Patients receiving nebulized respiratory treatments and airway clearance therapies often combine the treatments to decrease treatment time, despite a lack of data supporting this practice. Moreover, manufacturers advertise simultaneous use in their marketing. The airway clearance devices that allow concomitant administration of aerosol can be classified as those that alter the pathway of the ae...

An extensive literature review has resulted in the consolidation of key success factors for the new product development (NPD) process. A subsequent analysis has also resulted in the identification of over 40 tools designed to assist various NPD team members with different steps along the NPD path, ultimately improving the likelihood of new product success. This paper will discuss five themes de...

During the last decades, firms have deployed environmental sustainability practices. While most of these practices incur internally within a firm’s boundaries, collaboration with supply chain partners and sharing of information related to the environmental impact of a firm’s products and processes, namely environmental information, has been identified by many firms as essential in order to achi...

A random matrix model for freeness is extended and used to investigate free products of free group factors with matrix algebras and with the hyperfinite II1–factor. The latter is shown to be isomorphic to a free group factor having one additional generator. Introduction. The finite von Neumann algebra L(G) associated to a discrete group G was introduced by Murray and von Neumann [5]. It is the ...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of business intelligence consumer needs, internal intelligence sources and external intelligence sources on the value of the business intelligence product as measured by the quality of decisions made by business intelligence consumers, the willingness of these consumers to confirm decisions already made and their ability to scan the external e...

This paper revisits the key success factors of new product development by investigating a software-intensive product development project, which is presented in form of a detailed qualitative case study. The result reconfirms the existing wisdom that factors like top management sponsorship, presence of a heavy-weight project manager, close cross-functional collaboration and communication, skill ...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as an engine for economic growth all over the world and especially for developing countries. During the past decade, new product development (NPD) has increasingly been recognized as a critical factor in ensuring the continued survival of SMEs. On the other hand, the rapid rate of market and technological changes has accelerated in the past dec...

In today′s global market, competition between firms is high, and customers are constantly demanding technically more advanced products. To fulfill the requirements of customers and rapid growth of global market, organizations have to execute further research in the field of product development in order to achieve the desired goal. Collaborative product development (CPD) has emerged as a new way...

Concerned about the high incidence of medical errors, The US Food and Drug Administration’s Human Factors Engineering Group of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) has begun an aggressive approach to consider the impact of Human Factors (HF) in medical device design and labelling. In Australia and Europe, government activities also include HF in the labelling of pharmaceuticals...

Innovation is extremely important for companies to gain and sustain competitive advantage in the modern business environment. Nowadays ability to adapt and evolve is crucial for any company willing to survive. The key to effective adaption and evolvement is innovation. New products are commonly seen as an output of innovation whereas new product development process is considered to be a sub-pro...