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 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...

Supplier's sales engineer as a knowledge worker

The paper forms part of a multiple case study in progress that focuses on information relationships, i.e., the exchange of information and knowledge at the micro-social level between supplier and buyer firms in the fuzzy front end of product development. The micro-social level is made up of dyadic information relationships between the Design...

Roadmap grounded as 'visual portray': Reflecting on an artifact and metaphor

Artifacts Design representations and presentations of work, strategic thinking, and business processes. Main theme Design!? - related by research program on Design Roadmapping, at the Industrial Design Engineering Faculty.

Ambidexterity in dyadic NPD relationships

Supplier involvement in new product development: The preferred supplier from the purchasing, engineering and supplier perspective

The presented research is part of an on-going explanatory multiple case study on the information relationship between Purchasing, Engineering and Suppliers in product development. The paper addresses the question of what in the perception of Engineering, Purchasing and Suppliers constitutes a preferred supplier. Further the paper explores how...

Supplier Involvement in Product Development: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Working Paper

The paper reports the preliminary findings of four current case studies on supplier involvement in product development from the respective perspectives of Engineering, Purchasing and Suppliers. The supplier involvement is studied from the viewpoint of how supplier information and knowledge are deployed in the fuzzy front end of product...

Supplier websites: Could they be inspiring to lighting designers?

This paper describes an exploratory pilot study on the usefulness for designers of three lighting manufacturers’ websites. All three websites contain sections that are specifically directed at professional lighting designers. This study’s first objective is to investigate whether designers experience the websites' content as conducive to the...

Toward a general model of portfolio decision making

We develop a general model of how new product development portfolio decisions are made based on four diverse case studies. Previous research has investigated portfolio decisions as individually discrete decisions. We find that portfolio decision-making has to be considered as an integrated system of domain-based processes that produce evidence-,...

An integrated model of portfolio decision-making processes ; an extended abstract

Determinants of IT Usage and New Product Performance

Explosive growth of information technologies (IT) has prompted interest in examining the role of IT in new product development (NPD). Through desk-top software and web-based tools, IT has been used to aid idea generation and product testing as well as for NPD activities such as process and portfolio management. Recent research suggests, however,...

Product intelligence: Its conceptualization, measurement and impact on consumer satisfaction

Exploring Mediating and Moderating Influences on the Links between Cycle Time, Proficiency in Entry Timing and New Product Profitability

Development cycle time is the elapsed time from the beginning of idea generation to the moment that the new product is ready for market introduction. Market entry timing is contingent upon the new product’s cycle time. Only when the product is completed can a firm decide whether and when to enter the market to exploit the new product’s window of...

Modeling market information processing in new product development: An empirical analysis

This research explores the antecedents and consequences of market information processing during the development process of new high-tech products. To this end, we develop and test a conceptual model for market information processing in three generic stages of the new product development (NPD) process (predevelopment, development and...

Launch Strategies and New Product Performance - An empirical international study