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Cedergren, Stefan. "Performance in Product Development - The Case of Complex Products." Doctoral thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-11215.
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This research addresses the concept of performance in the development of complex products. More specifically, its aim is to study how performance is perceived and measured within large global companies, and how performance measurement systems can be designed in a systematic way. The exploratory results regard how performance is currently perceived and measured. It is argued that performance measurements are focused on the later stages of the development of complex products, thus making it difficult to perform changes during the development. The focus is on lagging rather than leading indicators of performance, hence it is concluded that focus is on reporting the result rather than the causes of the result. In line with these findings is the weak link between what managers perceive as success factors and what is measured, the perception of performance being influenced by what is measured, rather than the reverse. The prescriptive results focus on the development of models and frameworks to be used during the development of complex products. A general method for developing performance indicators is presented. The concept of Products in Development is proposed, this making it possible to monitor how value is created during the development of a product. Both these models aim at complementing the currently used performance measurement system in order to support effective and efficient development of complex products. The method used in this research is mainly focused around the collection of qualitative data through a focused group interview, multiple case studies,and industrial reference-group seminars. A survey has also been used to complement the qualitative with quantitative data. The use of various research methods has made it possible to triangulate the data, thus strengthening the validity of the findings.
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Bukhari, S. (Syed). "Performance management for product portfolio management, new product development & rapid product development." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2018. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201802071150.
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Ever evolving and changing market scenarios have increased the competition between organizations to maximize the performance of their products and operations. In this challenging environment performance of product portfolio management (PPM), new product development (NPD), rapid product development (RaDe) have significant impact on their monetary values. To deal with the existing scenarios, the performance management of the product development and its related internal process of portfolio management is very crucial. NPD and RaDe processes result in a new sales item which needs to be effectively introduced in the product portfolio, but the performance measurement is required to develop the sales item and maintain them in the portfolio.
This study is researched and worked upon in five stages. The existing targets and KPIs are studied after a through literature review. The current practices of case companies were identified and the similarities and differences were observed. In the end, a new performance management frameworks was developed to manage NPD and RaDe projects including their impacts to the product portfolio.
The developed new performance management framework for NPD and RaDe divides the activities into two phases, planning and development. During the planning phase the PPM targets and KPIs will provide analysis and decision making concept to start NPD or RaDe type of product development to create new sales items into the portfolio. The second phase, the NPD and RaDe development, provides metrics for the NPD and RaDe project execution.
The developed framework is generic and will be suitable for both RaDe and NPD activities. In the framework, the company and PPM strategy is aligned with the success factors to achieve the required targets, measured through quantifiable or non-quantifiable KPIs to evaluate the success of the new product and its impact to the product portfolio.
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Johnsson, Stefan. "Performance and performance measurements in complex product development." Licentiate thesis, Mälardalen University, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-5608.
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In today’s competitive environment, in which competition increases and the pace of technological change accelerates, the need for deploying product development investments more efficiently and effectively is stronger than ever. The ability to create streams of new successful products to the market is vital for every product delivering company’s survival. Performance measurements are important in order to evaluate the current state of operation of the product development and decide on actions to improve its’ performance. However, in contrast to the concept of productivity in the production process there are no commonly adopted methods for measuring performance within product development. The methodology used in this research is explorative multiple case studies at five companies developing complex products. Complex products in this research involve mechanics, electronics, and software. Moreover, complex products are often long living and most development work is evolutionary in character. An extensive interview study among senior managers and decision makers has been conducted to get a broad and systematic understanding of what performance is and what to measure. The main results developed from this research are two conceptual tools. The first one, the Performance Measurement Evaluation Matrix (PMEX) can be used to evaluate the performance measurement system used at a company. The PMEX makes it possible for managers to get a more holistic view and discuss what the performance measurement system is measuring, and what it is not measuring, in order to decide on what to measure. The second tool, the Product Development Organizational Performance Model (PDOPM) can be used to conceptually analyze performance in the product development process from a holistic system perspective. This is achieved by making efficiency, effectiveness, and uncertainty explicit and by showing how they relate at a strategic, project, and product implementation level. The PMEX and the PDOPM can be used by managers in order to increase the understanding of what performance is and to be able to decide on actions in order to improve the performance of the product development process.
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Bojesson, Catarina. "Improving project performance in product development." Licentiate thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Innovation och produktrealisering, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-27493.
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The development of new products and processes is a crucial point of competition and due to the rapid technological development and strong international competition, companies are being forced to design better products faster and more efficiently. In the last two decades large companies in particular have developed increasingly sophisticated models, process descriptions, structures and routines for how to steer and manage their often large and complex projects. Processes in product development projects often contain many dependencies among both tasks and people, requiring coordination of activities and the opportunity to capture incomplete information that evolves over time. When attempting to increase project performance, a strong focus has been on the efficiency of the projects, on doing things right. As a result, both in industry and in research, effectiveness, doing the right things, has gained less importance than it probably should. For companies to really increase their performance, effectiveness must be considered to a much higher extent. The objective of the research presented in this thesis has been to increase the knowledge of how the performance of projects in a product development context can be improved. This involves investigating factors which affects performance on different levels of the projects such as the individual working on the project, the single project, the project organisation, the company, and the business context. Data have been collected through literature studies as well as a case study divided into two parts. The research results show that project organisations face the challenge of being able to have projects running efficiently according to plan while at the same time exploring and creating new knowledge. Formalised product development processes can support the progress of projects, but there is a risk that exploratory work and innovation could suffer. This is a challenge, especially in contexts characterised by uncertainty and complexity. Further, a number of areas which affect the project performance were identified, including the business context, process characteristics, project model, project characteristics, and project management. These findings have resulted in a proposed start of a framework for improving product development project performance in dynamic contexts.INNOFACTURE - innovative manufacturing development
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Gowland, Darren. "Performance measurement in the product development process." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/16519.
