BACKGROUND Previous research from the fields of computer science and engineering highlight the importance of an iterative design process (IDP) to create more creative and effective solutions. OBJECTIVE This study describes IDP as a new method for developing health behavior interventions and evaluates the effectiveness of a dining hall-based intervention developed using IDP on college students...

Purpose Technology-based services (TBS) create substantial value for providers and customers alike. Increasingly short life cycles and high innovation failure rates have turned superior innovation competences into a fundamental source of sustainable competitive advantage. In TBS innovation projects, decision-making in pre-development stages (e.g., in the screening or innovation proposal evaluat...

The Integrated Design Process (IDP) is a method of intervention in early stages of the design process that supports the development and design team to avoid sub-optimal design solutions. IDP is not a new concept, and may in fact have been applied in the past by some design teams on an ad-hoc basis; but the formal implementation of the process is a development that has taken place over the past ...

Development projects for radical innovations are typically long in duration and, therefore, surrounded by a high level of technological, market, organizational and resource uncertainties. Various techniques have been developed in order to manage the uncertainties due to unpredictable future and to support managers in their strategic decision making during the innovation development process. Typ...

Promoting synergy creation of technology in industrial cluster is the key of advancing innovation ability and technology level. The technology innovation of industrial cluster is synergy innovation process, according to the analysis for activities of innovation. And the paper explains the synergy process of cluster innovation activities. The process includes: technological decision and concept ...