Abstract Start-ups tend to form with a central idea that differentiates them from their competitors in the market. It is crucial for efficiently transform into marketable product. Prototyping helps iteratively achieve minimum viable product and plays role by enabling teams test ideas limited resources early on. However, prototyping process may have wrong focus leading suboptimal allocation of r...

A study on fuzzy relational visualization in system development aspects is presented. The front-end enables dynamic and scalable changes in visualization according to user’s expertise and inspiration. Integrative management of various data and knowledge is handled by the back-end at any scale in cloud computing environment. Extended Logic Programming is used as the core of fuzzy relational mana...

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...

There are significant and obvious differences between the aims of the technology curriculum and the aims of commercial organisations. However many of the practices and techniques used in commercial organisations can be adapted and applied to school based technology projects. This paper describes two techniques used by leading companies to identify new ideas for product development. The first is...