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The intention of the programme was to evaluate Product Development (PD) strategies within the automotive industry and to identify areas in which improvements could be made in PD project performance that would also provide a business opportunity for the author's employer RLE International (RLE). The research is principally concerned with the automotive industry but also has broader applications within similar industries. The research was undertaken via three projects. Project 1 involved a study of the structure, drivers and trends within the automotive industry. The aim was to assess the implications for PD in the automotive industry and identify significant issues where opportunities for improvement existed. The outcome was a portrayal of an industry under extreme competitive pressure and waiting for something to change but without a clear future state. What was apparent was that the competitive pressures, and thus the need to deliver more products without significantly increased resources, were not going to abate in the near future. PD has to 'deliver more with less' but a definition of success and its associated measures in terms of the PD process is difficult to frame. Therefore, the aim of project 2 focused on performance measurement of the PD process by assessing four internationally diverse development projects carried out by the author's employer with four discrete customers. The projects were all different in their content and were carried out in different countries, i.e. USA, Germany, India and Sweden. Whilst customer specific and cultural aspects of the projects differed, the significant issue identified via the research was common across all the projects. Traditional Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of cost, time and scope were used but failed to predict issues in project delivery. The key finding was that if project information did not flow as originally planned then resources were wasted resulting in time and cost over-runs. Project 3 researched alternative solutions to the issue of monitoring information flow and proposes a specific method of indicating the likelihood of success in a project by identifying new PD measurement techniques to be used within the automotive PD process. This new measurement criterion of information flow provides a predictive tool that significantly enhances the project control process. The predictive method of information flow tracking developed is new to the automotive PD profession. It was trialled on an existing project and was shown to identify specific issues with the Work-in-Progress (WIP) not found by traditional project management methods. The resulting indication of issues enabled the organisation's management to have a substantially different insight and understanding of project performance at a given point in time and therefore enabled immediate changes in resource allocation to improve project performance. The implementation of these changes as a result of the adoption of information flow monitoring resulted in significantly improved project KPI performance. The contribution of this new PD management method has the potential to significantly impact the competitiveness of any company involved in the design and development process. Its benefits include improved understanding of project performance indicators, powerful predictive attributes resulting in better utilisation of company resources and reductions in both project costs and lead times.
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Schumacher, Hans D. (Hans Dirk) 1969, and Donald J. 1964 Mecsey. "Analysis of product development decision rules and effects on product performance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/91754.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-150).
by Hans D. Schumacher and Donald J. Mecsey.
S.M.
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O'Mara, Charles Edward. "Evaluating new product development performance in small to medium sized manufacturing firms." View thesis, 2009. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/38926.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2009.A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies, College of Business. Includes bibliographies.
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Weisheit, James E. 1971. "Implementing critical chain to improve product development performance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34805.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, System Design & Management Program, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 81).
Project management is a crucial aspect of product development. There is a need for better project management tools to help product development teams meet their schedule, budget, and technical requirements more accurately with the given uncertainty of each product development project. This thesis is a case study of a Critical Chain implementation. The implementation included the creation of project networks and Critical Chain schedules for each development project studied in this thesis. Once the schedules were in place, the teams developed the products following Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). The theory behind CCPM has merit but the culture change necessary to achieve a competitive was found challenging in practice. In this thesis, the author studied CCPM from two perspectives: project management and resource management. The team demonstrated both perspectives to an extent, but four months was not enough time. CCPM appeared to improve performance of each project, but the resource management goals of the thesis were not as successful.
James E. Weisheit.
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Israel, Solomon. "An integrated performance measurement system for product development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/12793.
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Eralp, Ziya Deniz. "Assessment of performance in the domain of product development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83789.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 98-102).
Improvement of business performance is an enduring subject of research across a diverse set of disciplines such as accounting, operations management, marketing, finance, economics and even psychology and sociology. In any discipline the ability to create self-awareness, a capacity to evaluate and compare their own behavior to internal standards and values, is a pre-requisite of improvement. In an organization, self-awareness is created with assessments. The results of assessments can help the organization to adapt to changing market conditions by defining more valuable objectives to direct its new businesses as well as to restructure its operations for eliminating deficiencies that limit its abilities to achieve its business goals at lower costs. For an organization with core businesses in product development (PD), assessment of PD is an essential element of all business improvement initiatives. However, in order to perform a focused PD assessment, the analysis needs to be structured with a systematic top-down approach which relates the findings of evaluations starting from high-level business goals down to the metrics for the most detailed operational activities. In this thesis, an existing Product Development Self-Assessment tool is integrated into this context, and implementation of a top-down assessment is presented using a three-step process. Other supplemental tools and methods are also incorporated into the discussion of the implementation framework such as; Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) and IDEFO function modeling methodologies. With the use of illustrative examples, the application steps of the framework and the use of supplemental methods are presented.
by Ziya Deniz Eralp.
S.M.in Engineering and Management
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Lettice, Fiona E. "Concurrent engineering : a team-based approach to rapid implementation." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283251.
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Ortega, Roberto A. "Including life cycle performance considerations in a product development process." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/18175.
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Kashyap, Pankaj Kumar. "Goal setting for improvement in product development performance of organizations." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/83792.
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Thesis (S.M. in Engineering and Management)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, February 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. "Sep 2012."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109).
Companies have been constantly trying for ways and means to improve R&D performance as it is one of the most important competitive advantage tools of an organization. Literature review on R&D performance improvement suggests that, lot of focus is on measuring R&D performance and on specific problem solving approaches like six sigma and lean. Frameworks like capability maturity model integration (CMMI) and product development self-assessment tool (PDSAT) provide holistic performance assessment, but fall short on providing clear guidance for performance improvement interventions. Goal setting theory, a proven theory that is widely applied in individual performance improvement has got limited attention in R&D performance improvement approaches and frameworks. Practitioners in the industry point to the need for goal setting in R&D and identify that as a gap in current performance improvement methodologies. This thesis attempts to fill this gap by proposing DEAL framework, a practical approach for defining future goals in R&D performance improvement efforts.
by Pankaj Kumar Kashyap.
S.M.in Engineering and Management
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O'Leary, Matthew C. (Matthew Clarence). "Performance measures for product development utilizing theory of constraints methodology." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11517.
