Crowdsourcing is an innovative business practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content or even funds by soliciting contributions from a large group of people （the ＇Crowd＇）. The potential benefits of util...Crowdsourcing is an innovative business practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content or even funds by soliciting contributions from a large group of people （the ＇Crowd＇）. The potential benefits of utilizing crowdsourcing in product design are well-documented, but little research exists on what are the barriers and opportunities in adopting crowdsourcing in new product development （NPD） of manufacturing SMEs. In order to answer the above questions, a Proof of Market study is carried out on crowdsourcing-based product design under an Innovate UK funded Smart project, which aims at identifying the needs, challenges and future development opportunities associated with adopting crowdsourcing strategies for NPD. The research findings from this study are reported here and can be used to guide future development of crowdsourcing-based collaborative design methods and tools and provide some practical references for industry to adopt this new and emerging collaborative design method in their business.展开更多
Although previous studies on Korean manufacturing firms have empirically analyzed the causal relationship between activities during the FFE(Fuzzy Front End)and success of NPD(New Product Development)of Korean manufact...Although previous studies on Korean manufacturing firms have empirically analyzed the causal relationship between activities during the FFE(Fuzzy Front End)and success of NPD(New Product Development)of Korean manufacturing firms,no study has concretely focused on Korean ICT(Information and Communications Technology)firms and their FFE activities.The main aim of this study is to identify the activities of these firms during their FFE and provide managerial insights into the other ICT firms.The authors conducted a survey(106 valid responses)that their FFE activities on new product development project managers in Korean ICT firms.The results showed that even though new product development managers of Korean ICT firms did not search for ideas systemically,they communicated with those departments/divisions that had frequent interaction with customers for idea assessment,with the active involvement of middle-or higher-level managers.They thoroughly established initial plans in the pre-development stages and seriously analyzed competitors’products and direct and indirect customer interactions in their market survey activities.展开更多
In order to identify the effective decision-making factors at the individual NPD project manager level, a new effective decision-making model has been established by introducing the concept of decision-making effectiv...In order to identify the effective decision-making factors at the individual NPD project manager level, a new effective decision-making model has been established by introducing the concept of decision-making effectiveness, analyzing the role of expertise, and identifying the major role of expertise and insight with respect to the interfaces between a new product, an organization, customers, technologies and regulations, for the study of the effective decision-making facilitators and inhibitors for a NPD project. The analysis of the unique task conditions for individual decision-makers shows that perceived complexity, uncertainty and time pressure have their negative effect on the effective decision-making process. It is concluded that the flexible, balanced and appropriate use of rational analysis, common sense and intuition is a key effective decision-making factor, and the psychologically ‘active attitude’ of a manager is also an important factor for successful dealing with the difficult task conditions.展开更多
为满足人们对家庭火灾逃生产品的实际需求,提出结合整合新产品开发法(Integrated New Product Development,INPD)和产品语义提取法的产品创新设计方法。运用社会-经济-技术分析法(Socicty-Economy-Technology,SET)寻找产品机会点,并对...为满足人们对家庭火灾逃生产品的实际需求,提出结合整合新产品开发法(Integrated New Product Development,INPD)和产品语义提取法的产品创新设计方法。运用社会-经济-技术分析法(Socicty-Economy-Technology,SET)寻找产品机会点,并对用户及利益相关者进行问卷调研,结合产品语义提取法对调研结果进行客观修正,获取用户真实需求;通过基于模糊Kano模型的综合性用户需求优先级确定方法,计算用户需求的综合重要度函数;根据用户需求综合重要性排序,将优先级高的要素作为设计重点,提出家用火灾逃生产品的设计方案。研究结果表明:结合INPD法、产品语义提取法和综合性用户需求优先级确定方法,可有效获取用户真实需求,并对用户潜在需求进行洞察,为同类产品的创新设计提供参考。展开更多
Taking S Company new product research and development project management as the background,this paper analyzed the problems existing in the process of project management and discussed the approach to improve the way o...Taking S Company new product research and development project management as the background,this paper analyzed the problems existing in the process of project management and discussed the approach to improve the way of a new product development project management system.It built the strategic planning to a new product research and development project and its corresponding organization structure model.Finally,it studied resource management and knowledge management in a new product research and development multi-project.展开更多
基金Supported by Innovate UK Smart Project(Grant No.700484)
文摘Crowdsourcing is an innovative business practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content or even funds by soliciting contributions from a large group of people （the ＇Crowd＇）. The potential benefits of utilizing crowdsourcing in product design are well-documented, but little research exists on what are the barriers and opportunities in adopting crowdsourcing in new product development （NPD） of manufacturing SMEs. In order to answer the above questions, a Proof of Market study is carried out on crowdsourcing-based product design under an Innovate UK funded Smart project, which aims at identifying the needs, challenges and future development opportunities associated with adopting crowdsourcing strategies for NPD. The research findings from this study are reported here and can be used to guide future development of crowdsourcing-based collaborative design methods and tools and provide some practical references for industry to adopt this new and emerging collaborative design method in their business.
文摘Although previous studies on Korean manufacturing firms have empirically analyzed the causal relationship between activities during the FFE(Fuzzy Front End)and success of NPD(New Product Development)of Korean manufacturing firms,no study has concretely focused on Korean ICT(Information and Communications Technology)firms and their FFE activities.The main aim of this study is to identify the activities of these firms during their FFE and provide managerial insights into the other ICT firms.The authors conducted a survey(106 valid responses)that their FFE activities on new product development project managers in Korean ICT firms.The results showed that even though new product development managers of Korean ICT firms did not search for ideas systemically,they communicated with those departments/divisions that had frequent interaction with customers for idea assessment,with the active involvement of middle-or higher-level managers.They thoroughly established initial plans in the pre-development stages and seriously analyzed competitors’products and direct and indirect customer interactions in their market survey activities.
文摘In order to identify the effective decision-making factors at the individual NPD project manager level, a new effective decision-making model has been established by introducing the concept of decision-making effectiveness, analyzing the role of expertise, and identifying the major role of expertise and insight with respect to the interfaces between a new product, an organization, customers, technologies and regulations, for the study of the effective decision-making facilitators and inhibitors for a NPD project. The analysis of the unique task conditions for individual decision-makers shows that perceived complexity, uncertainty and time pressure have their negative effect on the effective decision-making process. It is concluded that the flexible, balanced and appropriate use of rational analysis, common sense and intuition is a key effective decision-making factor, and the psychologically ‘active attitude’ of a manager is also an important factor for successful dealing with the difficult task conditions.
文摘为满足人们对家庭火灾逃生产品的实际需求,提出结合整合新产品开发法(Integrated New Product Development,INPD)和产品语义提取法的产品创新设计方法。运用社会-经济-技术分析法(Socicty-Economy-Technology,SET)寻找产品机会点,并对用户及利益相关者进行问卷调研,结合产品语义提取法对调研结果进行客观修正,获取用户真实需求;通过基于模糊Kano模型的综合性用户需求优先级确定方法,计算用户需求的综合重要度函数;根据用户需求综合重要性排序,将优先级高的要素作为设计重点,提出家用火灾逃生产品的设计方案。研究结果表明:结合INPD法、产品语义提取法和综合性用户需求优先级确定方法,可有效获取用户真实需求,并对用户潜在需求进行洞察,为同类产品的创新设计提供参考。
文摘Taking S Company new product research and development project management as the background,this paper analyzed the problems existing in the process of project management and discussed the approach to improve the way of a new product development project management system.It built the strategic planning to a new product research and development project and its corresponding organization structure model.Finally,it studied resource management and knowledge management in a new product research and development multi-project.
