Browsing Center for Innovation in Product Development (CIPD) by Title
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Transferring, Translating and Transforming: An Integrative Framework
(2002-03-10)Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an ... -
Transferring, Translating and Transforming: An Integrative Framework
(2002-03-10)Organizations must establish processes for managing knowledge across boundaries because of the specialized and task-dependent forms of knowledge required to deliver products and services. To address this challenge an ... -
Understanding Fire Fighting in New Product Development
(2001-03)Despite documented benefits, the processes described in the new product development literature often prove difficult to follow in practice. A principal source of such difficulties is the phenomenon of fire fighting the ... -
Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage
(2000-03)What are the origins of competitive advantage? Although this question is fundamental to strategy research, it is one to which we lack a clear answer. As strategy researchers we believe that some firms consistently outperform ... -
The Virtual Customer
(2001-12)Communication and information technologies are adding new capabilities for rapid and inexpensive customer input to all stages of the product development (PD) process. In this article we review six web-based methods of ... -
Why Firefighting Is Never Enough: Preserving High-Quality Product
(2001)In this paper, we add to insights already developed in single-project models about insufficient resource allocation and the "firefighting" and last-minute rework that often result by asking why dysfunctional resource ... -
Why Firefighting Is Never Enough: Preserving High-Quality Product Development
(2000)Understanding the wide range of outcomes achieved by firms trying to implement TQM and similar process improvement initiatives presents a challenge to management science and organization theory: a few firms reap sustained ...