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Johansson, Glenn. "Environmental performance requirements in product development : an exploratory study of two development projects /." Linköping : Univ, 2001. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2001/tek681s.pdf.
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Vijakkhana, Charumporn Fon Jackson John D. "Differential economic performance in developing countries." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/FALL/Economics/Thesis/Phoka_Charumporn_54.pdf.
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Sheriff, Antony M. (Antony Michael). "Product development in the automobile industry : corporate strategies and project performance." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103187.
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Story, Vicky. "Characteristics of a successful new product development process for UK automotive component suppliers." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1998. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7066.
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While previous research describes a broad set of factors that discriminate between new product success and failure, both the study findings and the models developed have tended to be very general. This has made it difficult for those involved in NPD to apply the lessons presented - "they are unable to relate them directly to their own situation" (Craig & Hart, 1992: 38). However, the way companies undertake the process activities during the development and launch of a new product has regularly been identified as being critical to the outcome of the NPD project (Booz et al, 1982; Cooper, 1979,1980,1990; Crawford, 1984; Maidique & Zirger, 1984). This research fills a gap in the literature by explicitly focusing on the internal NPD process activities and project organisation within one industry, the Automotive Components Industry. The contribution of the research is to identify the critical success factors for the NPD process within Automotive Component firms, confirm whether different dimensions of success exist for this industry and identify whether the antecedents of successful NPD differ depending on the dimensions of success. A model was developed, which was then tested using a six page postal questionnaire sent out to UK automotive component suppliers. 76 completed questionnaires were collected from 66 firms. After a careful reliability and validity analysis of the measures used in the survey, a multiple regression analysis was undertaken to identify the critical success factors for each of the dimensions of success. The findings from this research validate many ideas presented in the NPD literature. However, what is evident from this research is that new product success dimensions can not be treated together, and that average models can be misleading. This may well have made it difficult for practitioners to relate the findings of previous studies to their specific development situations and could begin to explain why, despite all the research that has been undertaken in this area, failure rates are still so high.
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Schleimer, Stephanie Christine. "Aligning Internal and External Collaboration Systems to Improve New Product Development Performance." Thesis, Griffith University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366721.
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A majority of today’s product and service innovations call for firms to engage in collaborative activity within and simultaneously collaborate with entities outside their boundaries. In many circumstances, this requires firms to align their internal collaborative activities with their external collaborative activities. However, while collaboration within the firm (internal collaboration) and between firms (external collaboration) both have received much attention in a variety of research domains in the last 25 years, they have remained fairly disconnected research streams. Little is known about how internal and external collaboration activities align to improve innovative performance. I present a series of five inter-linked core papers that attempt to address this question of alignment.
Based on a literature review of 119 studies in core paper 1, a multi-attribute conception of collaboration emerges. This forms the basis for my definition of a collaboration system. The latter is then used in subsequent core papers 2, 3, 4, and 5 to empirically examine the configurations of and alignments between internal and external collaboration systems and how they jointly impact on 134 innovation alliances. In core paper 2 (Chapter 4), I find that a mediation effect of internal collaboration systems on external collaboration systems matters more than the effect of external collaboration on innovation performance alone. The findings of core paper 3 (Chapter 5) suggest that internal and external collaboration systems are differently configured and that external collaboration systems still account for value to innovation performance through multiplicative relationships amongst external collaborative activities. In core paper 4 (Chapter 6), I find that internal collaboration systems also moderate the relationship external collaboration systems have with new product development performance. In core paper 5 (Chapter 7), I compare internal and external collaboration systems as predictors of performance in service developments versus new product developments. The findings suggest that internal collaboration systems look and impact in a similar way, independently of whether a new service or a new product is being developed. However, in an examination of NSD versus NPD, attributes of external collaboration systems reveal significantly different relationships with performance. Together, the findings of each of the five core papers of this thesis add to the current body of collaboration research in different ways. The alignments within and across both collaboration systems, captured in terms of the relationships among a number of attributes, highlight the need to investigate collaboration as coordinated systems. Both systems are distinct in terms of their components and add different value for different types of innovation. Albeit being different, their interactive nature is essential to understand in order to align them for successful new product and service innovations.
In the Conclusion and Future Research Chapter (Chapter 8), I first integrate the findings of the five preceding core papers into a number of key implications before shifting to suggestions for future research. This future research part focuses on aligning collaboration systems over time. I raise a ‘stability-flexibility paradox’ that guides future research into managing collaboration systems. I use and expand upon current dynamic capability theory to address this paradox.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Business School
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Roth, Norman G. "Performance measurement to improve knowledge reuse and invention in new product development." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2002. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/3290.
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The aim of this research is to identify novel functions and design principles for performance measurement which assist the user in better managing knowledge reuse and invention in New Product Development (NPD) environments. Within this research performance management is defined as the methods, processes, structures and behavioural patterns an organisation uses to improve the performance of its knowledge asset invention and reuse activities. Performance management may be used during the strategic and operative planning, implementation and communication stages of knowledge asset invention and reuse. Performance measurement is defined as the process that gathers and records the effectiveness and efficiency of the implementation and planning stages. There is a rich body of performance measurement, knowledge management and NPD literature. However there is a lack of understanding of how performance can be managed and measured in the NPD context explicitly focusing on knowledge reuse and invention. Performance measurement of knowledge is emerging as a possible mechanism to support improvement in highly complex NPD environments. Based on an extensive literature review, a definition of performance management and measurement has been elaborated as well as a taxonomy of purposes for performance measurement which is the base-line for this research. The purposes have been used to derive a set of requirements for performance measurement from a knowledge reuse and invention perspective. The requirements in turn have led to the detailed formulation of those functions needed to support effective performance measurement targeted to the specific context of knowledge reuse and invention. Performance measurement theory resulting in novel performance measurement functions has been developed, implemented and tested in four businesses (ranging from 45 to 7000 employees). The research is of a problem-oriented nature starting from a real-world problem, relying mainly on phenomenological and qualitative data analysis principles due to the "messy" nature of the problem. The analysis is based on direct interaction with more than 30 users of the functions (being the Performance Measurement Infrastructure, the framework, the catalogue, the software, and the build and implementation method). The major contributions to knowledge of this research can be summarised as follows: U Provision of comprehensive design principles for a performance measurement framework targeted to knowledge reuse and invention in NPD. U Delivery of a well-structured reuse and invention measurement catalogue embedding a set of specific reuse and invention focused measures. U Using the knowledge asset structuring concept from Knowledge Management and integrating with performance measurement principles. This is embodied in a novel Performance Measurement Infrastructure which applies measures directly to knowledge asset reuse and invention in NPD. U Design principles for an enabling information technology solution for the above modules. U A build and implementation methodology which embodies knowledge on how to build and implement reuse and invention oriented performance measurement functions.
