In a Danish survey of 1022 manufacturing firms, 294 respondents gave detailed descriptions of the collaboration involved in their most important projects. The most frequently occurring partners in the projects were those who also played a role in the value chain for the eventual product. These partners are also those attributed by the firms as having the greatest importance for the completion o...

The I&MSL is a product development lab within the Consumer Products Division. Its role is to create new technology for products as well as to design new kinds of products embodying such technology. Products are manufactured at factories (called works) and such works also have design departments. The latter make small updates to existing designs and lead in the conversion of preliminary designs ...

Concern is shown that the multiple dimensions of new-technology product development are not managed in a coordinated manner across the entire product development cycle. lhe complexity of doing this is likened to managing the wave patterns of an ocean. A phase model framework is presented that shows five phases of technology and high-tech product development activities, the interrelationships am...

Decisions during NPD process have impact on 80-90% of a product’s life cycle sustainability performance. The objective of this study is to investigate the integration of sustainability into product design, mainly focusing on the environmental aspects. The investigation has been carried out by means of a questionnaire developed based on a 3-pillar framework outlining the essential elements for s...

There is little in-depth research that can assist designers to use culture as a catalyst for designing innovative product within Botswana’s context. This is supported by evidence from the literature which indicate that from an African perspective, there is no solid theoretical framework which can assist designers to consciously integrate users’ culture in designing products. This challenges des...

l a Abstract: To manage a new product development process is difficult because of the coupled tasks. Design structure matrix (DSM) is an effective tool to resolve this problem. The early research on DSM describes the tasks’ relationships by Boolean sign, and the focus of further research is how to measure the coupled strength and how to sequence the coupled tasks module. Based on the existent r...

Bringing a new product to market involves both a creative ideation stage, and an execution stage. When time-to-market constraints are binding it is an important question how to divide limited time between the two stages and who should make this decision. We introduce a laboratory experiment that closely resembles this setting: it features a product development task with an open design space, a ...

The style of product design for a country or a nationality is influenced by its essential traditional cultures and lifestyles. Recently, the importance of studying Taiwanese cultures has been shown repeatedly in several studies in design field. Despite the recognized importance of product design in cultural and creative industries, they lack a systematic approach to it. Therefore, the main purp...