What is your experience? A study on collaborating NPD professionals and the effects of their dissimilar experiences on NPD outcomes

Prior research suggests that combining exploration and exploitation can ensure firms’ long term performance. However, balancing the two is challenging because of their fundamentally different nature. Collaboration with other companies can be a means to successfully combine exploration and exploitation. Studies on collaboration and its effects on...

The Role of Design Consultants in Innovation Strategy Decisionmaking

To contain risks and increase the profitability of innovation efforts, firms frequently engage in joint innovation activities with external sources of knowledge, like design consultancies. Innovation literature has given limited consideration to the strategic role that design consultancies can play in the innovation efforts of their clients. A...

The influence of mental model differences between external designers and their clients on new product development outcomes

Prior research indicated that external designers are often hired by their clients to bring new knowledge into their organization. To assure that an external designer’s knowledge is implemented in the organization of the client, managing the relationship between the two is essential. It seems to be particularly important that the external...

Improving innovation strategic decision-making through the collaboration with design consultancies

Innovation and design literature have given limited consideration to the strategic role of design consultancies in the innovation processes of their clients. A plausible explanation is the difficulty to assess the quality of design consultancies’ output, given the intangibility of the output itself and the difficulty of connecting a knowledge...

The experience of product service systems

In this paper, we focus on how to design product service systems (PSS) that provide for coherent user experiences. Our research is part of a large Dutch research program (CRISP, www.crispplatform.nl) on PSS. We propose a framework for identifying real PSS by integrating perspectives from economics and design theory. Our framework suggests that...

Ambidexterity in dyadic NPD relationships

Measuring and modeling coastal dune development in the Netherlands

Bed variability in the surf zone at the storm- and seasonal time scale, mapped by Argus-video techniques: Preliminary results using the SBM-2DH model

Strandbreedte ontwikkeling nabij Egmond 1999-2004: Data rapport maandelijkse ontwikkeling van het droge zand

Bruikbaarheid voor de kustbeheerder van door Argus gemeten beheersparameters: Nauwkeurigheid, inzetbaarheid en toegevoegde waarde

Quantification of 2D subtidal bathymetry from video

Delft Cluster - coasts: Final report

Over rietwas en de mogelijkheid zijner technische gewinning