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Lin, Erin Yu-Ching. "Performance measurement of new product development teams in Taiwan high-technology sector." Thesis, University of Essex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.429288.
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Schab, Lee. "Faster, better & cheaper : linking new product development practices to project performance." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611140.
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Apollus, Valerie. "Investigating the effect of a new product development process on organisational performance." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/8256.
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Thesis (MBA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.The ability to bring products to market which comply with quality, cost and development time goals is vital to the survival of firms in a competitive environment. New product development comprises knowledge creation and search and can be organised in different ways. New product development requires the close collaboration of virtually all functions within a company. The existence of an effective cross-functional team, with clearly-defined objectives, is thus critical to the successful development of any new product. Furthermore, the success of new products depends mainly on the new product development process. The purpose of this research study is to review literature on new product development processes and the effect it has on organisational performance and also to take a critical look at the new product development and implementation (NPD & I) process applied in Telecom Namibia (TN). This study also provides insights to various TN stakeholders, particularly senior management and relevant individuals involved in product development, enabling individuals to recognise the role product development plays towards sustainability of the company. The study also provides a working guide for managers to identify opportunities for improving the new product development (NPD) process. The primary research objective is to critically audit the effect of new product development processes on TN’s performance. The secondary research objective is to develop frameworks and methodologies for guiding the development of effective strategies that have been tested in numerous businesses. A major finding of this study is that the success of new products depends mainly on the new product development process and that it has a major impact on organisational performance.
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Browning, Tyson R. "Modeling and analyzing cost, schedule, and performance in complex system product development." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9764.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Technology, Management, and Policy Program, February 1999.Includes bibliographical references.
In the future, it is unlikely that complex system products will compete solely on the basis of technical performance. What will differentiate such systems and their developers is the ability to balance all the dimensions of product performance, including product pricing and timing (which are functions inclusive of development cost and cycle time). Furthermore, this balance must be congruent with customers' perceptions of value. Once this value is ascertained or approximated, complex system developers will require the capability to adjust the design process to meet these expectations. The required amount and sophistication of project planning, control, information, and flexibility is unprecedented. The primary goal of this work is a method to help managers integrate process and design information in a way that supports making decisions that yield products congruent with customer desires and strategic business goals. This work consists of three parts. Part one contains two exploratory studies that further understanding of complex system product development processes. One study explores process iteration and seeks to explain why some aircraft development programs do not address iteration with existing project planning and control methods. The other study examines sources of risk, classifying these into six categories (cost, schedule, performance, technology, business, and market risks) and building causal frameworks to represent their relationships. Both studies point to avenues for improving existing process '·models and in some cases reveal process characteristics requiring new methods. These results, while derived from projects in the aerospace industry, are highly applicable across a variety of complex system development projects. Part two entails an effort to model some of the characteristics observed in part one. After a review of four types of dependency structure matrices (DSMs), notably the activity-based or schedule DSM, extensive data are collected from an uninhabited aerial vehicle (UAV) design process. Part two thus describes how to build a DSM model and provides data for example applications of the detailed models developed in part three. Based on the foundational work of parts one and two, part three develops a new methodology and models for understanding product development process cost, schedule, and performance. The methodology complements activity-centric schedule models such as DSM in that activities provide direct contributions to process cost and schedule and design performance. This approach sets the stage for integrated cost, schedule, and performance analyses. A cost and schedule model is presented first, and it is extended to account for the effects of activities on product performance. The stochastic, simulation model generates distributions of possible cost, schedule, and performance outcomes. These distributions represent uncertainty and are analyzed in relation to impact functions and targets to determine levels of risk. The model outputs enable the exploration of the costs and benefits of several management options and yield interesting insights. The goal is to improve product development planning and control though the capability to balance cost, schedule, and performance appropriately.
by Tyson Rodgers Browning.
Ph.D.
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Kim, Jung Yoon. "The impact of platform based product variety on product family performance examining the mediational roles of new product development proficiencies and structural features /." Thesis, Online version, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.274898.
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Chen, Chun-Chia, and 陳群佳. "New Product Development Performance Index System." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08459507314864070969.
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This study proposes a new product development (NPD) performance index system. 272 new product development performance indices are collected through literature reviews. These indices are classified according to the following dimensions: strategic fit, finance, technical, market opportunity, customer need, process and process and organization cluture. The level of NPD performance measurement unit is defined as firm, departments and projects. The purpose of the proposed NPD performance indes system is to provide a tool for managers to selecte appropriate indices to measure new product development performance.
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Srivastava, Prashant. "The effect of new product development project portfolio mix on new product development program performance." 2006. http://digital.library.okstate.edu/etd/umi-okstate-2119.pdf.
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Liao, Jie Ling, and 廖婕伶. "The Relationships of New Product Development, Product Quality, Development Speed, Competitive Tension, and Corporations’ Performance." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91913925570262203139.
