The fuzzy front-end and the forgotten back-end: User involvement in later development phases

The " Fuzzy Front End

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Daniel M. Dias William Kish Rajat Mukherjee and Renu Tewari IBM Research Division T. J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 704, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 fdias, c1kish, rajatm, c1renu [email protected] Abstract We describe a prototype scalable and highly available web server, built on an IBM SP-2 system, and analyze its scalability. The system architecture consists of a set of logical front-end or...

Fuzzy Decision Support in the Early Phases of the Fuzzy Front End of Innovation in Product Development

The innovation process may be divided into three areas: the fuzzy front end (FFE), the new product development (NPD) process, and commercialization. Every NPD process has a FFE in which products and projects are defined. Companies tend to begin the stages of FFE without a clear definition and analysis of the process to go from opportunity identification to concepts, and often they even abort th...

Advancing Lead User Methodology in the Fuzzy Front-End of Product Development

Most companies have come to realize that in order to remain in business, and especially, gain economic success, they need to be able to identify user needs and respond to those needs. The set of activities that takes place before the actual product development, the fuzzy front-end, plays a critical role in the competition of whose products meet user needs the best. The main characteristics of t...

the survey of the virtual higher education in iran and the ways of its development and improvement

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