The advancement of Internet technology and customisation capability has set off research into their impacts on all business operations including New Product Development (NPD). Despite the heavy investment in research and development, few studies have examined how Information Technology (IT) is adopted; how design customisation capability is built, and whether they reveal close associations with...

In July 2022, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK) hosted fifth Product Development Management Association (PDMA) Doctoral Consortium. As a critical vehicle to promote doctoral student research and scholarly networking, this consortium featured emerging topics on new product development (NPD) innovation by promising students leading scholars, provided exposure cutting-edge practice in...

New product development (NPD) is both an opportunity and a great challenge for all enterprises, especially those in traditional industries. Enterprises must coordinate well with knowledge from internal external, such as marketing, sales, research development. This study was conducted the aim of clarifying impact management capability on new bamboo painting enterprises Vietnam. In addition, this...

New product development (NPD) is a major driver of firm growth and sustainable competitive advantage, yet risks are intrinsic in NPD in all industries. Thus understanding, identifying, managing, and reducing risk is of strategic importance for firms. In this research, we synthesize and build on previous research, and propose a three-dimensional risk management framework for NPD. We empirically ...

The effective management of technology and new product development in a high technology small to medium enterprise associated with a large corporation with specific reference to the development of solar photovoltaic water pumps is investigated in this study. Innovative product and the development thereof have already become this century's battleground. The availability of information to all and...

The process of product innovation consists of three stages, which are fuzzy front end (FFE), new product development (NPD) and commercialization (COM). Theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) is a systematic approach to find innovative solutions for technical problems. The patterns and lines of TRIZ are applied to FFE to produce new ideas. The principles, standard solutions and effects of TR...

new product development (npd) is one of the key factors for achieving competitive advantage and maintaining firm growth. therefore, given the importance of this type of projects, this paper is an endeavor to make these projects more successful by effectively managing their risks in the conceptual design phase of new product development. for this purpose, a multi-objective model, with three obje...

In today's competitive world, there are several strategies to deal with the fast changing environment, among which New product development (NPD) is a common strategy. However, almost half of the resources that companies devote to NPD are spent on products that may fail. This issue is particularly highlighted in the pharmaceutical industry mainly because of a long development-time, low success r...

New product development (NPD) is described in the literature as the transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale. In the automotive industry, within the context of ISO/TS16949:2002 (the automotive quality management system international standard),  these related to the product realization process (PRP) which consists of Three main phases such as planning, Implem...

This paper focuses on improving the management of New-Product Development (NPD) processes within the particular context of a cluster of enterprises that cooperate through a network of intraand inter-firm relations. Ceramic tile design chains have certain singularities that condition the NPD process, such as the lack of a strong hierarchy, fashion pressure or the existence of different origins f...