This paper describes a method for conducting worth feasibility evaluation (WFE) in innovative product development. The method uses an enhanced quality function deployment matrix to identify the effects of multiple, possibly conflicting, engineering solutions on the product attributes being developed. The WFE allows product developers to assess whether their proposed engineering approach to exec...

The design of environmentally friendly products requires data to assess the impact of the product on the environment throughout its life and the original design and manufacturing information that should accompany the product to manage the end-of-life process. Both of these requirements can be satisfied by the innovative combination of two groups of International Standards. The DEPUIS project pr...

The paper proposes an integrated framework which uses knowledge representation theory and languages to annotate relevant product information in a semantically rich and unambiguous fashion so disclosing several added-value services in multiple supply chain stages, without depending on a back-end infrastructure. EPCglobal RFID protocol standard has been extended and further applied in an innovati...

In this paper, we report on a novel approach developed by SAP AG, the German enterprise software company, for managing the integration of acquisitions of companies to access innovative technologies and related capabilities: the Product Council approach. The value of the Product Council approach rests in ensuring critical speed while not compromising accuracy in the integration process. For SAP,...

The size and complexity of embedded systems is increasing rapidly, making it difficult for companies to develop all the required functionality alone. On the other hand, experience has shown that traditional single-company development technologies do not support collaborative product development well. Thus, by improving the collaborative way of working, the competitiveness of software-intensive ...

electronic shopping has increased in recent years increasingly. people who use this channel as an instrument of marketing and selling of goods, understand that consumers do not only focus on timely delivery of goods. but they are also looking for new and different products. thus, the marketers and companies must understand the innovative elements that effective on consumer purchases. in the pre...

We incorporate product demonstrations into a game theoretic model of firm price competition. Demonstrations may include product samples, trials, return policies, reviews, or any other means by which a firm allows consumers to learn about their value for a new product. In our model, demonstrations help individual consumers learn whether they prefer an innovation over an established product. The ...

In this paper, practical activities of Needfinding an intertwined approach to identifying needs and to visualizing idea concepts in early design are described and discussed. This is done primarily to gain an increased understanding of the various representations of user needs that are fed into the fuzzy front-end activities of team-based product innovation projects. The empirical basis comes fr...

As the aesthetic aspect of a product is becoming more and more important in customers' decisions, there is an increasing need of tools able to express and preserve the styling intent during the product development cycle, while offering an interaction with the user much more adherent to his mentality. The European Project FIORES-II (Character Preservation and Modelling in Aesthetic and Engineeri...