Increasingly shorter product life cycles impel rms to design, develop, and market more products in less time than ever before. Overlapping of design and development stages is commonly regarded as the most promising strategy to reduce product development times. However, overlapping typically requires additional resources and can be costly. Our research addresses the trade-o) between product deve...

The experience reflected in these patterns comes from years of working for an international technology company with product development centers in Europe, North America and Asia, and through interaction with people from other companies practicing distributed development. The patterns were initially built on observing internally established practices, and later influenced by learning through rea...

The style of product design for a country or a nationality is influenced by its essential traditional cultures and lifestyles. Recently, the importance of studying Taiwanese cultures has been shown repeatedly in several studies in design field. Despite the recognized importance of product design in cultural and creative industries, they lack a systematic approach to it. Therefore, the main purp...

3 The Challenge of New Product Development 4 International Performance Comparisons 6 Designing The Study 7 Product Development Performance 9 Process Performance 10 Process Performance : Speed 11 Process Performance: Efficiency 12 Process Performance : Control 16 Other Outcomes 17 Company Characteristics 19 Project Management 20 Supplier Involvement 21 Industry Structures 22

Technology analysis is to analyze technology by qualitative and quantitative approaches. This is important issue in management of technology (MOT) because the result of technology analysis is used for efficient R&D planning. In this paper, we propose novel approach to technology analysis by patent statistics. We retrieve patent documents related to target technology, and analyze the retrieved p...

This paper presents an interim report on research into design capacity. Design capacity is defined as an organisation’s proficiency to gather and assimilate knowledge about design. For small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK’s furniture manufacturing sector, the management of design capacity is now viewed as being an integral element in business success. Key product development issu...

The goal of this research is to investigate prototype use in conceptual design. In order to begin this line of study, we look first to current practices in industry. A case study involving two companies provides examples of prototype use in the conceptual design phase of their respective product development cycles. Six interviews were conducted at two different companies in order to help unders...

Article history: Available online 11 August 2011