framework for the Fuzzy Front End

This paper aims to illustrate that the dominating rational-analytic perspective on the Fuzzy Front End (FFE) of innovation could benefit by a complementary sociointeractive perspective that addresses the social processes during the FFE. We have developed a still fledgling socio-interactive framework blending existing knowledge of the FFE with theories from design methodology and the psycho-soci...

The " Fuzzy Front End

Advancing Lead User Methodology in the Fuzzy Front-End of Product Development

Most companies have come to realize that in order to remain in business, and especially, gain economic success, they need to be able to identify user needs and respond to those needs. The set of activities that takes place before the actual product development, the fuzzy front-end, plays a critical role in the competition of whose products meet user needs the best. The main characteristics of t...

A Method for Business Model Development in Web Start-ups

In order to profit from innovation, web entrepreneurs should not only excel at product innovation but also at developing a viable business model that suits the product. A method to guide such business model development is therefore needed. In this paper, a method for the development of viable business models in web start-ups is created based on expert interviews and process descriptions from li...