The present study tries to investigate the existing risks in the new product development process in the core banking field. Due to its use after production, new product development with the fewest errors and risks is always the subject of discussion and investigation among the researchers of this field. This study aims to investigate the most important risks existing in the new product developm...

Investments in process technologies during the past two decades to increase productivity and efficiency in product development have not yielded the gains in productivity that would be expected. This lack of return on investment is due to injecting new process technologies and tools into old product development processes. Globalization and mass customization, termed 'the new business imperative'...

In this paper, practical activities of Needfinding an intertwined approach to identifying needs and to visualizing idea concepts in early design are described and discussed. This is done primarily to gain an increased understanding of the various representations of user needs that are fed into the fuzzy front-end activities of team-based product innovation projects. The empirical basis comes fr...

Product development is collaborative, involving multi-disciplinary functions and heterogeneous tools. Teamwork is essential through seamless tool integration and better co-ordination of human activities. This paper proposes to use workflow management as a mechanism to facilitate the teamwork in a collaborative product development environment where remote Web-based Decision Support Systems (Tele...

The manufacturing competitive environment has intensified in recent years. In this environment, companies do not possess all the knowledge they need but instead rely on other organizations. This results in the need of distance product development, which in turn requires information and knowledge in the place, time and format required. In response to this need the research community has come wit...