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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"New product development (NPD)"”.
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Resource assignment in short life technology intensive (SLTI) new product development (NPD)
Enterprises managing multiple concurrent New Product Development (NPD) projects face significant challenges assigning staff to projects in order to achieve launch schedules that maximize financial returns. The challenge is increased with the class of Short Life Technology Intensive (SLTI) products …
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A collaborative framework for feasibility analysis in automotive product development with global supply chain
In the competitive world, time to market, new technology and innovation are the measures of the performance of New Product Development (NPD). Companies tend to use a conventional approach to NPD by assigning representatives from their own support functions to review and recommend changes as …
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Employing Actor Network Theory to Explore the Role of Management Control Systems in New Product Development Projects
… influence the role and use of control systems in New Product Development (NPD) settings. The purpose of the dissertation is to explore the socio-technical micro-foundations underpinning the influence of management accounting and control systems in NPD contexts. In addition, this dissertation …
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Managing risks in the new product development projects: the evidence from Taiwanese firms
… fast-moving and highly competitive markets, new product development (NPD) is critical for firms to achieve sustainable growth and maintain competitive advantage. However, the NPD process is fraught with numerous risks that may weaken the product's performance in the marketplace or may even …
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Technology Decisions In New Product Development
… the most important and challenging decisions in new product development (NPD) process that can greatly affect all downstream design activities which have a great impact on product success in the market place. Although new technologies may bring more competitive advantage by offering higher …
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Application of commercial best practices for new technology development within the constraints of defense contract funded R&D
… the application of commercial best practices for new technology development within the constraints of the defense contract funded research and development (R&D) environment. Key elements of successful new product development (NPD) are identified from the literature, including strategic fit, …
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Effect of the new product development process on the performance of global new service programs in the business-to-business services sector
… success in their program of international new product development. Literature exists on the topics of new product development (NPD), services marketing, and international marketing. But, little research has combined these areas and focused on new service development (NSD) for international …
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Design Transfer as a Lever for Accelerated Medical Device Innovation: A Case-Based Mapping Approach
… industries such as medical devices, accelerating New Product Development (NPD) without compromising quality or compliance is a persistent challenge. This thesis investigates the design transfer process, a critical, yet under- examined phase of NPD, as a strategic lever to reduce time-to-market. …
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Optimization of thermoplastic composite manufacturing with digital process intelligence
… of thermoplastic composites and their complex production means optimal manufacturing parameters are not well characterized. Processes are often developed through trial-and-error with limited understanding of the underlying drivers of material behavior, reducing yields and stretching development …
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A systems approach to resource planning in new product development
… modelling of resource demand information in New Product Development (NPD). Resource information is a fundamental problem across resource planning processes. No matter what tools are used to re-organise and manage the data, the essential success of the planning process lies in the data …
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Framework For Quantifying And Tailoring Complexity And Risk To Manage Uncertainty In Developing Complex Products And Systems
<p>In recent years there has been a renewed interest in product complexity due its negative impact on launch performance. Research indicates that underestimating complexity is one of the most common errors repeated by new product development (NPD) teams. It was concluded that companies that …
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A New Process for Creating Design Briefs to Improve Design Innovations in Home Health Care
… the demand for well-designed home healthcare products (HHCPs) and associated services is rapidly growing. Research into their approaches found that innovation strategies and techniques adopted by many HHCP suppliers have not matured to realise the best innovative solutions. This practice-based …
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Development of a system dynamics based management flight simulator for new product development
All firms in any mature product development industry are being pressured into performing 'better, faster, and cheaper' by both customers and competitors. In short, firms are being tasked with doing more, with less, faster. This leads to product development organizations being unrealistically tasked …
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The development of new products in the personal financial services sector
The development of new products in the personal finacial services (PFS) sector is an area that is being increasingly relied upon by organisations to provide competitive differentiation in the highly competitive environment that they now operate within. Despite this reliance, relatively little is …
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How firms learn about new product development in their business networks
… contributes to current understanding about new product development (NPD) network learning. It addresses the following research questions: how is business network learning processed in NPD? How do firms engage with their business alliances in the NPD network learning process? How does the …
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A Smart Products Lifecycle Management (sPLM) Framework - Modeling for Conceptualization, Interoperability, and Modularity
… have been built into many of today’s mechatronic products, taking advantage of low-cost sensors and advanced data analytics technologies. Design of product intelligence (enabled by analytics capabilities) is no longer a trivial or additional option for the product development. The objective of …
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Requirement driven knowledge management system design to support automotive product development
Nowadays, New Product Development (NPD) has become a business priority in manufacturing companies due to international competition in terms of meeting higher and changing customer requirements, generating high profit at low cost, and maintaining sustainable development and growth. Through …
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The Role of Market Information Sources on New Product Innovativeness in a Myanmar Manufacturing Company
… regarded as the operationalisation of marketing. New product innovativeness (NPI) is the measurement of success of new product development (NPD) and is affected by market orientation. Four Diamond Company Limited is a three-generation local plastic manufacturing and distribution business …
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Interorganisatorische Entwicklungspartnerschaften zwischen Automobilherstellern und Lieferanten: Kausalbeziehungen des Pie Sharing, Pie Expansion und Opportunismus - Eine empirische Analyse zu den Auswirkungen partnerschaftlicher Ertragsaufteilung
Firms pursue buyer-supplier new product development (NPD) partnerships to achieve competitive advantages by combining interorganizational resources. Although such collaborations have been confirmed to expand the partnership’s total value pie, managerial practice shows that sharing the pie …
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The Role of Strategic Problem Identification and Formulation in Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
… how do firms reliably identify new sources of competitive advantage ex ante during periods of higher environmental turbulence?Practitioner-scholars are uniquely positioned to address the problem-of-practice and bridge the rigor-relevance gap. My thesis consists of three papers …
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