266 Fuzzy front-end studies: current state and future directions for new product development

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...

Social Software in New Product Development - State of Research and Future Research Directions

Product development becomes increasingly collaborative and knowledge-intensive in today’s industry. To gain competitive advantage an effective usage of information systems in new product development (NPD) is needed. Social software applications indicate further potential for usage in NPD, the so called “Product Development 2.0”, which is poorly understood in research so far. The purpose of this...

The " Fuzzy Front End

Current issues and future directions in evolutionary fuzzy systems research

Contributors to the special track on Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems at the EUSFLAT 2003 conference were asked to record their thoughts and ideas on the current state of evolutionary fuzzy systems research, "burning issues" and future directions. This paper brings together these contributions.

Geographical Information Systems and Health: Current State and Future Directions

This paper provides an introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and how they can be used. It reviews the current state of GIS use in health care before identifying the barriers to more pervasive use of GIS in health. Finally, it makes recommendations for the direction of health GIS research over the next decade and concludes with a call to action to health informatics researchers ...