Managing Controversies in the Fuzzy Front End

The " Fuzzy Front End

The “ Fuzzy Front End ” of Innovation

The fast transformation of technologies into new products or processes is one of the core challenges for any technology-based enterprise. Within the innovation process, we believe, the early phases (“fuzzy front end”) to have the highest impact on the whole process and the result (Input-Output Process), since it will influence the design and total costs of the innovation extremely. However the ...

A Socio-interactive Framework for the Fuzzy Front End

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...

The Fuzzy Front End: a Key Step to Successful Projects

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...

“ Fuzzy front end ” practices in innovating Japanese companies