Continuous improvement and inter-project learning in new product development

Article Abstract:

New product development (NPD) can foster continuous improvement and learning by providing resources to assess the project, disseminating improvements in the whole organization, and adopting pattern-identifying schemes. The NPD scheme requires that learning and innovation be strategically managed in that aside from the immediate gains, they must also be employed to improve product capacity. This strategy avoids barriers to NPD such as context- specificity and misapplication of developmental experience.

Project management

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Bottom-up or top-down? Evolutionary change management in NPD processes

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Theoretical evolutionary change management principles and a simulation game based business process development method, built upon these principles are presented. The results from the case projects concluded that the bottom-up initiated change project of the pharmaceutical company and the top-down initiated project of the telecommunication company, however, both achieved good results in process development.

Finland, Simulation methods, Simulation, Change management

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Knowledge management in continuous product innovation: A contingent approach

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The relation between individual firms' contingent variables and managerial approaches to foster knowledge management in product innovation, are analyzed. Evidence is based on a survey of 70 companies, including European and Australian firms, developed within the Euro-Australian cooperation project entitled CIMA (Continuous Improvement for global innovation management).

Italy, Knowledge management, Creative ability, Creativity

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