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工業工程與經營資訊學系碩士班
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Face with the rapid changing environment; competition between businesses has tremendous increased. Since new product development can bring the competitive advantage for enterprises, no organization can sustain competitiveness without continuous innovation. Previous literature has attempted to tie many organizational factors to new product performance. However, there are still many questions that remain unanswered. First, although the innovation capability and product quality are seen as the critical factors of new product success, the above mentioned factors does not guarantee to bring high business performance. It seems that NPD performance is subject to various contingent factors that should be taken into consideration. Second, highly competitive environment will increase market uncertainty and unpredictability as well as shorten product life cycle. This situation might motivate firms to strengthen the relationship among their new product development speed, activities and performance. Due to inconsistent findings among the environmental factors, this paper use competitive tension as a moderating variable to identify the role it plays in the relationship between new product characteristics and performance. Third, most researches relating to new product development focus on international organizations in western countries. Much less attention has been devoted to the more local and small or medium ones, especially in developing countries. All these offer a good reason to conduct an empirical research for Taiwan firms. This will not only help researchers and practices to further understand the unique characteristics in East Asia and identify the driving forces of their NPD performance. Shortly, this paper first sets up the research framework and the corresponding hypotheses to describe the relationships among various new product development activities (new product proficiency, product quality and development speed) and performance. Then, we further test the moderating effect model, that is, the above relationships is moderated by competitive tension. In our research, we use samples from Taiwan’s small and medium industries because they constitutes a high percentage (80%) of profit organizations and are closely related to economic progress and also remain profitable is a high degree of product innovation capability. Path analysis is used for the tests of alignment hypotheses. All these operations are important in understanding the role of new product proficiency and performance and the moderating effects of competitive tension. For this propose, we derive and modify questionnaires from related literature. In detail, a total of 200 questionnaires were distributed and 164 questionnaires are collected, which is represented as 82% return rate. The results are shown as follows. First, research showed that familiarity with the market and technology have a significantly negative effect on both financial performance and non-financial performance (company reputation). Second, for product quality and development speed, the positive hypothesis was supported by both financial and non-financial performance. Third, the competitive intensity plays a role in the interference between market familiarity and financial performance intention, is supported. Fourth, the competitive intensity plays a role in the interference between development speed and corporate reputation intention, is supported. Our finding contributes can complement that because literature are less for new product development, development speed and product quality to do research on enterprise performance in Taiwan SMEs. Further to many studies on aspects of corporate performance, are less discussed development speed and product quality. And new evidence to dispute views in previous studies, while at the same time offering important implications for both research and practice.
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O'Mara, Charles Edward, University of Western Sydney, College of Business, and Centre for Industry and Innovation Studies. "Evaluating new product development performance in small to medium sized manufacturing firms." 2009. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/38926.
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The purpose of the research undertaken for this thesis was to examine management practices relating to new product development processes in small to medium-sized manufacturing firms (SMEs). The thesis topic has its origins in a European Community funded research project carried out during 1997-9 and designated CIMA (Continuous Improvement in Global Innovation Management) ESPRIT project 26056. The CIMA project had as its objective the development, testing and dissemination of a methodology to support knowledge transfer in the product innovation process. The CIMA model suggested a relationship between management behaviours and performance outcomes that used literature from a variety of research areas including continuous improvement, product innovation, performance measurement, and inter-project learning. This literature was centred largely on research undertaken in large organisations, with little information available on the new product development (NPD) practices in SMEs. This thesis sought to examine the management of NPD activities in SMEs across a range of important variables as identified in larger organisations in an effort to evaluate whether they were as relevant in smaller organisations. The literature review reduced the research to four broad questions: 1.what is the relationship between a business unit’s competitive strategy and its new product development strategy, 2.how management involvement in improving NPD performance, 3.does a more systematic approach to management of NPD projects would lead to better outcomes, and finally 4.how new product development performance is measured in SMEs. A two-stage, field based research methodology was used to gather data for this thesis. Firstly, a quantitative survey instrument was used to collect data across a broad range of variables. The data thus gathered were supported by a subsequent set of interviews in three SMEs that. In each of these firms, employees from the broad functional areas of sales, operations, and design, were interviewed to gain a greater understanding of the issues that might emerge in the quantitative survey. Thematic analysis was used to examine the qualitative data. Descriptive statistics, in the main were used to evaluate the quantitative data. Findings relevant to each of the research questions provide valuable insights into NPD practices in SMEs. For instance, strategies tend to be hazy, and have a short term emphasis. The qualitative interviews in particular showed a lack of certainty and direction when it came to strategy. With regard to management involvement, there was more emphasis on individual effort rather than team-based activities. Managers tended not to look for external sources to improve their NPD performance. The approach taken in managing NPD activities, whether it was systematic or informal, did not appear to affect innovativeness, though it did appear to impact other variables such as time-to-market. Finally, performance measurement in SMEs tended to emphasise cost outcomes as opposed to variables critical to customers such as conformance quality or time-to-market. Further, outcomes in those performance dimensions did not appear to influence future strategy or actions within the organisations. A detailed review of the data is provided in chapters five, six and seven.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Chotithamwattana, Patrintorn, and 莊汶樺. "Knowledge Management, New Product Development, and Firm Performance." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64954450808093489625.
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碩士靜宜大學
國際碩士學位學程
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Research has indicated that every types of company (small, medium, and large) play an important role in the growth of the economy. This study investigates the relationship between suppliers’ relationship, knowledge sharing, market response, firm performance, and new product development among Thai’s small, middle, and large enterprise. Knowledge has become the most important asset for the firms, within which knowledge sharing plays a key role in the whole process of knowledge management. Knowledge sharing is also very important since this century is the information competition. In this study, the knowledge sharing can be categorized as knowledge sharing inside company, knowledge sharing with suppliers, knowledge sharing with friends in the same industry, and knowledge sharing with friends in different industry. This model is empirically tested using data collected from 248 samples in private company in Bangkok, Thailand. In the present study, the result shows that knowledge sharing inside company has positive relationship with firm performance but not with new product development and knowledge sharing with supplier, knowledge sharing with friends in the same industry and knowledge sharing with friends in different industry has positive relationship with new product development but not with firm performance.
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CHEN, CHIH-TIEN, and 陳志添. "Schedule Performance Index for New Product Development Project." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08843103199131677429.
