Product design and innovation : exploring breakthrough products (breakthroughs : a method and a madness)

This paper has been an iterative rather than a breakthrough process. we approached the topic of product design and innovation with notions of what it meant and how good designs were created. our purpose here has been to provide some understanding of the complexity of the issues surrounding breakthrough product designs. we redefine a variety of terms that are used liberally in the field to provide some sort of precise understanding of our perspective. This thesis is not meant to be read in the traditional paper format rather, it has digital collateral <CD-ROM, zip disks> that are the true product of our research.

Department dc:contributor.department

Sloan School of Management

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1998

Authors dc:creator

• Fulkerson, Sarah (Sarah Hampton), 1969-
• Halpern-Lande, Anna 1969-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Nader Tavassoli.

• Sloan School of Management

Statement dc:rights

• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9619

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/9619