Dispersed, cross-functional development teams—a particular type of virtual team—confront a wide range of knowledge-based challenges in their dispersed work. Encompassing diverse sources of task-relevant knowledge, such teams present rich opportunities for exchanging and combining knowledge—activities at the heart of an organization’s ability to innovate (Grant 1996; Schumpeter 1934). Yet empiri...

Generative specifications have been used to systematically codify established styles in several design fields including architecture and product design. We examine how designers explore new designs in the early stages of product development as they manipulate and interpret shape representations. A model of exploration is proposed with four types of shape descriptions ~contour, decomposition, st...

The development phases of e-business is described firstly, then the new product development process in cooperative product business is presented in detail, the cooperative product business support platform including technical platform and information platform is discussed finally.

Purpose – To solve the trade-offs between marketing and R&D domains and to minimize information loss in new product development (NPD), this study proposes an integrated design process as a new solution to the interface system between the two domains. Design/methodology/approach – House of Quality integrated with multivariate statistical analysis is used for determining important design features...

We study the strategic benefits of M&A when competing IT vendors sell different generations of the same product with different quality. We assume the new product arrives unexpectedly when an installed base of old product exists. We show that the combination of consumers’ purchase history and heterogeneity leads to new demand complexity that gives rise to innovative product strategies. We find t...

The development of innovative products is characterized by uncertainties that are the result of insufficient experience and incomplete knowledge, finally leading to risks. A multitude of different methods for risk estimation is available in literature, but only scattered approaches are known that support the reduction of risks in a methodical manner. In this publication four different strategie...

The simulations in this two binder collection. are designed to provide a wide choice of settings for your training assessment activites. The Dubchinzaneth Building Project: Tasked with providing help following a major international disaster, your participants must choose a reconstruction project. How will they plan the construction? What unexpected problems will they face and how will the team ...