Evaluating QFD's use in US firms as a process for developing products

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Implementation of quality function deployment (QFD) is studied in 35 projects in US firms. Results show the use of QFD methods have minor, short-term effects on product development and have the potential for longer-term improvement. Firms which netted significant improvement in product development due to QFD have two things in common. They treated people and information as investments, spending time and money for the improvement of working conditions. The orientation of goals also tended to be affective.

Industrial project management, Project management

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The breakfast of champions: associations between champions and product development environments, practices and performance

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The champion effect in many new product development process tends to be effective only at the firm level. However, its effect may not be manifested both in the program and the project level. Championing in new product development processes tend to increase participant performance, which results in better firm performance. Champions were shown to both support innovative solutions as well as incremental changes both in technology-driven and marketing-driven firms.

Product Development, Social aspects

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Proposed principles for emerging systems of scholarly publishing

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The Internet and other technology has had a major impact on industry and will continue to do so. Industries like publishing must change to adapt to this new technology and proposals to ensure the survival of scholarly publishing are discussed.

Scholarly publishing, Editorial, Evaluation, Internet, Influence

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