Innovation in the Product Development Process

The impact of organizational innovation through innovation capabilities in ‎process and product on the performance of manufacturing firms

Abstract Innovation is considered as a critical factor for organizations to create value and ‎sustainable competitive advantage in today's complex and changing environment. ‎Organizations with more innovation, in response to the changing environments and ‎creating development of new capabilities that allows them to achieve better ‎performance will be more successful. The aim of curr...

Evolving the Product Development Process

The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to distribute publicly paper and electronic copies of this thesis document in wholefr in part /1/ JUL 1 8 ROZ LIBRARIES Acknowledgements First, and foremost, I would like to thank my advisors, Diane Burton and Jim Hines. Thank you for your inspired guidance and the interest you took in my work. I was fortunate enough to work with two p...

Successful execution of product development projects: Balancing firmness and flexibility in the innovation process

This paper investigates project management methods used during the execution phase of new product development projects. Based on prior field observations, organizational theory and product development literature, we pose hypotheses regarding the effectiveness of the project execution methods of formality, project management autonomy and resource flexibility. A cross-sectional survey sample of 1...

Product and process development

an investigation of different kinds of innovation in product design and the station point of industrial design in innovation process

this paper is a study in different kinds of innovations in the product-design field and the way of categorization of them and station point of industrial design in this process. the research process comprised the following five steps: 1. defining the research problem and establishing its methodology; 2.selecting and describing samples; 3. analyzing data and shaping hypotheses; 4. testing the ca...