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碩士中華大學
科技管理學系(所)
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In the highly competitive environment nowadays, the research and development of the new products is the lifeblood of enterprises. Launching products and grabbing the business opportunity in a fast pace become the main tasks of corporate management. In the past, the major problem faced by the R&D department in new product development（NPD）was that the significant human resources would be restricted by certain factors, including student syndrome, parkinson’s law, multi-tasking and too many non-project tasks. According to the previous research （Kania , 2002）, enterprises usually intend to assign many tasks to R&D department, however, the non-NPD tasks account for 80% of the using of R&D resources, and leave an insufficient portion of time and resources in the main R&D projects. Therefore, Kania introduces Pipeline Impedance Index（PII）, which is similar to the traditional Schedule performance index（SPI）, both are helpful for processing the NPD project in a more smooth way. Thus, this research takes the PII established by Kania and makes adjustment and modification. Under the limited resources, the PII of each time zone is improved from adopting the method to NPD projects, and the project manager may thus better control the NPD projects processing through inspecting the PII curve. Keywords： Project Time Management, Project Schedule Performance Index, Resource Leveling
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Chiou, Kuan-Ning, and 邱冠甯. "The Collaboration Effects on New Product Development Performance." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/74859361895628316318.
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碩士清雲科技大學
經營管理研究所
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New product development has a positive effect on business performance, but it also has many uncertain risks. Since new product development can be seen as an information integration process, therefore how to reduce the uncertain risks plays an important role on the new product development performance. Companies may use their value chains linked with those in the up, middle, downstream and customers to form a complete industrial value system. Through this system, all the participants are thus able to collaborate closely, share common information, clarify the allocation of value activities and finally bring competitive advantages. Because new product development will faces uncertain information sources, such as markets and customers...etc., this study explores the cooperation relationships in conjunction with inside and outside of the enterprises and their impact on new product development performance; the relationships between information integration and the entire product development; and how the management system can be developed to reduce uncertainty. This research uses a case study approach by interviewing one electronics manufacturer. The results of the study are as follows: 1.As all system members involved cooperate in value systems, new product development performance will be better than those which do not. 2.A willingness cross organizations to cooperate with other partners is an key factor for the success of new product development. 3.The more the closer relationship between enterprises and customers, the higher the chances for information integration.
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Parkinson, David Charles. "National differences in product development performance a comparative study of American and Japanese machine tool companies /." 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/34948466.html.
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Peyrovian, Banafsheh. "Relationship between new product development activities, product advantage, product newness and new product performance in independent new firms." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1355229.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)New-product development (NPD) is argued to be amongst the most significant sources of competitive advantage and capability for firms, which leads to improved firm performance through the introduction of superior products (goods/services) to customers, relative to rivals in the market. An important driver for achieving innovation outcomes is argued to be the execution proficiency of innovation activities. However, there is a lack of scholarly understanding of how the execution proficiency of a comprehensive series of NPD activities might affect product advantage in the independent-new-firm context. Independent new firms play a significant role in the country’s economic development and growth. Independent new firms are firms that act independently of any association with an existing organisation, as well being eight years and younger from the end of the founding episode of the firm (i.e. the firm’s birthdate), which is marked by the first systematic sale of the new product. There are over 2 million SMEs in Australia, with nearly all new firms being independent new firms. The successful launch of first products has been shown to be crucially important to the survival of independent new firms, which suffer from a scarcity of resources. This scarcity is argued to have a significant impact on the execution proficiency of the NPD activities in independent new firms, which could affect not only the successful launch of the new product, but also the firm’s survival or failure. However, despite the number and economic importance of independent new firms, there has been a lack of research regarding investigation of NPD activities in this context. Therefore, this thesis seeks to address this gap in the literature and expand the understanding of the NPD process in the context of the independent new firms. To this end, drawing upon a critical review of the literature, a conceptual model was developed that featured six constructs requiring scholarly attention in the context of independent new firms: NPD activities execution, new-product performance (NPP) and product characteristics, which included product advantage, product newness to the firm and product newness to the customer. Lastly, environmental turbulence was posited to moderate the relationships in the conceptual model. This research adopted a positivist, quantitative research strategy that featured a cross-sectional research design. The sample population was independent new firms in Australia, which were no older than eight years since beginning first systematic sales of their new product. A reputable market-research firm was contracted to provide the sample. Participants completed an online survey, with 164 usable responses received. The hypotheses were tested using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The findings of this study revealed that the proficiency of NPD process activities by independent new firms has a significant and positive effect on product advantage, which in turn drives NPP. Also, the degree of product newness to the firm increased the advantage of a new product in the market, whilst the degree of product newness to the customer decreased this advantage. Furthermore, the degree of product newness to the customer had a negative influence on NPP. Whilst the degree of product newness to the firm did not have a significant direct effect on NPP, the further analysis conducted in this study showed that product advantage fully mediated the relationship between product newness to the firm and NPP of an independent new firm. Moreover, product advantage was found to also partially mediate the relationship between product newness to the customer and NPP. The results of the moderation analysis revealed that the influence of product newness to the customer on product advantage, as well as product newness to the firm on NPP, is stronger in a more turbulent environment than under more stable circumstances. The findings of this research make a significant contribution to the body of knowledge in this field, and should assist scholars and innovation managers to better understand the importance of the relationship between NPD activities execution and product advantage, and NPP in turn, in the context of independent new firms. Furthermore, the theoretical and practical contributions of this research are expected to provide a better understanding for scholars, practitioners (e.g. independent entrepreneurs) and policymakers.
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Ellison, David J., Kim B. Clark, Fujimoto Takahiro, and Hyun Young-suk. "Product Development Performance in the Auto Industry: 1990s Update." 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1649.
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Over the past decade, firms in the auto industry have focused much of their attention on new product development performance. This paper reports on a follow-up study to Clark and Fujimoto's research on product development performance in the 1980s. We find that US and European firms have made significant strides in meeting Japanese product development performance. Driving this improvement have been changes in the use of suppliers, in overlapping phases of the development process, and in the type of project management system used. We also find that Korean auto makers are relatively efficient in terms of lead time and engineering productivity, although final design quality is lower. The narrowing of the competitive gap in the management of individual projects may point to product line performance as a future driver of competitive advantage.Draft
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Larso, Dwi. "Manufacturing flexibility in new product development : perceptions and implications of new product performance." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/30980.
