Front-end success factors and the impact on high technology industry new product development

Author(s):  
Thomas A. Carbone ◽  
J. Daniel Sherman ◽  
Donald D. Tippett
Author(s):  
Bak Aun Teoh ◽  
Wei Hong Ling ◽  
Amlus Ibrahim

The growth in new knowledge and technology has substantially increased the complexity of the projects that is strongly influencing the time, cost, and quality of the project management. Due to the volatility of the current market, the effectiveness of knowledge management (KM) could reduce the project uncertainties, project life cycle costs, and risks of new product development (NPD). Since NPD is regarded as the key to innovation due to its strong connection between the knowledge and core competence, the ways how the knowledge will be captured, created, and shared among the project teams is important to remain competitive in today's business and market competition. Hence, the modes of how they are created and shared between the project team members as well as the impact of KM towards NPD will be discussed in this paper. KM are normally created and transferred through the conversion between explicit and tacit knowledge, which can be further applied into the project management. Furthermore, the existing knowledge of the organisation can be evaluated by the actions of decision makers, hence, it is undoubted that a better knowledge can lead to measurable efficiencies in production and product development. The key success factors of KM that have been implemented will be discussed in this paper as well, which help to increase the probability of project success. Keywords: New Product Development; Project Management; Knowledge Management; Globalisation


2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (06) ◽  
pp. 1240010 ◽  
Author(s):  
FIONA SCHWEITZER ◽  
IRIS GABRIEL

In recent years, the front end of innovation has drawn a great deal of attention as an important driver of new product development (NPD) success. In this study, we analyze the impact of knowledge gathering, project planning, interfunctional collaboration and formalization on the ability to reduce technical and market uncertainties, creativity, and the efficiency of the early stages. 352 Austrian B2B-companies from technology-intensive sectors participated in the study. The results indicate that collaboration quality, formalization of the different phases of the front end and identification of customer-needs are fundamental for front-end performance, while collaboration quantity is less important. Moreover, planning was found to be central for efficiency and did not have a negative impact on creativity. Managerial recommendations from the study include scrutinizing the way in which interfunctional collaboration takes place, increasing customer integration and formalizing the early phases.


2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-19
Author(s):  
Hung Nguyen Bui ◽  
Luong Phuoc Le ◽  
Hanh Thi Hong Tran ◽  
Dang Thi Hong Nguyen

New product development (NPD) is the major driver of profitability, maintains competitive advantage and ensures the survival of companies. Previous studies showed that a high failure rate was found in the projects of new product development, especially in the consumer market. Thus, this study aims at identifying the success factors of new product development projects at the manufacturing companies in Ho Chi Minh City. In accordance with this purpose, a research model is proposed for this study including four success factors: Nature of product, Project activities, Characteristics of market, and Corporate skills and resources. Total 400 questionnaires were sent to respondents who are project managers at the manufacturing companies, and then 123 feed-backs were considered qualified for the data analysis, with the response rate of 30.75 %. The results of this study show that the characteristics of market have the most positive impact on the success of projects in new product development. The nature of products as well as the corporate skills and resources are the two factors which are also found to have positive impacts on the success of projects in new product development. Meanwhile, the project activities also impose positive impacts on the success of the projects; yet, the impact level is less than the other three factors.


2014 ◽  
Vol 903 ◽  
pp. 431-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Aziz Fazilah ◽  
Nur Najmiyah Jaafar ◽  
Sulaiman Suraya

This research paper shows a framework to conduct an empirical study in Malaysian automotive industry in order to improve their performance. There are factors which are effective factors in improving performance of Malaysian automotive companies namely top management support, cross functional teamwork, new product development (NPD) process, NPD strategies, and market research activities. The critical success factor of NPD is playing a fundamental role in determining the performance in Malaysian automotive companies. In this research study, a framework has been developed that includes critical success factors of NPD and project achievement to study their influence on the performance of Malaysian automotive companies. It is hoped that this paper can provide an academic source for both academicians and managers due to investigate the relationship between critical success factors of total NPD, project achievement and company performance in a systematic manner to increase successful rate of NPD progress.


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