According to Wikipedia creativity is “a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or problem solutions, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts”. Creativity towards innovation in product development settings are often used interchangeably. Innovation and creative product development refer to completely new as well as significantly improv...

This paper integrates the knowledge-based view of the firm and new product development team literature to analyze how firms develop the capability to create new knowledge and thus extending the knowledge-based view of the firm. The results indicate that internal and external knowledge sharing and common knowledge among project members support this capability. Among the integrative mechanisms, i...

The continuous development andmarket introduction of new products can be an important determinantof sustained companyperformance. For approximately 30 years, conceptual and empirical researchhasbeenundertakento identify thecritical success factorsofnewproducts. This paper reviews the findings of empirical work into the success factors of new product development (NPD). It is the prime objective ...

ABSRTACT Basically involvement of modularity in the manufacturing of products produced some effects extensively in development. This Paper presents a methodology of modular based design in different conceptual stages of manufacturing system to support modularity. The results of the study will identify that how the modularity also influence the time and cost factors by functional changes in proc...

Design by analogy, in which designers draw inspiration from cross-domain design solutions, is a promising methodology for product development. This work attempts to leverage the existing design solutions within a repository, combined with an exploration of inherent structural forms that can be discovered based on the content and similarity of that data, in order to gain useful insights into the...

Increasingly shorter product life cycles impel rms to design, develop, and market more products in less time than ever before. Overlapping of design and development stages is commonly regarded as the most promising strategy to reduce product development times. However, overlapping typically requires additional resources and can be costly. Our research addresses the trade-o) between product deve...

The experience reflected in these patterns comes from years of working for an international technology company with product development centers in Europe, North America and Asia, and through interaction with people from other companies practicing distributed development. The patterns were initially built on observing internally established practices, and later influenced by learning through rea...

3 The Challenge of New Product Development 4 International Performance Comparisons 6 Designing The Study 7 Product Development Performance 9 Process Performance 10 Process Performance : Speed 11 Process Performance: Efficiency 12 Process Performance : Control 16 Other Outcomes 17 Company Characteristics 19 Project Management 20 Supplier Involvement 21 Industry Structures 22