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New product development has been considered a key success factor for
today's businesses. Long term survival of many manufacturing organizations
depends on how successful organizations are introducing new products to compete
in existing markets or in creating new markets. Despite the importance of new
product development, many manufacturing organizations face a limited
understanding of the relationship between manufacturing capabilities and new
product success. This study examined the relationship between manufacturing
flexibility and new product performance.
Eight dimensions of manufacturing flexibility and three measures of new
product performance were identified and the relationships among these variables
were examined. Impact of new product type, value creation mode, and
manufacturing system on the relationships was also assessed. A survey of the U.S.
electronic manufacturing industry was conducted. Data obtained was statistically
analyzed to provide valid and reliable measures for research variables and to test
the hypothesized relationships.
This study supports the multidimensionality of flexibility and the existence
of a hierarchy among flexibility dimensions. A suggested hierarchy of
manufacturing flexibility is offered. Manufacturing flexibility was found to be
more positively correlated with market success than with quality, cost or delivery.
The difference between quality and cost and delivery was found to be insignificant.
For more radical products, manufacturing flexibility was found to be more
positively correlated with product performance. Another finding suggested that
manufacturing flexibility is more positively correlated with product performance in
a product focused environment than in a process focused or market focused
environment. Manufacturing flexibility was found to be more positively correlated
with product performance in a market focused than in a process focused
environment. Another result suggested that the level of positive correlation
between manufacturing flexibility and new product performance is higher in a Line
Flow manufacturing system and in a Flexible Manufacturing System (FMS) than in
any other manufacturing system.Graduation date: 2004
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Peng, Han Jheng, and 彭瀚正. "The Influence of Manufacture Product Development Proficiency and Product Development Project Flexibility on Product Flexibility on Product Commercialization Project Performance in Taiwan and China." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22405067713617609074.
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碩士大葉大學
國際企業管理學系碩士班
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The Taiwanese industry wants to face fast variety and dynamic state environment under, in addition to knowing how to handle the flexible advantage that the current manufacturing leads to, must also with develop a new product actively, can create higher value for the enterprise. Therefore, the enterprise can also extend internal folio to deliver an activity each well-trained degree of stage in pursuing to appear on market results as. This research draws up to take cross-straits manufacturing industry as to study topic, inquiring into the product development well-trained degree commercial to product project results a relation; And does the product develop? The case flexibility will have to the in the interval relation to regulate and have to the results what influence. After statistically analysis, the findings are as follows： 1. The level of Taiwan new products development positively is positively significant with the market performance of new development products, but China is not positively significant it. 2. For the products with higher flexibility to the firm, if matching with better new products development proficiency, leads to a higher financial market performance of new development products.
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Ellison, David J., Kim B. Clark, Takahiro Fujimoto, and Young-Suk Hyun. "Product Development Performance in the Auto Industry: 1990s Update." 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/1667.
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Over the past decade, firms in auto industry have focused much of their attention on new auto product development performance. This paper reports on a follow-up study to Clark and Fujimoto's research on product development performance in the 1980s. We find that U.S. and European firms have made significant strides in meeting Japanese levels of product development performance. Driving this improvement have been changes in the use of suppliers, in overlapping phases of the development process, and in the type of project management system used. We also find that Korean auto makers are relatively efficient in terms of lead time and engineering productivity, although final design quality is lower. The narrowing of the competitive gap in the management of individual projects may point to product line performance as a future driver of competitive advantage.1995 Working Paper
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"Performance of coupled product development activities with a deadline." Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/2771.
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Chang, Ching-Hsun, and 張敬珣. "Intellectual Capital influence the performance of New product Development." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76902006133439592901.
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王慧珍. "The relationship among market characteristics,new product development strategy,product innovation degree and performance of new product development in consummer electronic industry." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60900747631095951996.
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Wu, Chai Te, and 伍家德. "Research on the Type of Product Innovation、Functional Involvement and New Product Development Performance." Thesis, 2000. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68494835686983201468.
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博士國立政治大學
企業管理學系
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New products have been contributing greatly to firm’s revenues，profits and competitive advantage. Yet new product’s failure rate is relatively high. Hence，researchers have paid attention to the new product development process from every facet. This research empirically studied the impacts of the type of product innovation、the functional involvement on the new product development performance. From the literature review and case study，we can find that the new product development projects and the functional involvement have important relationship，and their fit will influence the new product development performance. 450 questionnaires were mailed to the firms of auto-parts industry, among the returned, 165 were effective. The analysis units are new product projects. The research used factor analysis、cluster analysis、 T — test and one — way ANOVA to analysis the collected data. The research used the SPSS to implement the statistic analysis.The research finds that the better the fit between the type of product innovation and functional involvement，the better new product development performance.
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Huang, Wei-Feng, and 黃偉峰. "A Study of The Relationship Between New Product Development Process and New Product Performance." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15853790449484529775.
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Chen, Yu-ping, and 陳育平. "Relationship Study of Innovativeness, Product Advantage and Customer Familiar to New Product Development Performance." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/01142881923999030792.
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碩士國立中央大學
企業管理研究所
95
Does product innovativeness affect new product development performance? The current research displays that the difference in results. This article illustrates the relationship among innovativeness, product advantage, and customer familiarity, and new product development performance. The research subject consists of 600 Taiwanese Manufacturing Industry. The research was conducted using the survey techniques of both online questionnaires and E-mail questionnaires. 137 valid questionnaires were received, implying a 22.83% recovery rate. A structural equation modeling （SEM） was conducted to test the relationships among innovativeness, product advantage, and customer familiarity, and new product development performance. The main results of this thesis are discovered: 1. Product advantage and customer familiarity have positive effect on new product development performance. The effects from Innovativeness to product advantage and customer familiarity were positive and negative. 2. Product advantage and customer familiarity are the medium between innovativeness and new product development performance. 3. The effect form innovativeness to product advantage was different to the effect form innovativeness to customer familiarity.
