This paper describes research conducted during a project with multinational company that focuses on product design. The tackles two different goals: providing sales staff tool allows them to autonomously handle routine requests, and the company’s engineers decision support system help design products for more challenging application areas. For first goal, we make use of deterministic process, r...

Theories of innovation suggest the process of product and service development is becoming more open, placing more emphasis on external knowledge and involving a wide range of external actors to achieve and sustain innovation. The growing success of open innovation practices in many firms raises the question of whether these principles can be transferred for the reinventing of public sector orga...

this paper is a study in different kinds of innovations in the product-design field and the way of categorization of them and station point of industrial design in this process. the research process comprised the following five steps: 1. defining the research problem and establishing its methodology; 2.selecting and describing samples; 3. analyzing data and shaping hypotheses; 4. testing the ca...

In this paper the focus is on the strategy formulation processes, specifically supportive methods and structures, which address various managerial issues concerning discontinuous technologies and radical innovation in the early phase of strategic decision-making. In three in-depth case studies how companies proceeded with discontinuous technology and radical innovation ideas in strategy formula...

Innovation is one of the main drivers of business success. Using computers and special software applications in support of innovations cannot only shorten the whole process of bringing an initial idea to life, but it can improve the overall decision making process. Moreover, aligning innovation management and product life cycle management (PLM) helps organizations in gaining and reusing importa...

The current system of biomedical innovation is unable to keep pace with scientific advancements. We propose to address this gap by reengineering innovation processes to accelerate reliable delivery of products that address unmet medical needs. Adaptive biomedical innovation (ABI) provides an integrative, strategic approach for process innovation. Although the term "ABI" is new, it encompasses f...

While the management of innovation is the most knowledge-intensive organizational process, its information technology support has received only fragmented attention. Addressing the collaborative nature of the innovation process, in this paper we present Knowledge Breeder and its associated problemsolving methodology (Group Model Building by Selection and Argumentation) as a framework for suppor...

Representing business rules and the rules governing businesses is in itself a challenging task. Supporting the enactment of the represented rules poses even greater challenges. We present a novel approach to enact decisions represented using the Decision Model and Notation standard. The IDP knowledge base system is used as an inference engine for DMN decision models. The different forms of infe...