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Tzu-NanWang and 王梓南. "The Influence of Knowledge Transfer on New Product Development Performance－The Mediation Effect of New Product Development Strategy." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67nt26.
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碩士國立成功大學
國際企業研究所
102
This study brings up three main aspects of new product development strategy - breakthrough product development strategy, platform product development strategy and incremental product development strategy. The purpose of this thesis is trying to figure out whether these new product development strategies were positively associated with knowledge transfer and how new product development strategy influences the firm’s new product development performance. This study also includes partner fit and alliances form as moderators. The samples of this study are from manufacturing and high-tech industries. Non-profit organization (NPO) industry is excluded. This study targets on presidents, general managers, associated managers, section chiefs, R＆D related personnel. 350 questionnaires were sent out from March.2013 to May.2013, and 125 valid questionnaires were returned. SPSS17.0 was used for data analysis including reliability and validity analysis, regression analysis, t test, and ANOVA test. The results of this study show that (1) knowledge transfer is positively related to new product development strategy, (2) new product development strategy is positively related to new product development performance, (3) the greater the partner fit, the stronger the relationship between knowledge transfer and new product development strategy, (4) the partner fit doesn’t moderate the relationship between knowledge transfer and new product development strategy, (5) the enterprise use equity-based alliances form, the stronger the relationship between knowledge transfer and platform product development strategy, (6) the alliances form doesn’t moderate the relationship between knowledge transfer and breakthrough product development strategy and incremental product development strategy.
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Tsun, Lin Chen, and 林政村. "The Effects of Environmental Factors on New Product Development Performance." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15792360049642846238.
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碩士中國文化大學
國際企業管理研究所
92
In the capricious age, the future market is gradually deviating from its trajectory. The vision of the enterprise leaders is so narrow that they can hardly perceive, predict and plan a project. They must find a new way out and renew their own thoughts so as to create new components in proper proportion. This essay will analyze how the external milieus and company strategies influence the new product development performance, while the high-tech industries in Taiwan are developing new products. In this article, we specify a baseline model with firm innovativeness, market orientation and top manage-ment risk taking as antecedents to market environment; these in turn are modeled as an-tecedents to new product development performance. Two conceptualizations of the role of market environmental turbulence are examined that market turbulence and techno-logical turbulence. The high-tech industries in Taiwan were selected as research objects. 183 valid questionnaires were collected. The result of empirical analysis shows that (1) The effect of firm innovativeness on the new product development performance is not statistically significant. (2) Market orientation has positive effect on the new product development performance. (3) Top management risk taking has positive effect on the new product development performance. (4) Market environment has positive effect on the new product development performance. (5) Market orientation and top management risk taking have positive indirect impact on new product development performance by mar-ket environment, but firm innovativeness does not.
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Su-PiChen and 陳素碧. "External and Internal Factors Affecting New Product Development Team Performance." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84654295066560978633.
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Hung, Huang Kai, and 黃凱鴻. "A Study of Performance Criteria of New Product Development Projects." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/19269995588869776184.
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碩士國立臺灣科技大學
設計研究所
91
New product development projects have completely important meaning for the manufacturing industry. The competition that Taiwan has faced since becoming a member nation of the WTO has caused the original form of industry, which gave first priority to OEMs, to be forced to transform into new product development. Nevertheless, the majority of Taiwanese businesses are not completely flawless in their methods of evaluating new product development projects. Therefore, the primary goal of this study is to understand the current state of performance evaluations for new product development projects for the manufacturing industry in Taiwan’s region. It will display the evaluation criteria of new product development project performance and establish tables for performance evaluations of new product development projects. Investigation findings 1.) Businesses that implemented the performance evaluation for their new product development projects only occupied half the number of retrieved specimens of this research. In addition, the evaluation systems for a portion of the businesses that had implemented evaluations were not complete enough. Under these conditions, understanding and establishing suitable domestic criteria for performance evaluations of new product development projects is truly imperative. 2.) In comparing the index’s level of importance and the terms of different businesses, the following 5 criteria have significant variations: categories of product manufacture, industrial fields, those who carry out evaluations, the establishment of yearly numbers, and whether evaluation tables and forms that been used or not. That is to say, because these 5 types of businesses have different terms, they have variations for the level of importance of evaluation criteria. However, these 5 criteria have no significant variation: no evaluation is implemented, the scope of business, an evaluation system methodology is established, suitable time for evaluation, and no system of rewards and penalties. First, this study will carry out a document investigation. Next, with each case interview and questionnaire surveys, it will understand the current state of implementation for new product development products performance evaluations. Finally, aside from addressing the conclusions and recommendations, it will go a step further and establish a project evaluation table to be used as the basis for future reference.
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Yu, Hsin-Yi, and 余心怡. "Research on the Market Orientation and New Product Development Performance." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/10353812978857551744.
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Ho, Nancy, and 何芳蓉. "Knowledge Sharing and New Product Development Performance ---Social Capital Perspective." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98752110089775380028.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
行銷與流通管理所
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From the perspective of knowledge-based management, new product development (NPD) is, in fact, a series of knowledge creation activity. With this view, the barrier of NPD at the initiating stage lies in how members of the NPD team share the knowledge embedded in individuals or routines, and consequently form it as common knowledge to successfully facilitate the development of a new product. The above issue is discussed from social capital view in this study. The author proposes that the social capital of team members is an important variable for the effective and efficient sharing of embedded knowledge. The knowledge applicative capability is posited as a key factor moderating the success of the new product development as well as affecting the knowledge created by the team to explore more potential value. The author tests the model on a sample survey in manufacture industry in Taiwan. The empirical investigation based on data obtained from the questionnaires from 181 NPD programs shows the following research findings. Factors forming social capital, such as social interaction, position in a network, quality of the relation and cognitive context, all positively enhances knowledge exchanging and flow within team members. Furthermore, knowledge applicative capability has a moderating effect on the performance of NPD.